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A story my Dad told me during the single digit years of childhood...

He read in the newspaper about a man who lived in Las Vegas who made his livelihood via gambling every day.

He set down rules for himself, had the self-discipline to never change those rules.

The man would visit the Casino every day, and begin with a budget of $20.00.

Maximum.

Whenever he lost that initial $20.00, then that was it for the day.

He left the casino and enjoyed the rest of his day.

Other times, his initial "Seed Money" of $20.00, via subsequent betting, would grow.

Whenever that Total Daily Winnings reached a certain dollar amount, I can't recall whatever that amount was, this man would cash out and leave the Casino.

No matter how much of a "roll" he was on, or sudden big bet winnings, once he reached his daily target number, or surpassed it, he quit for the day.

He wasn't greedy, nor needy.

He treated this behaviour like a regular Day Job one would go to, work at, then leave and go home.

The man had a house, wife, kid, a regular life, in Las Vegas.

What does this have to do #littleFedi cf. Mastodon?

My first year or so being on my original Mastodon Instance, I didn't realize how many hours I was spending there everyday, I often lost track of that time.

I consider that an "anti-pattern" I wish to avoid.

I wasn't spending "money" as one does at a Casino, I was spending time.

The direction of LittleFedi provides for what I consider "patterns" which I wish to enjoin in.

Accessing the Fediverse via this LittlefFedi approach does not feel like a Casino.

And with that, I going outside to enjoy this Sunny September Saturday around Toronto.

A small development update from the last two days:

• We added a couple of quality-of-life options for the web interface. You can now choose whether your timeline and notifications refresh automatically as new activity arrives. The preference is saved in your browser, so it remains in place between visits.

• There is also a new option to choose your default landing page. If Catch-up is enabled on the instance, you can make it the page you see when opening littleOne, rather than always starting from the home timeline.

• We also revised relationship notifications. Notifications for unfollows, blocks, unblocks, and rejected follow requests are now disabled by default. They can still be enabled individually from Settings → Notifications for people who want them.

• Instance administrators can additionally disable those notifications for everyone through the configuration file:

  [instance]
  block_sensitive_relationship_notifications = true
  

When this option is enabled, the personal setting is hidden and individual opt-ins are overridden. Existing notifications and saved preferences are left untouched.

• Alongside these changes, we merged a few branches and reviewed several incoming requests.

Thanks to everyone who contributed feedback and testing!

#littleOne #littleFedi