No, the OTHER Robbie! @Alamantus@cybre.space

Orum weighed the lump of star metal in his hand.
"It can't be smelted," his father said. "The forge isn't hot enough."
#AdvenTale 1/25

The well listened.

Often it heard wishes, most selfish, some desperate to not be selfish, few wishes genuinely lack some degree of selfishness.

More often than one would think it would hear complaints, aimless ill-will or simply someone getting negativity off of their chest.

There was little else the well could do - it wasn't the wishing kind, despite the many coins fruitlessly tossed into it.

But it listened, and it was good at that, at least.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales

I released a new version of my Firefox extension that will forcefully redirect you away from privacy erosive services to better alternatives. It started as a joke, but I end up actually using it.

When I want to look up a place, I instinctively and mechanically start typing "maps.googl...". This extension will instead take me to OpenStreetMaps. It will also functionally translate Google Search links to DuckDuckGo and Google Translate links to Deepl.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resist-the-internet/

#FuckOffGoogle

some of the new folks seem to not be getting this, so here goes.

twitter has social currency, masto has social currency as well.

twitter social currency rules:

- amass followers
- defend your territory
- demolish your opponents

masto social currency rules:

- share your life
- be yourself
- help others

as with anything, there's ways the latter's rules can be taken advantage of, but if you're thinking you can swap out one for the other, you're reading things wrong.

love languages in the internet era:
* keysmashing
* "saw this n thought of you"
* shitposts
* regular checking in
* making art
* "when i see you in person let's [incredibly mundane shit]"

Hello new people!

This is the official account for https://switching.social , a non-technical guide to privacy-friendly sites, services and apps.

You can see regular posts about alternatives by following this account, and there's a beginner's guide to alternatives at the hashtag #AlternativesAtoZ

Please feel free to message me if you have any questions, comments or requests. (The website also has contact details in the "About This Site" section.)

#Introductions #Alternatives #Privacy

I'm sure Masto will be great for Tumblr exiles, but can I also recommend Dreamwidth? https://www.dreamwidth.org/legal/principles

It's seriously great, actually follows its principles, has always had fannish and lewd communities, can do longer-form things, has a way better comment system then Tumblr, and isn't going to be bought out by a big corporation.

I've picked up #development of my local-rpg #project again! I was inspired by the #Lore engine I posted the other day, and I realized I had already started building something similar but more in-depth earlier this year. 😅​

Check out the #repo if you want! It'd be super cool if I could even get some help with it:
https://github.com/Alamantus/local-rpg

If you have any questions about it, feel free to ask or join the project chat! There's a link in the repo's readme file.

#webDev #tools #RPG

On the Edge team, we had a *whole team* dedicated to finding compat bugs, reducing them, and reaching out to site owners with fixes. Sometimes we would reach out to a site owner and they'd say, "Sorry, you don't have enough market share for us to bother fixing this bug."

This is where we get -webkit prefixed CSS in the standard, as well as de-facto standards and "works best in Chrome." This is why both Opera and Edge switched to Chromium.

If you really want to help Firefox succeed, file a bug on https://webcompat.com/ when you find a broken website. Don't just switch back to Chrome; let Mozilla know there's a problem so they can try to fix it.

When browsers lose market share, they fall into the "compatibility death spiral." Sites don't bother to test, they break, and users flee to the browser that "just works." Mozilla is fighting this battle every day, and it just got harder.