Erin Kissane
kissane@mstdn.social
<p>Thinking about books, bones, sociability, magic, and care. Co-led the COVID Tracking Project @ the Atlantic in 2020. Bunch of editorial and community work in tech, journalism, and culture orgs before that. Child advocate in the extremely broken US foster-care system.</p><p>I write a lot about community and sociability, including on the fediverse. I don't CW those topics.</p><p>Header: Closeup of elaborate Neolithic greenstone (variscite) necklace from the St-Michel tumulus @ Carnac in France.</p>
Posts
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Post #1334691
https://genders.wtf from @effy is extremely good, please submit more bad forms asap
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Post #848068
I took a little vacation and came back and the fact that Libs of Tiktok is already ensconced on Threads and we have tech dudes on here explaining that Threads is beside the point/unlikely to be vector for harassment is still making my head explode. (I&#39;d hoped to find an accessible but technical account how this anti-trans manipulation and harassment plays out across networks, but it seems like there&#39;s a gap between v high level summary and hyper-detailed academic analysis of si...
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Post #671019
But what is the actual PROBLEM with Mastodon?? Said one hundred dozen people over several months of threads here. So I wrote it up. It&#39;s too long, but we got bad doors, stilt-walking French shepherds, water bugs, a bunch of @/shengokai@zirk.us quotations, What The Fuck Is Up With Bluesky, and more. https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop
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Post #671013
Something that old (old old) Twitter was and that fedi has been maybe even more—despite a lot of the specialist communities not being here rn—is *incredibly generous* in response to requests for specialist recommendations/ advice, and it&#39;s extremely cool, and I&#39;m grateful.
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Post #671012
ICYM the (UTC−08:00) evening fedi-meta post but are interested, I wrote a whole lot about the ripple effects of interface confusion on Mastodon—and about Black Twitter and the recent troubles on Bluesky, and why people use things that are far from ideal, and also these dudes, whom I love. https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop
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Post #671011
ok migrating instances 🦆 see you on the other side and/or goodbye forever 🕳️