mason @sweetmercury@jorts.horse

I suddenly got a burst of new followers because we have a lot of new people and I had a few post go viral (upwards of 5-6 boosts) so if I don't follow everyone back right away that's why.

Also the one thing Toot! doesn't do well is break out notifications into type like the web interface so sometimes I sit on checking all the profiles until I can see a list of people.

thank's

Also that may be more computer touching that I have time for in my private life these days.

I would never actually start a lifting centered mastodon instance because the people it would attract would be an absolutely nightmare to filter out.

Apparently squats.[nearly anything] is available. No one lifts things up and puts them down again and makes it their whole personality any more smdh my head

is squats.town available

Ok the true last thing. I promise. When I initially saw some of the other admins comparing us to plemora or similar remarks I bristled a bit. I admit that. I didn’t feel like a fair assessment. BUT. I think these folks have been around the block and can see who’s giving out the back pats, winks, and thumbs up, and have a clear right to be wary.

If someone who’s been an unrepentant bad actor before is now saying “hey this is like what happened to me!” i dunno man. Feels bad.

Last thing, from bed, as the melatonin kicks in. I’ll say here what I’ve said dozens of times when the absolute shithead instances pop off about something: you can say whatever you want. Literally. You can use any hashtag. You can. You’ll just be muted, suspended, and likely take the instance with you. Was that the plan? Is that what we’re doing here?

“Who cares if those instances block us?”

I do. You should too.

Now I remember. My initial thought was that shitposting isn’t griefing. I’m not going to write a philosophical treatise on shitposts but to keep it short: a joke is only funny of both parties are in on it. Otherwise you’re just being a shithead. We should be shitheads to brands trying to peddle their wares or journos for trying to scrap posts for story material, not POC trying to keep their spaces safe.

I had a bunch of other thoughts but honestly seeing what felt like a defed party left a sour taste in my mouth. And it's 1am and I have to do dishes.

Also it's not really fair to assume anyone who is trying to keep a hashtag that they use for something important clear of bullshit of being too online but then being unable to drop the shitposting armor for a few seconds (again, I get it, nausea inducing conflict aversion and trying to joke your way out of it).

I'm not trying to pull a "smol bean" card here either. I've stepped in shit in this exact way IRL plenty of times.

It kind of goes against any community building that we've been doing here. I've got questions with how conflicts seem to get or not get resolved on Fedi often, and it's likely that my "issues" are a result of rarely having to deal with a lot of the shit that gets piled on marginalized people online so I don't feel it's my place to wag my finger about that.

I hate to sound like a big timer but I have literally 30k posts since I joined this instance on day one, and flipping over to the local timeline and seeing a bunch of names I don't recognize with 50-100 posts celebrating being defedded like channers getting hyped that "the hacker group anonymous" is getting news coverage just fucking ain't it.

One thing about being neurotically conflict averse is that I keep trying to write any post about this whole disaster and I reach the character limit qualifying every sentence before I've said anything of substance. I'll have to just hope I don't step on any of the many many rakes that are apparently invisible these days.

Fuck.