Georgiana Brummell

dandylover1@friendica.world

(Please note. Due to screen reader accessibility problems on Friendica, I have mostly switched to Akkoma. I can now be found here, though I may occasionally still post to Friendica.

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Thank you for your understanding.)
Hello. Georgiana Brummell is not my legal name, but it is what I prefer to be called. I chose it in honour of Beau Brummell. I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, nature and historical documentaries, old BBC radio shows, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I am starting to learn about opera, with my main focus being singers from the 1940's and earlier, due to the change in singing style that began roughly in the 1950's. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a gay rights supporter. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. I am happily childfree and am not religious. My main goal in life is simply to enjoy it, and have fun learning new things along the way. I am also single and searching. If you are or know a genuine dandy, or at least, a single, childfree, intelligent, well-dressed man, preferably over sixty, please tell him about me.

Please note. I don't write about American politics, race, anticapitalism or world affairs (wars, poverty, oppression, etc.), and will not add those who do, as I don't want it filling my timelines. While I am interested in technology to an extent (particularly website accessibility), I am not a programmer or gamer, do not use Linux,and don't care what social network you use. I tend to get along better with people much older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, loneliness, etc. so if you need help with that, I'm not the one to ask. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, animals and nature, antiques, and interesting facts and life stories.

You can also find me on Dreamwidth. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.

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(Please note. Due to screen reader accessibility problems on Friendica, I have mostly switched to Akkoma. I can now be found here, though I may occasionally still post to Friendica.

blob.cat/dandylover1

You can also find me on Dreamwidth. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.

dreamwidth.org

Georgiana Brummell

5 months ago •

Georgiana Brummell
5 months ago •

*Note. I am referring to adding people who are on Friendica. I have managed to figure out how to add people who are on Mastodon, as the process is streight forward, though I am still seeking a directory of their groups, etc.*
How do I follow people or groups? I know there is a directory, and I have been reviewing it, but most of the listings no longer work or haven't been updated in awhile. I also had to sort by English. On my friendica.world page itself, it has a "Search" option. I can type, for example, "blindness". But there is no way to sort by posts, people, groups, etc. so I have to go through all sorts of post where people just mention blindness and then, maybe, find a group or interest among them. I then found this site.

tiotrom.com/2020/11/the-beginn…

"In the contacts settings, you can search people based on interests (keywords)."

I don't see this option. The only thing about contacts that I can find is "Manage Cont

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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • 5 months ago •

Sorry, I didn't see this one!

Adding someone from Friendica should be as straightforward as adding someone from Mastodon, as long as you have their address already. If you mean finding them through Friendica, I actually just used the directory you were speaking about and understand your issue now.

I will be honest and say that discoverability in the fediverse isn't the best. Since there is no algorithm, your feed is what you make of it, including the slow process of looking up hashtags like #blind and adding people that talk about it often, which opens up more connections so forth and so on.

I *do* know that the old Reddit moderators of r/blind did set up a Lemmy instance, which is part of the fediverse. If you search for the main community (rblind.com/c/main) in the top search bar for Friendica, you will be able to join the group and the discussions that pop up. It doesn't seem too active currently, but the more the merrier :)

#blind

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Georgiana Brummell

in reply to end0fline • 5 months ago •

Thank you so much! You have truly been wonderful and patient with me. I really appreciate it. I am accustomed to Facebook and Dreamwidth (extremely similar to Livejournal, if you've ever used that), where I can type in a keyword, hit search, and see things sorted according to type i.e. posts, people, groups/journals, etc. I thought that's what the keywords were for in my profile. That would be very similar to Dreamwidth, in which you add certain interests so that people can find you that way. Speaking of which, when I entered my keywords into my profile, I noticed that it didn't work well with phrases. for instance, cats, is fine. But classical music isn't. It takes the two words as being separate, even though the comma comes after music. I thought maybe I would need to add brackets or quotes, but upon reviewing the documentation, it doesn't seem that way. Anyway, I am going to join that group and see if I can search for a few other things, now that I know the method for doing so.

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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • 5 months ago •

You are very welcome! I do believe the tags you speak of work that way, and I know mastodon has them too, but at this point I don't know if that particular thing crosses over... The good news is that interoperability is increasing all the time!

Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any other questions. I might not know the answer, but will do my best to find it!

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Georgiana Brummell

in reply to end0fline • 5 months ago •

It seems that using the at sign @ is for names and groups, while the number sign # is for tags and content. You probably already knew that, but I'm not accustomed to searching for things in this manner. Still, that does appear to work. It says it in the prompt, but I didn't realise it until I had searched a few times.

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