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did you hear about the publishing house that lasted only a week and was entirely dedicated to the art of soft drinks? 

the story was soda pressing

📟🐱 GlitchCat Sunday Post, 01 January 2023 

The GlitchCat 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 🍰.

i have made the grave mistake of making this instance slightly more french :le_chagrin:

finally following up on this… :do_boost:

Here is the list of problems that our instance has identified with the Mastodon 4.0 upgrade, and how much work I think it will take to address these issues. I think we will probably want to fix all the things which aren’t labelled “Hard” before we merge in the latest changes here.

gitlab.com/kibicat/mastodon/-/

Comments welcome!

cc: @darius who I know has been looking into this stuff for Hometown.

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is kitty softpaws hot

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is puss in boots hot

poll that i'm intentionally doing here and not @MindmeshLink

do you identify yourself as "disabled" primarily *to other people* in any context

like, not just saying *what disability* you have, ie "depressed", but do you tell other people "i'm disabled" or put "disabled" or "cripple" or any variant of it in your bios online

i am not asking "are you disabled and do you identify at all with the concept of disability" to be clear, this is a social phenomenon wondering, and nondisabled people are included and should say "never"

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if anything would make me install instagram it would be unico, the cat with resting :3 face

@gaditb one time i refused to let trend on this instance and so @aescling went in and forked the code to make always trend (in a merge request i reviewed but shhh) and that is entirely the kind of energy we go for here

i don’t count as Cool People. don’t get me wrong, this cat goes incredibly hard; i’m just made of fire and also a huge pedant

@gaditb at some point you look up and you realize “if i moved to a different social media site i would have to deal with no longer trending” and you realize you actually have a pretty good place here

anywho if you think any GlitchCat policy is motivated by “bad actors”, you have a very misguided view of who we federate with

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GlitchCat Policy on Global Fulltext Search :do_boost:

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.

github.com/GlitchCatFedi/Polic

i didn’t know Brand New Animal made a sponsorship deal with the Nashville International Airport :blobmeow_tongue:

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📟🐱 GlitchCat

A small, community‐oriented Mastodon‐compatible Fediverse (GlitchSoc) instance managed as a joint venture between the cat and KIBI families.