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[IMAGE DESCRIPTION] Expanding Brain meme with two extra rows of boxes on the bottom. 1st row left: "I just like the outfit." 1st row right: Human skull with small brain. 2nd row left: "Something about her aesthetic is just visually appealing to me." 2nd row right: Human head with regular sized brain that has many lights glowing inside. 3rd row left: "I wanna be her." 3rd row right: Human head with regular sized brain that has many more lights glowing inside with great intensity. 4th row left: "I wish I was her." 4th row right: Human head with regular sized brain that has some lights shooting out past the head and none inside it. 5th row left: "I wish I lived in an LGBTQ+ safe world so I could discover myself sooner and be a weird-ass tomboy who liked girly things." 5th row right: Photo of the Helix Nebula (aka: Eye of God) in outer space. 6th row left: "i wanna be visibly me" 6th row right: The girl Sayori (from the game Doki Doki Literature Club) in her fan-made "Coolyori - Finger Guns Emoji" form pointing two finger guns to the left while wearing a Pale Pink colored short-sleeved shirt, CG Red colored bowtie in her neck-length hair, and two sunglasses with one raised mostly above the other. Behind her are the Chevron Queer Flag's lavender colors split vertically down the middle with Orchid on the left and Twilight Lavender on the right. Entire left side: Boxes have a background of the off-white color Seashell increasing in opacity from 20% (barely visible) in the 2nd box to 100% in the 6th. 3rd to 6th row left: Tall image with 18.6% opacity of

Rainbow Dash (from the series My Little Pony Equestria Girls) in possibly fan-drawn human form with hip-length rainbow colored hair and bangs, fully open Shocking Pink colored eyes, and a large smile posed with her right foot ontop of a Black & White soccer ball while facing the audience and wearing the following athletic wear:

A tall pair of Ocean Boat Blue & White colored boots with slightly taller rainbow colored socks sticking out.

A slightly pleated White colored mini skirt with a wide Sky Magenta colored vertical stripe down the middle and black underskirt shorts sticking out by maybe 4".

An open zippered Ocean Boat Blue colored short-sleeved jacket with a non-folded collar.

A mostly visible White t-shirt with a large image of a cloud unleashing a single thick blue, yellow, and red lightning bolt that's half covered by her folded arms. The left of which bearing an identically colored wristband.

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I am going to give you suggestions for servers to join because I'm trying to keep this post simple and not overwhelming. There are other options, and servers themed to all kinds of topics. You can view posts from any of these sites from everywhere on the Fediverse so you are not locked in based on where you start.

No matter where you decide to go, since this is "social" media, you can follow me! I'm HadeanTaiga on NightCity, a cyberpunk themed Calckey instance.

Ok! Based on what you picked, here's where you go:

Mstdn.Social

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Calckey.Social

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Lemmy.Social or Kbin.Social

A comprehensive mapping of old subreddits to new communities.

With /r/startrek moving to Lemmy, I realized that Redditors are going to need a way to find their old communities on Lemmy/Kbin.

With this in mind, I'm completely done with Reddit. Steve Huffman and the Reddit staff have burned any goodwill that might have remained by pulling this stunt.

Aside from Tumblr, if anyone is looking for a decent reddit alternative, kbin.social scratches the same itch for me. Magazines are the equivalent to subreddits and you can link to other federated spaces on Mastodon.

I'm sure it'll sort itself out...

I, unfortunately, do have a habit of updating the Mastodon account more than here but I've also been tied up with various responsibilities.

Most recently, I've done some work to cleanup how data is stored and to, hopefully, make Swanye better able to interface with other ActivityPub implementations.

Half a year ago or so, I may've been light on details regarding this or just shown a .gif or video of another small feature so it didn't feel, to followers, like no development was being made.

But, then, Musk started tanking Twitter and, suddenly, a good chunk of the population knew what Mastodon is. And then Reddit decided to charge for use of their API and a bunch of people suddenly knew what Lemmy and Kbin were.

I'm sure that there're still plenty out there who don't but the distaste and disgruntlement people have with corporate social media grew well more than I expected and people are aware of alternatives.

So, though I've mentioned it before, just a reexplanation that, though I plan to make Swanye similar to Tumblr, it is also software that will be able to interface with other ActivityPub implementations.

That means you'll be able to view posts from Mastodon, reblog videos from PeerTube, like photos on PixelFed, and comment on Lemmy threads – all from your Swanye account, without having to leave your Swanye instance's website, due to its decentralized design.

And, because all of these softwares are open-source and free, you or anyone else will have the option to spin up your own server (that can talk to any other server running an instance of the same software) and set the moderation that you might hope for or expect.

I always worry that I'm communicating the possibility and idea well but – at this point in time – the thing that has me most excited is the amount of alternatives we're seeing. A corporation will always be driven towards more profit; they will always need to figure out a way to extract more.

In contrast, software that anyone can use or view will always belong to the commons, can always be picked up by someone else, can always be able to be used and bettered.

I think most people joined social media in the hopes to connect with others and make communities; when we have more control over our platforms, I'm hoping that will – simply – just remain trivial, rather than a battle.

And, because I still always worry that too many updates without any visual update on anything can feel just like vaporware, here's the most recent change I made.

I always thought the the icon of the poster/reblogger scrolling with the post was a neat way to remind you who did the post (especially on long posts); and I was scrolling through the Tumblr mobile app. and realized that there was no similar behavior which I thought kind of sucked.

So I modified Swanye's mobile to do just that:

[VD: A screencast of a web browser with a small enough window width to cause Swanye to go into mobile mode.

The page is scrolled downward and, as it goes down, the top part of a post which says who reblogged the post from whom moves downward, as well, once it hits the top of the page.