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Andrew (bookseller era)

Hey! I'm seeing lots of doomsaying about Mastodon today, and lots of people lamenting their new found popularity and ...

I've been thinking about this a lot.

I've been thinking about what we're losing, of course, and I understand that people are lamenting that.

I'm also thinking about what we're gaining, and the opportunity we have.

Our small communities don't have to go anywhere. We still exist, out here in this federated space. I'll have to be a little faster on the block button for the next few weeks, but my friends are still here.

And, in the process, we are robbing Corporate "Social Media" of power, which is unquestionably good.

Are we equipped for the moderation nightmare to come? Hell no! That's why my instance is small, and mostly federates with other small instances. This doesn't solve the problem, but it does slow things down.

I hope that we can find a way to look past despair for what was, and towards what might be.

Hey! I'm seeing lots of doomsaying about Mastodon today, and lots of people lamenting their new found popularity and ...

I've been thinking about this a lot.

I've been thinking about what we're losing, of course, and I understand that people are lamenting that.

I'm also thinking about what we're gaining, and the opportunity we have.

9 Nov 2022 at 16:21 | Open on retro.social
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Kabit (/^ₓ^\) θΔ ~ 🔜ish ANE

@ajroach42 i honestly find mastodon hard to keep up with when it's not so busy. I'm finding the new influx great, as an early mastodon user

i understand not everyone feels that way, but i hop it continues and gets a bit gentler as we go

9 Nov 2022 at 16:30 | Open on yiff.life
PronobAntiballs

@ajroach42 good luck with it. I have jumped ship from *youknowwhere* and if i ever cross any lines inadvertently I hope I'm called out!

I've found the communities helpful and accepting so far 😃

9 Nov 2022 at 16:30 | Open on mstdn.social
Heike Naumann

@ajroach42 Hi, I'm a newbie coming from the bird site. I absolutely adore the atmosphere here, and I want to do my best to maintain it.

At first I was surprised by the use of CW, for example, but now I love them for their calming effect. I can open a message after having mentally prepared for it! What a relief 😍 So I already learned how to apply CW.

Thanks and happy neighborhood in the #Fediverse 🍀🌺

9 Nov 2022 at 16:38 | Open on fedisabled.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

@doot Is the jorts.horse account real? Just wanna make sure we don't have a Sofia imitator on the loose.

9 Nov 2022 at 16:15 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

Holy shit. FB just laid off 11,0000 people?

After twitter cut it's workforce in half.

While most tech stocks are circling the drain.

This is going to hurt.

9 Nov 2022 at 16:08 | Open on retro.social
Jeff Lindborg

@ajroach42 Zillow, Peleton and SalesForce also announcing significant layoffs. Not a great trend...

9 Nov 2022 at 16:55 | Open on mas.to
Andrew (bookseller era)

I started writing an election recap last night.

Well, "election recap".

I left out the bits about who won and who lost, which I'll add tonight or tomorrow, but which are incidental to the story.

The story: the people in power can't be trusted to act in our best interests. We can't hang everything on an election, and we have work to do to build the systems that will enable us to thrive.

Dual power and all that.

9 Nov 2022 at 14:24 | Open on retro.social
aschmitz

@ajroach42 More third places and fifth estates, please. (Which yes, you've been assiduously building. Good job!)

9 Nov 2022 at 14:55 | Open on ostatus.lardbucket.org
Andrew (bookseller era)
Alan Tupper, Alleged Artist

@ajroach42 Now I need to find a version of the Enterprise opening that has the Smashmouth song over it.

9 Nov 2022 at 2:19 | Open on mastodon.art
Andrew (bookseller era)

Eating for the first time today. Put it off for too long because executive dysfunction.

8 Nov 2022 at 22:17 | Open on retro.social
☆Jack the Squatcher☆ aka Josh

@ajroach42 just burned my tongue really bad on a totinos i overcooked, today is a day for minor food failures it seems

8 Nov 2022 at 22:47 | Open on retro.social
Doctor Deathray
Andrew (bookseller era)
Andrew (bookseller era)

I still maintain a non-gemini blog at ajroach42.com, and I'm still working out the exact relationship between the two, but for now they coexist.

I'll be more active on the capsule than on my blog for a little while, because it's new and I'm trying to figure out how I want to use it, and that means I need to *use* it, but the big bits will probably make it back to the regular web at some point (and, if not, there's the web proxy.)

8 Nov 2022 at 21:16 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)
Andrew (bookseller era)

Did you know that @Username_Here_ASAP and I write and produce a podcast (and a TV show) about the world's worst bigfoot hunter, his attempts to find and kill bigfoot, and the things he finds and kills instead?

It's free, at expeditionsasquatch.org, but the first episode is also available as a sub 1.4 MB #floppycast that will fit on a #floppydisc

you can read more about the creation of this floppycast on my blog ajroach42.com/floppycasts-1-44

8 Nov 2022 at 20:26 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

If this kind of thing interests you, you can also hear what it sounds like to take music and crush it down to Floppy Disc sizes: ajroach42.com/tiny-music-from-

8 Nov 2022 at 20:28 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

Oh, hey, are we doing a fuck terfs? Fuck terfs.

8 Nov 2022 at 20:20 | Open on retro.social
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Andrew (bookseller era)
Andrew (bookseller era)
Andrew (bookseller era)

Hey new followers! Welcome to the fediverse. Tell me something that excites you, that makes you feel alive. Tell me about your goals, the things you want to create.

That's what, for the most part, I'll be telling you about.

8 Nov 2022 at 17:00 | Open on retro.social
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subROV

@ajroach42 the ocean! I want to explore the ocean, and since I can’t afford a science vessel I ended up making my own ocean exloration simulator 😀

8 Nov 2022 at 18:48 | Open on mstdn.social
Michael Coorlim

@ajroach42 researching, playing, and making videos about old and obscure video games.

8 Nov 2022 at 20:38 | Open on mastodon.social
DELETED

@ajroach42 very excited to mulch mulch mulch all winter and potato potato potato in the spring

9 Nov 2022 at 21:47 | Open on mastodon.online
Andrew (bookseller era)

Woke up sniffly. Coughed up a lump of flem the size of a small mammal or a medium sized insect. Went back to bed for three more hours.

I'm not running a fever, my cough has subsided, and I don't have covid, so back to face the day.

8 Nov 2022 at 16:22 | Open on retro.social
FiXato

@ajroach42 that's been my status quo for the past couple of weeks... hope you beat it sooner than me.

8 Nov 2022 at 17:02 | Open on toot.cat
🏳️‍⚧ Frankitopia 🏳️‍⚧

@ajroach42 my partner's been sick (bad but no fever) since last week with a virus going around the universities, what's she's heard is that it lasts a little longer than a week and will kick your butt in the mean time. Hope you feel better soon.

8 Nov 2022 at 19:08 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

I've been talking about gemini a bunch today, but I haven't really explained, and there are a bunch of new people here who've never seen this stuff before, so let me explain.

gem.ajroach42.com/posts/2022-1

#gemspace #geminispace #projectgemini #gemini

8 Nov 2022 at 0:53 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)
Andrew (bookseller era)

Throwing out a hearty #fediblock for cum.salon for all the usual reasons.

7 Nov 2022 at 20:39 | Open on retro.social
siriuseye

@ajroach42 Wild West stuff there. Thanks for giving me that bit to know to block em.

8 Nov 2022 at 0:12 | Open on mastodon.social
Andrew (bookseller era)
Andrew (bookseller era)

I'm still fiddling with my post template, and getting the server set up the way that I want, and migrating old blog posts in, and moving over all the other posts I've done on gemini in the past, but yeah.

Subscribe, if you do that kind of thing.

7 Nov 2022 at 20:33 | Open on retro.social
Longplay Games 🎮

@ajroach42 That's a great post :)
I was a heavy usenet user during that era, and I don't remember any eternal september, I just remember when the RIAA or MPAA would complain and suddenly my local ISP would drop access to Usenet.

That was part of what inspired me to work at a community BBS in the mid 90s :D

8 Nov 2022 at 0:59 | Open on mastodon.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

Wow, today is the first day I've been botted in a while. This one with personal threats! fun stuff.

7 Nov 2022 at 20:19 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

I'm trying to overhaul my gemini server and running in to some frustrating and silly problems that largely stem from the amount of crap I'm trying to stuff in to a single server.

It's nothing major, I can see the edges of the issue, I'm just not familiar enough with this server software to know exactly where to put the bits to make it do the things.

If I can focus on it tonight, I'll resolve it quickly. I'm tired and this is annoying so maybe I won't do it tonight.

We'll see.

7 Nov 2022 at 1:23 | Open on retro.social
Andrew (bookseller era)

Along the way, though, I've been thinking a lot about Gemini, and I've started writing what will become a gemlog post about gemini and about where and how it does/can fit in to my life, and where and how it might fit in to other people's lives.

I'm not a big fan of the whole "use the thing to talk about the thing" meta discourse, but I gotta get those thoughts out in order to get back to the rest of it.

7 Nov 2022 at 1:26 | Open on retro.social
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