Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

I'm old enough to remember when Yahoo! Groups unceremoniously nuked every single LGBT mailing list overnight, leaving people completely untethered from communities they had relied on and loved. When that happened, we got angry at Yahoo. And yet when people flee from Twitter, anger is directed at those "defectors". Twitter is not a country, and we were not its citizens. It is a corporation. If Twitter is driving people away, it's Twitter's fault. It's not our job to fix it. #noxp

pov im going to dump you in a lake

@ami_angelwings Yuri is for everyone and can be by anyone and no one (not even me) should gatekeep media.

@ami_angelwings The idea of Kayfabe in Professional Wrestling needs to end. We all know it's fake, just treat it like any other show.

(forgetting the word "furry") oh yeah she's really into dogpunk

I think the Saturday Supercade writers had a huge task before them, worldbuilding for 8-bit arcade games

when did starship viewscreens replace hologram calls

Uncertain if this product is from France

The world is awash in a poisonous tide: the irrational, the hateful, the greedy, the venal. I vow to push against it, in my words and in my actions, in my thoughts and in my deeds. As long as some of us are willing to fight, as long as we stand together, this tide can be turned.

once I referred to ñ as 'you know, the catgirl squiggle' on a discord and three Hispanic friends spent the rest of the day clowning on me

Inspired by Mastodon, my partner and I have gotten boosted.

#StarTrek

When I'm an old lady I won't be knitting scarves for people's kids that they don't want, instead the kids will be scoffing at me constantly giving them hand-edited videos and they'll be rolling their eyes at why I don't just use AI like everybody else.

#Security truths

Seven years ago, a fellow named "MIDI_MAN" compiled 130,000 unique MIDI files by browsing a ton of sites, placing them into directories, and generally assembling years of MIDI music.

Now that collection (1gb compressed, 3.5gb uncompressed, 130,000 files for real!) is at the Internet Archive at this URL:

https://archive.org/details/midiman_melody_kit_1.0_2015-06

RSS does so much other stuff, too: news outlets and blogs often have RSS feeds (and so does your Mastodon account).

Facebook and Twitter used to support it, but have done their best to kill that support in favour of forcing people to visit their sites directly for content. Many people still lament the deprecation of Google Reader because it was such a good and popular place for curating feeds of syndicated content, and its ending was a big blow for public awareness of RSS as tech corps shifted to monetised platforms.

But RSS is still what fuels podcasting! It has survived so much, especially the post-GFC pivot to centralised platforms, and the fact that it is still driving podcasting at a fundamental level is a miracle and a joy.

In the current era of rapid change and renewed excitement for a human-centred, community-powered web, I hope to see it celebrated, supported, and embraced again in more contexts. Don’t be afraid to believe it can still happen.

#RSS #podcasts

Them: Faving posts on Mastodon is useless, only the OP sees it.

Me, when a post gets faved: awwww, little internet hug ✨