re: veganism, synthetics
@q_aurelius There are types of sheep that shed without shearing. I suppose you could follow wild or ferals around?
But it's probably plastic.
@krainboltgreene @eldang Adding features that do nothing is a great way to piss off users and confuse admins.
It should either not exist or redirect to the mute / block options to highlight them
@mawr why would he get rid of the toot?!
Gender/HRT griping
@makyo normal for cis women is 15-70. I'm guessing most post op trans women end up well below that and medical science just sort of lalalas it
Hi folks! Quick tip on what those 'post level' terms actually mean because it's extremely unclear even with descriptions
🌎Public: Shows in Local and Federated timeline for any instance that's relayed with yours or knows about you. Any.
🔓 Unlisted: the least clear. This is still bootable/sharable to others but you only show up on the feeds of people who follow you OR who follow people that boosted you OR direct link.
🔒Followers only: only they can see at all, no boosting
Unlisted is good.
Twitter migration meta
It's a different set of people with volunteer mods and a different culture. Expecting it to have the same social rules is *weird*
(also we really need to relabel the CW button for how we actually use it)
Twitter migration meta
Twitter people coming to Masto and complaining about stuff like being expected to CW and various other weird culture stuff is getting a bit weird
Twitter has LOADS of unofficial rules. Hell the entire RT function only exists because the company copied it after users made their own!
Subtoots screenshoting ratio who you can RT or quote tweet without it becoming A Thing, Get Out Of My Mentions..
Christmas shitpost, LDB reference (but it doesn't count for the game)
@makyo the drum begins
softly at first, in the deep
@SlyCat FC is in January. Not having a mask policy is just ASKING for chaos, especially with how bad the flu season is this year + the potential for another easily spreadable COVID variant.
@howardtayler Use the CW function a lot. The general etiquette is anything politics goes under a CW, because a lot of us were very sick of Twitter being a stress engine and politics being CW'd makes it easier to skip if you're not in the mood
re: USPol (~+?)
@SkunkyLass "Answer hazy ask again later". Though at the least it's a better than polls suggested it might be
Instance host funding questions
@ceralor eventually you might need a hose!
.. on topic I've seen Patreon and Kofi used most
I was going to make this a reply but lost the toot.
Wal-Mart was selling a Hellraiser box as kid's toy https://boingboing.net/2022/11/07/walmart-sells-the-hellraiser-puzzle-cube-as-a-childrens-stem-toy.html
which actually seems like a pretty great story hook. A company selling artifacts of great power without ever even knowing because they don't vet the third party companies they let sell shit
re: BLFC Discourse
@KinkyKobolds I think the combination of weekday con + the con now being five months later in the year makes it much worse than it would be otherwise, tbh. One or the other is something of a hurdle, both is not ideal!
(also moving the date to late October then musing about the pool being open more was funny)
@Soreth come to think of it I'm sort of surprised no one threw those at you in, oh, 2015. Given *waves at everything*
on genie design
@Phorm Oh, incidentally that horrible, horrible acid Soreth mentioned the other day, helium hydride?
So if Teff is the teflon based, slick and non-reactive genie and that made her, a genie based on HeH would be...
..it would be her bubbly annoying helpful-but-destroys-you-accidentally cousin, wouldn't it? She wouldn't even TRY to twist the wish but something would go spectacularly weird anyway.
And over in the corner Teff is just facepalming so hard.
@Phorm I mean certain parts of Twitter this is what they'd expect soooo :D
@backwardsflow I'm partial to Subway Tooter
That doephin (Phoenix-D) you might know. Sometimes NFSW but always tagged when so. More of that over at doephinad@dragon.style