Thanks so much, Nero! 💜

If you're ok with sharing, where do you host your single-user-instance with? Or is it the same place you host your site & comics with?

For me I feel like my enjoyment of the Fediverse requires me being a self-hosted single-user-instance.

THANK YOU 🥰💜💜

Every time I take a little stress break I come back with more anti-stress strats, so I'm looking forward to this one. 🥹

Why can't bsky show me this SMALLER, LESSER-EVIL number instead

This is a much less stressful number than 7k-something but is still a stress number

Aight tell me before I go on anti-scrolling anti-frequency sabbatical again.

@realfollowers.bsky.social

I just have a phobia (fear) and a phobia (prejudice) towards enshittification at this point.

While also understanding that good software for free doesn't last forever.

Does anyone have any Open Source static site generators that take Markdown/Nunjucks/YAML?

11ty getting bought by Font Awesome gives me the heeby jeebies and I'd like to assess my options while still not making any kneejerk reactions.

Now it feels like every platform is like "you will scroll through every kind of thing by every kind of person you follow—and you're gonna LIKE IT. 🗡️"

And I'm just like, well… I don't. I don't like it.

I want to go back to its categorized, inbox-style, notification system so bad.

Journals were their own notification pile, separated by artist. Art was its own notification pile, separated by artist.

Ah, this was the panel. By @ ErikaTheGoober

I feel/fear the same will happen for me posting online when *that* (my relationship to SocMed and posting) heals too.

I was such a warm, shining, inviting, helpful, community-driven netizen before I burnt out. I feel like when I heal I'm gonna end up comparatively colder, infrequent, and reclusive.

There's definitely a scarring aspect to it.

I feel like there are some parts of 2023-2025 me that I'll never have access to again. I'm becoming an artist again, definitely, but a lot of my process is VASTLY different to how it was before I burnt out.

The same with my mindset.

Yeah. And posting to Social Media, honestly isn't that bad.

It's scrolling that's hard for me. Cause everyone around me is like, maximizing frequency all the time (cause that's how to appear in people's feeds) and it's hard to scroll through.

It makes me feel out of place, and info-overloaded.

Sometimes I feel like vanishing into the small-web again, but the combination of capitalism and economic hardship means no one(*) I know finds that to be a viable way to spend one's time and I lose 100s of connections in an instant

Thumbnail sketching, and iterating on a thumbnail to make the composition more interesting, and not having to commit to thumbnail ideas at all.

I find it easier to imagine when the frame is small. Or when I start with shapes.

It's also a branched process. I thought I was cured once I started drawing again but I still

- reject a lot of my ideas, that's burnout too
- get bothered when seeing the SocMed actions and behaviors that made me burn out, that's burnout too
- have a weird fear/discomfort towards posting drawings

I was watching this one panel from lightbox where this one artist, lovely lady, forget her handle unfortunately, was talking about how healing from burnout is a slow process and I underestimated that.

I miss the "yay, so and so updated their website" or even the "yay deviantArt sent a notification to my notification inbox that so-and-so submitted new art" internet.

The "find some way to post new-or-old art 2-3x a week" internet just makes my spirit shrivel up and wither

I feel like that "artists should disappear into the woods" post, like,

Frequency, either freshly baked, or microwaved just makes my spirit vibrate and separate from my skin for some reason.

There's nothing wrong with it and I'm not mad at people for making the high-speed-high-frequency nature of micro blogging easier for them to participate in,

It just reminds me so much of what finally triggered my burnout explosion that I have this weird reaction when I see it now 💀

I have an irrational irritation towards like

"[Insert frequency-posting copy-pasta prompt here]

QRT: [Insert frequency-posting copy-pasta prompt here]"

(If you do this I'm not mad I just add each QRT prompt to my mile-long mute list 💀💧)

Is there a version of OnlyPosts with no quote-posts in it…

The one I use has quote posts in it.

two comms i did recently

Rest up well, Kody! Burnout is killer. Please take a breather.

I've been working on finalizing the player character customizer for my game... I'm like 90% done with the main functions, just gotta finish drawings that are missing + fix how stuff overlaps on the bust sprite (as you can see w the choker haha)

Curiosity got the best of me and, it appears to be a human of some sort trying to sic a random LLM bot on people…

But what's some random dev's LLM bot gonna do about anything…?

*premptively blocks both*

…what is the goal 💀
Wild.

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