Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

So a lot of people end up thinking that people here don't favorite much because they see posts with way more boosts than favorites but that's just because favorites don't federate!

For posts on other servers you will only see the likes from your instance, but for posts on your own instance you should see the likes from other instances too.

Favoriting is great, it's just not gonna federate to everyone who sees the post; it's about notifying the person who made the original post

#feditips

Fully agree with GlitchCat’s reasoning (see above) for silencing instances which enable global fulltext search. however the doc primarily focuses on the detrimental effects of global fulltext and i’s like to additionally suggest that intentional discovery methods (eg guppe groups, hashtags) tend to actually be more effective for community formation than fulltext search because they’re explicitly opt in

for example, by adding a particular tag, i’m indicating that i expect regular readers of said tag to see said post and potentially respond. an equivalent post surfaced via global fulltext search doesn’t contain that same implicit invitation

Please boost!

Time to really push publicity for the #LesbianHistoricMotifProject 's open fiction submissions period for the podcast.

In January, we will be open for submissions of short stories (up to 5K words) in the field of #SapphicHistoricalFiction and #LesbianHistoricalFiction (including some types of historic fantasy).

We pay 8 cents a word and publish the stories in audio on the podcast and on our blog.

For submission details: https://alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/call-submissions-2023-lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-fiction-series

Today for #DecRecs I'm reccing 缘起缘未了 | when I see you again by stickmarionette an F/F retelling of the Legend of the White Snake

This is a really sweet story! I also love that it is set in Hangzhou and full of material culture and historical details!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28128324
(9k, teen, Chinese Mythology)

Take the 2002 Yuri Fandom Survey!

There's been tons of research into BL fandom, let's take a moment and see what Yuri fandom in the 2020s looks like. Please take and share this short survey about *your* Yuri fandom.

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#Yuri #Yurimanga
#Yurianime #fanstudies

when you go to tap for 1 black mana and your cookware shatters call that new pyrexia

The GlitchCat #SundayPost offers news and updates from our corner of the fediverse to yours.

§ Current Events :—

• Twitter has started banning journalists as well as anybody who ever links to another website, so lots of people are now saying “maybe this place isn’t great” and uh, leaving lmao. Some of them are coming here. Be nice; enforce boundaries.

• Some publication reporting on this misheard some details (I can only imagine they were communicating over the phone) and interpreted “the Join Mastodon account, run by the person who made Mastodon” as “John Mastodon’s account, the maker of Mastodon” (this post has a screenshot), so anyway that’s a meme. I expect it to be up there with Lance Ulanoff/William Shatner RPF in popularity for the forseeable future.

§ Instance News :—

• We’ve done some re·organizing of our emojice; the blobcat emojos now all start with blobcat_ instead of no underscore; satsuma is now catsuma and filed under “Cats”; the most recent dragn emojim have been added. All the old shortcodes still work; they’re just not listed in the emoji picker or suggestions anymore.

§ From Our Users :—

• @Lady has been working on some improvements to her shrine-xslt static site generator in the hopes of maybe one day using it to build an e·zine. More about this in the coming weeks, maybe.

§ Holidays and Observances :—

• 🌌 21 December is Longest Night, a·k·a the Winter Solstice. Get cosy, tell ghost stories, and drink warm beverages!

Only kind of here but hello

Obligatory mention of our kpop comm on dw: http://paradisediner.dreamwidth.org/ for a slower paced experience

On Sunday's I always try to spend some extra time studying classical Chinese (and drinking tea) So for today #DecRecs I am going to rec Pleco the Mandarin/English dictionary app!

The basic version of this is free so if you have any interest in learning Mandarin I highly rec it!

I like that it has so many input options, you can write the character, use pinyin, look things up by radicals, and type in English words!

(Edited for grammar)

#Ao3TagOfTheDay: catnip, no cats?