inmysocks (version: awoo) @inmysocks@awoo.space

@wulf@toot.cat @jk The coyote still revolves on the profile

@Freylet it was working very nicely before The Event (when the total number of users went from about 20,000 to over 100,000) then it got very slow for a few days and the registration was closed here to prevent that.

@Freylet and @noiob are the ones to ask I believe.

@Freylet I am not sure if it is possible to open up to just one person. It got closed to prevent problems like on mastodon.social.

The moderators are listed on the info page here https://awoo.space/about/more

@Akatookey awoo!!

@spatz_@mastodon.social and here I thought europe was the only place trying to mimic the US. I am sad that I was wrong.

@garthdb this happens after every big group of new people shows up. Give it a week or so and it will go back to actually having conversations.

@thefishcrow I am impressed. I wouldn't have remembered to spell that backwards to get it in the correct order on the timeline.

As a reminder, people are very different.

There are things that you think of as being absolutely essential to being a person that other people just don't have.

And there are things that you lack that other people consider absolutely essential to being a person.

This generally shows up in assumptions about what it means to be a person that we don't even realise we are making.

I have been dealing with both sides of this a lot lately.

I really don't like the idea that I may have a better understanding of empathy than some other people because I am so often bad at it.

But then I keep seeing people having trouble with the idea that there may be someone out there that is different than they are and just can't seem to process the idea.

I always feel incredibly arrogant when I say things like that.

@Jessiscah@mastodon.social there is that. I am hoping that once people spread out into different instances we will find a good way to move around to the different parts of mastodon.

@oceangrunge@witches.town me too!!

@Jessiscah@mastodon.social I have mixed feelings about this.

@optimajohnny with 500 characters you can say 'Look at my selfie!' almost 28 times every time you post a selfie.

@ajroach42 YES. I keep seeing people assuming that it isn't the case and it worries me.

Also I have seen people say they are going to stick with twitter because mastodon isn't private. That just confuses me.

@speculative I know that it isn't common, but it isn't common because of the silo/walled garden mentality of those apps. We want to get away from that here I hope.

Is it something like kink that you don't want to scream about in public but isn't all that important to keep secret? Mastodon is ok

Political dissent in places where it is banned? FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK NOT ON MASTODON

Something that may get you fired? Probably not mastodon. How lucky do you feel/How nosy is your work?

Another reminder:

Mastodon isn't private. Yes, DMs and other things are less public than the public timeline, but never assume it is private ever.

If you have something sensitive to talk about use something actually private like Tox or XMPP with OTR or something like that.

@speculative this is true. I am still a bit confused by why there isn't a static version of the public timeline shown when you got an instance you aren't logged into. That would let people get a feel for the community first.