trouser_mouse

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My cat won’t drink from her fountain if you watch her, it’s a private activity.

Sometimes moving water, too - and some are funny about material I think!

My current cat won’t drink from metal bowls, and loves a water fountain most.

My cat will only eat from a bowl when there is Amethyst and Rose Quartz crystals arranged to promote calmness, love, and emotional healing. It is literally science.

My cat only eats out of wide bowls for this reason!

She has wet food too, not all dry :)

Liftoff is awesome (after cycling through quite a few)!

Yes we all have tickets! One of the mice said they hope to be on the soundtrack for the squeakel

Why, thank you very much!

Yes, it is! I can’t believe you know that!

It was a very complex process, fraught with danger because of both the sporks and the half dozen mice. To be honest, I didn’t really think it through - but then isn’t that how all the best inventions involving mice and/or sporks happen.

The mice despite my best efforts have actually been breeding, so the descendants of the original mice are currently preparing to play Barbie Girl by Aqua for the premier of Barbie on July 21, 2023.

This is what it might be like https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fc6AujDe28o (fyi this is not footage from in my pants).

You have the best screen name!

I can’t live in this kind of chaos! It’s like the last days of Rome

Jesus Christ

I would probably have some kind of breakdown if I opened the drawer to find total anarchy like that.

I have an opinion on this - the order in the drawer is: knives, forks, spoons.

(I will take my spork-organising advice from t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!)

(Unless it is well-crafted and beautiful crap)

I think there are a lot of reasons.

Some people perhaps find they enjoy being able to control large communities - there are definitely some “power mod” users forming here on Lemmy and I don’t know that it is clear why or what that will look like going forward.

I don’t think being a mod is always about having bad motives. I look after a community for a table top role playing game across Discord, Reddit, and here - the community isn’t huge but isn’t insignificant (expect here where there is no activity at all, the main hub is Discord). I recruited a team of mods to help with that, particularly Discord. Not to speak for them, but it’s people who enjoy being around the community and being a part of it. Nothing selfish or power-hungry about it - it is simply for the love of supporting a community you come to love and helping to make sure it continues to be a space the people using it want to be a part of. I set up the community because I enjoy the game, there wasn’t one already, and I didn’t want to clutter up other spaces talking about it. People joined and more importantly stayed because they enjoy the people and the space.

I think a test is when there are issues, or when you decide it is time to move on - are you happy to pass the community on to others who would like to look after it, or do you not do that and lock it down or get rid of it entirely. That feels incredibly selfish, and speaks to your reasons I think; whereas if you are happy to pass the torch because you care about the community which has formed in the space more than whatever you get out of doing the job, it is probably more likely you are doing the job altruistically and because you care.

I’m sure the above isn’t always the case and there are so many reasons and scenarios, just my thoughts at the moment :)

I can barely contain myself

Whoever made the post won 1 million lem-coins maybe

I wonder what the one millionth post was (hopefully something dumb)

I think I fall on the side of preemptive defederation, not just because of data harvesting etc but also because the incoming communities will be huge and dwarf anything already here - look at what has happened here already as communities try to merge and establish. Everything dominant will become meta along with whatever mods and rules etc they already have in place. Scary.