Posts by LucyWildboots@c.im
(DIR) Post #AUDvsXybWCtqTD5B5M by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-01T23:42:58Z
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@m But I would suggest that before you test those things, you poll a random sample of non-technical people on their preferences. I’ll be honest, I like that the only permanent data about me is not cached in this country. I think when you start having caching schemes, you will also need to have assurances that it won’t track any other personal data (ahem phone company).@pinkyfloyd @metalsamurai
(DIR) Post #AUKTdVpcDztKqF6396 by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-05T03:32:02Z
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@EZLorenzImagery That’s just a beautiful shot. But can I just say that there aren’t enough yellow trees in Seattle. I urge the planting of trees with yellow blossoms! 😏
(DIR) Post #AULjfHtfpPRmEKG8Dw by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-05T18:06:21Z
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@EZLorenzImagery “why, thank you kind sir,” she said in her best southern drawl.” <G>
(DIR) Post #AUY8IoywrHCaRXeS0W by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T00:16:14Z
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@mathias @bgtlover @AskPippa @raccoon Assuming there is a single reason why Twitter failed is naive at best and self-serving at worst. And saying “this was worse than that” is an effort in futility. Each community will have different experiences in what part of Twitter made it worse. Having been on Twitter since 2007 I will say categorically that QTs are and were used to harass and attack other people. Those who deny it, generally deny it because they want QT. In fact, most deny it because they want their Twitter and they will insist that they get it and screw the people who are already here. People who actually came here because this place was different. And I find it particularly maddening given the fact that people who use Frendica and other services that have QT continue to insist that the world needs QT. If the world really needed it, Frendica would be experiencing massive growth and it is not.Consent. We are built on consent. If I want to see a man’s dangly bits, I can. I can consent by opening a CW. If, for some bizarre reason I want to see your Wordle, I can. If I want a safe place for queers, I can find it here. To date, nobody has offered a QT that will give me the right to consent to you breaking my thread so you can make a point; consent to include my posts in your thread when you QT; consent to you using my work; consent; consent. How many people have to object? How many of us who are queer or disabled or trans or a furry have to worry again about whether our true selves need protecting?
(DIR) Post #AUY8ItCDBuBjVpt6Ei by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T03:49:43Z
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@jupiter_rowland I keep hearing that it’s hard to move. But I did it. It took me 3 hours and it only took that long because I wanted to separate my following to three different services. One was Pixelfed and the other was Frendica. Perhaps it did not take me so long because I’m not as invested in my own posts as others appear to be. So this, “it’s hard” excuse feels a little weak to me. I do not understand why it is so hard for people who communicate in the world of defederation to understand that not all tools using the fediverse need be the same. You really need to get over it. Tumblr is not going to have the same tools as Masto or Frendica and you aren’t going to require that they do. Every company that uses ActivityPub will bring different features and that’s how it should be. So why must everything be the same here? Getting every member of the queer and trans communities to agree on any one thing is like asking all Democrats to agree on any one thing. And I think you, Jupiter, are smart enough to know that. So let me ask you, which one do you want? Peter Thiel or me? George Santos or Rachel Maddow? The fact that people were harassed is a truth. The fact that you do not know that truth speaks to your lack of knowledge, not to the veracity or the historical fact. So let me ask you a question: how many? How many people have to come forward with their moment on Twitter when they were harassed and brought to tears. How many people need to be deliberately dead named or doxxed. How many is enough for you?
(DIR) Post #AUY8Iun7GBIoSaA5Oi by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T04:20:55Z
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@jo @jupiter_rowland I’m happy for you. I certainly celebrate those who have had that luxury. I guess that the rest of us should stop “panicking” that the assholes who did these things will come to the fediverse and do the same thing? We have consistency of application of rules across instances, right? Or perhaps we should be less hysterical in our concerns that we might get stuck on a queer instance where you aren’t allowed to discuss certain games. I mean, I hear it’s so damn hard to move from one place to another. I cannot believe you actually used panic to denigrate people who give a shit. What an entitled comment.
(DIR) Post #AUY8Iww3Hvdf6sMFbU by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T17:35:26Z
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@MetalSamurai @jo @jupiter_rowland ‘It’s not the gun that kills people. It’s people using the guns who kill people?’ Am I the only one old enough to remember that canard from the NRA in America? And America, because it loves its guns, buys into it. So we create laws that nudge gun rights this way and that without ever really getting anywhere. And when something bad happens we wring our hands and offer thoughts and prayers. And Europe, with it’s own bloody past, looks on condescendingly and tsks.‘QTs don’t hurt people. People using QTs hurt people.’So how many QTs have to hurt someone before we admit they can be used as weapons of verbal war and treat them accordingly and where are the ‘tskers’? Note: This is an analogy for those who don’t recognize them as such. This is not a position one way or another on guns or gun control.
(DIR) Post #AUYBOyMbBtcH8hL3JI by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-03-12T00:28:47Z
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#seattle #wawx We just got 90 days notice because our landlord is taking back his home. What are the best ways to identify homes in Seattle these days?Thanks
(DIR) Post #AUYBUGGE4pPW5usaum by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T17:12:21Z
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@jupiter_rowland For years my sig line was a quote from a man well respected in community development circles. A wise man who still helps with one of the oldest of online communities. He said, ‘Never let engineers dictate the user experience.’ I would hate for Mr. Rheingold to be right about this too.
(DIR) Post #AUYGEaJMGGYfPwglFo by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T19:07:53Z
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@BarrenPlanet @jo @MetalSamurai @jupiter_rowland Moderation on Masto is a myth. From a user’s perspective, you are trapped between how your instance moderates and how other instances moderate. And if they are a bully in moderation then you don’t even get the luxury of only having to use the rules of your server, you also have to follow the rules of their server. And should you choose to say, oh, ‘you’re a Nazi and you should kill yourself,’ there’s nothing to stop you from saying it and then deleting your post. From the moderation side, you can delete or defederated. There is little to no user education or onboarding. There is no problem solving. If someone harassed me on c.im I have not clue who to even contact for help. There is no agreement across instances as to what ‘be nice’ means (but I promise we don’t all agree). I live in delight and despair at the cluster this is going to be when places like Tumblr join the fediverse. CompuServe, thirty years ago and text-based had better tools. For all we denigrate the old services and walled communities, many of them actually had more tools than what you have here. the Fediverse is not yet ready for prime-time and I’ve never met a service (FB, Insta & Twitter included), with less interest in it’s users than the fediverse.
(DIR) Post #AUYGt3zdKAB73clRz6 by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T18:45:23Z
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@jo You know, before I was on c.im, Pixelfed and Frendica I was on mastodon.lol One day, I had an instance where I was safe from harassment. Where when someone acted against you, you knew someone would do something about it. And the literal next day, that was all gone because some people wanted to change the rules of the instance on the fly to meet the overly-delicate, finely-wrought sensibilities of one group of queers. The first group wasn’t breaking the rules of .lol but they must still be censored. And the instance owner who was burned out and trying to do the right thing, went ‘fuck it.’ And a narrative was crafted by the people who had inserted themselves into another instances business. A story that the instance owner was unstable and that was the cause of all the problems. They even had “proof” of the bad things he had said. And only on Reddit does another truth come out that negates that narrative. Some people were telling him to kill himself and then deleting their posts. I know. I saved a copy of the Reddit post. I’m thinking of sending the whole thing to the Way Back Machine as instructional. Those are facts. Just like your studies, it doesn’t tell the full story. Just like your studies, it tells a story in a light that is deliberately meant to make one faction look ‘panicky’ while the other looks ‘reasonable.’ Just like your argument it ignores the fact that people have already said, ‘I have seen it being used as a weapon.’ And not anti-QT people. Just every day people from Twitter. And just like your argument it doesn’t answer the question: how many have to get hurt so you can prove yourselves right? I can tell you that it was 19K people who got hurt the last time one tiny group inflicted their ‘hysterical’ needs upon another group of queers. And while I do not remember all of the folks ready to pile on, I do remember one of the main ‘minders of other people’s business.’ The instance name was so distinctive. And as I told Jupiter, I check who is who before I post to them. Isn’t it interesting how words like panic or hysterical are a little more impactful depending on how a story is being told and by whom. So please, don’t even talk to me if you’re going to bring words like that to the table. They are either being used deliberately to diminish the feelings of one group or you’re tone-deaf and stupid. Either way, you have nothing further to say to me of interest.@MetalSamurai @jupiter_rowland
(DIR) Post #AUYHtDyUJTF1y7rxGi by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T19:23:46Z
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@brennansv .lol was funded. We even forced the instance owner to take a small stipend (he wouldn’t take more). And .lol’s problems weren’t solely caused by other instances minding our business. It’s why mentorship for small and growing instances is on my list of things we need as well. But moderation isn’t a hardware issue amd becoming a wandering account isn’t a solution for most people. At that point it will become a slightly deflated version of My Space. Now unless @gargon was lying, he isn’t spending his time eating hamburger for dinner because he wanted to build another MySpace. But that’s where we’re headed.
(DIR) Post #AUYMV7ODdyi0MnEHiq by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T19:50:16Z
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@amart it is not different on Masto. You can QT now on Masto, but it’s kludgy as I think you discovered. On Frendica you can easily QT or you can turn QT off in your settings. CalKey and several others also have QT. But these apps are tiny compared to Masto.So the discussion isn’t really QT doesn’t already exist and must never be created. It’s more a discussion of “Why don’t we onboard people to the best tool for them be it Masto, Calkey, Frendica or Pixelfed” vs “we want easy QT on Masto because that’s where we’ve been for a whole four months and moving is hard.” It is also a discussion on why we allow tools to be improved and propagated without ever discussing the damage those tools have historically caused others and what damage to others they are willing to risk to get a tool they can already have if they simply changed from Masto to a half dozen other apps.I believe that Masto will eventually get some form of QT. What I hope is that we will get all the backend tools that will be needed to support 13 million people better than Twitter and Facebook ever did. That we will get onboarding not just for Masto but also for the fediverse as a whole. That we will get dozens of other tools and features we need more first. @BarrenPlanet @fediversenews @jo @MetalSamurai @jupiter_rowland
(DIR) Post #AUYNpIhBQ0EpB2Hs92 by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-11T20:32:57Z
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@BarrenPlanet @johnb48 @amart @fediversenews @jo @MetalSamurai Actually, that’s not quite correct and it is one of the points where abuse can begin. Boost notes a post and all of its replies. A copy of that is now on your TL, but further replies will remain with the original post/thread and out of the reposters control.A quote tweet commands “quote this information on my TL with my additional comment above it.” By moving it to your timeline, any responses to that QT remain with it and do not join the original conversation. It breaks the conversation and allows you to gain control of the post. Some people use it to repost their writings on other services ad nauseam. (Reporters) But others use it to harass and intimidate people with whom they disagree (Christianists). And if my post is in that snippet you took and reposted, I may not even know you did it and I have no way to protect myself in advance from yours or your followers attack. Or you may take my words and QT them to doxx my personal information out to the world (every group is guilty).
(DIR) Post #AUl5OEeMDABTdpsNgO by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-17T23:37:37Z
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@backpackandsnorkel Texan living in Seattle here and that’s my answer. Barbecue, Tex-Mex, Chili, Kolaches, Fried Chicken and now I’m hungry <G>
(DIR) Post #AUl6eg6rz3V7OVcJmK by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-17T23:51:47Z
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@backpackandsnorkel I love Vietnamese food more than Chinese, but I do like it. I think if I got to choose one more it would be country French.
(DIR) Post #AUl7pI0U2ROzmPFmrI by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-18T00:04:54Z
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@backpackandsnorkel I have OCD and I’m #ActuallyAutistc. Some textures I won’t eat. That’s one of them. When we lived in another neighborhood here, we lived across the street from a French-trained bread maker. And her croissants were incredible. We could look out our window to see if there was a line and they were all usually gone by noon. Heaven. Now we live in the CID and our condo has 4 restaurants in our building: Korean, Bahn-mi, Dim Sum and Sushi.
(DIR) Post #AUlO9lMEDmPjrrD1KS by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-18T03:07:24Z
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@backpackandsnorkel It’s the texture of the food, mostly. So fried okra is fine, boiled okra no good. Oysters in cooking okay, raw oysters are a no. There are very few flavors that I rule out completely, licorice or anise flavored things would be the exception. And while I love most of the Brussels sprout family, Brussels Sprouts themselves taste like a can. :bd29:
(DIR) Post #AUmV3TPQvvpvIlcGAK by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-18T15:59:54Z
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@backpackandsnorkel I tried them once wrapped in bacon. I thought that might help because….bacon. But they just tasted like bacon wrapped cans. 😂 I’ve never experienced Vietnamese market food. Either way good travels!
(DIR) Post #AUtgDx3q0FTzlMQvmC by LucyWildboots@c.im
2023-04-22T03:07:58Z
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@lowqualityfacts You’ve never seen a standard after a day of hunting. LOL The tiny ones I’ve known seem to have been born 90 years old, but the bigger ones, are just dogs with pretentious owners.