Notices by Luci for Chai Tea (zens@merveilles.town), page 3

no, *You* can’t do it for those reasons. Some of us are just better than you. You can definitely learn to live with that.

I feel like i should add to my core principles thread:

When i post an idea I am not interested in why you think it can’t be done.

The reasons might be true and extremely valid

But they are not interesting, and structurally, responding with them in knee jerk fashion to any idea you see is a really shitty personality trait that is bordering on misogyny when you do it to someone who is visibly a woman.

distributing condoms, tampons, plan-b and estradiol to schools as active resistence

@apophis @emi “the good ideas encounter the most righteous nitpicky puritan resistance”

@emi don’t put your personal limitations on me

@cwebber it started out as mocking mansplainers and it has transformed into something beautiful and majestic

@ireneista i mean, the workflows are already in place we just call them “api keys” like that’s not hostile jargon

let’s scale down more

fucking linktree, okay? doesn’t it just make you angry that this exists?

We can build a gui that lets you enter in a list of links

it can be a self contained html file as output

that file can be put anywhere

we can streamline the process of pointing an authoring tool at a webhost. If people can do nintendo friend codes, they can friend code a host to an html builder

so, the thing to do is scope down.

I don’t want to recapture all the people on commercial social media.

In fact, a lot of them are dangerous bigots that I affirmatively want no where near me. Our goal should not be universal appeal.

Let’s scale down to—- what do we need to build for a queer teenager in russia?

what do we need to build for our 70 year old mother?

what do we need to build for that BLM activist?

laser targets. thousands of different tries.

making one’s own site, independent of a big commercial platform
is not *very* hard. but it’s hard enough to enable big commercial platforms to very easily capture massive amounts of people’s creative output.

and because of network effects, their value is not just in their ease of use but the promise of an audience which itself is a thing that is one of the most difficult things to build with a personal website.

I feel like while a lot of us tech folk have the skills to physically build the right thing to solve this problem; we don’t have enough social awareness to understand what the problem actually is or what a suitable solution can look like.

and if some us do i find the good ideas encounter the most righteous nitpicky puritan resistance. So while i want to get involved it’s hard to trust even if someone is willing to learn about, for instance, building accessible websites; or hearing when a design decision is causing harm to a marginal group

Hello everyone! I just set up this new account?

Things seem pretty cool here on this "fediverse". What does that mean though, the "fediverse"? I hear it's using ActivityPub. Could anyone explain to me what that means? Thanks!

POSSE

publish own site
syndicate elsewhere

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

seeing a renewed debate about mastodon vs bluesky today and one thing that always sticks out for me about these discussions is a complete lack of a shared vision for what the fediverse should become in the future.

some people want an exact twitter clone complete with all its bad profit motivated features

some want it to be able to influence elections

some want it to serve the purpose of shining light on injustices

some want it to be good at promoting whatever your product or service is

some want it to be a refuge for misfits

others want it to be a bastion of unregulated freedom of speech

but one thing is certain: it can’t and won’t be all things to all people.

TBH the PDS portion of atproto has some potential. the rest of it is trash

bluesky so a butterfly labelled “micro services architecture” and called it “decentralisation”

@lucretia and it happened so often you very quickly got the sense that the motive behind it wasn’t to stop it from happening

@Karen5Lund i hope he’s serious and his movement really takes off. imagine how much mess harassment we’d need to endure

@lrhodes that’s why it was so hard to add colours to games consoles i always wondered

"Tweetdeck responds to VIM shortcuts. I noticed and now Z is making fun of me."
- me. 2014m

@oscherler i am literally downloading my archive now so i can go back further than 10 posts