<2022-07-25T22:59:49.000Z> Madoushi: Ryan? It's been like 2 years and I might finally have a way to talk with you again. Any chance you remember me?
<2022-07-25T23:00:41.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: I remember a dude named Madoushi existed in my circle of twitter friends but that's about it
<2022-07-25T23:00:43.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Hello!
<2022-07-25T23:01:19.000Z> Madoushi: Yeah, that's me. Holy shit man, you have no idea how relieved I am to talk to you again. I was beginning to think it'd never happen again.
<2022-07-25T23:02:10.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: I am glad to hear it. Good to see you again. also fuck twitter
<2022-07-25T23:02:48.000Z> Madoushi: I agree. I got back on mo this ago and everyone was gone so it lost all meaning for me. I have my account there in case anyone ever wants to contact me, but that never happens.
<2022-07-25T23:02:59.000Z> Madoushi: Months*
<2022-07-25T23:03:34.000Z> Madoushi: I know you quit Fate, NGL I'm surprised, but I don't blame you.
<2022-07-25T23:03:43.000Z> Madoushi: Are there any other gachas you play?
<2022-07-25T23:04:12.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Arknights is pretty much the only one. I "play" Action Taimanin but I would never admit to it because it's trash and it mostly plays itself at this point.
<2022-07-25T23:04:54.000Z> Madoushi: Hahahaha, I DL'd Arknights for a hot minute, but just couldn't get myself into it.
<2022-07-25T23:04:54.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Yeah I wasn't expecting to quit FGO either but man that game kept getting worse and worse in writing and overall quality.
<2022-07-25T23:05:34.000Z> Madoushi: Yeah, everything about it sucks. I still play for the occasional gem, but without the old gang on twitter it really has lost a lot of its impact.
<2022-07-25T23:06:12.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Arknights is not for everyone, I wouldn't recommend ANY gacha at this point
<2022-07-25T23:06:51.000Z> Madoushi: Good to know, I'll just stick with my steam/switch titles. 
<2022-07-25T23:07:03.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: AR-15 is here as @nobu Skylar is @skylar Shibe at @Basedshibe 
<2022-07-25T23:07:17.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Snek is @SNEK 
<2022-07-25T23:07:22.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: I don't know who all you ran with
<2022-07-25T23:07:52.000Z> Madoushi: Shine & Snek are really the only ones I remember. Not sure if I ever met Skylar.
<2022-07-25T23:08:25.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Snek is on fedi only periodically but if you ding him he oughta say hello eventually.
<2022-07-25T23:08:49.000Z> Madoushi: Good to know, I appreciate the repoast too, actually got some activity off of it.
<2022-07-25T23:09:44.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: There's a lot of neurotic weirdoes and psychos here but man this place is just like the good parts of twitter minus the soul draining stuff.
<2022-07-25T23:09:52.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Always good to see more friends show up here
<2022-07-25T23:10:20.000Z> Madoushi: That's awesome, a lot of my inactivity on twitter was do to just how miserable it can make people.
<2022-07-25T23:10:50.000Z> Madoushi: Of course, if you take too much time off, then you come back and all your friends are dead and missing and your account got nuked 3 days ago without you even knowing.
<2022-07-25T23:14:43.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: I know that feeling
<2022-07-25T23:56:18.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Just in case you haven't been to fedi, everyone has their own server, the @ after their name is the server they are on. Since the fediverse is federated, your stuff gets pushed to thousands of different servers so never violate opsec. Also DMs can be read by the admins of both servers involved in the conversation so don't discuss anything private in them either.
<2022-07-25T23:56:34.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: You cannot delete anything in fediverse permanently
<2022-07-25T23:57:02.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Deletions are just requests to other servers and a couple are assholes who just reject all delete requests
<2022-07-26T02:08:00.000Z> Madoushi: Oh wow, yeah I know nothing about the fediverse.
<2022-07-26T02:08:25.000Z> Madoushi: I had assumed it was a meme name based on the idea of everyone being a fed
<2022-07-26T02:08:30.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: That too
<2022-07-26T02:08:51.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: But basically it's countless different servers owned and operated by different people "federating" with each other
<2022-07-26T02:09:17.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: You can even run your own with relative ease if you felt like it.
<2022-07-26T02:09:26.000Z> Madoushi: Good to know, def gotta keep that OpSec up then. I was actually thinking it could be more lax here than twitter.
<2022-07-26T02:12:02.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: The only way you can be lax is nobody cares if you say nigger or call someone a faggot. It's tougher for idiotic adversaries to figure you out here because there's a slightly higher barrier for entry to this tech and anyone trying to doxxxx you would have to explain "Oh he's on poa.st it's a site like twitter but..." but yeah treat it as still a public forum on which stuff is essentially impossible to remove
<2022-07-26T02:23:22.000Z> Madoushi: Got it, I appreciate the warnings. I was gonna end up diving in completely blind.
<2022-07-26T02:30:08.000Z> Madoushi: Just to make sure I'm not completely retarded, there is no .apk for this right? Just a website?
<2022-07-26T02:30:20.000Z> Madoushi: Notifications are kinda hell lmao
<2022-07-26T03:22:12.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: There is an .apk
<2022-07-26T03:22:30.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: I think poast hosts one of them. poa.st/apk
<2022-07-26T03:40:02.000Z> Madoushi: This is a nice little app, thanks.
<2022-07-26T03:40:43.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: By the way the timelines mirror the state of the fediverse. You can see your follows, the local timeline of just the folks at poa.st, and then the entire fediverse TL
<2022-07-26T03:41:09.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: The fediverse TL is... let's say unfiltered outside of most instances hosting... EXTREMELY ILLEGAL CONTENT being explicitly banned
<2022-07-26T03:41:33.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: But if you are ready to browse the internet on extreme difficulty, that's one way to do it.
<2022-07-26T03:41:56.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Poast is filled with assorted twitter refugees and tends toward the political but between reposts and the TLs there you could probably find a good chunk of folks worth following
<2022-07-26T03:42:44.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Varishangout is the local cunnychad instance but beyond that most other instances are too big or too small to really accurately qualify.
<2022-07-26T03:43:19.000Z> Madoushi: This is a lot of information. Yeah, I've been checking my TL occasionally to see what pops up there. I'm sure I'll find nibbas to Interact with
<2022-07-26T03:43:50.000Z> Madoushi: Instance as in the thing Husky wanted me to type in?
<2022-07-26T03:44:16.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Yeah, each server is an "instance"
<2022-07-26T03:45:26.000Z> Madoushi: Is there a simply way to access instance changes or would I need to log out and relog or something? 
<2022-07-26T03:49:14.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: No, your TL should reach the instances of any other people you are following
<2022-07-26T03:49:26.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Or people you are following are posting
<2022-07-26T03:49:43.000Z> Madoushi: Okay then, sounds simple enough.
<2022-07-26T03:49:48.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: All that ought to be transparent and handled automatically. The only way in which you would change instances would be to go to another site and make an account there
<2022-07-26T03:49:54.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Some folks use that to create alts
<2022-07-26T03:50:45.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Granted, it's fedi, you don't NEED an alt because you aren't going to be banned like on twitter but it's distributed so you never know when one site will be down or there is admin drama between sites or whatever
<2022-07-26T03:50:57.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: I do not have an alt though
<2022-07-26T03:51:04.000Z> Madoushi: God I hated alts on twitter. I might end up making one later on for my projects.
<2022-07-26T03:51:21.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: SAME
<2022-07-26T03:51:50.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: I think there are art-focused instances but they tend to be using tranny-designed blocklists to block all the fun instances
<2022-07-26T03:52:04.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: To say nothing of the sort of "people" that would be on those
<2022-07-26T03:52:29.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: But since every site can see every other site in the general case there's not much need to hop instances
<2022-07-26T03:52:30.000Z> Madoushi: Ugh, there's a reason I don't ide tiny as an "artist", every "artist" I've met is a faggot.
<2022-07-26T03:52:37.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Agreed
<2022-07-26T03:53:37.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: I think the only stuff that you will get banned for on poast is posting doxxx material of anyone online, especially anyone on poast. Yes, even if it is the first google result for their name you still get instant yeeted, which has been the cause of no small amount of drama.
<2022-07-26T03:54:03.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Well that and flatly illegal threats or... you know, the other sort of illegal material one would best only describe euphemistically
<2022-07-26T03:54:55.000Z> Madoushi: Got it, I'll probably just avoid talking about any identifiable information outside of anyone's profile then.
<2022-07-26T03:55:18.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Granted instant yeeting and the like isn't something that's gonna happen by accident cuz you're not gonna say "Oh hey KikeraperFren your real name is Joe Smith in Nevada Georgia blah blah blah" normally
<2022-07-26T03:55:24.000Z> Madoushi: Is that other material an issue on here?
<2022-07-26T03:55:54.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Loli is explicitly allowed on poast so don't worry about the edge cases. It's just the REAL stuff that's banned
<2022-07-26T03:56:38.000Z> Madoushi: Oh okay. I figured it would be that case, I was getting a little concerned about something real popping up.
<2022-07-26T03:57:08.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: It is a problem in fediverse in general but most admins block entire domains for the real stuff, and poast is really proactive about that
<2022-07-26T03:58:00.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: You literally would not believe the drama attempting to proactively prevent the federation of that sort of content has caused even trying to get admins to work together to stop it. I don't even believe the drama myself and I've sat through and participated in arguments about it.
<2022-07-26T03:58:08.000Z> Madoushi: Yeah, I figure something like this would be ripe for abuse outside of proactively eliminating it.
<2022-07-26T03:58:42.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Basically there's a lot of autistic spergs out here
<2022-07-26T03:58:57.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: But that's part of what makes this wing of the internet fun but also intolerable at times
<2022-07-26T03:59:27.000Z> Madoushi: More freedom is usually better. A little chaos can make things entertaining.
<2022-07-26T04:01:51.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Also federation technology is a little weird at times so posts don't always show up 100% correctly and some of the worst troublemakers and a few guys who are just stupid assholes are hard-banned from appearing on poast at all. It used to be about 100% of those cases they were never worth reading to begin with but someone found a juicy doxx and a bunch of assholes really wanted to push the issue so I think it's down to about 90% worthless to look past the blocks. If you ever wanted to try to get around federation issues or look past blocks, you can sometimes do that by viewing a post from a different server. 
<2022-07-26T04:02:37.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: To do that just open a post made by someone from a different server, then click the timestamp on their post and you can view it as it would look from their server
<2022-07-26T04:03:14.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Again, this is only something you should consider doing if there's a thread that posts aren't appearing in AND you suspect the missing post is from someone who doesn't sound like an asshole not worth readingn
<2022-07-26T04:03:43.000Z> Madoushi: Yeah, this is the first in hearing of this kinda tech, at least described in this manner I don't recognize.
<2022-07-26T04:03:51.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: This is an extremely rare occurrence but knowing that the tech is sometimes a little dodgy in getting stuff between servers can help you understand what issues look like and why they show up
<2022-07-26T04:04:24.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Of course some of it I think it's just people have me blocked and the server doesn't really pass the block message to me.
<2022-07-26T04:04:54.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: But I haven't really bothered chasing causes cuz I imagine it could be any number of things.
<2022-07-26T04:05:29.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Naturally clicking the timestamp of a post written by someone at poast won't change anything because you're already at poast
<2022-07-26T04:05:25.000Z> Madoushi: Yeah, I'll be expanding slowly if I do. I hung out with a few different crowds on twitter and most of them, caused me anxiety over drama in the end more than anything. Just wanna enjoy waifus and shitpost for the most part.
<2022-07-26T04:06:04.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: you'll definitely wanna follow @LordMordred who is one of our finest anime gorl and bad meme posters
<2022-07-26T04:06:56.000Z> Madoushi: Awesome
<2022-07-26T04:08:22.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: @merchantHelios is one of our admins and also a fine anime gorl poster. 
<2022-07-26T04:11:50.000Z> Madoushi: Lol, his pinned post is great
<2022-07-26T04:12:30.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Monstergirl theory is an extremely popular topic
<2022-07-26T04:14:27.000Z> Madoushi: What qualifies as a Monster girl? Some are more obvious than others, but for example, is a vampire a monster girl?
<2022-07-26T04:15:04.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: That's worth asking on the TL to get a wide array of opinions on it if you post some big tiddy vampire girls along with it
<2022-07-26T04:15:34.000Z> Madoushi: I gotta find some big tiddy vampire girl rq
<2022-07-26T04:18:11.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: >not prepared with that at all timesngmi gb2/twitter/ faggot
<2022-07-26T04:23:31.000Z> Madoushi: Unfortunately my vampire girl  resources were indeed lacking. I know, I know, very cringe and kinda gay.
<2022-07-26T04:27:18.000Z> Madoushi: poa.st/notice/ALs87aLPBfZgd8tEiu
<2022-07-26T04:27:35.000Z> Madoushi: After retardedly fumbling for a few minutes, this is the only way I found to share posts
<2022-07-26T04:27:43.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Close enough
<2022-07-26T04:32:06.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: bah no takers, we'll get em next time
<2022-07-26T04:38:41.000Z> Madoushi: Indeed. I was always bad at Twitter too so no surprises, but with no shadowbans (hopefully) maybe I can get some good posts going.
<2022-07-26T04:53:00.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: The engagement here feels a lot more real but you still get a lot of misses.
<2022-07-26T04:54:00.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: Also by default, replies show in the TL. You can disable that in your own options but in most cases you don't need to repost a reply to get it to show like you do on twitter
<2022-07-26T04:54:43.000Z> DrRyanSkelton: You can also change the scope of a post on a per post basis so they don't show on the TL or only tag people mentioned but typically you only do this passive aggressively to try to control a shitty hellthread endless argument
<2022-07-26T05:01:44.000Z> Madoushi: Yeah, I was just thinking about that. When zi was on twitter I could have anywhere from 50-400 followers depending on the account. Cobsistently got 1 or 2 likes. Here I got 3 likes on that post only off of your repost. That's still pretty insane to me how shitty Twitter could be.
<2022-07-26T05:03:05.000Z> Madoushi: Well, reposts at least lmao, still more reports than I usually got on twitter even with several times the follower count.