Lady @Lady@cat.family

but is it a liberal or socialist democracy, that is the question

“In 50 years, Link transitioned Hyrule to a democracy and also ended racism forever” ambitious

i just think it’s a very funny rhetorical strategy to assume that somebody in the world needs to hear your argument while admitting that you don’t even know who that person might be

and i feel pretty confident that if they needed to hear something from me, i would know

because i have like 20 followers

i don’t know who needs to hear this but they’re not going to

@Satsuma like if every fansite was built so that the work Open Doors does could be easily automated, and fansite A could pull fansite B’s content and archive it trivially before fansite B closes its doors, do we really need an AO3? or can we get by with a network of fandom‐specific archives which pull from smaller, more closely moderated communities

@Satsuma whiiich is why i think having a single centralized archive is the wrong approach, and instead we should have federated (moderated) fansites which are built to be easily grouped / archived into (moderated) collections

@Satsuma like comment harassment is a problem because you get an email, it is attached to the bottom of your fic, it interferes with your communication with other readers, etc

none of that is true of bookmarks. i do think fic authors probably should be able to remove their fics from another user’s bookmarks / block them from bookmarking their works, but that seems like a relatively simple thing to implement compared with [everything else]

@Satsuma i think the advantages to enabling folk organization and categorization of fannish content FAR outweigh the negatives

the kind of actual harassment which could be performed via bookmarks or collections (beyond just like, “Joe’s Archive of Boring Fics, which is not harassment, just uninspired criticism, and can be safely ignored by fic authors [who aren’t even notified about bookmarks anyway]) is sufficiently difficult enough to pull off to be rare and falls easily under “abusing the service for things the service is not meant for”. there is still a need for moderation there, but no differently than someone just putting that same content in a fic and publishing it?

@Satsuma but i’m also team “rebuild from scratch with an actual plan and mission this time” sooOoO

@Satsuma bookmarks and collections are very important features; they should expand and improve upon bookmarks and collections and get rid of the other stuff

not actually y’all it’s cloudy as fuuuck

the moon
it is full tonight
yes
YES
i can see at 5:30PM

@megabyteGhost this is more past‐tense than future‐tense but while i’m repping town shit

50 Thousand Deep – Blue Scholars
https://youtu.be/afgHqFOPDN0

is another important one

@megabyteGhost

Every Last One – Common Market
https://youtu.be/J385m2lZjuI

U+2026 … HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS is literally just “three dot leader” they just gave it a different name for some reason (western bias)

i stand corrected; it looks like U+2024 ․ ONE DOT LEADER and U+2025 ‥ TWO DOT LEADER are indeed intended for this purpose; i had assumed they were technical characters

@Satsuma yes, ‹ 、 ›

in chinese, the above comma is only used for enumeration of items in a list, and ‹ ， › is used for commas e.g. between phrases. japanese writing i think can feature both but i don’t think there are as firm of rules in place.