Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

@RustyBertrand
Little A'Tuin

@LouisIngenthron
Damn cool indeed!

@LouisIngenthron
What is this from?

@peterdrake
I didn't get to learn Prolog, but taught myself Brachylog (https://github.com/JCumin/Brachylog/wiki) for the sake of code-golfing.

It got me thinking about data and computation in an entirely new way. Generic "this will expand your mind" claims are overdone in this field, but it felt like declarative logic programming truly did that for me after more than a decade of professional programming.

#prolog #brachylog #codegolf #declarative #logicprogramming

@lkh @actuallyautistic

One plausible reason is the novelty and the need to process it - mobile and digital media could present her with things that are entirely out of the context of her everyday life, and that becomes something huge to make sense of for the #actuallyAutistic brain.
If this is the issue, some period of quiet time after using the device, that lets her just process what she's seen, would help.

Another possibility is fantasizing about what she *hasn't* seen, due to getting overly focused on the digital content, and ruminating about that digital world.
In this case, setting plans for what she's gonna see, and letting her know in advance what's coming the next day, would help fix it in her mind as something concrete, and hence avoid the excessive fantasizing.

@zigzackly
I visited Geocities pages a lot but didn't see it as a social thing.
Tried IRC but could really get into it.

Mailing lists were the first among these that I actually participated in. I think I saw them described in a local language (#Tamil) magazine, and the idea of groups organized at multiple levels (comp.lang.xyz) fascinated me, so I checked them out. And over time built up the courage to ask for help and participate in discussions.

@KatyElphinstone
One thing that would've helped is an understanding that cleanliness doesn't have to be an absolute. Since I tended to take things literally, it seemed like the aim was to remove 100% of germs, and it always bothered me that we were doing such a sloppy job of it - it didn't make sense.

Understanding it as a complement to the immune system and body's own cleaning mechanisms, as something done to avoid overwhelming this systems, helped a lot to make sense of it as part of the whole process.

In general, making sense of it logically, instead of it being just a list of instructions, helps a lot.

It's concerning how much of my self-talk involves telling myself:
"We'll catch up on sleep later, I promise, but let's pretend for now that we're well-rested and alert and not a grumpy sleep deprived husk at all."

#sleep #SleepDeprived

@Josordoni

I've started to think of social media in terms of the Buddhist concept of Sangha - as in, curating your own circle of people in a way that helps you keep an eye on what's important, and lets you grow as a person.

Mastodon helps with that by
(1) not having an algorithmic feed that shoves hot button topics in your face, and
(2) giving you a lot of controls in what you see and interact with.

But it's still upto us to actively do the work, and create our own soul-nourishing Sanghas.

#socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #buddhism #sangha #positivefedi #selfcare

@Josordoni

Same. It's taken me some conscious work to realize that these shoutfests are not as important or widespread as the (loud minority of) people engaged in them make it seem. It's so easy to get pulled into them and away from the positive constructive stuff that's also going on at the same time.

Mmm, yes, let's keep procrastinating on getting ready for this social engagement with strangers.
That'll somehow make things easier, yep.

#introvert #meetingnewpeople #procrastination

@SETIEric
Option 8: Streisand effect https://qoto.org/@digital_carver/109448047125347985

(You seem to be talking abt people who actively post there though, I've never really done that. Just a very passive lurker who lurks more these days.)

I've probably visited the bird site more times in the past couple weeks than I ever have in the past.

I made an account in the very early days, didn't see the point of the site, and rarely used it. When I finally did want a microblogging network, #Mastodon and #Qoto were ready and more appealing.

But now I keep seeing posts about how so much is changing there and how X happened and Y is about to happen, and it makes me want to check it out and see what it's actually like.

#Twitter #StreisandEffect

@allinone0@fosstodon.org
Silicon Valley seems to live in an iPhone bubble. They generally assume everyone's using an iPhone unless specifically mentioned otherwise. Despite easily available numbers that show that it should be the other way around...