It's pretty fucked how Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Tumblr established themselves as places to host your words and pictures so you could share them with others, and now they all lock some or all the things you post there to users only
Yeah it WOULD be nice if you could show me funny videos from Instagram, friend, but you can't and I'm sick of reminding you
money help ask
hi lovelies,
i've been keeping on top of things for the most part and am ready to start streaming on a regular basis!
one thing that's making life a lot harder and limiting my ability to interact is that i haven't had phone credit in a while.
i'm putting out a call for contributions to get $20 to top up my phone so i'm not wifi-hopping so much of the time.
you can help me out here:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=E4LMSHTVFVA5N
be sure to check out my streams this weekend! leave a name and note in your donation and i will read it on stream to personally thank you!
https://twitch.tv/SheIsJackie
discord server issues
#discord is experiencing server issues at the moment, apparently.
just another reminder why using centralized services for communication is a shit idea. i wish there was an alternative that was easy to use and offered similar functionality to discord.
i mean most sites aren't designed with screens this big in mind but still, all that empty space and the left-aligned content is quite jarring
i also think mastodon is a bit visually unappealing and makes me feel anxious to use it.
i think the biggest reason for my cycle of being interested in mastodon then abandoning it for years is because there is no easy way to find people to follow. like sure, i've followed a few people already but it doesn't feel anywhere near the same extent as, say, twitter. that's a combination of the network effect and the fact that twitter has a fancy recommendation algorithm which feeds off of gigabytes of user data.
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