I'll be tacking more Comix Zone tonight on Twitch for @damagecontrolblog. I managed to make it to the final stage of the game, and I'm determined to get back there. Join me for all the page turning chaos at 8 ET!
@whatzaname@BlackAzizAnansi That's completely understandable! Sometimes you have to do only what you can while remembering to take care of your mental health. Especially given that we're on the worst timeline.
At this point, all we can try to do is make the Fediverse a bit more welcoming while making sure awful people don't get any traction. :ablobcatheartsqueeze:
@whatzaname@BlackAzizAnansi Then make sure to help people feel welcome the next time we have another wave of new users. Spaces not run by VCs don't mean anything if people don't feel safe and welcome, or are actively run off.
@BartV@blenderartists If it helps, I run two accounts here on Mastodon. One accounts gets more engagement here than it ever did on Twitter. My personal account got about the same amount of traction here as there, until my friends started to leave Twitter in droves. 😁
@BartV @blendernation@botsin.space @blenderartists You can rebuild here! I'd say leaving the followers behind might sting a bit now, but given how bad that site is now, I'm sure many of them are leaving as well.
I've got a laundry list of chores to do and errands to run today. Our shopping list is akin to a scroll at this point.
Before I leave the house, I have to get through all these DMs on Telegram and Discord, plus reblog some stuff on Tumblr. Will I get distracted? Probably!
@whatzaname@BlackAzizAnansi It's not that Twitter or Bluesky aren't racist. Don't be disingenuous. Twitter broke all those moderation tools which is people are finally leaving droves. Bluesky has better moderation tools. When people are blocked, they're even removed from mentions.
If we want to see more people on Mastodon, it has to fix its culture AND provide people with better moderation tools. Also, maybe address some of the reasons *why* people didn't like it here without writing them off.
I've been meaning to ask why Atlus is releasing a Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance demo five months *after* the full game released. Is it to drum up additional support from those on the fence? Riding a wave of support after Metaphor's success?
And like I've said before, every Mr Olympia winner for the past 40 years has been either Black or middle eastern, with 3 exceptions. All 3 of those exceptions are nazi hating "woke" people. The most conservative of them is Schwarzenegger, and people are still mad at him for making fun of Trump, fascists, and racists.
@rob11563@BlackAzizAnansi Not until a large chunk of Mastodon and the Fediverse fixes its anti-black problem. There is more awareness on the issue including people speaking out, but so many people were treated horribly here from the first Twitter migration. People remember that and Mastodon got a reputation.
So I'm not surprised to see many people head there instead of here.
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