Okay smut out of my system for now, time to be serious for a moment.

One thing that's so important about this...movement? Moment? I don't know what to call it. This overall desire for a web of old, going back to Web 1 or Web 0 or even just early 2000s. The movement to go back to an era before everything was advertisements and algorithms and apps and everyone using the same 6 sites. I'm going to call it the Pushback, for lack of a better term, because that's what it is - pushing back against the constant invasion of Web 3 and Advertisements and everything the internet has become.

It only works if we interact with each other.

Shares/Reposts/Repeats are a vital tool. Follow people who post things you like. Share the things they do so those that follow you can see it too. As @birze put it, #boostearlyboostoften and #followearlyfollowoften because if we don't, this just doesn't work.

Forget the algorithm and the numbers. Think of the human, or person, or creature, or entity. Imagine - or remember, depending on what you've been through - being in a crowd of people and saying something - and no one responds.

It sucks.

"Likes" and "Favorites" help avoid that to a degree, the digital equivalent of someone nodding their head in agreement when you talk. You know you're not being ignored, and it helps.

But those head nods mean so much more when they come from someone you know. And the only way to do that is to actually get to know people. Talk to them. Comment on their stuff. Share their stuff. And trust that people will do the same for you.

I'm personally trying to be better about this, too. Trying to resist the urge to just like and move on, trying to comment or at least share because sharing means if I don't have the energy to comment, I've upped the chances someone else might see it and comment.

Trying to make it so this - and anywhere I go - is a place where I'm doing my part to be an entity that interacts with other entities. A person that talks to other people. A creature who is not wandering the woods alone at night.

The algorithm faked this for us before. It pushed posts that served the interests of the corporate overlords of the 6 Sites, so the machine got us a simulacrum of human contact so we'd be rewarded for Doing The Thing that made us easier to be targeted with advertisements.

We don't have that here. There is no algorithm. Which is good! But it means we are the ones who drive the interactions here. No machines, no advertisers. Just people.

That's all. Just...make sure you're letting others know they're seen and heard, and make sure you're talking with them so they can see and hear you in return.

Built an internet of people talking.

It's the only way we thrive.

@froggebip I’m planning to make some documentation on what the html sanitizer will let through, maybe I’ll find smth while doing research for that

@froggebip yknow, this should actually be Mostly Possible, the only potential problem is the font

@shel @birze ah, ight

@shel @birze totally didn’t forget to switch it to mfm

@shel @birze how does this render for you on gts?

@nora @shel I know that viv is doing pillbug

@EstrogenAndSpite @cyclar2 nah, again, akkoma thing, radiokids is gts

@cyclar2 it’s a thing in akkoma, and it might be a thing in other gts frontends maybe? you might wanna shop around for those

@EstrogenAndSpite @viv you could potentially also poke the instance owner and ask them if they can increase the limits, most owners probably just picked a random large-ish number and wouldn’t mind increasing em

@birze @shel akkoma also has some fun stuff in the form of misskey flavored markdown

@EstrogenAndSpite @viv actually, the text limit on your instance seems to be 20k; I’ve personally set mine to 50k outgoing and 1M incoming

@meow @vision yeah, apparently gotosocial can’t do relays right now, otherwise we could just slap a relay onto this whole thing and p much have it work

@nora here’s some (those are set up for akkoma, but you should be able to grab the raw images to add em to gts)

@glabemoon you’d need separate accounts, but a lot of clients do support that just fine

@onnes @meow

@tenna @mae same here, let me know if you need help, I do have a bunch of experience with that stuff

@spdx_wl I generally just use rclone for p much all my gdrive stuff, and if you want live sync with that, then you could probs set up a cronjob for rclone sync for almost-live sync or do rclone mount fuckery

service monitoring has its ups and downs

@tenna @mae yea, it does have its quirks, but it’s generally awesome and greatly simplifies running things