Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@pamela shoutout to breathing!

@melodicake@hellsite.site hey sometimes its (large instance closed forcing old users to migrate wave) or (inactive accounts returning wave)

@bluedreaming @pixelcats ah yeah i run into that sometimes bc tiny instance….sometimes i do searches from other instances just to see if theres anyone i need to follow haha

@1stSpikeNip
ah yeah i have heard that twitter has been having…even more issues than usual right now! I hope you and your friends are able to settle in comfortably

and yes, its a different server! its run by a friend of mine and very small, but i can talk to people on other servers, the same way you can use a @gmail.com account to email someone with a @protonmail.com account or any other email service.

@maya @greyor@weirder.earth yeah i def prefer paying a little extra so that other people who can’t afford it (or are new and not sure if the place is worth the money yet or whatever) can still have accounts but i don’t see why i’d even care if another instance felt otherwise, let alone turn it into some sort of drama lol

& agreed on journalists having no idea what to make of this place, even tho really i don’t think its *that* hard to figure out

@greyor@weirder.earth @maya hachy got banned for their admin making a bunch of super dubious takes on main and then banning donation posts as “spam” afaik.

I’ve never heard of eg. social.coop getting any shit for requiring people donate to their OpenCollective to get an account (i think its like £1/mo or something like that)

@ljwrites brb changing my icon to something less professional so the Facebook fans know not to take me seriously

@ljwrites guy: dismisses the entirety of mastodon’s current developer base
guy: “i’m willing to collaborate with anyone”

🙄🙄🙄

@ljwrites @greengaybles fwiw, while almost all the Ghibli movies have been re-dubbed since i first bought them (lets say early 2000’s) i haven’t heard much criticism of the new dubs—considering that you’ve gotta fight through the “but my childhood!” response already, that probably means they’re pretty solid?

@ljwrites @greengaybles i think that historically, there wasn’t a lot of money for international localizations in the american market which meant a lot of subs/dubs were done really cheaply. And when you’ve got a shoestring budget, dubs require p much all the work subs do *plus* a full cast of voice actors…so yeah all things being equal there can be a decidedly more pronounced drop in quality for dubs when money is tight & money was tight during a lot of peoples first exposures to translated media

disney (who has lots of money) licensing localizations for ghibli (who have the bargaining power to demand it be done right, and also a large local market justifying a higher budget) is so far from that situation that any opinions formed under those conditions are completely irrelevant.

(i say american market instead of translations into english bc licensing is done per-country & there are def english speaking countries with very different situations re:international media)

@lookitmychicken @asya my issue is facebook has never done anything without a strong profit motive…and the only one i can really see for them joining fedi is selling our data

@Lady @aescling well besides the shrines themselves but those would be much less interesting on a replay anyway

@researchfairy is a double sided sign an option?