greatsword

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"...and then he herded them unto a boat and beat the crap out of every single one"

Ugh, sequels are always worse than the original.

oh rad
probably the biggest issue in terms of usefulness, its what turns me off to mastadon
so glad its getting fixed

o? changelog?

which was a reply to this

based on this

what's wrong, flat arter?
afraid of r e a l s h a p e s

le quirky millennial jumpscare

put some stuff up, go have a look!!

LMFAO

gasp
gooneration team will come after me any minute now

art.greatsword.xyz

swanky now i have my own gallery
(you can also reach it by art-by.greatsword.xyz, i couldn't decide what name to pick so both work lmfao)

i don't like zoomers (even though i am one, how original!) but dude we reaaallly nailed it when most of us collectively were like "yeah social networking sites like facebook is shit, let's just message each other instead" judging from how many use discord vs twitter or facebook or this

annnnywaaays the Real Solution<tm> is Instant Messaging, full stop.
i would LOVE if you would use XMPP but bro even discord is fine. just don't use the SNS paradigm that much and run a website or something.
IM is so much better than SNS.

I did predict (among my friends so you have to trust me, teehee) that bluesky will effectively go down the shitter like every other centralized social media before it but DAYUM! I thought it would take like, at LEAST uhhhhh what 10 years?? so that's funny

full disclosure: i don't actually like or believe in bluesky that much, its just cryptobro garbage pretending to be ActivityPub 2 run by the same idiots who sold twitter to elon in the first place (and they'll do it again!!! trust!!!)
i just post here for funsies

Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...

bsky.social/about/blog/1...

so enshittification is THAT quick?
idk if its just me but i think EVERYONE disliked facebook because they would try to curate your feed for you instead of just letting you do it yourself with simple and predictable and CLEAR tools, but i guess bsky will be doing that now

I'm well aware what I can do.

I'm directly suggesting they don't fuck with that by using some arcane priority sorting garbage.

I do not want Bluesky sorting or adjusting replies to my posts based on their assessments. Or auto-hiding a reply based on "social neighborhood" score .

or, wild idea. I see replies in order recieved, regardless of who is from, because it's organised.

I'm not here to mimic IRL. Don't try and guess what I want to see, just show what is sent unless and until I specifically block it.

y'know what this thread needs? a completely unwarranted mention to @h2.gay

horrifying

oh wait wait they're not em dashes
THEY'RE GOON DASHES

god the fuckin em dash
SPECIFICALLY the very long one that you have to get ibus to write for you or that you get from libreoffice writer when you write -- and press space
also ☺️
gotta have the emoji

also
websites are overrated. communication is king! whoever thought the internet should just be a giant static library is a freaking idiot with no imagination and probably eats glue (mmm yummey)

run those forums and chats, u dingus
get TALKING
(i should totally run friendica for shits and giggles)

there is, of course, the secret 3rd option: plan9
that's where your SaaSS hard enough that you become a computerlab in the 80s where your computer is but a mere terminal to a mainframe of many other machines and buffer overflow into being based

like bro, imagine not streaming your apps over Xorg

2. the cringe kind who makes Google but At Home. they'll put eveeerryyyything on the server, even stuff that has no business being on an internet server like your goddamn notes or rss feed (just use org mode on emaccas or some shit)

fren, you have a local machine you don't need to SaaSS everything

there are two types of selfhosters
1. the based kind who just uses it to run a website and a chat system (xmpp gang), and MAYBE a fileserver or a jellyfin if you have a lot of devices
basically just using the internet in the way it was supposed to be, as a communication system (the biggest SNS)

you should shit in sam goonman's nostrils it would be funny

sam goonman