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.

service monitoring has its ups and downs

swear to god google drive if you're processing half a million items just to dump them in my main folder i'm going to mr google and eating him with a knife and fork

Heyyy setting up here. I'm pretty sure #heycohost is completely redundant here.

Gonna try and find as many people as I can here.

OH NO I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE AND MY CAPS LOCK IS STUCK ON. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE THE CAPS LOCK KEY IS ON MY GLOVE80 KEYBOARD BECAUSE I CONFIGURED IT TO BE HIDDEN IN A LAYER, BECAUSE I DO NOT USE CAPS LOCK USUALLY.

IN FACT I DO NOT USE CAPS LOCK USUALLY SO MUCH THAT I BOUND THE PHYSICAL CAPS LOCK KEY ON MY LAPTOP'S KEYBOARD TO INSTEAD FUNCTION AS AN ESC KEY. NORMALLY IT'S GREAT UNTIL SITUATIONS LIKE THIS HAPPEN

I WAS THINKING ABOUT REBOOTING ANYWAY BUT BEING UNABLE TO STOP SHOUTING HAS FORCED MY HAND

well, fortune decided to give me something very relevant to the current Situation

guy on the tram with an enormous longsword makes me realize that the urge to lunge for an officer's service weapon must have existed in the middle ages

okay, so. i’m not gonna click this, and i really don’t think anyone should go about banning their own accounts

but i really, really wonder what would happen if i did. would it say “c’mon, you can’t ban yourself”. or would it go “…well, you’re the boss, chief” and just do it. will it try to protect me or will it be like linux going “hm, you said you wanted to delete your entire root directory? and you’re sure? well, who am i to tell you no”

i might just try it on one of my test akkoma instances for shits and giggles

well, turns out that turning on the media proxy without setting a base URL causes a bunch of shit, including users and login, to break on akkoma-fe. don’t do that.

please enjoy: photos of my cat

her name is Rey which is short for Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce

"i gotta get sleep before tomorrow becomes a problem" is a good line and i gotta hold on to it for more use.

anyways.

MIX_ENV=prod mix pleroma.emoji get-packs -m https://git.tenna.zip/Tenna/emoji-packs/raw/branch/main/index.json eggbug

I should add a bunch of emojis to this

upload test

IT'S ALIIIIIVE