I am fucking weirded out by the fact that there are people on tech.lgbt who bend over to defend those weird tech bro services that archive people's accounts without their consent
Like as queer people you've never had to deal with worrying about privacy/doxxing? I guess one day your innocence will be broken and you'll change your minds.
It's so fundamentally wrong and gross to copy and archive people's social media profiles without their consent I can't even fathom defending that.
Even more so when people do it as an obvious startup thing trying to create a business. The guy had 155 patreons and literally replaces every account's bio with an ad for his patreon.
the existence of those kinds of services is the kind of shit that makes me worry at night every now and then when I think about possible ways someone might doxx me
the best thing masto can do right now, imo, is to prioritize features & support for organizing communities.This is why facebook has society in its jaws, people are able to easily create, find, and post in any number of communities they overlap with.
if mastodon or an adjacent fediverse platform can better facilitate self-organizing communities, they will win all the spoils and then some
Many years ago I was on a red eye flight from Chicago back to L.A. I was stunned to find myself among only maybe a half dozen (if that) passengers on the entire 747. We spread out in the large, dimly lit plane and basically vanished from each other. It was rather spooky -- like the lead-in to a Twilight Zone episode, but the stewardesses were bored and happy to chat and provide an array of snacks and beverages.
I asked how this sort of thing happened. They said there were scheduling anomalies like that where they had to get the plane somewhere even if it was empty of passengers, and she noted that on the next leg out off L.A. the plane would be packed to capacity.
I was abashed to receive gifts, because when I guide people around Kyลto or ลsaka, I pay my own way, and I like to help people unconditionally.
Incidentally, Happy Tanabata, Japan's Star Festival on 7/7. Especially children write wishes on strips of washi (Japanese paper), then attach them to sprigs of bamboo.
For Tanabata I once wrote a simple bilingual haiku, published in the Shikoku regional newspaper (ๅๅฝๆฐ่), 5-7-5 syllables in Japanese:
ไธๅคใ ๆใไนใใ ็ฌนใฎ่
Tanabata ya nozomi o noseru sasa no fune
After a week of trying, I finally scored a reservation at the Pokemon Cafe in Tokyo. Both kids are of course over the moon; Iโm just pleased I donโt need to have that fight again ๐
I really love the #filters here on #Mastodon. Unlike on previous corporate-owned platforms Iโve used, Mastodon filters allow me to hide one major source of traffic: the US.
English is my primary language and America and its culture floods the anglosphere.
Iโm Australian and Dutch. I wish the best for Americans but I have no need to be kept up to date on every detail of the latest horrible thing happening in that country.
English teacher v English teacher 'i gotta problem with you bro!' 'MY WIFE IS JAPANESE!" (twitter.com)
'i gotta problem with you bro!' 'MY WIFE IS JAPANESE!"...
DID YOU KNOW that in Japan TUNA is somethings called THE CHICKEN OF THE SEA?
@omoikiri avatar...
Just got back from Tokyo!
A real neon wasteland out there! Look at my Flickr account photos!
@SirTapTap There are new signs up all around the Hubs of Japan
"No Dogs, no English Teachers and No Canadians"
Heart Corporation - the key to the Japanese Dream?
heartcorporationexposed.wordpress.com/...
ITS OFFICIAL!
Professional-Face202...
Haha who would ever want to work in an eikawa?
Like millions of people from India and the Philippines?