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@gaditb i largely agree, altho in this case there is a specific answer, which is that eugen believed that having people talking ABOUT posts/people instead of responding TO posts/people was part of why twitter was so toxic

(mastodon replyguyism is baked in)

but i think in terms of curation, chronological timelines are often Not Actually The Best Format, so there’s a whole host of gaps in the platform design there

channel your limited energy into things which will sustain your social relationships, not into being a billboard that nobody can ever talk to

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“i don’t have much energy these days, so i mostly just boost posts” you utter fool. you have it backwards. if you boost posts then your friends will just talk to the people you boosted, instead of to you

@coriander in fairness there are two kinds of chumbawamba songs but “tubthumping” isn’t either of them

listen to the other songs on tubthumper

“The pitfalls of values-based moderation” is the name of my K.K. Slider cover band

increasingly convinced that Legends: Arceus is just About the Republic of Ezo

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maybe what this fanfiction needs is a couple of paragraphs of dense history lesson right up front

if i make a pokémon fangame as professional development then does that mean that instead of suing me pokémon has to sue my employer

@coriander it used to be you could do transcription but that’s been eaten by AI

@djsundog (importantly, 8tracks was technically not a streaming service, but an internet radio service running highly personal tiny programs curated by human DJs)

@djsundog i would love to receive a mix CD, but even in the digital realm, the only playlist service which came close to replacing it was 8tracks

a significant amount of my music library is not on streaming services. if you won't let me upload my own music, you are useless to me.

(8tracks was great tho)

@bea people just do that one anyways haha

but yeah very atypical weather for the midatlantic; hopefully it will end soon

@coriander which is to say, no

some interesting stuff happened there tho

@coriander it’s kind of like London but with more ennui

this is not to suggest Paris ever figured their shit out

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