Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

@kim_harding couldn't happen to a more deserving guy 👍

So much of how Mastodon works is designed for decentralisation, personalisation and accountability. I can personally decide whether to show sensitive media by default, hide specific words, chose to join an instance with or without a home timeline or that federates or doesn't with particular other instances. I'm not minimising the engineering challenges here, but should we not maybe be treating quote tweets the same way?

Just making me feel scared, depressed and honestly a bit dirty for reading it. HOWEVER it's only since reading a lot of discussion of the issue here that I realise that a lot of people do find them a helpful safety tool, and my concern is that on Mastodon the absence of that functionality seems to have come about as a result of the opinion of one person rather then a consensus decision of multiple users 2/?

Personally I have to say that I really like the absence of quote tweets here - I left Twitter a few years ago because I got so sick of all the hatred and bile I was seeing all the time, although I only followed decent people, because they constantly quoted it to draw attention to it. For me personally just constantly being reminded of the existence of shitty people in the world didn't really feel like it was doing anything to make the world better, 1/several

@a Hello, I'm interested in migrating over to flipping.rocks at some point when you have capacity and if you want me. I studied entomology and currently work in scientific admin, and I do post a lot of plants and insects in summer but it's currently -3 here so it mostly seems to be political and tech rants at the moment. Thank you!

This morning I was chatting with the building cleaner who mentioned being tired. Turns out he hadn't been sleeping very well, because he said it's 5 degrees in his bedroom, because he hasn't put the heating on because he can't afford it. It's -3 at night here at the moment. This guy has a full time job cleaning a university. This is insane, people are going to die this winter and the government's doing nothing

@pezmico Thank you, that's it exactly

@pezmico As I say my reaction seems to have been pretty unusual, but I still wouldn't want to take the risk of doing that to another child

@pezmico colluding to deceive me for reasons I couldn't understand. I'd have far preferred it if they' just said Santa was a story but a fun one from the outset

@pezmico I didn't know how to articulate it at the time, but what I'd have wanted was an explanation of why they'd done it ("We pretend Santa exists because it's a fun story to tell" or something). They saw I was upset and were trying to reassure me that I'd still get presents, but i was too young to be able to explain why I was really upset and that it wasn't about the presents, that I'd suddenly discovered that the entire adult world was untrustworthy and had apparently all been

@pezmico else that they said to me now. As I say I've never met anyone else who felt the same, and obviously if everyone had found the whole thing so scary as a child no one would still do it, but seeing my brother tell my nieces about Santa still makes me very uncomfortable and worried that he's setting them up for the same thing

@pezmico I was quite a weird, literal child, and having spoken to my friends my experience was by no means universal, but the amount of enjoyment I may have had from the Santa story was far, far outweighed by how upset and scared I was when I found out all the adults in my life had been conspiring to lie to me about something that at that age felt very important. I couldn't understand why they'd made this story up and convinced me it was true and I was terrified I couldn't trust anything