first time i’ve seen a cake on the threadiverse i think

happy cake day

Someone mentioned adoption; I also want to mention fostering, volunteering for Big Brother/Big Sister, becoming a CASA, etc.

I know those aren’t the same thing, but sometimes there are multiple ways to meet a need :)

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maybe that’s the point?

i’m not saying it is or isn’t, but it wouldn’t be surprising

if not bread, why bread shaped?

u right

Don’t communicate with people with malicious intent.

Can you give an example?

I’m a pretty big asshole.

It’s also social skills, which, as an autistic person, isn’t my strength!

Anecdotally, it can be contagious.

I live in one of those most dangerous towns in my country. We have a Facebook group where people will proudly act really nasty toward each other.

One time someone was mean to me and it was unwarranted. I think anyone wouldn’t’ve blamed me if I called her out.

I can be nasty myself. A lot. ESPECIALLY if I’m being attacked. But I’m trying to work on it.

For whatever reason, in this situation I happened to remember that I’m trying to work on it. And as badly as I wanted to be the bigger bitch, I chose to be the bigger person and I chose to respond with kindness. And I felt like shit. And I felt mad that I wasn’t “defending” myself.

It caused a chain reaction that I’ve never seen in this town. People were hopping into the replies also offering kindness to this person.

This was awhile ago and I still feel great about it. Which is another benefit.

You’re way more likely to regret being mean than you are to regret being kind.

Change has to start with someone.

i know i’m starting to get a bit edgy with the criticisms, so i just wanted to let you know that your comment keeps making me laugh and i do take it as a compliment in a way

https://venngage.com/tools/accessible-color-palette-generator is what I used for the color palette

i took the hex code of the meta logo and inverted it (anti-meta theme) for a hex code of #F9971E and generated a palette. this was one of the palettes. i went with a more monochrome palette for people who may have trouble distinguishing between colors.

as i do not have any relevant visual impairments myself, i cannot comment on the readability/accessibility.

saying “i don’t think this is accessible” is not helpful (you’re not the only person who has said this) as it does not tell me what is accessible.

i myself am severely disabled and unable to work and living in extreme poverty. i came up with this idea, shared it on social media, and asked if anyone would be willing to make a graphic. no one did.

if the cause matters to you, you always have the option to make your own graphic. i literally cried several times making this because i do not have the energy, the time, or a usable device to make this, or the money to purchase anything usable. i made it on my phone on the free version of Ibispaint, which is the equivalent of using ms paint with a trackpad, if not worse. i have shaky hands and painful joints.

as for my migraine, i can’t comment on that, as i have chronic migraines. we are advised to avoid noise and bright screens. if i do that i’m stuck listening to the convincing voices in my head screaming at me to kill myself while still being in physical pain. i prefer to continue to be in pain while deluding myself into volunteering time and energy i do not have trying to make this world a better place only to achieve nothing and to have ended up wasted time and getting shit on for it, while everyone else who does have the time, energy, and resources complains that no one ever does anything.

if i took spent hours on this (yes, this took hours because of how unusable the app is), other people can take a few minutes to explain to me how i can make this accessible, if it’s something they actually care about and aren’t just virtue-signaling. or! they can take a few minutes to make an accessible graphic themselves

i’ve heard that - but if signal becomes popular enough with individuals, i imagine businesses would eventually switch over to signal as well

could encourage people to move to signal while keeping whatsapp maybe… until one day hopefully no one uses whatsapp anymore :)

i think most people just don’t care

i agree - so the question is, how do we make them care?

https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/44092/ideas-for-making-fetch-happen-a-mass-exodus-to-the-fediverse

https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1897818/how-to-sucesfully-post-about-piefed-on-reddit

i’ve been trying - and seemingly failing - to make people care for awhile. but i’ll do my best to keep trying.

i was banned from reddit for months… maybe close to a year? it seems pretty easy to set off their ban hammer.

mark and the gang built tools to scrape you other account back in the day an add the data to facebook. made it easy to switch. they also made it close to impossible to do the same to facebook. but it would require something like that to get people on to something else.

i was thinking that - and apparently fedibook does allow you to import all your facebook posts :)

wafrn allows bluesky imports… i imagine with activitypub, hypothetically some stuff from threads could be imported, but i don’t know for sure.

pixelfed does allow you to import your instagram account

as for the government stuff… yeah. don’t like it.

like your username btw

thanks! when new sites i’m interested in pop up, i like to try to get a silly username related to the site name sometimes, although i think piefed might’ve been around for a year before my username? but i kept seeing it mentioned on reddit around the time i joined and i’d never heard of it before, so i assumed it was new (although it is still pretty new in the grand scheme of things, i think :))

i used opendyslexic for accessibility (i am not an accessibility expert by any means, so i apologize for anything that’s off)

i don’t know if this one is really any better, but my friend suggested changing the layout to something more like this

edit: she suggested more changes, unfortunately what im using to make this is the mobile equivalent of ms paint with a trackpad, so i’m in hell :)

fedibook seems really new; i think it’s only been up for a few weeks? but it looks close to facebook, and apparently has an option to import facebook posts

i couldn’t find any screenshots of it, but i took some of my own after making a throwaway account

for me, it just feels closer to facebook design-wise than friendica and diaspora. every friendica instance that has a normie-friendly url seemed glitchy or just flat out took forever to load. before i stumbled upon fedibook, i was thinking about recommending spacehey or bliish (which are also interesting, but spacehey is invite-only right now; can’t remember what i didn’t like about bliish)