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"Kiss the Rain" is a song by British singer-songwriter #BillieMyers, from her debut album, #GrowingPains (1997). Produced by #DesmondChild, the song was released on 23 September 1997 as the lead single from the album by #UniversalRecords. Myers co-wrote it with Child and #EricBazilian, and also recorded a #Spanish version titled "Besa la lluvia (Piensa en mí)" ("Kiss the Rain (Think of Me)"). The song charted at number four on the #UKSinglesChart.
youtube.com/watch?v=thDMwRyk7mE

YouTubeBillie Myers "Kiss the rain" (ingles/español)By Loco Semaro
Max Lee :blobcatverified:​

I often see people complaining about the fact that people don't want to switch from traditional centralized social media to Fedilerse platforms.

But I feel like in reality it actually looks a bit different:
I hear of lots of people ditching traditional social media for the Fediverse (and maybe Bluesky but thet's just the hip new kid on the block right now, people are already leaving that too)
But I don't ever hear from ones that ditch the Fediverse to go back once they are actually established here.

So the issue is clearly not growing adoption. The issue is how do we properly design the onboarding and how do we manage the growth to not run into too many pain points.

E.g. some growing pains that are already happening:

  • Overloaded, centralized Mastodon instances and no full migration to other instances (posts will not get transfered but those are important for artists and journalists)
  • Moderation of potentially really sick content being pushed on very few volunteers as well as no system to propagate moderation actions across instances (nor content warnings/fake news checks)
  • Behavior of instance owners and moderators reflecting badly on their users. There needs to be some standard to hold people in power responsible for and for established entities to be trusted to call out such behaviour. (Basically we need Fediverse-journalism)
  • Spam. Basically we need the same filtering services as for eMail unfortunately
  • Branding. Most people just know of Mastodon. It's nice to have some software that acts as a champion for the Fediverse and which even has a company behind it but similarly to how Chromium is now shaping the www Mastodon might end up doing the same for the Fediverse. We need more major instances running alternative software. (They could even just differ in frontend or backend, not the whole stack)
  • No good ways for artists to monetize their content and due to the nature of the Fediverse commisions based on reach just doesn't worh. And unfortunately we still mostly live in a capitalist society so money is a requirement to live so we need to find ways to better support artists which aren't just paywalls which discriminate against poor people or have ardists end up as hidden ads in the form of paid influencers.
#Fediverse#SocialWeb#SocialMedia
50+ Music

"Kiss the Rain" is a song by British singer-songwriter #BillieMyers, from her debut album, #GrowingPains (1997). Produced by #DesmondChild, the song was released on 23 September 1997 as the lead single from the album by #UniversalRecords. Myers co-wrote it with Child and #EricBazilian, and also recorded a #Spanish version titled "Besa la lluvia (Piensa en mí)" ("Kiss the Rain (Think of Me)"). The song charted at number four on the #UKSinglesChart.
youtube.com/watch?v=Kq-r4ZUpels

YouTubeBillie Myers - Kiss The Rain (Official Video)By BillieMyersVEVO
NeeAnah

Dear people who use Mastadon.
I have a few questions.
What makes you feel like you're properly "caught up" in society? (like you've caught up to everybody)
What makes you feel like you're an adult?
And how do you deal with feelings of inadequacy, when thinking about your adult life?

I ask this because I almost always feel like I'm never catching up. I have PTSD and I am in therapy. But I'm too hard on myself. I need to see that I'm not alone.
#MentalHeath #PTSD #growingpains

G.I. Robot :bc:

Has anyone noticed that the Mastodon iOS app has been incredibly slow in loading posts and replies and responding to interactions and stuff recently?

I’m chocking it up growing pains, but I’m wondering if it’s just the app or maybe it’s beige.party’s server or something?

On the web it’s fine. (Aside from having to reload the page for the notifications to reset to zero, which I believe is a code thing and not a server speed thing.)

#mastodon #growingpains #beigeparty
@theropologist

R. L. Dane :Debian:

@amin: something's up with pulling up profile data.
When I look at the profile of the excellent https://mastodon.radio/@k9ox (Inventor of the Wiki and lots of awesomeness) from our instance, it shows he has 1 toot, 0 followers, and 1 follow.
From theres.life, it shows 179, 155, and 818, respectively.

Another GtS bug? #GrowingPains :D

Mastodon.RadioWard Cunningham (@k9ox@mastodon.radio)308 Posts, 171 Following, 1.03K Followers · EE and CS from Purdue in the '70s. Operated Novice through Extra from W9YB. Career programmer. Objects, Patterns, Wiki. Always some radio and lots of experimenting.
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