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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
my hot CW take
people with good friends and strong communities invest their time and energy into those things instead of worrying about whether they have good “reach” or how a stranger will read their post
re: On the new Mastodon Content Warning design
@Siph you use the website by ignoring posts with CWs? why, if that’s the behaviour you find problematic?
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"The biases of the creators are encoded as part of the design" is often an axiom of user interface design. This got me thinking; the entire warning-bars-for-CWs thing is *gendered*.
White cis men are often raised with the expectation to be able to say anything, any time, and rarely be challenged by anyone (and mostly other white cis men when they are). There's no expectation of consequences for this behavior.
A lot of femmes, on the other hand, are taught to defer, demure, and not to challenge directly. This is definitely the norm in the US, and to some extent Germany I witnessed while living there for a bit. You know, put it behind physical closed doors, or an superficially innocuous code-word online. There's outright retribution for violating this tenet.
Stepping into the former's shoes, it's no wonder why a key masto developer treats them so snidely. It also explains the headscratching "CWs as censorship" nonsense, and the utter refusal to call the feature what it is:
A subject line.
On the new Mastodon Content Warning design
@Siph @packetcat eh, i think you’re imagining user behaviour which doesn’t really exist here. the meme is “sees content warning, goes ‘that sounds terrible’, clicks it anyway, i don’t know what i expected”, not “doesn’t bother keeping up with friends because they don’t share the same interests than me”. if your avatar next to the post isn’t enough to get your friends to click “show more”, find better friends. nobody only opens CWs which match their existing interests and leaves all the other ones closed
the same as you wouldn’t ignore an email from a friend that has a subject line of “bulbasaur” just because your starter was charmander. it’s still an email from your friend!! you’re still going to open it!!
spoilers for pokémon if you look under the truck there’s a poké ball containing mew
petition to replace all instances of “Shave and a Haircut” in popular culture with the sound of restoring your pokémon
oh look, #cats is trending
@coriander one reviewer was like “i got a cool Guy and then none of the enemies required me to use That Specific Guy! what a waste!”
@coriander ironically like half of the reviews were like “i think the combat should have been more puzzley” so maybe they struck an ok balance
@wallhackio what do they say
give me a playlist of music released between 1996 and 2008
re: about content warnings
@akjcv yeah i mean “X traumatized me = X is bad” is the classic setup to “but i’m a good person, therefore i can’t have abused anyone”
re: about content warnings
@akjcv like going back to the root, saying that people who say“this triggers my ptsd” are actually saying “this thing is bad” is such an evil trivialization and dismissal of trauma
re: about content warnings
@akjcv do these people not understand what cw’s were invented for or??
on a cohost retrospective one quote which stuck out to me was “it was the only website i’ve been on where it felt like no matter what i posted, somebody would read it” and i’m sorry your internet experience has been so impoverished
if you had a small group of friends with ssh access to a cheap server you could make a simple forum with just a bit of shell scripting and it would be better than 90% of social media
you can title your fic “Echoes of Wisdom: Lesbian Edition” but that’s just Echoes of Wisdom
it is MY castle and i can break the pots if i want!!
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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- Dusk Form Lycanroc concept art from Pokémon Sun & Moon
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
