Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

@wickedgood
Yeah, I've seen more meta-discussion about Mastodon in these past few weeks than I had in years of being here before that, and by now it's getting kind of stale (even though I understand it's useful for the non-stop stream of newcomers, and have contributed to it myself).
I'm hoping it's just a temporary thing, and I do already see it slowing down in my timeline.

@dr_marcomeer@mastodon.green

It seems like this list isn't publicly available on my instance (#qoto). Running this code gives me "401 Unauthorized" error, and trying to see https://qoto.org/web/accounts/384411/followers in a private window opens a Sign-in page, not a followers list.

@theautisticcoach

@theautisticcoach

So I'm technically undiagnosed to this day, because an #ActuallyAutistic doctor thought he was doing me a favour! He was gatekeeping me (and possibly others like me) out of "good" intentions, because of the trauma he himself had suffered and apparently never worked through.

#Autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autistic #AutisticAdults #AutismDiagnosis

@theautisticcoach

Turned out over the course of the conversation, that he had been diagnosed as autistic in his early 20s, had a lot of associated trauma around it himself, and so thought of the diagnosis as some kind of mark of doom.

Trying to tell him that I just wanted to understand myself better and didn't think of it as a negative thing, didn't go anywhere. (2/n)

#Autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autistic #AutisticAdults #AutismDiagnosis #ActuallyAutistic

@theautisticcoach

I have a hilarious(ly sad) story about the gatekeeping:

I finally found a psychologist in my small Indian town that I had rapport with, took my online test results and talked about my experiences, and asked about a diagnosis.

He seemed weirdly resistant to the idea without giving any reasons, and kept diverting the conversation. (1/n continued below)

#Autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #autistic #AutisticAdults #ActuallyAutistic #AutismDiagnosis

@Romaq

In general I agree with you and *don't* want defederation to happen unless absolutely necessary.

But mastodon.social shouldn't be immune to consequences just because the lead developer has a hand in it. Letting the codebase be held hostage in that way would defeat the entire point of the Open Fediverse idea. We should treat it like any other instance and consider it if things ever get bad enough to justify it - **but** in this case I think there's still room for communication and correction, and I hope things get resolved in a friendly way.

@freemo

@JMBagniewska
So many ways our brains are affected by external factors that weren't traditionally considered - first the big role of the gut microbiome, and now (potentially) this kind of interaction with parasites - there's so much territory in psychology and neuroscience that we probably don't even know exists, much less have explored.

@Romaq

There's been ripples in the wider Mastodon community for several days about mastodon.social's moderation, and people have been actively moving away from it. I hadn't seen talk about defederation, but it makes sense that people consider it if it's problems are being exposed one by one.

@freemo

@juergen_hubert @NehaKhazanchi
Qoto is *based* on Mastodon v3.2.1, but it's actually a fork i.e. @freemo took the code and added a lot of features (incl. the Markdown support, quote posts, etc.) in Qoto's branch of the code, so the version number doesn't tell the full story. In this case, I believe Qoto added hashtag-following before the main Mastodon code did, you can find it at https://qoto.org/settings/follow_tags or going Preferences -> Follows and Subscriptions -> Following hashtags

@trinsec
True. I used to think like "if 80% of someone's posts are good, I should follow them", and I had some FOMO (fear of missing out) if I didn't. But nowadays I've realized it should be more like "if more than 5% of someone's posts are negative and unconstructive, it's not worth following them".