say goodbye to grain.

ok now i’m kinda intrigued … you mean people catfishing people as a replacement to market testing or a writers group ?

that is creepy and metamodern. i’m going to have to think about that as not only a thing writers do but as a way people can influence writers by knowing they do that and fucking with the writers.

that kinda makes me sad

That makes two of us, then.

I can never tell if this is an invitation to leave or what. I like it here.

None yet. When I came here I had been away from reddit for about seven months looking for a place to put poems and homer stuff. Really this conversation has informed me onto what exactly is going on here in the fedvee.

i don’t use reddit/facebook/twitter/insta/toktik/et cetera. I am just looking for a mostly texty experience without me having to run an instance of anything with mild socializing on other instances.

As for how much I have to a “give” part of my monthly budget that last month was a give to the food bank. it revolves around the food bank, one of the three local homeless shelters, the local animal companion welfare places and then generally in August I buy myself a LEGO set for when the rain starts instead of giving because I can be a selfish fuck.

i have added this to the “give” part of my budget with a note to do it for sure right after an upgrade or major outage because my instance admin will prolly want some love after that.

that is my current strategy for not wearing out instance welcome.

is that considered best practice ?

i’m not sure how any of this is supposed to work or if as a user i am supposed to care.

i’ve budgeted next month to pay the maintainer of the thingy that i am thingy-ing and hopefully on a monthly basis. but is the end game for users to run their own instances ?