Eloísa & them Seagulls @eloisa@masto.pt

What people don't seem to get is that blocking nazis is literally a way of protecting lives. If you've never been driven to near suicide from online harassment, you probably don't understand that. It's not about "not wanting to hear opinions you disagree with."

And if you think what nazis believe is "just an opinion" then you're no ally of mine.

Put enough thought into your burner identities’ memetics that when the fragments are assembled by some imagined investigator, the strange mosaic leads ineluctably the realization that you were a Hannah Barbera cartoon all along.

​ If you can spare some monies, please help me: https://ko-fi.com/eloisa

Boosts welcome!

Thank you very much, either case. ​

You know what? I'm going to make a call out.

Anyone that wants video editing done, I'm willing to do it.

Be it a Let's play, instructional, a vlog ect. I am willing and able to edit it to how you wish.

Let's talk, I'm more than willing to listen to requests, criticism and suggestions.

I have used Da Vinci Resolve, Hitfilm Express and Adobe Premiere.

I don't have amazingly deep knowledge of the programs, but I am capable of putting in the effort to get what you want.

DM me.

Boost pls.

I've been fighting a lot of shit coming my way lately.

One thing after another on top of all the previous ones.

I know that things are heated up around here, but I've been giving some people a pass.

I'm grieving. I don't get out of the house since 11 days ago, when I learned that a dear aunt of mine died.

She died alone, in another country, without her own family's support that were mere 5 minutes away from the palliatives building.

My sick mom and grandma flew thousands of kms away just to see her.

Her own daughter and husband, though, just kept their daily routines.

I've been deeply sad and angry - at them and life, and cancer. Fuck cancer!

My grandmother had 3 strokes, the last one a minor one, due to my aunt's passing.

My mom has Lupus and a heart disease that can make her die instantly at any second, now.

I have Multiple Sclerosis and my brain is lesioned in 3 different spots.
I also have Major Depression, GAD and Panic Disorder, Chronic Pain and Fatigue, just to name a few of my illnesses. They're mostly invisible, but they keep me unemployed.

I do a ton of shit around Fedi, and outside. I help communities grow up, try to foster positivity no matter how much my life is a mess; and I also moderate some instances.

Lately, with all the fash stuff, either from spammers or some new instances, or even just some others revealing themselves less likely for an optimal... consumption, on top of all of my own struggles I've been offline more.

I came back a couple of weeks ago. I customized cybrewear's site, ans that helped me keep my mind distracted from the bad things, but right now I'm just deeply sad at the state of things on Fedi.

All this infighting, and fallacious understandings of some rights has just made me lose someone I considered a friend.

I don't even know how to end this missive except that, if you're reading this until here, thank you. ​

A picture of me, taken by @eloisa when I was visiting her last month. I kind of like how I look on this one!

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You can start your own Mastodon instance even if you're not a techy person by using a managed hosting service like masto.host:

https://masto.host

They do all the technical stuff like installation, upgrades, server maintenance etc behind the scenes. You own the actual instance, and control what happens on it.

You can follow them at:

@mastohost

#MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips

Toque de acrópole.

Hello, world!

This is the first toot from an official account for #Glimpse, a new fork of the GNU Image Manipulation Program.

Follow me for updates on this cool new project.

I would like more #intersectionality on the #fediverse

Anyone got sources on #intersectionality to recommend?

I loved reading the whole post at https://emsenn.net/essays/there-and-back-again-a-fediverse-journey/ but these bits are so, so good I can't help myself but to sort of "underline" them here:

"What Gamma failed to realize is just how much the walled garden of legacy social media coddled him.

(...)

It’s a harsh reality for Gamma to face. The only reason his opinions seemed clever was because he is so privileged no one was around to tell him they were wrong.

(...)

“when you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” That’s all that’s happening here: Gamma can tell he’s lost something, but he doesn’t recognize that it’s a loss of privilege, not a loss of equality.

(...)

So, he returns back to the legacy social media, into his walled garden, where he might be mediocre and invisible, but at least he’s right."

~ written by @emsenn

Hey y'all, I took the time to write up my techbro's journey through the Fediverse in a more verbose format, that puts my arguments together in a bit more linear and rational order.

https://emsenn.net/essays/there-and-back-again-a-fediverse-journey/

Meet Gamma. Gamma dislikes advertisement-funded social media, so comes to the Fediverse. But without the systemic bias, he finds his opinions harshly criticized. This makes him uncomfortable.

Why, and what happens next?

if you don't feel like your masto experience is going so well & you're on a big lobby server like mastodon.social
try moving to a smaller community
small communities are usually gonna be comfier & have stronger moderation than big lobby servers

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