Chebucto Regional Softball Club

... it's a pity really ...

But, he was not that kind of man.

@burnitdown

I expect they use shoe polish like tooth paste.

This is "You can tell she's a mouthy wife from all them bruises" levels of BS.

This is all obvious I hope?

But I just needed to say it for myself.

Because they are really trying "ICE broke his rib so he's violent"

No. no no no. Try that again. **Who** is violent based on that evidence?

"Well ICE broke his rib a week ago so that proves he's a trouble maker!"

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...

. . .

Maybe. I don't know. This is going to sound crazy but maybe it shows that ICE has been trying to kill him for a whole week instead?

I mean, if he'd so much as given an ICE employee cause to stumble resulting a self-inflicted paper cut we'd KNOW. So it sounds like ICE broke his rib and he didn't shoot them then either.

Even though, you know, self defense and all that.

Anyways.

@temptoetiam

Please enjoy the funny art I commissioned from mansand about this video:

(this is one of my favorite art commissions ever.)

@Phosphenes @bovaz @aurochs

I think "no ads" is a much more popular selling point than "privacy"

I mean ... even for me, it's the quality of the content and people (the fact that it's lively here) that matters most, after that? It's that there are "no ads"

The privacy is nice, but I don't think many people care about this much, or as much as we should.

@temptoetiam

Here is a short video I made about how one carpenter ant related to the sugar feeder by their colony.

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@temptoetiam/115972698870474721

The title of this paper is hilarious to me because it makes the weaver ants sound like angry sugar addicts.

However perhaps we should be less judgemental "These findings challenge previous assumptions that sugar feeding consistently enhances the aggression and activity of ants."

(Thanks for pointing me to this @temptoetiam )

@Phosphenes @bovaz @aurochs

The fedi is slowly becoming a NORC (naturally occurring retirement community)

Only facebook has an older userbase.

And being more old than young that isn't a personal problem. But I wish there was more interest in making it a place younger people would care about. And that would mean listening to them.

@bovaz @aurochs

I think most people here find that kind of tracking and filtering a little creepy? But, it was also very convenient.

Over here we are like "follow two-dozen hash tags, and 300 people and then MAYBE your feed will be kind of interesting." Alternately? Here is the fire hose of your server's feed with 200 posts from the same person. Or the global feed which is just chaos.

Can we respect the art and craft of curating content? Can we make it a human thing?

@bovaz @aurochs

Curating content is real work. Tiktok didn't talk about it a lot but they put a great deal of effort into making the first experience users had with the app fun.

Showing them things they'd never seen before that were funny, or exciting ... using the spy data to tailor it to the particular user. Using the way the user scrolled to improve that experience.

@bovaz @aurochs

I would love it if there were a feed with more funny posts. You know like dril tweet type content.

I'm very happy about the complex issues and deep discussions but sometimes I'd just like to see some nonsense.

@aurochs

What if we had a kind of mini-app where users could create their own algorithms and then share combine and trade them?

I might design a mix of hashtags, users, and hand picked posts and call it "Ant News" someone else might pick a group of users and hash tags and create "Italian Football Bloopers"

Then we could share and rate these feeds and new users could just click on the popular ones?

@aurochs

I think the way we make DIY discovery eg build your own algorithm so mandatory makes it hard for the fedi to fulfill the role of social media in many people's lives: a way to relax ... social media functions a lot like how people have watched TV for decades. "just to see what's on"

I think there is nothing wrong with algorithms as long as they are transparent, and created by users.

@NickGates @taylorlorenz

If the fedi were more popular it'd be more diverse and the lack of diversity bothers me more than any "hostility" ... which every online space has.

I worry that the focus on "hostility" points to a problem that's hard to solve.

There are some good idea for moderation that could help, such as better reporting and sharing tools between servers. But I think the login/sign-up issues are much bigger.

@NickGates @taylorlorenz

I don't think this is the "biggest barrier" to reaching new users.

The biggest barriers are:

* Popular content creators who ought to care about building independent social media don't know it exists or why it's important. What if Emma from MR were here? For example.
* Sign up remains hard. I know why people don't want to integrate google auth... but if it were an option for some servers it'd make a big difference.
* UI needs more work.

@RVLara23

God did not put me on this Earth to work. I was born into this world for THREE things: to count ants, make puns, and spout nonsense.

Now I am from Ohio and I have seen Niagara in the deep of winter. I'm not warm weather girl.

But I also have electric mittens with only the thumb and finger free for extra warmth so I look like a crab. My jacket was made for winter storms ... on boats.

Each boot is the size of my head.

I'm am not a "winter person" I'm scared of being cold and very prepared.

One of the oldest errors of war– they invaded The Winter People in the middle of winter.