Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116368379234020589

here it goes:

what surprises me about the #fediverse is the diversity of ages. am turning 60 and there’s A LOT of folks here 10-20 years older.

so if #Mastodon #Lemmy #Pixelfed aren't just scripty kids but also grandparents, who’s here?

people finding their communities without shitty techbro algorithms.

the fediverse is a new era of #Luddites. we are not here to serve the interests of capitalists. we’re here for the #anarchy of community; because celebrating our Humanity is punk as fuck.

3 years back, teacher acquaintance said to me,

"School district IT won't support old classroom laptops, so they are all going to e-waste. Trash! Want one?"

Brought wagon, filled it, and I took them all.

Sorted, tested, labeled, figured out which still worked, stored them.

Now, younger childbeast tells me,

"My friends are tired of Windows, and want to learn Linux. Can we set them up?"

So, loading laptops last night, getting them ready for new homes.

Go, kids, go!

#repair #reuse #linux

I don't care that journalists or influencers find their posts get less "engagement" here.

I do care that real people, at least afaik, keep saying they have nice conversations here. I have nice conversations here.

We don't need "a federated Twitter," we need a place for humans to communicate. No other social media tech seems to place that as a priority. They pick metrics and they hire people to optimize those, and they consider that success. 🧵

Every time I try to keep Gödel from misbehaving in this machine he just makes a new machine inside of it and starts misbehaving in there

This isn't fair my house can't handle this many layers of recursion. The boards are creaking. They are going to condemn it