Damien ✨✅ @Eramdam@octodon.social

once in awhile, i realize that m.s is essentially moderated by an unemployed trans woman who barely scrapes by on donations each month

and garg is pullin' in $4,696/mo via the patreons

and registrations are allllllways open on m.s

and it just kinda feels a little bit... not cool

If an instance goes away, or you decide you like another instance's UX/features more— well, you can repost stuff, you can shrug off content that's lost, you can let your friends know, ~oh, did you hear? I'm on fuckspace.industries now~. You can do these things *IF* Mastodon is a fun little side thing where we do our low-pressure social networking. This is not feasible or adequate if Mastodon is actually meant to be a *replacement* for Twitter.

The lack of an account migration idiom on Mastodon really is fatal, it is sincerely a thing that keeps me from recommending Mastodon to people. The http://witches.town evaporation to me was kind of like a disproof of the fediverse and I feel like maybe the fediverse dev community should have treated it as such. There needs to be a way to recover your account, "toots", and follower network if one instance goes away.

Okay so tumblr is banning rotating cubes saying it's porn and facebook banned saying "i'm gay" saying it's sexual solicitation and Twitter always seemed like it could disappear at any moment

I feel like we need to be getting ready for Mass Migration to Mastodon, which means we need to fix anything that keeps Mastodon from being usable, and there is in fact something that keeps Mastodon from being usable, there's one specific thing, it's this:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177

yall, @noelle is a main moderator on mastodon.social. she does an incredible amount of work, and they just got 20k new users in the last 24 hours b/c of the tumblr exodus. consider tossing a few $ at her if you can: https://elekk.xyz/@noelle/99815435363842285

Female presenting nipple. #tumblr

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when you put on your glasses

- tumblr will lose a severe number of users but probably not enough for yahoo to kill it earlier than they would have naturally
- "activitypub tumblr" means taking a media-heavy network and applying a system that generally requires every host in the network to fetch and store that media for a good experience, which is expensive for server operators
- saying that written content (e.g. smut) is "safe" is an interesting way of ignoring the writing on the wall