Dee_Imaginarium

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I'm fully aware of that thanks, I was responding to:

The moment you get actual content creators to move off twitter and provide their content on mastodon, I’m deleting it too.

And saying from the perspective of a content creator, that's an issue that's hard to overlook. So mastodon won't get to that point of having all the content creators if there isn't something to help them share their content. I don't know what the solution would be, maybe a separate feed with an algorithm that people can switch to if they want.

Edit: and the antisocial comments below is why mastodon will never take off with the larger population and therefore never really compete with Twitter, Threads, or BlueSky for content.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (5 children)

As somebody who produces content (with a full time job so not as often as I like) it's so much harder to get engagement on mastodon without the algorithm tbh. I'm trying to get my name out there but engagement is slim to none compared to say, Instagram. I'm not on Twitter but both BlueSky and Mastodon have been a struggle. I don't see myself devoting too much energy into them as far as posting content goes tbh.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There is a fediverse version of YouTube already called PeerTube. But people are finding it's incredibly expensive to host video streaming servers and is a large part why it hasn't really taken off.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely agree, I don't know why their messaging is so shit compared to the GOP. They need more Dark Brandon memes but ones that outline their policies like this lol

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is great to see, the Biden admin has been doing a way better job than I thought they would going into the presidency. Still a long ways off from what I'd ideally want to see but moves like this are always welcome.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm normally bad at remembering names but his stuck out because it was one I don't hear often. I also love Never Ending Story, so that was another bonus for me lol

 

This evening I was walking my dogs outside and a little kid was out with his mom. He was about eight years old I'd guess. The kid came up and asked me if he could pet my dog and I said sure, then as he's petting the Corgi he looks up at me and asks:

"Are you a boy? Or are you a girl? Because you look li..." Just then his mother cuts him off "Atreyu!!" and pulls his arm. "You don't ask people tha..." and I didn't hear the rest as she pulled him down the sidewalk.

I didn't really have time to give any answer as his completely mortified mom pulled him away. But I just laughed and called out to the mom that it was okay, the look on her face seemed thankful and apologetic. Mainly mortified though. But as an enby who feels euphoria from androgyny, that made my night.

Thanks for the unintended compliment little dude lol

I just wanted to share this funny euphoric moment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I didn't think I'd watch the whole video but wow, the level of incompetence was just unrivaled. Komchatka was captained by Mr. Bean confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and he was a fair bit of a regular.

That's the wildest part to me. You'd think if you're into that kind of stuff you'd learn to repair your own equipment that hosts some of the most illegal content one could possess.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somewhere I have a picture of it saved, but as a Sys Admin for an office one person had so much dead skin piled on their mouse I gagged. It formed the shape of their fingers on the buttons and the dead skin was, not exaggerating, like 4-5 millimeters thick of caked-on yellow disgustingness. Mind you, we provide new mice for people to use in the office for any reason, they just need to let us know and ask. There was no reason for this other than the person just being a Nurgle initiate or some shit. People are gross.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was curious if this would get updated with the new charges added. Props for sticking with it, this is currently my favorite saved post lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because I’m a minor or something.

That's a pretty big something tbh, it makes sense that a mod/admin might not want a minor making sexual jokes on their instance. I'm sorry that happened and as much as it sucks for self expression it's something to keep in mind until you're eighteen because it might happen again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, thanks for the additional info!

 

Lunc 🪮

 

A fun read about a prominent medieval woman that you've probably never heard of:

Cynethryth rose to prominence as Offa’s queen with the birth of their son and heir, but her life and influence outlived both these men. As part of a royal family whose legitimacy was stressed in religious terms, Cynethryth was able to enjoy an exalted status that also had practical applications - she was an important landholder, possibly with her own income, who retired as an abbess with a position of great authority. Despite her remarkable career, at the centre of a period of Mercian political dominance, there has not yet been a substantial historical study on Cynethryth’s life, which leads me to conclude that she is one of the most important ‘forgotten’ queens of the early medieval period.

I thought it might be good to label the subject matter of the humanities/culture post in the title? Let me know what you think.

 
 
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This Week in Africa (thisweekinafrica.substack.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This is a great newsletter I ran across for keeping up to date on what's going on in Africa, it has lots of links throughout to other sources as well.

Does anybody know of similar newsletters or publications for other areas of the world? Most of my news feed is centered around the US and Europe but I'd love to get more news about what's going on in other areas of the world.

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