Lady @Lady@cat.family

i would feel worse about not being very reachable via search engine if search engines were good

the biggest lesson personally for me has been that the people who pour the most energy into hospitality are usually abusers. hospitality is a great way to build followings and social capital. and when i think of the people who had the biggest impact on early mastodon, many of them did eventually end up hurting a lot of people and crashing out and splitting on the platform. for you know, diagnosed personality disorder reasons. the ones that didn¦t, who were stable and goodhearted, were usually the targets. so you know. gotta figure out how to fix that

i think the most annoying piece of cognitive dissonance with the fediverse today is that there is no reason why it couldn¦t be good. when mastodon first launched it was an oasis in a sea of techbros and edgelords and outright nazis and there was one timeline and none of the good and useful features you take for granted today. but people still built a strong and resilient community, because they wanted to

you could do that now. you could make a server and be welcoming and hospitable and build a strong and resilient community, and be an oasis in a sea of techbros and edgelords and outright nazis, and if like five servers did that you would have roughly the same constellation that was the fediverse in its heyday that everyone misses. but nobody wants to, because it isn¦t new and interesting anymore. it is just work. the end

the fediverse sucks because all the hospitality workers burned out and never sought replacements, or were evil people to begin with, or stopped caring once all their friends were on the platform

did @coriander write this comic

if you ever wonder why millennials are all like this the answer is because we all read Frindle

i used to think web browsers were cool and now i hate them. whose fault is this? everybodys

l·m·a·o

any time a european tries to have an opinion on anything i feel like you must remind them that they chopped down all of their trees

there are so many discourses which only really exist in academia and which consequently use big academic words. and you can¦t summarize them in lay terms because there aren¦t lay words to express them. it is a kind of knowledge security. the computer cannot make sense of you because you exceed the ontology of the user. the people who would not read your blogpost because it engages with difficult concepts still will not read your blogpost, just differently

i am so excited for somebody to try to get a·i to summarize my work and a·i to fail because it doesn¦t know the word “epistemology”

the beans they would eat

can you imagine if other animals could boil water

i try to do good all the time and nobody ever tries to hold me to a higher standard, or any standard, or even is aware of anything i am doing. i have this cheat code called “being a girl and therefore invisible”. nobody takes anything i do seriously and therefore i can do whatever i want

woke up with this song stuck in my head

https://archive.org/download/BSCOMP0029/11-Dustmotes-AFarewellToTrends.mp3

I DO NOT EVER WISH TO ask the computer to do the thing

I ONLY EVER WISH TO ask people to do things, using computers