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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • At the moment federation between platforms is not useful. The only advantage is federation between Instances. I’ve used my sister at a test for what the average woman would think about it.

    Aspects she thinks is cool are that it’s owned by people and designed for people, that its left leaning and inclusive.

    Aspects she doesn’t care about are privacy, lack of ads, federation between instances, federation between platforms.

    Aspects she doesn’t like are her friends aren’t there, none of the accounts she like are there, no recommendation algorithm. She also hates the name fediverse.

    I think that we need to stop being boomers clutching our chronological feed and word of mouth discovery and embrace algorithms. That’s not to say we can have chronological feeds it’s just that we should include and option and serve some form of content recommendations.

    I also think threads will be a major player in drawing people in. Its easier to convince people who use Instagram to switch from Twitter to threads than Twitter to Mastodon. Once they’re on threads they can start being a part of the fediverse and then eventually they might decide to try out one of the instances.






  • 25% Camel case, 25% Pascal and 50% of the time flatcase. It drives me insane when I try and autocomplete a folder only to realise it was Downloads instead of downloads. I keep telling myself i will go through and make it all flatcase but I put it off because i tell myself i will rebuild my computer next week every week.




  • Its a term that originates from lookism communities and image boards. Looksmaxxing was people doing everything they can to improve their attractiveness. Hyper focusing on aspects of the face like jawline, skull shape and eyes trying to achieve a specific look. The term became memed by other communities as a way to say I’m hyper focused X.



  • Sorting things out straight away. If I need to do something I’ll do it as soon as I can. I used to put things off forever. I learnt this at work when things were so busy I either did the task that day or put it off and it never got done.

    At the end of the day I write a list of what needs to be done the next day in order of importance. When I come into work the first thing I do is look at that list. Eventually it becomes second nature and you don’t need to write it down. However I still write it down for work because I can’t afford to forget. In my personal day to day I just keep it in my head.






  • This question made me come to a weird realization that I dont appreciate when people do or say nice things to me. I tried to think of something and I know that she has done plenty of nice things and said nice things but nothing stands out.

    Then I thought about how I’d react if she did something nice for me and I realized I get annoyed and dislike it. I can handle small gifts but I don’t like people doing things for me or helping me and I ignore compliments because I already feel comfortable with myself so I don’t feel like I dont need them.

    Im not even sure how to appreciate a gesture beyond just saying thankyou as a formality and trying to figure out how to pay them back.