This shit is vile. Why am I still on fedi?
EDIT: I do not want technical advice. I want society to raise better people.
This shit is vile. Why am I still on fedi?
EDIT: I do not want technical advice. I want society to raise better people.
Yes, I've blocked these assholes. Yes, I've muted these words. Yes, I've defederated from these instances.
But, people keep bringing them into my mentions. They email screenshots like this to me. They keep telling me I have to see it. New assholes show up each day and I have to do it all again.
This is what we mean when we say that the fediverse might not be good for our mental health.
Bring back PC buzzers/speakers. I want to hear loud beeps on POST.
Deleted my affirming Friday post because I can't escape pervy guys replying to me.
I guess that's one more thing I don't get to do here anymore.
Since a few of you have asked, I'll just explain what happened this time.
I posted an affirming message like I do every Friday, with a message like "call someone you miss".
Folks in the comments started sexually harassing me, and when someone pushed back, the harassers said that they have fun harassing me.
My favorite* part of this is that because I'd blocked them, they could carry on talking about how fun it is to harass me and I couldn't see it.
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* I don't love this
I'm sorry if I've seemed so down lately, folks.
With notoriety comes attacks, I guess. I was hoping the fediverse would feel different, but it's just not.
"But Veronica, it's defederated, so there's nothing we can do about that"
I know. That's why I'm saying maybe this place isn't fun for a woman with a following.
I just realized what I hate about modern chat: it's not a small window on the screen anymore, it's *the whole screen*.
Discord (et al) is barely usable in a small window, whereas AOL Instant Messenger was *very* usable in a small window as you went about your browsing.
For me, smaller window = fewer distractions.
I've had a few folks ask me how I make https://www.thestopbits.net load so quickly.
It's a boring answer: it's tiny.
There's almost nothing you download when you visit. There's no JavaScript and we use whatever font you have as the default.
It's not a trick, it's just how things used to be. It has to load on a 28.8 modem, so on your modern machine it's going to feel zippy.
Modern websites can feel zippy too.
I'm far from a web design expert, but I've made a point to try and leave as small of a footprint on my websites as is practical.
It's better for me, as I don't have to monitor as much junk. Don't have to worry about hitting all the right analytics.
It's better for visitors, as you all get faster page loads with fewer hassles.
It's better for the planet as I can do a lot more with fewer resources.
Please don't write "fan fiction" about me. It creeps me out when it's shared with me.
Updated the band website to reference our upcoming gig at VCFMW, and “dropped” a couple of song titles.
Folks asking me what counts as a desktop- I suppose it's all in how you use it.
Lately I've had my editing rig and a 486 set up on my desk, as well as a NUC for footage capture (which I'll count).
So for me, three.
Adding an ISA Ethernet card today so I can test my website using the only performance test that matters: Netscape Navigator on my 486.
Also, you can INCREASE your retention rate while DECREASING costs with this ONE LITTLE TRICK:
Come closer...
[hushed tones] make sure the employees who can cancel a customer account have absolutely no access to the systems which can cancel customer payments. By separating concerns, you can literally keep billing people after they think they quit your service!
No losers but the customers, am I right?!?!
Here's a tip for all of you multi-billion-dollar corporations out there!
Make sure to cram AS MUCH JAVASCRIPT AS POSSIBLE into your customer cancellation pipelines. That way, when even the smallest hiccup occurs with your web infrastructure, your customers will be so annoyed at trying to cancel, they'll decide cancelling isn't worth their time and just keep paying you month after month.
It's that easy! Win win! ✨
Side note, one of the best things I ever did (as a YouTube creator) was add most emojis to my YouTube Studio block list.
On YouTube, the block list prevents comments from showing for other users, and puts comments in a holding area where I never have to engage with them.
Putting most emoji in that block list has caught spam, impersonation, catfishing, crypto scams, and a lot of lewd behavior. I can allow the average everyday emoji through, while filtering the crud.
(Boosts on this welcome)
(This is not an invitation to tell me about forks, until a fork lets me save old toots with the same URL, I'm not leaving)
I wanted to share a screenshot of a dangerous post offline, for reasons.
However, because I'd already suspended the instance which was sending hate my way, I can no longer see the post which caused me to suspend them in the first place. So now, I guess I have to take screenshots of *everything vile that comes my way* in case this happens in the future.
So yeah, go Mastodon I guess- thanks for forcing me to collect my own hate messages?
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