It's honestly disconcerting seeing accounts on here (celebrities) that have posts with 60+ replies and not a single reply of their own to anybody in that thread

This is exactly the kind of thing we want to avoid here. The asymettrical parasocial experience that is encouraged with such people

@gcluley nice to see an article by someone who's been on Mastodon a while

grahamcluley.com/mastodon-what…

The new people are all a twitter about tooting (see what I did there?). I post messages. I post messages on Friendica, Pixelfed, my phone, messaging apps, the US Postal Service, even Mastodon.

Post messages, and don't worry about what it's called on that platform.

Still getting basically no activity on my now-multiple fully naked artistic photography on tumblr (which requires me to tag them "sexual" even though it's literally just me existing in the nude) so they're definitely shadowbanning my posts so no one can see them.

So, tumblr is still sexist and under the thumb of the patriarchy; don't believe the propaganda they're not.

#introduction Hiya! I'm an oldbie #contentcreator on #youtube, #vimeo, #twitch, #twitter and many others, and you can find all my content and other links at www.toplesstopics.org !

My main focus in my videos & #livestreams are #activism topics like #civilrights, #feminism, #blacklivesmatter, #lgbtq, #socialjustice, #censorship, and that sort of thing,

but I cover a lot of other topics like #parenting, #videogames, #art, #progressive #politics and more!

Hoping to find like-minded creators!

"From the feudal lords who fantasized that the peasants were happy to work the soil; to the American enslavers who deluded themselves that the Africans they kidnapped and terrorized into working for them embraced plantation life; to the toffs who kidded themselves that coal miners loved the “honest work” underground, rich people have always inhabited a fantasyland where guillotines are unimaginable…until they become inevitable."

Great read from @pluralistic

mamot.fr/@pluralistic/10929781…

Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

The End of the Road to Serfdom https://doctorow.medium.com/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom-bfad6f3b35a9

^{La Quadrature du Net - Mastodon - Media Fédéré}

The other day, while I was on my computer adjusting saturation levels etc on some fantasy-themed #nudephotography photoshoots I did awhile ago:
Link (my 6yo son): mommy, is that a picture of you?
Me: yup!
Link: ooh. It's really pretty!

#nudity is not inherently sexual. Nudity is wholesome. Nudity is not going to irreparably scar your children for life.

#nonsexualnudity #normalizenudity #nudism #naturism #familyfriendlynudity

Re: my experiment with posting daily nonsexual nudity to #tumblr since their rule change, no banned post yet, but they have been slapping all my posts with a "mature-sexual themes" community label, not letting me just label it "mature" (there's no subtag only for "nudity")

So it seems that like everywhere else, tumblr follows #thepatriarchy ideology in counting all bodies as "sexual," especially women's bodies.

Also, my posts are getting very few engagement, which seems dubious since I resurrected my old #toplesstopics account that already has hundreds of followers, plus people usually go nuts over any female nudity at all, even just topless.

#nudity #nudism #censorship #naturism #feminism #equalrights

Proposal: insisting in telling someone (almost always a female-presenting person) that you're masturbating to their content and there's nothing they can do to stop you is digital rape.

(NOT saying it's anywhere on the same level of pain and trauma as physical rape, but the underlying motive of subjugating someone through forced sexual actions is the same. It's still an act of domination, albeit much more cowardly)