F.T. Tern here (just Tern is fine) - author of a couple of SF books available through Kindle Unlimited or for purchase on Amazon, plus various non-fiction works. Frustrated with Twitter and the like and checking this out! #introductions
At least I've got Mastodon, where I log in in the morning and find scores of follow announcements. And no one is sniping at anyone else!
It's weird. How can a social medium that doesn't revolve around adversarial hostility persist? The "I hate you & this is why" model of interaction has been around since Usenet.
Hi, I’m Becca. I’m a 24 year old single mom as well as a stay at home mom to my one child. Living life the best I can after a divorce. I’m cis (she/her) pronouns and my sexuality is pansexual. I consider myself a Marxist. I’m hoping to start up nursing school in the near future. I enjoy comics, horror (especially campy horror), Godzilla, making people laugh and being a mom. I like making friends and being dumb online as well as being lewd
If you have any, please @ me your favorite article about why Twitter/Facebook/Nextdoor/etc are bad and you shouldn't use them, preferably ones easy to understand from a non-tech perspective. Bonus points for anything that touches on information accessibility and abuse issues.
It got a *little* alarming for a bit, especially when a bit of water would splash over the edge (grease fire + H2O = more fire) and we got the baking soda out just in case, but it eventually burned out.
friendly reminder that i will work commissions/paid as - an editor / proofreader - a design / accessibility advocate and voice of reason for your tech - a mockup / UI Designer and general social media adjacent tech designer - a writer for any text you want to be made more accessible - will happily learn tech for any remote work salary that needs another programmer/game designer, have years experience in C#, C++, and Java in the realm of game-dev