Notices by C.W. Smith 🇺🇲 (cwsmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com)

@BeAware

No matter what age we live in... People demand to be Entertained.

@BeAware

The stories are always important.

Of course the characters the athletes and management create as critical. Modern Day gladiators really...

... Apparently historically there is very little difference between Gladiators in the Roman Colosium and a WWE wrestler. Down to merch and sponsorship deals.

@BeAware

Maybe if it was the 90s again, but that's me.

@vitalis

@kaia

The power of Myth, Legend, and the desire for a good story to go with your Spicy treat.

@kaia

Maybe, but the real question is... Is it usable?

#YouTube
#ThoughtProvoking
#Censorship
#HistoricalCensorship
#MarketPlaceOfIdeas
#TheDangerOfReatrictedThought

The Terrifying Predictions of George Orwell

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kqknNSao500

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@modernmadhatter

@arstechnica

We have a Fediverse variant.

https://join-lemmy.org/

The real issue is the same as always. Convincing people to move over or at least make an account on a server even if they keep the old one.

#WeekendPlans

Hoping to get contacted about that lens on Facebook Marketplace from last week. Probably gonna go buy it Saturday. The Pentax is still in the Shop, no word on that yet but the tech did say there was a three week lead time at the moment.

May hunt down a Coleman camp oven, not to be confused with the camp stove. The oven is basically a metal box that sits on top of the oven for it's actual heat source.

Eyeing Solar battery generator options as well. Ideas.

#FitnessGoals
#Fitness
#Progress

So, I am still hitting the gym, and even on days when my performance isn't anything special I am still going.

So 3 months in and feeling at least better. Not necessarily the best, I have a headache and woke up with a burning throat this morning that took 2 cups of coffee to sooth.

Lost about 10 pounds so far in weight. Still need a measure tape or bmi reading and such.

Working on my diet as well. Trying to find both healthy but also easy to store food for work.

So I got my hands on a Huion Pen Tablet and after running the ubuntu based setup in Gentoo after installing dpkg, I now have the ability to draw with a pen... Now I just need to learn how to write.

@kaia

I have done from Northern California to South Carolina and back.

That sort of road trip is always fun. Especially when you go off and see things you weren't planning on.

@solidsanek

It's an older code, Sir. But it checks out.

@KayOhtie

@prettygood

... Yeah... That's a shit response.

#Facebook
#FacebookGroup
#FacebookFinds
#VintageToys

From Nightmare Nostalgia:

Coleco’s manly answer to Easy Bake Oven, was this Pizza Hut oven that first debuted in 1975. Just add water and a lightbulb for a personal pan!

Original Post can be found here

@BeAware

I hate to say it, but you are right. No one I tried to even think of doing so did it. Same with Threads Federation. Couldn't get them to just flip a switch.

At least with X I could understand. Federation isn't an option, so you are trying to convince them to move completely to a different thing entirely. And with the Gatekeepers around here they might not enjoy it anyways.

But Threads and Bluesky have the option, it just requires a little bit of effort.

@laxla @BeAware

You aren't wrong.

Keeping the more ban happy people partitioned off might make the network more welcoming than it is at times.

@BeAware

It does seem to have some issues with folk wanting to maintain a walled garden and only allow those they approve of in.

But I am gonna build my communities and activate Federation on all of them and try to bring more people in still.

What else is there to do?

#SocialMedia
#Facebook
#Meta
#Meh

... I am not having fun on Social Media much anymore.

Meta platforms are good for the occasional image that is out there, Instagram for the Bikini Models, and little else.

I used to admin forums and such for small niche communities and frankly I want back to that.

#Mastodon was the first try for me into the Fediverse. I have liked running my own instance and controlling it as I desire.

The PixelFed instance I finally finished seems pretty nice as a site to focus on my van project and the photography I plan to engage in as I travel.

I still haven't gotten the NodeBB forums up, but they are next on the list. Even if I don't end up with a lot of people taking part.

Sites are still on my agenda as well.

I just don't care for anything else about the big guys these days. Deleted my old Reddit and recreated an account just to comment on Fediverse and Vanlife mostly.

This is just me Ranting.

#PixelFed
#PixelFedAdmin
#Fediverse
#FediContent

So I got the PixelFed instance working properly now. Gonna need some tweaks like the object storage settings, email, and maybe open it for the general public at some point.

Pulling everything out of Instagram currently. Gonna import my Instagram stuff into here.

Anyone interested can follow at @cwswanderer

So... Progress.

#Fediverse
#FediContent
#MastoAdmin
#CommunityProjects
#ServerRules
#Advice

I am working on rebuilding one of my communities. Originally it was a small fanfiction thing but as I have another fan related domain I decided to make this one a Dark Fiction site and community.

Thing is that Dark Fiction can get... Dark.

So while I am working on the ideas and which software to use for community, I need to figure out what is allowed for rules and discussion.

Obviously moderation would need to be far more lax than say Mastodon.art or anything from Europe. You can't start banning everyone who talks about dark topics if they follow that topic to its darker logical conclusion.

Obviously Harrassment, KYS statements, Actual Racism, and a few other things should be banned. But discussion of how a racists bigoted character might address something shouldn't be.

I live in the US so 1st Amendment is pretty open ended.

Figured I would put this out to discuss cause it is such a disconnect between what most people would generally expect from an instance due to the subject matter.