Sometimes, with all of this going on today, I am reminded of the argument, or at least the disagreement, between Noel Coward and Ivor Novello, who otherwise were very good friends. Coward, who served as a spy during World War II, accused Novello of not doing enough and of trying to live life as normal. This was quite unfair, as he performed during the war years, taking The Dancing years around the UK, sometimes to bombed out theatres, just to bring the people a bit of joy and hope. Not everyone is meant to risk his life in the way that Coward did, be it openly as a spy or more covertly, or even by protesting, etc. In my case, however, he would be right. I do stay away from things. But I am also a follower of dandyism, particularly in its Brummellian form. It is true that Beau Brummell lived in luxury for a time, knew the highest members of society, including the Prince of Wales, and had a mass following. But the rest of his life was sheer hell, from poverty to syphilis. Yet even as he, and everything around him, was falling apart, he never lost who he was. He never willingly stopped living to the best of his ability, seeking the finer things in life, etc. As long as his mentality held, and even once after it was gone, he remained steadfast in his love of good things. I am the same way. I refuse to give up my life style, to be negative all the time (I do not suffer from depression as he did), to bring drama into my life, etc. I want to take it for all it's worth and enjoy it! If, and only if, I am forced to change, or to move, etc. I will do so. But the world, in itself, is not my concern. My concern is myself, my loved ones, and those about whom I care deeply. That's it. I may follow the physical and vocal exercises of Clara Novello Davies, but I don't follow her life's philosophy. I can say, however, that if the world did, it would be a truly beautiful and wonderful place to live. I'm just a bit more realistic than that.
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in reply to anubis2814 • •@anubis2814 I actually wrote about it on my timeline. It turned into quite the discussion. I can't even read my original posts on the site, only the comments, as is true much of the time. Fortunately, I save it before I wrote it.
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Here is a shortened version. Again, the full explanation should be above.
There is a list of links at the top of the page that acts like a menu. This causes many problems while trying to perform basic tasks. I can't always activate said links/menu either. Editing posts is terrible and sometimes takes up to ten minutes. Likewise, activating notifications is very difficult, and makes the process of following people from said notifications tedius.
Posting to the site requires going through a menu and/or clicking on a link. There is no edit box on the main page. But there is one for searching, an
... Show more...@anubis2814 I actually wrote about it on my timeline. It turned into quite the discussion. I can't even read my original posts on the site, only the comments, as is true much of the time. Fortunately, I save it before I wrote it.
friendica.world/display/84b6ef…
Here is a shortened version. Again, the full explanation should be above.
There is a list of links at the top of the page that acts like a menu. This causes many problems while trying to perform basic tasks. I can't always activate said links/menu either. Editing posts is terrible and sometimes takes up to ten minutes. Likewise, activating notifications is very difficult, and makes the process of following people from said notifications tedius.
Posting to the site requires going through a menu and/or clicking on a link. There is no edit box on the main page. But there is one for searching, and often a box for commenting on one post or another.
I can't always read my posts (see example here).
There are a few other problems mentioned, but these are the main ones. I usually access the site with TweeseCake, but not everything is implemented in that client, so I am required to use the main site for several actions.
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Unknown parent • •@meneer Thank you for your suggestion. Is this a regular instance that I can join? It seems to be its own network and mostly written for developers. Is it compliant with Activity Pub and/or Mastodon? This made me a bit nervous.
"Note however that Socialhome is a very small project with only two developers working on it. There are absolutely no guarantees of anything working (although things probably mostly might), and there is absolutely no user support (but you're welcome to ask questions in the chat room - just don't have expectations)."
As someone who is totally blind and uses a screen reader, I may need support. I am not a developer or coder of any kind. I just want to join something that will work for me.
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