Pixel

holy shit I’m glad I saw this because i thought my screen was going or something, the colors are good but they’re just barely different enough to where I thought I was going crazy

Yeah, exactly. Even if it can’t, I still think that’s a preferrable solution, it’s easy enough to glaze over spoilers if you’re just scrolling to something you wanna see, or you can just ctrl+f

I think that a weekly thread that populates replies automatically as new episodes come out would be a good compromise regarding sparing people’s front pages from a deluge of posts and also keeping things relatively indexed so people can avoid spoilers

People that espouse the values of the fediverse often forget that people use these sorts of non-federated tools to engage with community, and sometimes a shitty thing can have good communities. Like how do you expect an artist who accepts commissions regularly from their followers to support themselves on mastodon when Twitter is right there? How do you expect communities around games, just as a single example, to universally migrate to matrix?

These alternatives are better for myriad reasons, certainly, but the moral posturing reducing engagement with these platforms to being the only moral consideration to keep in mind, which is an incredibly narrow understanding of how people use these social media platforms. It’s like people that were mad at “any mods not privating their subreddits” during the reddit protests not acknowledging that places like the substance abuse subreddits perform a public good and it’s almost like engaging with these platforms isnt just engaging with the platform, it’s also engaging with the people there