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   Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:01:53 JST Blurry Moon
   Over the last year lost a lot of users to other servers. The number of people who care about this site are probably in the single or low double digits now.
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     anemone@ebiverse.social's status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:04:40 JST anemone

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     @sun@shitposter.world I still care about it. But I do like misskey’s ui more. That’s why I use it less

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:04:40 JST Blurry Moon

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     • anemone
     @anemone I'm not threatening to shut down or anything but I guess for a lot of people SPW/SPC lost its value proposition and that makes me sad
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:08:15 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up)
     @echo a variety of them, not the same one consistently
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     Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up) (echo@stereophonic.space)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:08:17 JST Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up)

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     @sun :sadAkko:
     
     What other servers? Like, are there _that_ many places that are better for shitposting than someplace literally called Shitposter World?
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:08:42 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up)
     @echo it's also a bit frustrating because people hung on when the server was having massive performance problems but now everything is working fine
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     受不了包 (shibao@misskey.bubbletea.dev)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:19:24 JST 受不了包

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     @sun@shitposter.world i care :<

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     fiat volvntas tva (scathach@stereophonic.space)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:33:27 JST fiat volvntas tva

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     @sun I've never used spc/spw but I care about it quite a bit, it feels like a cultural center of the nice side of fedi and this network wouldn't feel the same at all without it
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:40:43 JST Blurry Moon

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     • fiat volvntas tva
     @scathach I appreciate hearing that, thank you.
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     Risperdoll (risperdoll@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:43:38 JST Risperdoll

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     • fiat volvntas tva
     @sun @scathach SPW is a treasure and I should probably be more active on it. In a world of people with brains compressed by rampant ideological egregores and slopfeed induced myopia, SPW is a light in these dark times, a beacon for the souls of all shitpost warriors past, present, and future
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     Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 10:51:23 JST Thomas Magnum

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     • anemone
     @sun
     
     I think a lot of it is down to the Fediverse in general. I’m less enthusiastic because the war is over between the blocking and non blocking sides and it was a draw. Now I’m stuck muting every repetitive fed and every retard who thinks posting in the same thread means you’re trying to argue with him. And even if I don’t follow them they usually have enough mutual to be in all the same threads.
     
     @anemone
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     Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!) (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 12:08:08 JST Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!)

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     @sun I care. I really don't want to see this site go anywhere. I don't know if I'd be all that interested in staying on the Fediverse if it did.
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     Ross Andrews (randrews@somewhy.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 14:14:06 JST Ross Andrews

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     @sun A lot of people I follow are from your server, just because my account is on my own instance doesn't mean I don't appreciate yours existing.

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 14:27:30 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Nudhul
     @Nudhul it's been happening slowly even after the server has been stable for months
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     Nudhul (nudhul@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 14:27:31 JST Nudhul

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     @sun is that because of the spc server meltdown?
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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 15:02:01 JST Pi_rat

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     • Pi_rat
     @sun also https://freesoftwareextremist.com/notice/AxUCNAdt7RdRnykAl6
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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 15:02:02 JST Pi_rat

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     @sun I was going to ask how does one even go about getting account on spw... I would have joined but I already have alt on fse and don't want any more
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 15:02:44 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Pi_rat
     @Pi_rat you just DM me and I send you an invite
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     GNU+ullard (ullard@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 18:14:40 JST GNU+ullard

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     @sun I love this place
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:00:40 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt do you have any ideas of ways to get that energy back?
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:00:41 JST Phantasm

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     @sun At least part of the reason is that fedi became less interesting even before SPC died. When you compare 2021 fedi and 2025 fedi, the differences are quite large. It suffered the same way basically all social media did since then, but since the network is much smaller and now basically torn in half, the differences are more visible. People changed.
     
     And it doesn't help that getting new people on here almost always made everything worse (the multiple Twitter refugee waves) and is also hard since very good few instances have open registrations.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:02:25 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt I am thinking a lot about pre-emptive retaliatory blocks on new servers to make it intentional that we're two different networks now. there's no real loss, anybody can have a presence on both sides with different personas but it's grating to share the network with some people. the problem may not be that they were wrogn about preemptive blocking but simply that they are inconsistent and assholes
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:03:14 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt I could be completely wrong, I am just thinking out loud. anything like this I might do would be on a new server.
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     Reitoei (idoru@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:26:46 JST Reitoei

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     @sun I was on a "social site" 25 years ago. It shutdown 2001ish and I've been homeless since. This is the only place that has come close to feeling comfy enough to stay.
     
     #nopressure
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:36:32 JST Blurry Moon

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     • cassidyclown
     @cassidyclown I appreciate you saying g this
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     cassidyclown (cassidyclown@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:36:33 JST cassidyclown

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     @sun Unsolicited/retard opinion: "This side of fedi" used to be more fun and I consider SPC to have been a big part of what made that so. SPC was largely made up of people who had hobbies other than politics. The sneed-to-fun ratio has gone up a lot in the wake of mass-defederations and admins giving up on instances due to pleroma bs. It leaves a greater concentration of 24/7 politiposting spergs who are frankly not fun to be around. So the people who want to chill out but also say nigger leave for Discord, and the people who considered free-speech to not be worth the loss of talking to their friends on Mastodon, have left for the cucked fedi.
     The proliferation of block-lists has a lot to do with this as well. There would ideally be more "in-between"/grey fedi instances to diffuse the sneed. It's also a "new blood" problem. People who might have been NEETS or students a few years ago now have jobs and increasing responsibilities and they aren't being replaced (especially affects admins).
     Anyway, for what it's worth, while I've never been a SPC/SPW main user, I consider it very important to the "health" of fedi - almost a canary in the coalmine of sorts. I don't think it's a case of SPW doing poorly, but rather this side of the fediverse as whole. I don't know what the answer is. There's definitely more I could do to help and I feel a little guilty about it, as gay as that sounds. Just not a lot of time.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:44:51 JST Phantasm

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     @sun Mass instance defederations don't solve anything and only make things worse. Broken threads due to defederations are one of the larger frustrations I have. It makes interaction much harder when 90% of remote instances have thread viewing to unauthenticated users disabled. Weirdly, this seems to be only a Pleroma/GTS issue as I've seen very little Mastodon instances disabling that access.

     One edge case is mutual defederations which can work, but you are also making the broken thread problem even larger when someone else on another instance replies to them. Now you have a thread with even less context to interact with, provided that you can fetch OP (now you usually can't anyway). And of course if you want to prevent that, then you whip out the mention MRF policy and dig yourself into an even deeper hole. The snow effect of "Why is my TWKN empty." In my opinion, defederations should only be used to block illegal content, and blocking instances that have zero value in them if they get annoying to deal with. Blocking instances that already defederate you is a double-edged sword and probably should only be done for very large instances.

     Of course the question of why reply when they can't see you anyway is valid, but even a single reply can still start an interesting thread even if OP instance can't see half of the replies. But you are having a discussion/fun in a thread, and now the broken thread problem is their issue and not yours. Overall, I prefer the live and let live way of thinking about fediblockers and their orbiters. They won't stop and they won't change their minds, so why care about them. Why care about/try to solve something you inherently cannot change. They already can't enter this side of the network, because they'll get laughed out in a day. You won't stop people entering their orbit either, so the only logical way to solve that in my mind is also being open to new people like that. Which also creates the problem of assimilating people from Twitter and Bluesky which have a tendency to turn everything into some kind of political statement. I don't have a solution to that problem besides ignoring those people, or trying to explain to them somehow that this isn't welcome here while not making it a concrete rule which will make the "your moderation is biased/stupid crowd" very loud.

     As for how to bring the energy back. The Internet as a whole has lost its originality, everything got turned into the same old boring argument or meme format. So maybe try to bring that back in some way. Have fun and in my case don't interact with politics as much as possible. Be the fediverse you want it to be, and when something is missing try to bring it back in some way. And when enough people will do that, I think the energy will at least in some way come back.

     
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     SneedsterSpeedster (sneedsterspeedster@clew.lol)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:54:26 JST SneedsterSpeedster

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     • cassidyclown
     @cassidyclown @sun
     >The sweet summer of 2021
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 19:54:36 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt @sun >how do you have fun on fedi
     You just do :alex_smile:
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 20:25:12 JST Phantasm

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     • Phantasm
     @sun In many ways you have a gold mine on SPW. You have artists, you have people with podcasts and people with various hobbies who are there only for fun. The vast majority of the network doesn't have that.
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 20:27:44 JST Blurry Moon

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     • cassidyclown
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     @cassidyclown @azure if you;re willing please share with me privately your ideas, I will keep them in confidence and not steal them. if anything I would love to do something complementary to what you'd do to help.
     
     I'm going to probably modify my tipbot 2.0 to get rid of the ethical bot shit since that turned out to kill engagement, I want to make a much more flexible bot that fun things can be done with and interact with other bots.
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     cassidyclown (cassidyclown@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 20:27:45 JST cassidyclown

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     @azure @sun Aside from just not being a really lazy admin and contributing to the culture more, I've had a few top-secret (i.e half-baked and retarded) ideas. I'd also like to open registrations again but I want to get a server with more space first (next year) and have systems in place that make monitoring that easier. First I need to stay on top of maintaining what I have though.
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     ‎ (azure@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 20:27:46 JST ‎

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     • cassidyclown
     @cassidyclown @sun what more could you reasonably do to help tbh
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     Ree (ree@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:04:30 JST Ree

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     • anemone
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     @sun @anemone also tech etc people seem to move to mastodon instances like I'm sorry I'm not joining mastodon dot tech or whatever when they would just block everyone.
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     Ree (ree@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:04:31 JST Ree

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     • anemone
     @sun @anemone what I don't like is fediverse changed to much and everyone thinks it's just mastodon like no you're dumb it's more than that
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     Ree (ree@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:05:54 JST Ree

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     @sun well sign up is closed but i understand why
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     Jeff "never listens to women" Cliff, B.Sc. 😷 🇮🇷🇱🇧🇨🇦🧯🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:05:54 JST Jeff "never listens to women" Cliff, B.Sc. 😷 🇮🇷🇱🇧🇨🇦🧯🏴‍☠️🦝🐙 🐧

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     • Ree
     @sun and with time we will get there because of that -- which is not a bad thing
     
     there's only really 2 options spw users all
     1) slowly but surely migrate to other instances
     2) die
     3) quit using the fediverse generally (this is the really sad one imho)
     
     i'm seeing some of #1 happening but like
     it's ok for SPW to shrink a little bit to something more managable and for the complexity to fall with it we're rooting for SPW to survive and @sun to thrive out here.
     
     ( rooting for @Ree too but you know what i mean)
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     Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:28:02 JST Thomas Magnum

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     • cassidyclown
     @cassidyclown
     
     I think Adam Curry nuked a lot of what was our tempering largest instance. A lot of people simply left when the original NAS died. They were a different breed and were healthy for the ecosystem
     
     @sun
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     ‎ (azure@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:28:34 JST ‎

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     • cassidyclown
     @cassidyclown @sun ngl, I don't think that's going to be possible
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     sim@shitposter.world's status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:28:39 JST sim

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     • Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up)
     @sun @echo At least you know one person is still here after hanging on during massive performance problems. I mean, I clung to SLC until that ship sunk too.
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     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:46:04 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

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     • anemone
     @anemone @sun You know you can log in different gui right ?
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     anemone@ebiverse.social's status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:46:16 JST anemone

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     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

     @mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world yeah but not the Misskey one cause it has a different api

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     sim@shitposter.world's status on Monday, 25-Aug-2025 23:46:35 JST sim

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     @sun I'm still here somehow. Don't know what I'd do without this site. Mainly online socialise here.
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     guizzy (guizzy@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 06:04:15 JST guizzy

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     @sun I hope I'm being counted as one of them, even though I've been quite busy and haven't posted here as much as I used to in the last year.
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     Ree (ree@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 22:46:26 JST Ree

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     • anemone
     @GNUxeava @anemone @sun I would say some can be uneducated what they can have
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     Emi Yusa (gnuxeava@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 22:46:28 JST Emi Yusa

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     • anemone
     • Ree
     @Ree @anemone @sun can't argue with idiots
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 03:26:07 JST Phantasm

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     • ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:
     @RedTechEngineer @dcc @sun
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     RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Aug-2025 03:26:08 JST RedTechEngineer

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     @dcc @phnt @sun I wonder what it's like on ostatus fedi rn. Are they bing chilling over there?
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Sep-2025 08:50:41 JST Pawslut420

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     • Phantasm

     @sun @phnt The big elephant in the room is that there's a social media network with an algorithm that if you like certain posts, won't deliver you political ragebait (poastie or mastodon/bsky style) and will deliver you more of what you want. Do you want Pokemon fanart? The Algorithm will dripfeed that shit like it's an IV, and won't even dump unsolicited porn on your timeline.

     Meanwhile the powerusers end up on single user instances because they'll take longer to get blocked by some shitty admin who imports in a blocklist and can interact with the network for longer.

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Sep-2025 08:55:19 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @sendpaws @phnt @sun and the moment your single user instance is noticed and blocked due to not blocking what they don't like, you're back at square one, lmfao
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     Pawslut420 (sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Sep-2025 09:20:47 JST Pawslut420

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     @mischievoustomato @phnt @sun depends they seem to be less mad about that these days it depends on how far you go into the mastodon circle and if you're liked

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