Blocking Servers, Threads and Whether It's Unusual or Important What Happens The purpose of this post is to share a mental model of what it means to reduce harm on the Fediverse in general, and Mastodon in particular. I also share some of my personal ideas about what the future could look like in the context of Threads on the Fediverse,
I Aten't Dead- Open Roller Project Diary 3 White Smoke - Fairly Doable Looks like this is fairly buildable with no great amount of tears. Having done a proof of concept as a browser script, it feels fairly clunky in practice and things like application state will be awkward. So I'm going to change to having a content
Open Roller, Project Diary 2 Only a small dip into things since the last post, but just for fun and habits, a quick update. Diary 1 is here Firefox CSS Woes, Discovered and Solved I was so delighted with how easy it was to get Svelte working in Chrome and Firefox, thanks to the Sveltekit
Open Roller, Project Diary 1 What is Open Roller? Open Roller is an early development tool for accessing open source role-playing game content in virtual tabletops. Example use case You're playing a remote game of Dungeons and Dragons, using https://roll20.net/. You have a spellcasting character and some of their spells are taken from
Quick, Year-Late Guide to this Mastodon Shite What is it? A way of doing posts in a way that might scratch a similar itch to posting on Twitter, but it's a significantly different beast. Volunteer run, no tracking, kinda weird but you might like it. Why would I like it? Because it's volunteer-run and there's no ads
Letting People In When You Don't Want To Let Anyone Down This post is an about the odd social compact between mods and members on volunteer-driven social media. And hopefully how not to fuck it up. It could apply in lots of places but today I'm thinking about Mastodon servers, of which I'm a mod of one. It doesn't reflect the
Hanging up the internet sword This is a post about our relationship with social media, what it does to us and how one can change their relationship with it. It's a personal perspective you might find applicable to some or no extent but here goes. A weird change in my social media activity Recently I've
