A minor update was deployed to the playground, including a few fixes for things all have reported (thanks again!).There's also a new setting available in user preferences (see screenshot). #bonfire_feedback

I've always kept it mind what Dave Winer (creator of RSS) advised: to publish in a place under your control (basically hosted on your own domain name) with that always being the canonical home for your stuff, and then syndicating wherever you want (linking back to the source). I think the same can apply for community and discussions. Why not use the closed platforms like one would dump leaflets out of an airplane over an authoritarian territory?

Does the <Boost> button work? I wanted to boost this post, but received no indication on clicking the button (a couple of times) that it had been boosted. In Mastodon this visual confirmation is pretty weak - just a bit of 'bolding'. But here it's not even clear that anything at all has happened?

People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

- bell hooks, Rock My Soul 

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

- bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

- bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center