Lady @Lady@cat.family

i don’t want to have to touch my computer to scroll while i’m reading fic

figuring out how to use head pointer and dwell lol

you ever just see the straightest post

tired!

GlitchCat Policy on Global Fulltext Search

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Some instances have recently decided to remove that limitation. This document comprises our policy with respect to those instances.

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#MastoAdmin

it's raining cats and dogs
it's snowing men

@egnor lack of practice

bush said full text search was bad once so clearly as progressives we are obliged to support it

@gaditb hmm well i mean technically I’M acting as a mod and developer of a fork but :P

@gaditb i typically approach these questions from the position of a designer, like, “assuming that there are artists who won’t go viral, and assuming that those artists are potentially the most interesting and radical artists and the least supported, shouldn’t they be our focus?”

i think changing the conversation from being about “all artists” and instead acknowledging that the field of artists is not flat and there are some which need our support rather than others… you have to start there

if the answer is “just a subset” i’m pretty sure i’m more interested in the complement

can all artists go viral or just a subset of them

hmmmm

herself

@gaditb yeah what really irked me about Mastodon is Crumbling was that she was like “queer users on mastodon say this!” without like… mentioning… that category included her…?

(i was also irked because she cited mourning mastodon but only spoke to shel and not me lmao; like you could have done a little followup work there)

[this isn't shade at shel but them being chosen as the mouthpiece of Queer Mastodon felt a bit journalistically sus and nepotistic to me; they had no real credentials for that position over (long list of other people active in early mastodev or glitchsoc) [also it hasn't aged well]]

anyway don't take this as stronger than it is; i'm not calling the piece bunk or anything, but i definitely felt like some things could have been done better

@gaditb my impression of Ana’s coverage is that she largely leaned on Popular Users to make her points instead of discussing her own experiences as a user on the platform, which to me lacked journalistic integrity and speaking personally was not the kind of coverage i would have liked to see

i agree that it was still better than a lot of the coverage happening today, but just once i would like to see someone talking about Mastodon who actually has some experience in ethnography 😩