May 25, 2022
Maybe a little....
I got minorly miffed when I saw a blogroll link here titled "Mauser is Lonely", but hey, at least I've been linked. But maybe it's a little true. It seems that virtually every single form of social media I have, dating back to LiveJournal, is extremely poorly trafficed. In some cases, like Facebook and Twitter, it's malicious interference by the bluehairs. On various alternate outlets it's because the audience is so small. On my Wordpress, it's because I set my goals for that so high, it's a long road to make a new post. Although thanks to Sarah, when I do make a post, I get an Instalanche.
I like anime, and I like to share. But it feels hard to share when nobody's talking. It would be great to get back to the days of 80 image episode-by-episode reviews of shows, and actual discussions about them, but I'm not feeling any interest.
Maybe ever since SdB died, the energy has been off in the old gang. And everyone is dealing with their own health/aging/moving trials. Damn, am I the only one who hasn't grown up yet? :-)
Maybe it's because I throw stuff at so many outlets, my efforts are too diluted.
Maybe I'm just shouting secrets into holes in the ground all over the internet.
(I make that reference a lot. When I was a kid I saw an animation on TV about the Russian folklore story of a barber to the Czar. Many barbers before him had gotten the axe, literally, for commenting that the Czar had the ears of a goat. He held his tongue, and kept his head. But the pressure to say something was relentless, so he dug a hole in the ground, shouted "The Czar has the ears of a goat!" into it, and filled it back in. In this telling, some reeds grow on that spot, and someone (the barber?) makes a flute of them, and the tune has the same cadence as "The Czar has the ears of a goat." The Czar is infuriated but can't prove anything.)
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Well, that was in direct response to a comment from you that you wished you had more traffic to this site. :-) Also, your Twitter isn't linked in the sidebar.
I've thought a few times about doing a long-form anime review, but I keep getting hung up on "how Steven would have felt about this one", like Interviews with Monster Girls. I end up wanting to read it, not write it.
-j
I've thought a few times about doing a long-form anime review, but I keep getting hung up on "how Steven would have felt about this one", like Interviews with Monster Girls. I end up wanting to read it, not write it.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at May 26, 2022 04:22 AM (oJgNG)
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Well, I do have an "Everything you need to stalk me" page on my Wordpress blog.
Posted by: Mauser at May 27, 2022 08:53 PM (gVjvf)
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My favorite Blogroll link is Brickmuppet's
Posted by: Mauser at May 27, 2022 08:54 PM (gVjvf)
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Fedi was good to me, wrt the interactions. I'm not some kind of a tremendous influencer, but someone reads.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 01, 2022 09:13 PM (LZ7Bg)
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Fediverse? Heh, they banned Will Weaton for crimes against wokeness. I wouldn't last a second. (You should see my Twitter Analytics though. Any tweet I make gets single digit impressions for at least the first day, unless I reply to say, Daddy Warpig. For some reason my replies to him aren't screened.)
Posted by: Mauser at June 02, 2022 09:07 PM (gVjvf)
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Please check your information. Nobody can be banned from Fediverse.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 08, 2022 02:08 PM (LZ7Bg)
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Well, they cut Gab out of the Fediverse network, didn't they?
Maybe Mastodon was just one instance on the Fediverse, but that's the one that booted Wil Weaton in 2018 because he'd had a trans activist on the blocklist he imported without screening.
Maybe Mastodon was just one instance on the Fediverse, but that's the one that booted Wil Weaton in 2018 because he'd had a trans activist on the blocklist he imported without screening.
Posted by: Mauser at June 08, 2022 10:04 PM (gVjvf)
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GAB officials chose to de-federate. Perversely, it's a big reason I don't go there anymore. It's just a stagnant pool of nonsense. Out of SDB halo, Clayton chose to be stuck on GAB, but he's so focused on his writing career and being an ukrobot that it's not a loss for me.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at June 09, 2022 06:50 AM (LZ7Bg)
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Clayton?
I know Gab isn't Federated, but ISTR that a lot of operators were trying to figure out how to exclude Gab from "Contaminating" their servers and sharing rules and modifications to exclude it.
(I need to focus more on my writing... I've got two more shorts with likely venues that I have to finish.)
I know Gab isn't Federated, but ISTR that a lot of operators were trying to figure out how to exclude Gab from "Contaminating" their servers and sharing rules and modifications to exclude it.
(I need to focus more on my writing... I've got two more shorts with likely venues that I have to finish.)
Posted by: Mauser at June 09, 2022 07:51 PM (gVjvf)
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