Even the shadows are, just like a normal shadow

You might be right. I'm not a lurker. I'm not a heavy poster either though.

It sounds like you should just try it out, and find out if your assumptions are true

There still a few years until the apocalypse is really in full swing.

I mean, if you drank enough of it, I'm sure the cancer would stop growing.

I never saw a post from him on Facebook, I was wondering if he even posted..

Adobe? What do they do bad other than have shitty subscriptions?

It's weird that that doesn't sound ludicrous

This article from 2017 is worth a read for anyone trying to figure out whether/how to separate the art from the artist.

What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men? By Claire Dederer, Paris Review, November 20, 2017 https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/

I've thought this. Maybe I just ignored the Gaiman parts because they were boring, but I've read it a few times and I honestly can barely think of a part that reminds me of Gaiman's other writing...

Solid analysis.

One of my friends owned a synth module and the company owner turned out to be some kind of mysogynist racist asshat (or at best an edgelord indistinguishable from that). He wanted to get rid of it, so he put it up for sale for the market price, with a clear note on it that he'd be donating all of the money to some feminist charity. It sold, someone got the product while knowingly contributing to a good cause, and he got rid of it without it feeling like a waste.

Something like that could be an option?

This is true for me too. I liked a few of his books, and The Sandman, but I didn't love anything, not enough to recommend them to others. Except Good Omens, which has always been a favourite (but then, Pratchett IS one of my favourite authors.

Also the film Mirrormask and Coraline were great - his work seems better in film than in writing.

I think Mirrormask and Coraline were fairly original?

I dunno, I thought it was pretty fucked up first time around too.

I mentioned this above, I don't think I've ever noticed anything feminist (or even particularly progressive or political at all) in Gaiman's writing. But maybe there's things I missed... Do you know of any examples of him presenting something clearly feminist?

Edit: I see someone post an example below, it's not something I've read.

Pratchett had a deep sense of justice, and was driven by a righteous rage - as described (ironically) by Gaiman in the introduction to Pratchett's "A Slip of the Keyboard".

Pratchett also has multiple books with a primary focus on feminism (Equal Rights, Monstrous Regiment), and lots of his other books have feminist takes sprinkled through them.

I've read a bit of Gaiman (not as much as of Pratchett), and I don't think I remember reading anything explicitly feminist. He seems much more obsessed with fantastic mythology than anything with sociopolitical relevance.

Anyway, who knows how Pratchett would have reacted, but I kind of wish he WAS here to see it, because I suspect he would have said something really good about it...

With what expertise and training? Do we all have to wait until big_fat_fluffy has concluded his investigations before we can trust that any criminal activity has occurred?

Well, it's posted here as a link, so I guess it's not here via federation.

Also I think different fedi apps support different AP content types, so possible that Lemmy can't display it?

Sure, but I think that's far less important than in a walled garden situation..

I guess this is why a lot of people insist on the focus being on the fediverse, with mastodon as just one flagship. That means if the brand goes to shit the ecosystem can just keep operating.

I also joined around 2017, but I was using twitter beforehand. Totally agree with everything you've said.

I do think that mastodon could benefit from some simple, transparent/open algos (not black box ad-focused ones), such as the ability to sort replies based on favourites, and a per-hashtag recently popular view. Some of those are already requested and maybe on the cards.