Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

we made this space our own through months of work and a fuckton of drama and infighting. but we did a good enough job that when mastodon took off, OUR culture was the one everybody associated it with

when mastodon first started, activitypub didn't exist yet. the fediverse was a bunch of GNU Social instances communicating over the OStatus protocol. these instances were well-established, and they did not take kindly to the popularity of Mastodon and all the new users taking over their existing, quiet culture

the existing, quiet culture, by the way, was a bunch of channer shit and blatantly anti-gay and anti-trans memes. the instance we saw most often on the federated timeline in those days was shitposter.club, a place which virtually every respectable instance now has blocked. mastodon didn't really *have* blocks back then

i don't have the words to properly situate this within the current discourse right now but you all should be aware that the fediverse is historically an anti-trans and anti-gay space also

• you’re into boys
• you’re REALLY into girls

its time is done; 2023 is the year we switch to saying thorofare

i just can't be bothered to write “ough” these days

they’re just not going to wrangle this very easy and obvious tag, aren’t they

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« Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator, said he was confident about the holiday season as long as Americans continued to get vaccinated and boosted. » oh well if that's all

i can't tell if i should be surprised that this backport isn't working or that the original did

i also find this hilarious because the worst case scenario is the fediverse becomes what it was a month ago when the rest of you were all on twitter

idk feel like i would've waited a bit before publishing that one

this person wrote a prequel fic for this other person's fanfic which is only 3/12 done

even if it is supported in your instance, it may not be supported in apps, etc…

so like, chill; we’re the ones in control

this isn't iOS where new updates get downloaded and applied while you sleep and suddenly everything is different

it takes YEARS for any new feature to become widespread on the fediverse

everybody FUD-ing about impending hostile changes appearing in the fediverse once X terrible company starts pouring money into it, you need to understand:

nobody updates their instance lmao

i’ve seen a number of new admins asking for advice on when to block over the past few weeks

ordinarily i do not reply to these posts because my approach to moderation is pretty different from typical mastodon culture so i feel like it might send a wrong signal about what to generally expect from admins

but maybe i should try to put together a page for it so people can see

today feels like a good day for a reminder that even though the community of mastodon instances are often touted as a kind of anarchism which works, a stance which i mostly agree with:

most mastodon admins and mod teams have not had any kind of training in anarchist antiviolent community interventions. we’re actually really bad at settling our differences and getting along

did 9-11 happen in the QC universe

does QC exist in a mirror universe where flying on planes isn’t horrible for trans people