Eregyrn Falls

number 15 erased Fidds' memory from traumatizing pastime with Ford

rejected names that didn't make the cut:

the period pump

the dehydrating douche except its for blood and not water

the vac-uuterus (ford's suggestion)

The boys get jobs at B-Grade Bobby's Dinerly Eat-stablishment

they are fired very quickly

my entry for @fordtato's Bill Cipher SMash or pass contest.

I saw this CURSED video in my recommended on youtube and the image of Bill in spongebob's place haunted me for 2 days until i drew it.

ENJOY!

Threads update so you don’t have to:

I have not followed many people yet. As such, Threads’ algorithm is populating my feed with anything it can lay hands on. I have to assume it is not, in fact, using Instagram data, because if it were, my feed would look A SHIT TON BETTER THAN THIS. If you like American ball-centric sports, you are valid and I am happy for you, but I Do Not, and my feed is football and basketball posts as far as the eye can see. Also, streaming services’ PR accounts. Lotta Disney properties and Netflix. Something called Wasted posts constantly, I don’t know what it is. Someone who has a cooking show on cable. Various actors. Oh God, this is everything I don’t follow on Twitter. Why am I here.

I sat there muting accounts for like five minutes and then I had an existential crisis and stared at the wall for a moment. If all I’m doing is muting, why am I even there? If I weren’t on it to report back, would I just close the thing and never return? Will it get better as more people join? Part of my problem is that I’ve stayed off Twitter so long that I’m not even sure I enjoy the microblogging format, period, anymore. Maybe I’ll get back into the rhythm of it? But apparently I think in paragraphs, not short sentences. I like having room to clarify what I’m saying. I like the (comparatively) slower turnover of my dash.

The worst part is that you’d say, if you want your feed to be calmer, then curate your experience. Unfollow people. But I can’t, because Threads is shoving strangers at me. So is Twitter these days. Maybe Threads will become The Conversation™ the way Twitter used to be, something worth slogging through to feel “in the know,” but right now, from a usability perspective, it’s not.

All of these posts about the 'new' Threads app and how terrible it is and I just want to grab all the rational, normal people getting aggravated by it and shout:

There is already a better microblogging platform and it's filled with amazing, creative, inspiring people (even though tech blogs keep saying it's dead).

Mastodon is older than Threads and has become a haven for marginalised groups. Threads is built on the same underlying structure and while the two could technically interact, most instances (community hubs) are already moving to block Meta from getting to their people. There are no adverts or algorithms and it's amazing.

I had an extremely difficult time months ago trying, and failing, to figure out what was going on with Mastodon and sign up. (There are passwords on my phone and I’m not even sure how I managed that, given that I wasn’t able to successfully log into anything.) For starters, I don’t even know what instances are out there, much less which ones I should try to join (?). I will try again. But it’s frustrating when it feels like you need to know a secret handshake.

People aren’t avoiding Mastodon because it is or isn’t amazing, they’re avoiding it at the entry level because you’re being presented with an array of doors, and you don’t know which one(s) to choose, or if you’d like it there, or be welcome there. If you had someone invite you to a specific instance and walk you through it, you’d know which door to choose. If you’re just wandering up because Threads and Twitter are rancid, you don’t even know where to start. From the inside, you might see it as an array of welcoming communities. From the outside, it looks like a labyrinth of walled gardens, and I don’t know what I don’t know. That’s the answer to “why aren’t people going to Mastodon,” is all I’m saying.

I have gone back to the “Choosing a website” section

and I will keep looking into it.

Mastodon has been a terrible experience for me, partially because there's no central area where my friends are and that's kind of the point of joining social media where my friends are, and partially because it's completely not helpful at all to any questions that I have.

Even the most helpful person I've found who's been able to explain to me what a federated timeline is has yet to actually be able to explain why I would want such a thing, because it's a cyclical feed of "It's federated!" "Why is that a good thing?" "It's a good thing because it's federated!"

I don’t specifically know why, but I would guess that it’s so that if something goes terribly wrong with one instance, it doesn’t poison the whole enterprise. Not even on just a technical level—kind of the way subreddits (or old-school forums, for that matter) are individually moderated, but Twitter has even less moderation than it used to, a tweet can go viral and be seen by literal millions of people, and it’s a hellscape. Or maybe it’s just, if it’s federated, you don’t have to see stuff you don’t care about, maybe?

But I think what you’re bringing up here highlights the fact that people want different things from social media. If you want to have a quality conversation without random trolls sweeping through, an instance or a forum or a subreddit probably shelters that somewhat. If you are trying to spread awareness of something—news, disaster alerts, activism, any kind of creative promotion, any kind of signal boost, "hey friends where are you now"—you're going to want that single wide-open space. I post a lot of things that involve Wanting More People to See It. People need different things from different spaces, and not everyone needs every kind of space.

can you imagine the havoc it wouldve caused if that baby knew how to say stans name and was still saying it after he’d been kicked out

Look at this abomination husband found

It was....not terrible. Not good, mind you, but not nearly as bad as I was expecting.

It was definitely overly sweet, with hints of vanilla and a lingering aftertaste of mildly burnt sugar. It reminded me a little bit of the spiced rum in my liquor cabinet. Might make an okay mixer.

A Tale of One Hoax - Page 22

Get on the Stangst train.

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To everyone running here for refuge from Twitter since they are selling it to Elon Musk, welcome! In order to survive here, you must sacrifice one of your monsters or discard your entire hand.

"holy shit this blew up uhhh be sure to follow my-"

No. We don't do that here. The only reason you know this post was made today is because Musk announced he was buying it today. You can reblog posts made ten years ago, and they will still feel evergreen.

And no matter how old a post is, I will be able to draw two cards from my deck

stan thats horrible

This is the darker half of the season Dana Terrace was telling us about.

PETA just ruins everything. Can we agree?

CURSED. UTTERLY CURSED.

oh cool 2021 is the day after tomorrow

WAIT WHAT??