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@gaditb one time i refused to let trend on this instance and so @aescling went in and forked the code to make always trend (in a merge request i reviewed but shhh) and that is entirely the kind of energy we go for here

@gaditb @essentialrandom yeah something i will say as an Old is that masto users are definitely way more invested in The Meta but that comes as a direct consequence of it being something they can be engaged in and change, like

twitter users could yell and scream for a change to the platform all day and like, what's the point, twitter isn't going to listen lmao. but here that same discourse CAN have a material impact on the platform, so there's actually a reason to get involved

what this means is that users generally DO feel enabled to influence and shape the platform with their actions, and that has both positive and negative effects lol

i just want to read trans porn which is about being trans, not your, like, 20 other kinks

you may have heard of anti-software software club

but have you heard of…
anti- indie web

@aescling (there are lots of things one can do with content but my post was mainly targeting those roles slated for destruction in the machine apocalypse)

@aescling the thing that algorithms do now, there are people who could do that

@aescling examples might be people who do layout on a zine, people who create playlists of related media, people who write guides, bibliographies, or reclists, etc

everybody is always talking about the content creators but what about the content organizers and the content publishers and the content cataloguers

i’ve yet to have someone be noticeably eeked out by getting a reply from someone called “revenant dyke” but given the latest influx i figure it’s probably only a matter of time

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re: thoughts re:porn 

@aescling it is my purpose in life

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