D&D is a game where a small party of determined individuals fight the overwhelming injustices of the societies they exist within to be able to meet up at the same time semi-regularly and tell a story together
I think Twitter, Mastodon, the microblogging Fediverse, they are utterly unsuited to be archives - they are all networks in the moment, conversational spaces with just enough persistence that you can catch up on what someone said yesterday, maybe last week if you're determined
and you can download your archive but it's just a huge mess - it's not sorted or connected, you can only find a thing if you already know what it is, and you might never find the context
that's part of why we are starting to repost things on our dreamwidth blog
sometimes we want the things we say to last more than a week
I think Twitter, Mastodon, the microblogging Fediverse, they are utterly unsuited to be archives - they are all networks in the moment, conversational spaces with just enough persistence that you can catch up on what someone said yesterday, maybe last week if you're determined
@Packbat I'm going to have a banging game when I move into the assisted living facility.
@Packbat And also murder a lot of people and loot the bodies 😂 Because it is an injustice that somebody else has better gear. /j