Lady @Lady@cat.family
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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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.
For the time being, this is mostly a mirror of <https://status.ladys.computer/>. Want to get in touch? E·mail me!
Joined Sep 2021
i'm listening to some violin music and idk it sounds pretty good but this guy might be TOO pretentious
whew this First Monday issue
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/728
@SportsGoblin not sure this guy will be for long either
@SportsGoblin in fairness i would probably also miss four in a row
@gaditb (to be clear i don't see many younger people with blogs)
@gaditb wiktionary lists both but unfortunately does not have a dated citation for the latter; the sense i've gotten is that it's used mainly by older people though
“read my blog about the subject” while linking to a single post on a blog about many things
some people on this fediverse use the word “blog” to mean “blogpost” and it throws me every time
the fact that sprigatito ends in -o but meowscarada ends in -a means it is canon trans
how long before cat leans fully into the bit and just starts identifying as a meowscarada
@gaditb @essentialrandom i actually wanted to add a pictochat feature originally where pictos could be cloned and doodled on top of (if you remember pictochat you know what i'm talking about) but that never happened and this is as close as we got
@gaditb @essentialrandom the paint thing was contributed by MightyPork who was pretty active in development at the end of 2017/beginning of 2018: https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/pull/168
bea and i both scaled our fediverse presence way back in 2018 because we had a mutual ex with a very large following who was not handling the breakdown of those relationships well. in my case, i stayed on and just stopped trying to be Popular; bea left entirely because the fediverse had stopped bringing her joy
part of that was people being Weird in her mentions, like, annoyingly lewd or horny, which used to be more of a problem on the fediverse than it is today
« Another manifestation of magical thinking is believing that the best hope for progress on our greatest challenges — climate change, racial injustice and economic inequality — are corporations and individual investment and consumption choices, rather than political mobilization and our communities. » tfw the finance professor has a good take
« Romance writers’ groups can be fizzy, exhilarating places. There is sexy cover art. There is snappy industry jargon, like HEA (Happily Ever After), Dubcon (dubious consent) and Reverse Harem (a female protagonist with multiple male love interests.) » wait until you hear about fandom
Lady
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meta - search, public posts, and consent - long toot
the person who built the now-defunct searchtodon "experiment" posted a post mortem. the replies are once again filled with comments like "people don't understand how useful tools like this could be" and "what do people expect posting publicly on the internet" and "bad actors are already doing this though I'm sure of it" so I'm going to try and make this clear once again.
this network, by which I mean the network(s) of instances that federate content to each other (sometimes) via ActivityPub, is operated by thousands of individuals via loose consensus as to the acceptable uses thereof. each instance is independent of all the others and makes its own decisions in that regard. it is messy - it fragments and shards as instances defederate from each other for various reasons - a lack of consensus between the instances involved.
this system has allowed people to share their thoughts with each other for many years now.
what this system does not do is grant anyone an irrevocable license to take any given user's public posts on the network and use them however they see fit. the post is the author's and not yours and not mine.
when you build a tool to repurpose others' content without their consent you're taking something that isn't yours and doing what you want without any regard for the rights of the author. that sucks. you do so without any regard for the additional load your "service" puts on the network servers and operators. that also sucks.
in the corner of the fediverse that I inhabit we try and make this space - this consensually operated federation - a place where people can express themselves without being taken advantage of. companies in the social networking space have been taking advantage of people for years in the name of profit. do not come here and decide to take advantage of people in the name of "open data" or some bullshit instead. simply choose to respect the wishes of others when they tell you to leave their stuff alone over and over again. it's easy. just don't.
@coriander let the workers work when the workers want to work
« I will leave things as they currently are, but I wish it to be known that the charges are incorrect, and I hope some other user with the inclination for it would rewrite it in a wording that does not lend itself to those charges. »
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
Owner
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.
For the time being, this is mostly a mirror of <https://status.ladys.computer/>. Want to get in touch? E·mail me!
Joined Sep 2021
