That’s literally what the headline is. “Deadnaming” is a term for referring to transgender people by their previous names, rather than their current names.

Maybe a fan of singer songwriter Ciara, with her song 1-2 step.

I personally like the words that sound like other letters: A as in Aye, E as in Eye, S as in See.

I don’t walk as much as you, but if someone was paying me 25 cents per step I’d probably respond to that incentive by walking way more than 10 miles a day.

I’m giving 1-star ratings to weather apps because it’s too cold outside.

Oh this line of comments was serious? I thought we were making jokes.

I’m just trying to extrapolate to being supportive of government surveillance, and proving that other commenter right.

If they go and follow 200 users on 20 different instances, then they’ll most likely get followed back by someone on 90% of those instances. It’s not that much effort.

I don’t know, this sounds like an unnatural way to interact with a service. Following 4000 accounts and trying to spread it out evenly between servers sounds like a terrible way to curate one’s own feed and consume content on a service like this. I rarely follow more than 100 on any given service, and think it’s weird when people follow more than 500.

Following back seems like a pretty foreign concept to me on this type of service, and seems to me to be inconsistent with how people actually use Twitter or Bluesky. To me, these hiccups in user experience as either a lurker (can’t find anyone in-band who another person on your instance doesn’t already follow) or publisher (can’t be found easily from anyone off of your server unless you actively go try to spam follows in the hopes that some will follow back) would be a dealbreaker for anything less than the biggest server.

But do the naked gay men have an exhibition fetish, especially by government agents?

So if you set up on small server A, and want to be discoverable by users on server B, C, D, and E, you have to do this for many different users and hope that they follow you back just so that those servers’ users can find you.

And it basically defeats the main use case for where I actually understand microblogging, which is one-way announcements by semi-automated accounts that are widely followed that do not actually follow anyone else back.

It just sounds like a bad arrangement for discoverability and search.

hashtags are big on Mastodon

But I can’t view the posts of any users by hashtag if those users aren’t already being followed by someone from my server, right? That means I’d never want to join a small server if I’m just a lurker who doesn’t really want to actively interact with others, because my own feed would be limited.

there’s no algorithm

Sounds like an algorithm that’s just more complicated and has unintuitive human inputs in it.

Yeah I remember seeing some stupid post somewhere about this guy saying “can you believe this man is only 45” and everyone in the comments saying “um yes that is what 45 year olds look like.”

Follow people and hashtags and interact with them and you’ll get followers.

That sounds like a convoluted method of self promotion, almost like SEO fake engagement, just to be discoverable. And if everyone on the network had to do this to be discoverable, how can I trust the discovery methods to find people worth following?

And if the cross instance discoverability has these kinds of hurdles, then the promise of federation isn’t going to pan out.

At least with Lemmy the nature of the platforms, users following a smaller universe of potential communities, makes each community much more easily discoverable for people who don’t necessarily want to be active posters. Mastodon’s user-focused follow is much more limited in seamless federation.

Lifestyle changes to where my weekend schedule looks like my weekday schedule, just with different activities.

I am at home and relaxing by 11pm. I am in bed by 12am. Then I wake up at 7:30am. That’s 7 and a half hours of sleep every night, at the same time every day, 7 days a week.

And that’s not just lifestyle changes around not going out as late on weekends. It’s also a lifestyle change where I started steering my career and work towards never needing to have any meetings or be at any specific place before 10am.

I’m not a morning person so I got a job where I don’t have to be a morning person. My whole routine on weekday mornings is designed to make it so that nobody at work can touch my morning until I’ve had a chance to settle into my day.

I think that’s true of all French fries everywhere. The deep frying technique fundamentally dehydrates the outside while leaving the inside with enough internal moisture to be soft or fluffy. That’s an unstable setup that will trend towards equilibrium, drying out the center and softening up the exterior.

Please don’t hawk tuah your pans while cooking