Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

do not recommend inhaling tea

anyway if someone wants to resurrect @Sprite i’m not complaining

« Brands Town is the first ever Mastodon Instance dedicated solely to corporate brand promotion. » it isn’t though??

the Twitter corpus was never a comprehensive or unbiased sample

hint: the ones who care about safety are the ones who say things like “you’re a cop? goodbye”

it’s really obvious from like a few seconds which moderators actually care about the safety of the people here, and which moderators care about cultivating a certain kind of liberal space or discussion platform with no considerations made for the fundamental vulnerabilities of being human, or not Enough for them to sacrifice their perfect vision of Liberalism in favour of actual measures to protect users

what this means for YOU, new fedi instance owner, is that your priority should be not on ensuring your users have produced Appropriately Formatted Content™, but rather on ensuring that you can keep US safe

if you are, say, an instance dedicated to journalism, and you don’t have specific policy guidelines for ensuring that your users won’t do things to put our users in jeopardy, bye

previous post is obviously an oversimplification, but if i found out that someone here had another account and was actively following someone we had blocked, my response would be “okay, well that’s your risk to take, just don’t bring that shit on our doorstep”

expect this to be spelled out in more detail later, but genuine #FediTips for #NewHere users:

moderation on Mastodon isn’t about what content we can see, but about who gets to see us. our goal is not to shield our users from objectionable content, but to protect them from objectionable individuals.

“objectionable” means: • nazis  • cops  • replyguys  • scrapers  • people who cite posts without asking permission first  • people who want us dead  • people who damage the integrity of our communities  • people who want to make money off of us

these people get the boot. if we want to read what they have to say, we can always create an account somewhere else. they don’t get to read us.

link to the past: zelda is a character, she contacts link telepathically, she doesn’t do much afterwards but she is REALLY cute

link’s awakening: no zelda

ocarina of time: zelda turns into sheik, she helps out link a bunch and has a whole character evolution from knowitall sassy little kid to badass mystery dude to either trans or sapphically sorrowful princess

majora’s mask: zelda gets a flashback i guess

wind waker: zelda is tetra, she’s a badass pirate, loads of agency, whole narrative arc about being dumped with a legacy she doesn’t want, metaphorically and physically is imprisoned by it, eventually breaks free with link’s help and goes sailing away as a badass pirate again

phantom hourglass: tetra jumps on a boat and is immediately turned into a statue

breath of the wild: zelda is this trans dude who just wants to run around like a wild child and play with robots but her meanie dad tells her she has to be a PRINCESS and PRAY A BUNCH and she gets a lot of trauma from it and it keeps her from accessing her divine gifts until she finally realizes that there are others who have supported her and she has the power to help them

tears of the kingdom: who wants to guess

the actual narrative problem of Zelda games isn’t that she doesn’t have agency but that her arc so clearly revolves around the first game that whenever they make a sequel they’re just like “idk turn her into stone”

you sure hit the nail on the head with that one there, buddy

people who are like “zelda sure doesn’t have much agency for a game named after her” as if that wasn’t the entire plot

the second result is a Fandom Wiki page for Glitched Cat (Pet Simulator X)

i searched “glitch cat family” and our front page showed up so @aescling i guess we're not on the deep web yet

i always thought deep web was like, “doesn’t have a DNS record”

not “isn’t on google”

is that really what they’re calling the deep web these days

“has a robots.txt”

« This paper examines how the deep Web, i.e., Web sites that are not indexed and thus are not accessible through Web search engines » wait am i on the deep web right now

how is this the first hashtag estradiol post on this server what have you all been doing

#FediTip for new users

Did you know that it may hypothetically be possible to make your #estradiol tablets go 6× farther with an experimental formulation that you stick to your gums? Imagine if, say, one #trans #girl’s prescription wound up producing way more doses than she alone might need to take! What would #she do with the extras? 🐿️

This is not medical advice or research but it sure is interesting!

https://stickies.neocities.org/stickies.html

#FediTips