More yelling from the homeowners association
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I know you think I'm ruining this place for you. Let me offer some solutions that work better than telling me how, or about what topics, I should post (which works very poorly):
- Don't follow me
- Mute me
- Block meThese also work if you replace "me" with any other accounts you find irritating or uninteresting.
@mattblaze Hashtags and the ability to subscribe to them are one of those social contract things. Yes, you can piss in the communal pool, there's no law against it but don't expect people to sympathise with you when someone points out you're spoiling it for everyone else.
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@mattblaze Hashtags and the ability to subscribe to them are one of those social contract things. Yes, you can piss in the communal pool, there's no law against it but don't expect people to sympathise with you when someone points out you're spoiling it for everyone else.
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@mattblaze That's a very well reasoned response and totally not reminiscent of a toddler tantrum.
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@mattblaze That's a very well reasoned response and totally not reminiscent of a toddler tantrum.
@woe2you Oh, was I not clear? I'm sure your local homeowners association would value your services more than I do.
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@woe2you Oh, was I not clear? I'm sure your local homeowners association would value your services more than I do.
@mattblaze HOAs aren't a thing where I am. We rely on the idea that you can point out how something negatively affects other people and only a total cunt would ignore that and carry on with what they're doing.
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@mattblaze HOAs aren't a thing where I am. We rely on the idea that you can point out how something negatively affects other people and only a total cunt would ignore that and carry on with what they're doing.
@woe2you How are you affected? Be specific, please.
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@woe2you How are you affected? Be specific, please.
@mattblaze I use the ability to subscribe to hashtags to see content that I'm interested in from people who aren't in my social circles. I regularly see spam in those hashtags: people who tag content that isn't remotely related or is in a different language but the only hashtags they use are in English. That last one is very common.
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@mattblaze I use the ability to subscribe to hashtags to see content that I'm interested in from people who aren't in my social circles. I regularly see spam in those hashtags: people who tag content that isn't remotely related or is in a different language but the only hashtags they use are in English. That last one is very common.
@woe2you No, I asked you how my failure to use more hashtags harms you.
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@woe2you No, I asked you how my failure to use more hashtags harms you.
@mattblaze We may be talking at cross purposes here and if so I apologise. By all means don't use hashtags, that doesn't affect anyone else.
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@mattblaze We may be talking at cross purposes here and if so I apologise. By all means don't use hashtags, that doesn't affect anyone else.
@mattblaze I've genuinely never seen criticism for not using hashtags, only for using inappropriate ones. Based on that I leapt to a conclusion. If not using hashtags is what you're talking about, you're entirely justified and I was out of line.
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@mattblaze I've genuinely never seen criticism for not using hashtags, only for using inappropriate ones. Based on that I leapt to a conclusion. If not using hashtags is what you're talking about, you're entirely justified and I was out of line.
@mattblaze If I have misread this thread please let me know so I can offer a concrete apology rather than a conjectural one.
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@mattblaze If I have misread this thread please let me know so I can offer a concrete apology rather than a conjectural one.
@woe2you all good. I appreciate your apology.
For reasons I don’t really understand, I’m frequently lambasted and dog piled here for imaginary offenses like failing to include enough hashtags, failing to use content warnings on discussions of common and innocuous topics, or posting black and white photos (really).
I’m kind of fed up with this bullshit, as perhaps you can imagine.
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Correction: George Washington University. I always get those confused.
Another weird complaint I frequently get here (in addition to not using enough hashtags, failing to content warn about ordinary, innocuous comments, and posting insufficiently chromatic art) is that I have too many followers.
This is cited as evidence that I must be some kind of parasitic Mastodon billionaire, cavalierly flying around social media on my private Internet jet using up followers that needier users should have instead.
I’m serious. I don’t get it either.
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Another weird complaint I frequently get here (in addition to not using enough hashtags, failing to content warn about ordinary, innocuous comments, and posting insufficiently chromatic art) is that I have too many followers.
This is cited as evidence that I must be some kind of parasitic Mastodon billionaire, cavalierly flying around social media on my private Internet jet using up followers that needier users should have instead.
I’m serious. I don’t get it either.
@mattblaze What does John Mastodon say?
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@alice that's cool!
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Confetti for the end of the year. December 2025.
#snowflake #macro #macrophotography #monochrome #MonochromeMonday #blackandwhite #fotomontag #photography
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@tommi BADGERS NOT COWS
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Our highway system is a complete mess. There is almost no reliable window to go East from My End of the Province.
About 3-5 days a week, some major stretch is currently closed. Mostly for serious accidents.
The car accident rate up here is bonkers right now. Totally wacked in the slacks.
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@jumile yeah, I avoid Snaps and Flatpaks for this reason, among others (though Snap is worse than Flatpak, in my experience...maybe because the packagers are sloppier or maybe because Flatpak has better tools for making sure things are sane).
And, because I avoid Snaps and Flatpaks (and AppImages), Chromium is installed from an RPM. So, that is a very good guess, but not the case here.
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this fucking college radio dj. "that was the Russian band Aquarium, playing, uh, something I have no idea how to pronounce... but the bass line speaks for itself!"
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@swelljoe That file access problem sounds like the classic sandboxed package issue. Can't recall if it's Snap or AppImage that does it, though.*
Whichever one it is, there's an arcane command - or a GUI/TUI - that can change the access settings for individual packages.
*Sorry, it's been so long since I've used either package type that my memory is rusty. Both make me nope out. 😅
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Guess where the Highway is closed in Ontario today?
Fucking everywhere.
From Nipigon to North Bay.
If you live in Timmins -- don't.
