madjo

I don’t believe that the democrats actually based their entire platform on identity politics. That’s more a right wing issue, in that they have an issue with the existence of certain groups of people.

I don’t remember seeing a trans person as a speaker at any of the rallies for the DNC, for instance.

Psssht psssht, he said erotically

I was 39 years old when I learned that no I’m not broken, I’m just asexual (I had never heard of the term before that). That was a good day.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield reverses decision… for now. They’ll wait a month and then introduce it again.

Problem is that a lot of “influencers” advertise it to teens as an easy way to get a new computer.

I found the one guy who likes OneDrive. He really advocated for its use during our last meeting with the others of the media team I’m in. I can’t stand the tool, as it keeps demanding I pay the microsoft tax

Just don’t rent one from NZXT.

“What is the deal with swiping on other people’s phones?”

That MST3K-style tactic is the reason why I’m not allowed to watch movies with my family anymore. (though I wasn’t stoned)

Isn’t that called a “cobbler”? Or do you only do soles and not the entire shoe?

What other server is there?

I wasn’t talking about that, I was talking about your objection of “the requirement to select anything in the first place” with regards to a Mastodon server.

With that in mind, if email were to be released today, it’d be deemed “too hard for people to understand” because you have to choose what email provider you’re going to use. Are you going with AOL, or are you going to roll up your own? With some you even have to hand over money before you get access. Just too difficult!

How did you decide which email provider you were going to go with? Did you set up your own server? Or perhaps gain access to an address through a community? Or did you go with a normies server like Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail?

I use masto for myself, not for likes. I use it to get SilentSunday and Mosstodon photos and to goof around with people I meet in the online space.

Sure it’d be nice to see a like or a response to a shit post, but for that you need to be followed by people who share your sensibilities, as there’s no algorithm boosting your stuff into other people’s timelines. Unless you use a relevant hashtag that’s being followed by others.

But then it’s not federated. It’s all on one giant monolith of a server. Perhaps the traffic is shared between machines, but that’s not the same thing as federated.

Yes, and we need much more like that if we want this platform to be sucessful as a whole. Normies want to join social medias, not clubs.

Why? There’s plenty of general servers aimed at normies that don’t require you to write an essay about yourself.

Let those specialty servers be specialty servers. Some only want artists, some only want neurodivergent people, some only want trans people on their platform. That’s their right! They get to decide who comes on their platform and who doesn’t. It’s not up to you to decide that for them. You need to understand that the people hosting these servers are not gazillionaires that do this out of the kindness of their hearts, they want to foster a certain atmosphere and a certain community on their server, and they do their best to keep disruptive people out. And one way of doing that is by limiting who gets on.

So instead of desperately trying to join blahaj_artists.social, why not join normies.social like mastodon.social or mstdn.social, or mastodon.coffee or any of the other ‘normie’ mastodon servers.

Go here, select “Sign up process: instant” and choose any of the servers on that page, and you’ll get in, without having to write an essay about yourself.

You don’t have to do that when you sign up for mstdn.social, and it’s also not a requirement for mastodon.social And there are more instances where you don’t have to apply like that.

But when it’s asked that you apply to the server, it’s usually to ease the load of moderation, to see if you would fit the vibe of that instance. And/or to protect the more vulnerable people on that particular instance.

As long as email has a barrier to entry for most people of mandating choosing a server first, it will never become the mainstream choice.

Rest in peace!

Nah, that’d be a waste of water. Not a lot of skin on Youtube, no lotion needed either.