When you follow someone and receive their messages, you'd think that's an action you do, or your server does for you. But it's the other way around: the other account, or its server, is sending these messages to you. It's like being on a mailinglist. You've subscribed once (or clicked 'follow'), but after that they're the ones sending out the messages.

"But can someone put you on their followers list without you clicking 'follow'?" In theory, yes. They can send messages to your server as if you follow them. But your server will not present them in your timeline since the 'follow' is not registered in your account as well. In this case you'll not see these messages. So in practise there's no problem.

How romantic it must be to get imprisoned in a castle and made to squeeze out heirs

-- Rhaenyra
#HouseOfTheDragon

Watched some more of the new iCarly yesterday to get my Miranda Cosgrove fix. I'm still on season 1, she's filming season 3 already. Now I'll do the next episode of House Of The Dragon. Only two more episodes left until they jump to a later time and other actresses, so that will be no more Milly Alcock as Rhaenyra (😪) but we get to see Olivia Cooke as Alicent (🥳).

With that name I can only imagine Milly getting bullied at school and that when she has to give her name in any formal setting, they come back with: 'I'm sorry how do you spell that?'. I feel that now, by becoming a major actress, she's got her vengeance.

#MirandaCosgrove #iCarly #MillyAlcock #OliviaCooke

This idea that having to pay for a vip subscription would stop bad people, have they learned nothing from tinder? It's how you recognise the scammers over there...

A photo of a beautiful woman, on tinder, not listing age or location (a pay-only feature) ==> fake.

I love that Caroline Orr (rvawonk) is now also on the fediverse! (As @Caroline Orr Bueno ). I have to quote her message on twitter about it though:

Lol everyone on Mastodon is all, “I love dogs”, “Saving the planet,” “Humanity is great” …. and then I burst in the room with “Studying hostile social manipulation and weaponized influence.”

She is of course wrong. It's cats.

I'm kidding, “studying hostile social manipulation and weaponized influence” is exactly what a lot of people here would be interested in, in my experience. I certainly am.

We're all actors here in the fediverse (*) (**).

(*) In Activitypub, one of the protocols behind the fediverse, any addressable entity is called an actor. So your account is an actor. The server is an actor. Your separate PeerTube channels are actors. Forums and groups are actors. Unfortunately, hashtags aren't actors.

(**) In some circles social media accounts are accused of being actors suggesting there's some paid motive to some movements.

"Please sit, my bubble-wrapped child"

-- Mystic Zagnat
#iCarly

"Do I look like someone who can't see himself in a mirror?"

-- Dracula
#Dracula

To have 44 billion dollars that you can just burn.

And it isn't even without precedent, the freenode guy did it before.

You don't need to delete your Twitter account to have a fediverse account. You can use both.

For healthy Twitter usage I'd suggest putting people you want to keep seeing in a list, and look at that list instead of the main timeline. Chronological, no ads, no promoted tweets.

"You'll still get the same amount of ads, they will just not be personalised."

Right, no. You'll hardly get any ads and mostly just blank spaces where the ads would go. Really people, just click these reject-all, object-all buttons and enjoy the quiet.

Starting to watch Adult Material with Hayley Squires. The tv series, not... She's a really good actress who isn't that known yet, but she leads this series. I've seen her before in impressive supporting roles in Collateral and The Miniaturist.

Me after seeing her in The Miniaturist and being very impressed with what she brings extra to the scenes though she only played a small role of the servant: let's look her up in imdb, maybe there's something else I can see her in. Hey, she was also in Collateral. I remember there was also someone in there who really made a role extra strong despite having not much lines, I think it was a manager of a pizza place. But what role did Hayley play there? Imdb: manager of pizza place.

#HayleySquires #AdultMaterial
imdb.com/name/nm4842197/?ref_=…

Hayley Squires - IMDb

Hayley Squires, Actress: I, Daniel Blake. Hayley Squires is an actress and playwright. She trained at Rose Bruford College and graduated in 2010. Known for Call The Midwife (2012), Southcliffe (2013), Complicit (2013), Blood Cells (2014).

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