@volpeon

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Wyvern-shaped software developer and hobby vector artist. Also sometimes a fluffy werewolf alien creature (Areon) or a bird (Corveon).

Creator of the neofoxes, neocats and other emojis.

Website https://volpeon.ink/

Speaking German, English

Age 30s

Pronouns he / him

Backup Account @volpeon@goto.wyvern.rip

Bonus Content @areon@icy.wyvern.rip

Volpeon

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@igwigg It's a claim popping up all the time that places like Twitter, Bluesky or fedi are somehow digital town squares where a healthy exchange of ideas takes place.
Elon popularized this idea and that alone makes me not like it. Twitter under Elon stands for anything, but not a "healthy exchange of ideas."

Volpeon

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I'm really not a fan of the "town square" analogy that has infected microblogging

Volpeon

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@Erpel The goal of the wvrn emojis is to have vastly different expressions. Making an exception just would open the door to more exceptions

Volpeon

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@Erpel I didn't find a design that's all that different from

Volpeon

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Randomly remembering starting with my job and my boss asking me how I'm doing with my tasks. He said something like "it's good to be under some pressure at all times."

But all these years since then have only shown me that I may get my tasks done, maybe explore some things, but I never have enough time to do things properly. Everything feels like a hack I will have to fix later. How is this a desirable state?

Volpeon

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The choices are italic

or

H Y P E R I T A L I C

Volpeon

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Whatever condition caused Zen Browser to render text in FreshRSS as italic has now reached Firefox Beta, too