PinnedMember-onlyAbout Content Warnings on Mastodon— Energy Management from a Spoonie Perspective — As a spoonie (spoon theory) it took me a while to formulate my thoughts about content warnings (CWs) and the value they serve to me. While these thoughts have been percolating for a very long while, disability has come in the way to actually complete this piece. However, with the…Content Warning13 min readContent Warning13 min read
PinnedMember-onlyMom, don’t read this. And if you do don’t cry.Because there is darkness ahead, this text has the Content Warning: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation, Emotional Dysregulation, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. It is okay to not read this text. If you do venture ahead, know that this text is raw and painful with a glimmer of hope splashed in, and some resources…Suicide Awareness11 min readSuicide Awareness11 min read
Nov 8, 2022…o connections between those town squares all over the globe. How much you venture out is up to you, but Mastodon owns none of it. It just provides the building materials to make the town and a way of making introductions between …A n00b’s guide to Mastodon2K29Jeremy LittauNot entirely true, since the Mastodon Project, runs the two of the largest servers in the English…Not entirely true, since the Mastodon Project, runs the two of the largest servers in the English speaking Mastodon. Which is Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online. The rest of your point does hold a lot of good value, it's just a small intricate detail.1 min read1 min read
Nov 8, 2022…of the fediverse, which redesigns social platforms around user control instead of platform control. Mastodon is a fediverse project. BlueSky, which is coming sometime soon, is another one. Instead of the social network being a platform that hosts everything from content to user data, the…A n00b’s guide to Mastodon2K29Jeremy LittauAs far as I know, Bluesky wont be connecting to the fediverse (which is what we call all the…As far as I know, Bluesky wont be connecting to the fediverse (which is what we call all the connected ActivityPub accounts). A lot of people from ActivityPub and Fediverse development were trying to work with BluSky to make sure there would be interoperability, but it doesn't look like there will be, from last I read. I could be wrong.1 min read1 min read
Apr 16, 2022Member-onlyYou ask the impossible — to live with Covid-19or: You want us all to die, but sooner or later we’re all disabled. — Disclaimer: This article has been written piece by piece over months. I’ve not been able to finish writing it because of my disabilities, but I need it to be heard. Any time I’m referring to the present, is the present of writing, so it will be a discombobulated mess. However…Covid-1915 min readCovid-1915 min read
Nov 9, 2021Member-onlyHow I became a bad fiction writerWhile I’ve always been a writer, only recently have I dared labeled myself as such, after spending years of fear, and slowly starting to dismantle those layers, I decided that it was okay to call myself a writer. Because all you need to do to be a writer is to…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
Sep 20, 2021Member-onlyAllow New Players time to be Noobs in #MinecraftThis can apply for any game, so here’s a thought: Let new players be new players, Let them learn and experience things for the very first time on their own. You don’t have to tell them the best and simplest way to do things, or how to do something they haven’t…Minecraft3 min readMinecraft3 min read
Jan 27, 2020Member-onlyOn Scraping MastodonMastodon was scraped, again. It was not the first time it had happened, and it probably wont be the last. This time it was for research, not just archiving which we had encountered in the past. …Mastodon Social8 min readMastodon Social8 min read
Jul 15, 2019Member-onlyOn De-radicalization, and who can safely do itIt has been a recurring theme lately, that every time someone decides to block an instance that’s harbouring racists, Nazis, far-right (whichever title you prefer), where “freeze peaches” come to their defense. These are people who put Free Speech of SOME people higher than anything else, instead of viewing it…Free Speech3 min readFree Speech3 min read
Jul 12, 2019Member-onlyOn Mastodon and NazisFor the past 2 years Mastodon has been promoted as a place without Nazis. Anyone familiar with social media technology knows that it’s not necessarily possible to entirely make such a promise, especially with a network which allows users to set up their own village to invite their friends. The…Social Media5 min readSocial Media5 min read