fluffy 💜 @fluffy@mastodon.social

Reminder: I mostly post from @fluffy and only use this account as a backup for when queer.party is down.

I really wish I had the spoons to work on my blogging platform stuff. A tumblr-inspired RSS/Atom-based thing that would both be a distributed social network AND would be interoperable with the vast swaths of RSS/Atom-based infrastructure out there.

Don't get me wrong, GNU Social (and thus Mastodon) is a good basis for a lot of things, but there's a lot of stuff that makes for good blogging and art sharing etc that it just isn't intended for.

I have to wonder why there's such an avalanche of interest in forking Mastodon to become Tumblr-sequel. It just doesn't make any sense. Blogs are an entirely different beast. Mastodon is "hot" now but this really feels like an every-problem-a-nail situation to me.

See the rest of this self-reply thread. Make a good atom publish system and a good rss/atom reader. Rejoin the distributed social network that has existed for 15+ years and is still going strong!

Small business owner here. Have plenty of pre-existing conditions, some of which are rather expensive for health "insurance" to cover, and I know my plan's trustees love to find any excuse to reduce coverage for people who aren't healthy young single males.

So, might as well go on the record: if my taxes go up $700/mo to provide single-payer healthcare for everyone, I'll save money and might actually be able to afford to hire people.

I need to start making a list of all the musicians on Mastodon who post their work online.

Here's what I have so far:
* me - http://woozalia.com/
* https://eyeshadow2600fm.bandcamp.com/ ( @msk )
* http://sockpuppetmusic.com/ ( @fluffy )

There are probably others.

It's Sunday, so I can't call this MastoMusicMonday. Maybe if I get a bunch more to add, I'll repost tomorrow with that hashtag.

Gosh darn it, Moffet. The Title's going to break if you keep dropping it like that.

i dunno can we just have a federated version of everything i'm tired of the rest of the internet

So birdsite, tumblr and youtube are now all censoring, or at least flaging lgbt+ content. Predictably, free speech cishet liberals are silent about it.

In the meantime, Mastodon, which is the virtual "safe space" liberals hate so much, will soon be only site where minorities can speak their minds without being classified.