Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

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if everything goes well, in two weeks i will be on a train with All of my Things

@KitRedgrave two probably

sleeping 💤

@KitRedgrave @Satsuma i don't think my work would like me installing it on my m2 but i'm sure my m1 MBP will be fine

@KitRedgrave @Satsuma oh hey steam says it's on macOS though so maybe i could swing that

@KitRedgrave i want to play at least a little of them to get a sense of what they were like but yeah i don't know that i'm going to bother trying to finish them

the bigger issue is that i'm a console gamer and don't own a PS5. maybe when @Satsuma and i move to a bigger place we can think about getting one?

@KitRedgrave i think the lore is just dungeons and dragons

@KitRedgrave still need to play more of the first two

what if the reason why words like “cat” and “bird” still exist in pokémon despite there not being ordinary cats and birds is because everybody in the pokémon universe is a furry

i need more iron and i need more sea cucumbers

i found a cool place which is great but it’s in the middle of a forest so i’m terrified to leave and it’s on top of a lake so i can’t dig deeper either

“.bbc”? sounds like a bitcoin scam, i’m blocking it

@jdp23 i think the answer there is a good instance that connects its members both on-network and off-. mastodon has strengths but it can't do everything. it's geared towards public discussion, not getting things done.

and the “getting things done” part needs just as much organization and facilitation as the discussion does. i think we’re going to be stuck until we can get ourselves an instance which can take on both. but most people view mastodon as a hangout place, not a working place. it's really hard to get people to invest their time and energy into the latter part.

@jdp23 i’ve been saying that mastodon needs to actually take the time to identify distinct user roles and perform real community outreach since january of 2017 😩

@jdp23 @Thapsyrensays@mstdn.party @cassolotl mhm. altho i think an important counterpoint to that is that Black Twitter’s (and other marginalized Twitters’) hashtag use was really them taking over an affordance which had not been designed with them in mind, and i can certainly say mastodon’s hashtag implementation wasn’t designed with it in mind either

i definitely think those conversations should stay open, but i also think we have an opportunity for a more active role here. what would a feature which WAS designed with those usecases in mind look like? how do we get there? i think the conversation should be driven by the usecases more than the technologies, and don't want us to get stuck with the current hashtag system as a local maximum when maybe we could be doing much better

practically speaking tho, with mastodon development being what it is, that runs the risk of certain usecases being “planned” but deprioritized, and then used as justification for stripping away those features in existing software. like reddit’s whole “it's okay that we broke mod tooling and accessibility, because we have better features for that roadmapped” thing. the replacement has to come first. so i don't think you're wrong to call it out

@jdp23 @cassolotl the relevant demographic here iirc is independent artists, who rely hugely on hashtags for getting their work out there (it's the only discoverability mechanism mastodon has), but suffer social penalties for doing so (because a lot of fediverse users find long lists of hashtags aesthetically unappealing).

people want mastodon to be an inviting place for indie artists because that was a huge attraction back on twitter (and because, like, more art is good). so they want artists to feel like they have the tools to get their art found (extensive tagging). but they don't want art posts to be very obviously and clearly visually distinctive from typical mastodon culture (which is light on tags), so having-but-hiding the tags felt like a possible alternative.

i think the question is still a bit open as to whether hashtag-based discoverability actually IS the best model for fedi. for example i believe @Curator generally recommends using fewer hashtags and relying more on boosts and grassroots interpersonal connections for getting art out there. but that's where this is coming from.

as i've hopefully said, this is cultural as much as it is technological. so the necessity for this will vary depending on cultural feelings/connotations around tag use. i can only speak for historical white queer mastodon culture there :)

@jdp23 i really like it conceptually and it has a lot of applicability for the kinds of things i do, but your tolerance for things just being unnecessarily complex sometimes has to be really high if you ever want to get anything interesting done