@mattdm i think it depends how much of a niche internet microcelebrity you consider yourself

someone on bluesky was calling people with equal following and follower counts symmetricals

you know what, fuck it

reflects you along an axis, making you perfectly symmetrical

@akjcv no i don't really think it's intentional, it's just what fediverse developers naturally gravitate to working on. nobody really wants to have a UX that only appeals to techy people, but that's what ends up happening by default

@oliphant i should have said easier to run and use probably

it's hard enough to get non-techy people who aren't already here to sign up on a mastodon instance, let alone something they've never heard of that makes you byo frontend along with everything else

it's a really interesting project and i hope it does well, but the end user experience is a real blind spot with the things the tech oriented people who are already here tend to build

fedi needs lightweight servers that are easier to run, with fewer people on them that know each other better

that’s actually why all the effects of feminizing hrt they told you about stopped at 2 years. because that’s how long the study was, and they just assumed there was nothing else

they will tell you that hips cannot rotate after a certain age but this is a lie. they just never did studies on the effects of feminizing hrt that were longer than 2 years so never saw the effect