Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
@goat@hellsite.site Honestly I have no idea yet, I'm kinda just waiting to see how the whole pandemic thing plays out before I decide where to go
I've actually been here for a while already, though mostly inactive! The Birdsite Situation prompted me to pop in here again. And I'm terrible at writing introductions, so I usually just say "I do stuff on the internet".
But uh, I do all sorts of activist-y stuff, work on radical FOSS (see http://cryto.net/~joepie91/manifesto.html), write (educational) stuff, am more or less a lonely polyamorous gender blob of indeterminate sexuality who likes both cuddles and kinky things, and I always have 10 times as many projects as I have time for, as is customary with ADHD brain :) Sometimes I even finish some of them!
While I'm an introvert and need plenty of time to myself, I *am* happy to meet like-minded people and spend time with them, and as long as you're not a bigot or apologist, you should feel free to interact with me and/or follow me!
Also, I live in Rosmalen (near Den Bosch) in the Netherlands, and honestly would like to get to know more local folks, and I also have some vague intention to start a queer hackerspace around here if I can find enough interested people. Eventually!
@f0x Hmm. What would be the reason to suspend rather than silence, then?
@charlotte "Actually, I'm not sure where I registered. Mastodon is so popular right now that it can't support all the potential users on one platform, so there are dozens of them, all interconnected."
I... what? That's not how any of that works!
@uint8_t@chaos.social It's kind of baffling to me, honestly, the whole argument structure.
"I'm an anarchist, but some things just don't work in a decentralized manner, and this is one of them"
I mean, if you fundamentally believe that a *blogging* network of all things can't ever work decentrally in any form, how on earth do you see an entire *society* working decentrally?! That's some wild inconsistency in belief...
(I do think that anarchism can work, to be clear, I just really don't understand the weird exceptionalism here)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Ik ben @joepie91:pixie.town op Matrix :)
Voor iedereen die nieuw is op Mastodon, kijk ook eens naar Matrix - net zoiets als Mastodon, maar dan voor chat, als alternatief voor bijvoorbeeld WhatsApp en Telegram.
https://joinmatrix.org/ legt uit hoe je het gebruikt!
I kinda wonder why Mastodon doesn't let you 'override' an instance block on a per-user level with explicit communication? So they still wouldn't appear in the federated timeline, but at least you can follow/message them directly. Seems like an obvious mitigation to the "instance admin wars" problem...
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I've had lots of thoughts lately about bounded versus unbounded systems.
A book is bounded; the global library system is unbounded. A CD is bounded; Spotify is unbounded. The world is effectively unbounded, and networked computer systems tend to be unbounded too.
Many things are bigger than a human can experience, or changing faster than a human can keep up with. Many curious explorers and tinkerers are drawn to these unbounded things because they are vast, unknowable, and therefore exciting.
But what finite, bounded things are worth exploring and tinkering with?
@lyncia Yeah they used to be pretty much standard AFAIK, nowadays most seem to have a cheap screw-clamp system, not sure how universal those are
@lyncia There are front baskets with amorphously shaped (usually rubber-coated) hooks that *should* fit onto pretty much any handlebars
@Mirteaaa Not sure yet whether I consider that a good thing or a bad thing... it *does* cut down on brigading (and some other questionable reply patterns) a lot, I think.
@brennen One workaround is to search on matrix.org only - which has a pretty extensive room directory. At the top right should be a dropdown where you can specify a different homeserver to search on!
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About the only tip I have for people landing here post-birdsite is the habit of defensively misspelling/obfuscating terms is not just unnecessary here but harmful.
Search is harder to do due to the federated nature, being a search-botting reply-guy is harder to do. However a lot of people can and do mute hot-button words for their own health.
If you think you need to obfuscate to prevent discovery there's probably a better privacy tool to deploy.
Search is harder to do due to the federated nature, being a search-botting reply-guy is harder to do. However a lot of people can and do mute hot-button words for their own health.
If you think you need to obfuscate to prevent discovery there's probably a better privacy tool to deploy.
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Assorted recs for new accounts:
@plants — plants from the gardens of various fedifriends! (and other topics: https://a.gup.pe/ )
@glitchbot — a bot that glitches photos you give it
The hashtags #cats and #florespondence
@quasihaiku and @poem_exe — haiku bots (quasi avoids latin’s fifth glyph)
@alt_text — reminds you if you’ve forgotten to describe your images
Accounts by topic from the trunk: https://communitywiki.org/trunk
@brennen Ah, right. Load times *should* be pretty fast nowadays unless you're in a lot of rooms (that's still being worked on, requires protocol changes), and I've not seen the 'forget rooms' bug for a long time.
The joining bugs are definitely still there though, especially the ones where it says a "join failed" and then magically succeeds at joining in the background a couple of minutes later... I *believe* there's also work ongoing on that, but I don't know the current status of that.
On the room searching, where did you search for it? By default, the room directory is a per-homeserver thing, not a single global list of everything.
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by way of #introduction hi i'm andie sophia. i'm news editor at the reykjavík grapevine. i'm a nonbinary trans woman, a communist, and i will never not favorite pics of possums, cats or ravens. my presence here will be a mix of trans stuff, politics, and humor. happy to follow back likeminded folks. hope the days are kind to you all!
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#introduction for those who don’t know me: i’m a cool as hell dutch gay nerd who loves programming (NEVER finishing anything i start on ever), typography and mario kart
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
