I mainly buy my own Christmas presents and then I set my sister-in-law a clothing challenge (I used to throw the challenge to my auntie but she’s got dementia). As I’ve lost weight and gone down two clothing sizes, so have been buying a new wardrobe. I have myself sorted for t-shirts now and my s-i-l got me a bunch of long-sleeved tops for my birthday so the current challenge is a hoodie with a double seam on the head (as it makes the hood lie flatter).

For myself from myself I have stuff stashed away:

• Kung-fu Kristmas - all Bruce Lee’s films, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In and various other films that have trickled in over the year that I have stashed away and some I will have forgotten about, which will be a nice surprise. All 4k and special edition where I can. I might also try and get the Clones of Bruce Lee boxset but that would be really spoiling myself.
• I have the 2000AD Annual on order as I haven’t had one under the tree for Christmas in decades.

If you see a need for a community then start it.

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No you are wrong about that.

That’s the trick.

You could, for example, have a bot running a text-based RPG in a Mastodon thread, where you get to see others in your group take their turns, then you have yours.

I think the best of both worlds would be if I could make an account on both and have one account essentially repost anything from the main account, unless I’m replying to someone specifically where it wouldn’t make sense to reply on both accounts.

That’s what I’d want from a bridge - something to connect an account at each end. If/when Bluesky suffers enshittification, it would mean that folks on Bluesky could just switch the direction of the bridge and start posting in the Fediverse. No sunk cost leaving you hanging on, no high barrier to moving.

I presume they would maintain separate user account databases (without some concerted hacking).

I’m hoping at some point that different services will allow shared logins (with APIs it should be relatively straightforward) or a separate ID service (ActivityPods?).

There are a few British Mastodon instances:

• https://mastodonapp.uk/
• https://mastodon.me.uk/

If we were to add another service, I’d want something a bit more interesting.

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Peanuts are legumes, although they are usually classed as nuts. A worthy winner either way.

Coconut has a lot of saturated fat, so I’d say unhealthy. Deep-fried Snickers on the other hand…

A counter-argument is that they are punishing mental illness:

In mitigation the court heard Ruane had mental health issues from childhood trauma and had alcohol dependence.

The defendant claimed he had no memory of sending the messages as he was “blind drunk” every day at the time.

Like the Prevent scheme where a “staggeringly high” number people on it are autistic.

Valley of the Rings

Toot-and-come-in

Nifertiti

The Bummy

Shatophagus

Cleofartra

You can bridge the two now.

What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?

I liked the community that had built up and wanted to help that continue.

I just use Threadiverse and Threads can go piss up a rope.

Now there’s an argument to be had. I ave tried Mastodon and Firefish and found the latter to be far superior, feature-wise. I think Iceshrimp will be the *key fork that will finally the big breakout hit, especially with the Iceshrimp.net rewrite.

The best thing for on-boarding are topic-specific instances, it makes picking one much easier.

Mastodon isn’t even the best micro-blogging service on the Fediverse.

What would be the incentive for people to do that?