Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@chr Anyway, tl;dr: even though we've seen very large interest in Masto, it's still a few years out before Twitter is meaningfully going to fail unless it buckles unrecoverably. A lot of terribleness will be absorbed and be handwaved away because Twitter is still a useful service without a meaningful alternative that retains its simplicity, dopamine loop, and culture.

Same with FA, with the bonus that no one has successfully simplified how gallery sites work yet.

@chr In that continuum, I saw a lot of folks set up alternatives (including mainstream journalists!) then not really use them. Experts left, and quite a few big accounts saw success with reduced followings here.

I think we can expect that the majority of folks only switch when the pain of staying is much greater than sticking around. Also, expect laziness to do work here if they find something easier to use: the old platform will gradually become irrelevant.

@chr It took multiple years after it was acquired for folks to finally leave LJ, and some folks sticked on well past its server migration to RU. By comparison, folks only left AIM, ICQ, MSN when Microsoft shuttered it for Skype, offering no alternative to migrating. Tumblr lost most of its actives overnight due to the "porn" account bans.

By comparison, Blogger, MySpace, and others had more of a slow migration towards newer spaces, and are now mostly irrelevant.

@keeri Thank you!

Anyway, sharing this mostly for introverts having trouble sharing this and extroverted folks who care a ton and fail to understand why their introverted friend is sad and avoiding attention on their birthday.

Proper care and feeding of your introvert is important, and what may have no cost and be easy for you may be different. Doing your best to take the load off and live their experience is so, so valuable. 💜

This message brought to you by loving and caring family who pulled me into a Zoom call to wish me happy birthday, used two phone calls with me to bargain for schedule, then tried to drag me to a big birthday dinner with lots of people.

No, please, I beg of you, I just want a day to chill and vibe with my friends and without my specific anxiety of coordinating with large groups of people.

Today's my hatchday. It's on the balance been positive, but I kind of want to package a specific anxiety from it that family (no one here) have flared up unintentionally, in case it helps other introverted folks like me struggle to communciate this to well-meaning people they love.

I like the attention, I love the well wishes, and I love being recognized on my special day, but please don't make social obligations for me that I am expected to meet. I just want to relax and vibe.

@Dex (Even if it seems kind of insubstantial in hindsight or after suspension of disbelief wears off: being the small friend in VR, having paws and a tail in VR, and the general euphoria of being the shape and size you want to be is very very very very good.)

@Soreth @Doephin @anthracite
1. How dare you for the original pun.
2. Good, re, bitings
3. Looking in on this completely by accident this evening has greatly improved my evening. Thank you.
4. Your pun license is still revoked.

@Kyreeth @cstross Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You used dalle-mini to escape justice for killing my father. Prepare to die.