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SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!!

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The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject Podcast is accepting submissions for our 2023 fiction series throughout the month of January. See our #CallForSubmissions for full details.

#Lesbian/#Sapphic #HistoricalFfiction to 5k words, $0.08/word. First publication rights for the podcast and website.

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

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

This update covers the past two weeks, since I didn’t bother with one last Sunday!!

§ Current Events :—

• It is Public Domain Day here in the United States, and there are some very cool things which are now unencumbered with copyright here!

§ From Our Users :—

• @Lady continued work on her shrine-xslt static site generator, giving it rudimentary support for generating Atom feeds.

• @Lady also published a playlist of her favourite songs released in 2022.

• @aescling came out to her family and, semi‐relatedly, is in the process of moving, so be tolerant of any disruptions on the sysadminning side of things here.

§ Holidays and Observances :—

• 🍻 05 January is Twelfnight. In the Catholic tradition, this is the night before Epiphany, but in the English tradition, it is a night of partying to close out Yule. Great time to use up any partying leftovers from the holiday season!

• 👼 06 January is Twelfday, if you need a day for eating your king cake 🍰.

hi!! i have questions for #matrix homeserver administrators!

i have a private homeserver for friends and members of a community i run. a good number of people don’t wanna join it because i have federation disabled, and their client of choice doesn’t support multiple logins

what consequences might there be to enabling federation in this case?

is there anything i should take into account to retain the privacy of my users and prevent unintended room joins from external users?

this is something i’ve put off researching for a good while, and i figured, well, maybe one of y’all kind, smart individuals might be able and willing to help a catgirl out~ <3

#fediverse #sysadmin

- thought spent in introspection
- skills practiced in social media literacy
= skepticism brought to bear when needed
= energy brought to bear when needed
= harassment recognized and opposed
= bigotry decoded and opposed
- support given to friends who need it
- support given to strangers who need it
- space created for black safety and joy
= for BIPOC safety and joy
= for disabled safety and joy
= for queer safety and joy
- space denied to bigotry and harassment
- resources created, found, shared, and employed
- news made, shared, analyzed, and responded to
- lessons learned and taught
- ideas bandied about
- creations shared and delighted in

- identities tested
- selves found and fostered
- passions found and fostered
- passions allowed to dissipate in peace
- friendships made

- free time spent doing something else

Spent the past couple of days writing up a little guide to Mastodon on Dreamwidth. 😊https://naye.dreamwidth.org/2387980.html

Turned out not so little, but see it as a reference/guide rather than an instruction manual that has to be followed. Click and find out works great over here!

GlitchCat Policy on Global Fulltext Search

By default, Mastodon only allows fulltext searching on posts that a user has interacted with.

Some instances have recently decided to remove that limitation. This document comprises our policy with respect to those instances.

https://github.com/GlitchCatFedi/Policy/blob/main/Global%20Fulltext%20Search.markdown

#MastoAdmin

And a reminder - please DO add image descriptions in your posts. They make Mastodon a better place for all, and especially for our moots with visual disabilities.

Image Descriptions are cool!

#HappyBirthdayTae

Finally had time to sit down and bang out a bunch of the work for the new #Hometown release. As usual you can check out everything I am working on, related discussions, and the status of the work:

https://github.com/orgs/hometown-fork/projects/2/views/1

Helping kickstart some language study buddy vibes here with two new hashtags:

#ARMYLearnsKorean for all kinds of content—resources you’ve found, recent learnings, practice writing (or speaking even!), tips, questions, etc.

#ALKCheckIn for some accountability every Wednesday KST (feel free to check in on a different day if that doesn’t work for you). Share how your studying has been going, anything you’ve learned, study plans for the coming week, etc.

Let’s help and encourage each other! 💜