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Erin/Lain ✨ She/her or they/them pronouns
Joined Apr 2017
it's directed by park chan-wook of old boy fame and as such it's kinda disturbing but really well done
we watched the handmaiden last night and whoa tis a good movie
@bleak yeah... for good reasons too :/ I'm really hoping the new explosion in instances makes the focus less on masto.social and makes it possible to create a part of masto that can do better (awoo.space seems to be doing the best with this so far).
though I kind feel like that won't be enough if eugen is still front and center. I'm also hoping a new wave of devs can help with this but that's a little more dubious...
yay I updated my masto instance and added the disable registrations feature. glad to no longer rely on security by obscurity for this
I'm so bad about remembering to update things though. that and I'd miss out on moderation and everybody's private posts
hmm I wonder if I should actually use the instance I started like four months ago ^^;
@gewt hmm thats strange :/
@gewt currently you have to follow at least one person from each instance you want to federate with
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For me the hardest part of making a Mastodon bot was figuring out the OAuth dance to get my access token.
Twitter offers a UI that does this for you, so I made one for Mastodon! It works on any instance, but it does require you to run a `curl` command (that it generates for you) at the very end. Hope you find it useful!
@raccoon sure :) I'd really like to use a text masto interface at work so that's extra motivation
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this is bleak, a member and co-founder of a bay area photography worker co-op.
i capture light to show the world soulful places, people, ideas, moods, hopes, thoughts, and feelings.
silence is my canvas in making music, voices, sound effects, and audiobooks
important thoughts and observations come out of me sometimes, like today
i give all these things away freely, asking only for contributions from the most capable
@raccoon oh yay it looks like my changes to mastodon.py made it into a release now so there should be more features to work with now :)
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Contemplating how to go about building a patreon fund for our staff who need the money
Anyone have any advice for this kind of thing? Do I need an LLC or something like that to distribute funds without any US tax burden?
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death, poverty, mastopol cont.
a final point i'll make about critically engaging with how you distribute and exercise your resources is this parting thought: gargron isn't the only person who has put or is putting work into this website, but he is the only person getting money out of it. if you can boost his patreon, there's no reason you can't boost mine too.
bleak appreciates your listening. feel free to drop a coin in the jar / boost
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in the interests of transparency, i'm aware that me saying that garg being the only person to get paid for this might not be true in the future, or even now. nothing would make me happier than to be proven wrong, so i want to leave room for that. that is, imo, one of the most vital portions of my call to action. try to make sure the queer folks that are putting work into making the fediverse a good place to be are getting paid for that work.
still thinking about mediabro
phew MIDI is finally using his litter box properly
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Since I feel like people don't take me very seriously on it:
continuous reminder that I'm super open to discussing rules and federation and what awoo.space is in my head and what I try to do to make sure that lines up with what people want out of it
just as long as you aren't being argumentative or judgmental over it we'll get along famously!
