i also absolutely feel this way, but i think more people like ~the algorithms~ than people like us suspect. you have no idea how many new people i’ve seen complain about this on mastodon. people show up, see a blank feed that they have to make an effort to populate, and turn around and leave. i think a lot of people enjoy frictionless spoonfed content a la the tiktok for you page these days…

good to know, but it speaks a lot about their priorities that neither was there on launch, imo.

it’s the title of a YMO song!

i was in a terrible place after graduating from college: i’d had to move back in with my parents who i have a tense relationship with in my hometown which i dislike. i was working a terrible menial office job. my mental health was crumbling- i was suicidal, i had constant panic attacks.

i overcame it with psych meds and therapy. i’m not saying it was easy at all. the system in the us is bullshit and especially hard to navigate when you’re already struggling. and then my first therapist sucked and my first medication did nothing but cause annoying side effects. but finally getting actually good help helped me get unstuck and finally make moves to improve my situation.

getting an extra-long phone charging cable is such a silly purchase but it’s sooo useful. like i can’t live without one at this point. phone almost dead but the outlet is too far away? not anymore it’s not!

aww, i love this site! but i also can’t find the pin i know i put there when i found the site anymore- i wonder if they removed it. oh well

same. i’m still an introverted awkward autistic weirdo and i’ve had just as much trouble making friends living in a city as anywhere else. but one of the things i like about living here is that even though i’m basically always alone, i’m also always around other people. it’s nice imo

i feel this too, i tried using searx for a while and found it really nice but frequently down or broken :/ i’ll try some of the instances suggested here.

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i think this ties back to the idea that suffering is noble and enlightening, somehow. the flip side of that is the idea that nothing important or meaningful can be conveyed through happiness. i don’t think that’s true, but i guess a lot of people do.

i haven’t seen any hard confirmation, but i believe one of these mastodon admin meetings has already happened (the one attended by the universeodon admin) and an nda was involved. this would be the second meeting.

as a longtime mastodon user, tech articles about the fediverse are often very confused and under researched. it’s like tech reporters take one look at the websites and their brains shut off- if they ever even looked at them to begin with.

thanks for all you’ve done! that’s super disappointing. i really hope the community here can take off!

not really. honestly, if someone is being really weird about it i still say i can’t drink because i’m on medication, even though that’s not true anymore.

i got covid… so, not great. :P the big pride celebrations in my city were also all right at the beginning of the month when i was still super sick so i missed them all.

keep up your covid precautions please… covid is still out there and it can hit you really hard! i have to say sitting there reading about all these maskless queer club events while i had covid felt very darkly funny

i was a social drinker, but had to stop when i went on psych meds. i’m off them now but i never started drinking again. it definitely is a little awkward in social situations, but also, i realized i just never really liked the taste of most drinks or how being drunk felt, honestly. i was just doing it bc i felt peer pressured to.

i’m going to suggest john cale’s terrifying cover of heartbreak hotel