as far as i know cohost was made people who wanted mastodon to be good but got really annoyed with the drama between instances. so, no federation, no instances, no ads, just chronological posts (with some markdown capabilities for fun visuals of posts)
https://cohost.org/
masto - everyone does what they want, you connect to who you want, you disconnect from who you want, you either voluntarily submit to someone else's rules or you set up your own
cohost - no ads, no corps, but control is maintained via a small vanguard
twitter - 'to keep making money we've decided to embrace white supremacists, transphobia, anti-semitism - when that inevitably doesn't work out we're going to monetize more and more and more aspects that were once offered for free!'
bsky - 'we'll compete with the fascists by making the exact same product but Friendlier™'
this is actually, genuinely, an interesting study about how autistic people playing telephone 'retain the fidelity of the message' but jumping between neurotypical people and autistic people begins to distort it significantly
@handmade_ghost i love the northern flickers around where i live! always munchin ants on the sidewalk and beepin at each other!
@phoenixphoenix thankfully i've got a doctor appointment set up for the repeat ankle injuries i've been dealing with for the last year, i'll probably bring it up then
kids, dont fall up the stairs crushing and whacking your finger just because you're rushing to grab something you forgot before you leave to go volunteer to do a bunch of work with your hands - no matter how many other kids tell you it's the cool thing to do
- Empire, Hardt and Negri
https://anarch.cc/uploads/michael-hardt-antonio-negri/empire.pdf
just got back from chasing around that dog from my neighborhood that routinely escapes. this is the fourth time i've followed it around the neighborhood for an hour or two - i wasn't able to catch it. i've actually never been the one to catch it. it's been caught only two of the four times. it makes me feel so bad to leave it out there but it knows where its home is and does *not* want to be caught.
it is so scared of confined spaces it breaks my heart...
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.