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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 09/10/2025

Okay yeah I used my custom handle like you said. The behaviour is the same, I get a "Token could not be verified" error while doing "Migrating your repo". Seems like it stalls on importRepo for a while too, so maybe I'll try again later.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 09/10/2025

Yeah filly.social should be the destination PDS. I tried poking around with breakpoints on the importRepo call (this time with all checkboxes execpt create new account). Not sure what I should be seeing, I see there's a pdsUrl and serviceUrl. Feels like pdsUrl shouldn't be bsky.network?

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 09/10/2025

Yeah I used PDSMoover to create the account last night, but the migration failed for whatever reason (don't remember the error). So this time I unchecked the create new account option to finish migrating, but ran into token could not be verified error. Took a closer look and I think somethings up?

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 09/10/2025

PDSMoover is calling checkAccountStatus and importRepo on Bluesky's puffball PDS, which is what I'm trying to leave. But the migration guide raw.githubusercontent.com/bluesky-soci... shows those calls being made to the new destination PDS (filly.social in this case). Am I misunderstanding something.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 10/04/2025

But only if the user selects the option to log in with a custom hosting provider right? I actually kinda think it makes sense for bsky.app to keep the password field in their default login interface, since Bluesky has "1st party" PDS hosting/sign-up, unlike every other AppView right now.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 06/04/2025

My submission for e621's Anonymous Fursona Verification (2025 April Fool's). Very topical gag to malign the various online user verification rules being enacted around the world. But honestly I still I can't help but think that some form of user screening should be more common than it is right now.

Screenshot of an online form.
Title: ID Check
"To comply with updated verification guidelines, we now require digital representation of your fursona. This ensures that all visitors meet community standards and engage responsibly.

Please use the space below to draw your fursona. Submissions will be reviewed automatically by FurID(tm), our trusted third-party verification system. Your submission is used solely for verification and will not be shared."

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 24/11/2024

For the AppView-instances-as-containment-zones concept, I'm optimistic that Relay-level repo takedowns are unlikely. But if worse comes to worst, running my own Relay that only crawls the subset of PDSs that participate in a given containment zone ought to be reasonably trivial.

A network architecture diagram. Generic Personal Data Servers are at the top, some of which are owned by Bluesky (denoted by blue color), others are used by "sickos" (denoted by purple and black). PDS contains various types of data (denoted by colored blocks), but only the "sicko" PDSs contain purple data. Each PDS then emits this data (denoted by colored arrows) which flows into a Bluesky Relay. Each colored arrow coalesces into a single arrow and flows out of the Relay directly and into a matching-colored AppView below. Blue arrow points to bsky AppView, purple arrow points to pspace AppView. At the bottom, users are grouped by "normies" and "sickos", but each user is shown to be freely accessing each AppView.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 18/11/2024

Approved sign-ups are up 300% this month for baraag, although it has little to do with the social media upheavals lately. I'm actually just experimenting with a new semi-automated approval process for new accounts, since Mastodon's tooling for onboarding new users is stagnant and underdeveloped.

Screenshot of the Mastodon admin dashboard, showing a charts of new users and active users in the period between October 20th and November 18th 2024. New users are up 319% (1250) and active users are up 5% (45253).

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 08/11/2024

I managed to get a modified Bluesky AppView dev environment running. I changed the namespace of the lexicon from app.bsky to app.purplespace, and it hasn't complained, but I don't know how to test it further. I'm finding it a bit more challenging to change the namespace of the code for the web app

Screenshot of the terminal output of Bluesky's AppView development environment:

[+] Running 3/3
✔ Network dev-infra_default Created 0.2s
✔ Container dev-infra-redis_test-1 Healthy 1.6s
✔ Container dev-infra-db_test-1 Healthy 6.6s

██████╗
██╔═══██╗
██║██╗██║
██║██║██║
╚█║████╔╝
╚╝╚═══╝ protocol

[ created by Bluesky ]
🔍 Dev-env introspection server started http://localhost:2581
👤 DID Placeholder server started http://localhost:2582
🌞 Personal Data server started http://localhost:2583
🗼 Ozone server started http://localhost:2587
🗼 Ozone service DID did:plc:gljsvwaij4ppgobj5clh7urh
🌅 Bsky Appview started http://localhost:2584
🤖 Feed Generator started http://localhost:45431
🤖 Feed Generator started http://localhost:45923

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 29/10/2024

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omis... If I can get one of these crowdfunded for my own personal use, I'll re-do the art with an "age-appropriate" Alice pin-up 🚸

Side backbox art with an aged-up Alice pin-up

Side cabinet art with pin-up style Alice and Queen of Hearts

Dutch Pinball's Alice in Wonderland Pinball playfield

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 18/10/2024

If a user is courteous about applying the content warning label correctly, it will say labelled by author instead, like this

Screenshot of 2 Adult Contnet posts on Bluesky by different authors, one marked as being labeled by author, the other marked as being labelled by Bluesky moderation

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 18/10/2024

Yeah there's a few users who have been posting to Bluesky for months and so they should know better than to publish unlabelled NSFW. You can tell a user is not using the content warning button themself when their post says it was labelled by @moderation.bsky.app

Screenshot of the button to add content warning to your post

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 18/10/2024

They do mention the setting on an official account. I think a bigger problem are the users who are consistently not labeling their own posts as NSFW. If people here can't get behind this basic courtesy feature, then I don't see why Bluesky should be doing more to accommodate the NSFW use case.

Screenshot of the content warning button

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 17/10/2024

I bought a second-hand ACK-40401 Wacom Wireless Accessory Kit for 10 USD. It was manufactured in 2015, so I expected the battery to be totally dead. However, after letting it charge for a few hours, I'm happy to report that this thing still holds power! It also "Just Works" on Fedora Linux.

Product photo of the ACK-40401 Wacom Wireless Accessory Kit

Photo of a Wacom tablet battery hatch occupied by ACK-40401 battery pack manufactured in 2015

Screenshot of the GNOME power management panel showing a connected Wacom intuos S with 90% battery level.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 21/09/2024

DLpay was supposed to be a workaround for insulating the payment processors from having to facilitate objectionable hentai purchases, but they are so fussy that they suspended this indirect purchase system too. I am running out of economical options for supporting my favorite authors on DLsite.

Screenshot of the DLpay.com homepage that reads the following:

DLpay.com is temporarily unavailable.

As of September 12, 2024, this service is temporarily unavailable.

Please visit "My Page" on DLsite to see other ways you can purchase points.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 19/09/2024

This paper is citing some really weird monthly visitor numbers on fediverse servers. Either mastodon's is underestimated or baraag's is vastly overestimated. The content policy of baraag is being accurately reported here at least. So the author got one thing right.

Excerpt from a paper:

"Website traffic data collected and provided by SimilarWeb also indicates that Threads and gab.com – a for-profit alt-right social media platform Than (2023) developed from a fork of Mastodon – had a higher average number of monthly visits between March and May 2024 compared to mastodon.social. Table 1 presents a comparison of their traffic alongside that of baraag.net, a Mastodon instance known for allowing cartoon child pornography.

"Table 1. Average traffic to selected instances connected to the Fediverse (March to May 2024)."

Domain
Avg. monthly visits (millions)
threads.net
303.4
gab.com
5.0
baraag.net
2.9
mastodon.social
2.6

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 17/09/2024

When this site still had a waitlist, I was easily in the first few % who signed up to it. They never got back to me. This is fine.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 05/09/2024

The fediverse's "undesirable hentai artist" bubble persists to this day with Baraag and Pawoo (and Misskey) being the single most active Mastodon servers, behind only the flagship server itself. Baraag would be larger if strict rules for signing up weren't implemented to limit growth.

Screenshot of the Fediverse Observer server table on https://fediverse.observer/list showing the most active Mastodon servers by Monthly Active Users.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 15/08/2024

More new gear: I got a wax heater as a gift from my crazy friend. It is for relieving the pain/stiffness in my hand. It's the largest package I have received over international postage. Thankfully, it arrived in one piece and makes my hand feel normal again temporarily 🖐️🌝

The warm wax forms a solid layer over the hand, and then a disposable glove is worn to keep things tidy.

Thermal mitt are provided to contain the heat of the wax. My hands are small so I have to clip the mitts to keeps them on my hand.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 14/08/2024

Besides the Bluetooth issue, which is Linux-specific, the 8bitdo SN30 Pro is actually really good. My only issue is that when it is awoken from sleep, the joystick directions are slightly off calibration, and need to be swirled a few times to fully calibrate 100%. Grips are 3D printed (see ALT).

Fully assembled grips attachment for an 8bitdo SN30 Pro controller, printed in grey ABS plastic.

https://www.printables.com/model/142144-8bitdo-grip-splitted

Grips attachment but disassembled. The SN30 Pro controller resembles a SNES controller which doesn't have grips.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 04/08/2024

Honestly kind of shocked that there are apparently studios and professional artists that use GNOME for their workstations. I use GNOME all the time but its Wayland shenanigans give me so much trouble sometimes as a Wacom tablet user. They must still be using the old X11 GNOME session.

Jason Gerecke (1 month ago)

I've spoke with @Pinglinux and @Joshua-Dickens and Wacom strongly requests a timeline that delays this to sometime after GNOME 47. We'd like to sync up with the studios to understand how this would impact their artists and IT departments, which will take a bit of time. Some of us will also be unavailable for sizeable portions of the next few weeks which is going to impact our ability to consider this in time for a GNOME 47 target.

We're open to the idea of a "pro" control panel, but I don't know if we're as broadly open to the idea of removing all settings from GNOME Control Center. I can understand the technical arguments for not duplicating settings / code, but at this point in time there's also a long-standing expectation from tablet users that GNOME will provide basic configuration options for their devices out of the box.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 18/06/2024

And I like how you can give them icons. Opportunities for profile personalization is hard to come by in a lot of social media apps these days. Even Mastodon is kind of sterile. I grew up in the deviantArt and Tumblr days and miss those times, so the littlest morsel of customization is nice to have.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 28/05/2024

This pen holder turned out not to be a good idea, which I kind of expected, but I love the feeling of turning my FreeCAD designs into tangible objects, it's kind of intoxicating 🧊🖨️ I wish I knew how to design 3D printed latching and fastening mechanisms so I didn't have to rely on nuts and bolts.

Oblique tablet pen holder design in FreeCAD. An assembly of 2 separate 3D printed parts using Assembly 4 workbench. The pen half is parametric using the Spreadsheet workbench.

Physical 3D printed oblique pen holder printed using white PLA. Handle is a metal scraper handle and pen is a Wacom Bamboo pen. It might be too heavy.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 13/05/2024

day 355 no BattleBots, is it robover? (old sketches) #🎨

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 11/05/2024

New Twitter account (don't ask), how do I turn these off? I know it's possible because my older other Twitter account doesn't get them.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 09/05/2024

Thank you! Someday I'd like to learn Blender properly and make cool models with it for my printer also. FreeCAD is great for functional 3D prints, but I'm artist not an engineer. A while ago I was trying to use Blender here to model an ornamental phone case design ... didn't really turn out well ..

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 17/03/2024

Interesting how @moderation.bsky.app has an official label that's specifically for "cartoon" sexual content. It's a helpful distinction but I haven't seen it being used on anything, is this new?

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 04/01/2024

So, sketches of little cherub girls are a bit too spicy. Very gracious of them for not totally nuking my account over it though.

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💜 Wysteria 🪷🪷🪷 @wysteriary.art · 03/01/2024

my pages for an unreleased fanzine #🎨

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