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Rumblings
A bit ago, I heard an unusual rumble out on the street. It was like a low-flying aircraft out of Logan but not quite the right pitch. I looked up out of the window to see if there was a big truck rumbling down the street, but it was empty.
Turns out it was an earthquake: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake…
(When I first clicked that link, the felt effects were marked, but I don't know how to bring that back. Maybe this is more descriptive: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake…)
Feeling Good While the World Burns
This is by my therapist, Dr. Sebastian Barr. It's a reframing that I really needed to hear, and I think most of my friends need it too.
Dr. Barr is an incredibly thoughtful man who I really wish I'd been seeing when Heather's transition was much more raw. (The first therapist I engaged with almost broke up our marriage. At some point I'll post about that.) He is proudly trans and also deeply compassion to cis anxiety around trans issues. All of that has absolutely nothing to do with the post I'm linking to, but I wanted to stick it in there anyway.
"I’ve so strongly linked caring and fighting to feeling bad that my automatic response to feeling this good is that I’m doing something wrong."
sebastianmbarr.substack.com/p/…
Feeling Good While the World Burns
A trans man and psychologist reflects on the role of pleasure amid tragedy and oppressionSebastian Barr (Sebastian Barr’s Substack)
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On leaving Facebook
I haven't killed my account over there or anything. I'll probably keep it in a dormant state because there are just too many situations where I might need it.
THAT SAID
I don't even need to get on a high horse about ethics or the new administration to be bailing on Facebook. My feed there is a disaster. Half of it is groups I didn't follow. I don't know when they added that "feature." Before the election, those unfollowed group posts were inflammatory political crap. Now, they're mostly AI-generated fake images.
And speaking of AI-generated fake images, I clicked ONE VIDEO on their video shorts and managed to train the algorithm that I want to see fake videos of AI-enlarged sea life. That's absurdly specific. How is that even a category?
I get the argument that Facebook holds so many relationships that will be hard to keep up otherwise, but it's gotten so hard to find content from any of those relationships that I'm not sure the argument makes sense anymore
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💖💖! This feels really good. I want to be able to chat with friends like this. It's just that, like a lot of people, falling off Facebook was so good for my mental health that I didn't want to try returning.
Messing around with Friendica is fun
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Info for Bluesky folks
OK, so compatibility between Friendica/Mastodon/fediverse and Bluesky is not as straightforward as Friendica led me to believe. I think Friendica is a bit optimistic.
HOWEVER, Lifehacker showed me the answer.
If you would like to follow me from Bluesky, use: bsky.app/profile/echoweaver.kl…
If you would like me to follow YOU from Bluesky, follow bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy . Then let me know.
Here is the documentation: fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-s…
Hello Bluesky
This public post will hopefully show up through a fediverse-Bluesky bridge. My bridged Bluesky account should be:
bsky.app/profile/echoweaver.kl…
Susan Rati Lane (@echoweaver.klatch.club.ap.brid.gy)
[bridged from https://klatch.club/profile/echoweaver on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]Bluesky Social
Bridgy Fed
@Daniel Lowe have you looked at this service? fed.brid.gy/
It claims to connect Mastodon and Bluesky.
Sigh. you're not wrong.
I have a philosophical reason for banging on this so hard -- I think the only way that dropping Facebook can gain traction is if we can get a critical mass of people we want to interact with away from it. Consolidating all the Facebook alternatives is one way to make that happen.
I find Bluesky kind of creepy in a way I can't fully define. I hoped that the bridge would work so I wouldn't need to make an account there. But right now it has several times the number of users I want to interact with than the fediverse.
It's just another billionaire's pet project that is architected specifically to avoid criticisms of content sorting and moderation. "We federate so you can make your own!" These systems are all friendly until their growth curve stops, at which point they start the money extraction.
I think what's creepy is just seeing the same thing happen again and again.
Well, I have 10 "Contacts" now
Even though when I look at my list of contacts, only 8 are listed. I know I have a friend request out to Cindy, so I assume that's counted?
The default permissions are private, but I believe that a private post can only be seen by other Friendica users. All the bluesky users are marked as, "I follow them," rather than "mutual friend." Even though Friendica says it's sending contact requests to Bluesky users, I'm not clear if those requests are real or not.
This post is set to public, so everyone who knows how to find me here should be able to see it. Feel free to comment to say hello if that's a thing you can do...
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