sev @sev@witches.town
Not entirely covered in spikes. Queer cis feminist geek. In the PNW of the US, on unceded Duwamish territory. She/her.
(note this account is way more explicit than my twitter account.)
Or I guess I can keep posting, second-guessing whether I remembered to set privacy, deleting, re-posting, forgetting to fill in the CW, delete again, post a third time ....
so is there some way to see what privacy options were chosen for a toot? Even for my very own toot? I feel like I'm missing something.
abuse Afficher plus
my sense of smell is extra-sharp today, which is why I can tell my sparkly black lipstick is rancid. :(
If you want to talk to all your followers, you should choose "Unlisted", which will make your toot visible to everyone else who visits your profile, too.
If you don't care about privacy and/or want to use # and want your toot to show up on local/fed TLs too, you should choose "Public".
If you want to talk privately to all your followers, you need to get them all to sign up on your instance! Which is not really the idea behind a decentralized system. But it works for small communities. And remember to set your privacy settings so that people have to wait for your permission to follow, so that they can see your private toots.
the area under my eyes is peeling.
The last time this happened, I was crying a lot ... like, a lot lot. I thought, wow, I'm crying so much my face is peeling off, this is ridiculous, and I actually made changes in my life so I cried less.
I'm not crying a lot, now. But I am feeling some stress. And in the fifteen(?) years between then and now I've realized I have psoriasis, and that's an auto-immune disorder and stress is totally an autoimmune trigger, and that's probably where the excessive peeling is coming from.
Those were still good changes to have made in my life, though.
Not just #Mastodon #admin advice, but good practice in general: If somebody tells you to type a thing with backticks (that's one of these: ` ), make extra-sure you know exactly what each part of that thing does.
That little symbol opens a tunnel out of the console of your little world into one with WAY more power and possibility. Smart witches take care with the words they send through that portal.
(I haven't seen any malicious advice here to inspire this caution. Just ... I know the tricks played on new admins. Try not to learn the hard way, 'k?)
It's possible that duolingo isn't the best place to learn idioms. https://witches.town/media/QOqYGGxDE3ZWfpKw4ew
deleting the LJ account was unreasonably stressful. It's not like I *use* it anymore. That content is all mirrored elsewhere and is in addition backed up just in case.
I guess it's partially a reminder that the life I'm living now is sometimes way less-thoroughly-examined than it once was. I don't think I require as much processing to figure stuff out anymore, but my memory's not great.
it is sort of coincidental that I finally got around to blowing away my livejournal account & also finally posted here for the first time (both were waiting for me to return home after a week of travel).
I poured a bunch of that energy into a dysfunctional relationship for a little while, but that was a terrible idea. I can't shake the feeling that that particular channel of my energy is ... not broken, but still tied up in the murkiness of that community. I dunno how to get it back. I wasn't just a system administrator; I was a community organizer who happened to use technology. And it went badly and I haven't come back from that.
(hey, look, it's still true about me: I write more deeply for an audience of mostly-strangers than for myself or for my therapist.)
One of my sweeties has been asking, every couple of months: "So, you said, maybe you'd figure out What You're Doing Next once you got the server all the way shut down. Have any thoughts about that?" He asks just rarely enough that it's not pestering. But often enough to keep the question on my radar.
Like, theoretically, I've got some bandwidth, now, that I should be able spend on other things. That project took a lot of energy. My kid was born two weeks after her due date; I spent those weeks upgrading the mailserver.
I'm here!
I spent awhile silently watching and I'm having complicated feels. And of the dozen-and-a-half of you folks I just followed, most of you don't know me, and those that do, didn't know me when I was the administrator of a server supporting a community.
So I dunno how to explain just how *weird* this whole thing makes me feel.
I still haven't shrugged off the existential horror that opened when I shut down my mailserver -- if I'm not a system administrator, who/what the fuck am I?