🔗 LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads
Can't say I'm surprised, but still.
Archive of
Leilukin's Gitea repository mirrors on 32-Bit Cafe
I have mirrored the Gi/GitHub repositories of Leilukin's Hub and my BellaBuffs fork to 32-Bit Cafe's Gitea instance.
This means I have a profile on 32-Bit Cafe's Gitea instance.
Migrating the Majority of My Notion Notes to Obsidian
In my previous post, I talked about how the Obsidian community plugin Remotely Save convinced me to switch from Notesnook to Notion for my as my note-taking software, as the plugin mitigates the main disadvantage of Obsidian compared to its competitors of inability to sync notes across multiple devices without paying for a subscription.
Similarly, I have begun to migrate the majority of my Notion notes to Obsidian thanks to Remotely Save. It helps that Obsidian actually has an official Importer plugin that supports Notion notes. I enjoy having more control over my notes in my own device, by being able to directly edit the source of my notes.
Aboard the Obsidian Train
Migrated my Notesnook notes to Obsidian and Standard Notes and deleted my Notesnook account. Notesnook is a decent note-taking software if you prioritise open-source and privacy-focused software, though I have always found its note organisation system rather clunky.
I am officially boarding the Obsidian love train. Shout out to the Remotely Save community plugin in particular for enabling note syncing without paying for the official Obsidian Sync, and convincing me to switch from Notesnook.
🔗 Cassette Beasts Fanlisting and My Fanlisting Collective Launched
At long last, after spending almost a week on working on them, my fanlisting collective and my Cassette Beasts fanlisting are now live!
Furthermore, I have created and released my fork of BellaBuffs, the PHP fanlisting script, with PHPMailer integration!
Earned 32-Bit Cafe "New Member of the Month" Award for June 2024
As part of my effort in participating in personal web spaces, I joined 32-Bit Cafe on both its Discourse forum and Discord on 15 June 2024. I feel at home at 32-Bit Cafe, since it is a community that promotes building personal websites, but without necessarily focusing on old web nostalgia. I have also making new online friends and acquaintances through 32-Bit Cafe.
After half a month of activity on 32-Bit Cafe's Discourse forums, I earned the "New Member of the Month" Award for June 2024!
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Congratulations, you’ve earned the New User of the Month award for June 2024. 🏆
This award is only granted to two new users per month, and it will be permanently visible on the badges page.
You’ve quickly become a valuable member of our community. Thanks for joining, and keep up the great work!
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This award was a nice surprise. I am glad to have found this wonderful community. 😊
Had to factory reset my smartphone because it had the issue of shutting down and restarting when it received any incoming phone call.
This means I will have to reinstall apps on my phone.
Fandom is not uniquely toxic compared to the past. I see a lot of people…
Fandom is not uniquely toxic compared to the past.
I see a lot of people like "oh fandom used to be-!" but I'm here to tell you that no: it didn't. Look at one of the great Harry Potter wanks for examples: MsScribe made multiple sockpuppet accounts to bash a ship she didn't like, and to stir drama about what would now be called "purity wank." The war between Harry/Hermione and Hermione/Ron shippers was so fierce that entire websites rose and fell according to the tides of battle.
I remember fierce struggles between the original "shippers" (Mulder/Scully) and "noromos" (anti-shippers) in X-Files fandom in the nineties. I've gotten "flames" (harassment) for "making characters gay" in the Stargate and LotR fandoms. Sporking used to be a thing, for gods' sakes!
Fandom has always had toxicity, and the levels/flavor of that toxicity has been different depending on what fandom you've been in, but the general level of wank has not seen a steep increase over time, imo.
If you think there's been an increase:
- You may have previously been in fandoms / pockets of fandom with a low level of toxicity, and either it changed over time or you moved to a fandom with a higher level of toxicity;
- You may have not noticed toxicity because you were in the popular crowd, or bc toxicity was mostly directed outward from the groups you were in;
- The subject of toxicity changed from topics you could brush off / dismiss / ignore (or was even the type of toxicity you "agreed" with or thought was "justified") to subjects that actively made you uncomfortable;
- You just weren't aware of extant toxicity before and you are now (either bc of inexperience/naivete or bc nobody you knew was targeted, and that's changed now).
But to reiterate: the proportion of toxicity in fandom has not changed. Fandom has gotten bigger overall so there are more wankers than before, but the percentage of wankers and harassers haven't changed. And the tools/verbage they used may change, but the underlying nastiness hasn't increased.
Do not buy into the narrative that fandom was better in The Beforetimes - I've been in fandom over 25 years, and I'm telling you it wasn't. "Make Fandom Great Again" is a poisonous narrative used to appeal to your vulnerabilities. Challenge it, fight it, and figure out what you want from fandom while looking forward, not looking back.
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