My first Mastodon post! So great to be here! I'm a beagle and Professor of Psychology. I love chatting about academia, psychology, virtual reality, and commissioning furry and TF art. So pleased to meet you!!!
re: sad feels
@david I'm alright, I emailed my manager (who hasn't talked to me since august), and I'm hoping to have a meeting with him to discuss my future at the company. He said he'd schedule one soon, but I have a feeling he's going to ghost me...
Hello customer service.
I would like to return my "being an adult" package I upgraded to a few years ago. I don't think it's been a good fit.
Please downgrade me back to the "pubby with big pawbs" level of service. I'm aware this locks a few features, but the benefits don't seem to be worth it.
Thanks!
-Ajax
Senior Borker Support Engineer
Guns
OK!
This took all day. My office isn't that much clearer then before but it's an improvement! 🥲
re: cw meta discussion
@tilton yeah same here, it feels like a little too specific. Like, eye contact could be every avatar and "animals" would count as everyone of my posts, because dog.
It seems like stuff like that would be better fitted to a keyword system rather than a CW, but that's not how the system is designed I guess.
I have my mastodon all setup just to auto expand content warnings, but filter out specific things.
Maybe that's what they're for, they're just supposed to be keywords that allow folks to block them out if they want.
@rey nice! Brownie time~
Sex, nudity
@rickgriffin very fun <3
Also, something that helps is using keywords as hashtags, like:
Then folks can find your stuff organically. Since there's no algorithm. :)
@SilverEagle I have a feeling it's more like everything is so broken, that some new awful bug "fixed" that.
@BathysphereHat yes~
sad feels
@david -hugs back- thank you <3
@BathysphereHat I thank you for your service 🖖🫡
With the update to v4.0 and some changes to layout and display, I kinda wanna commission some custom art for the instance!
I'm open to anyone on the fediverse who is interested in a paid commission for an icon and splash image for tech.lgbt, but my preference would be a local instance community member first
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Dragons furry
@nallwolf I've done this a few times myself XD
CWs aren't some sort of Badge of Shame among the Mastodon instances. They're a part of the local culture. We use them to be good neighbors, to make godawful puns, to give each other little surprises.
That's in large part because Mastodon was built up by a pile of tired, disabled, traumatized, queer folk, and we built a space where we could engage with the world around us more easily. And then we used the same tools to be goofballs. Because that is how a human do.
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In the process of moving to https://bears.town/@Saintajax33