Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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.
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- 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
cohost-adjacent, FOSS
The whole situation with cohost is IMO also an indictment of the broader FOSS community, which has clearly failed at effectively communicating to the general public *why* open systems matter (eg. possibility to correct governance issues), instead just presenting "well, it's open" as if that in and of itself is something people are expected to care about, without any understanding of how that materially improves their circumstances
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev What's the story with that instance anyway?
@maya I unfortunately can't seem to find it anymore, but it was pretty widely retweeted back during the big Musk Migration
nl pol, police violence
@Bosbesje@mastodon.nl Dat mogen ze zelf goegelen ;)
pol
@sofia@chaos.social @schratze To clarify: when I mention capitalism, it is because that is the current dominant ideology according to which society is structured almost everywhere. It's not so much a dichotomy as a comparison between "how things are now" and "how things could be", arguing that the latter is strictly better at dealing with this point.
I'm certainly open to other options than those two; in fact, I am *not* actually a communist myself.
As for 'structured discussion' - voice chat certainly wouldn't be that for me :) I find text to be far, far easier to maintain a structure in.
@schratze @owl @Flisk@cybre.space This section seems more useful: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE_Wallet#Unlock_KDE_Wallet_automatically_on_login
Not sure what the other section is for
@carcinopithecus @maya My experience (from an outsider perspective) is also that begposts get *more* reach here, not less, same as all other posts.
I think the original claim is based on the assumption that reach scales linearly with how 'universally connected' the social graph is, which just isn't true in practice.
why cohost is problematic (long) 
@max Right. This is actually one reason why I'm skeptical of activist projects that are incorporated in the US in general - "non-profit" generally means a lot more in other countries, including some sort of legal obligation to act in line with the defined mission statement and/or public interest. That's really the bare minimum protection-from-corruption you'd need when incorporating into a hierarchical form.
(When I say "non-profit", that is also what I am referring to, not to the typical US incorporation forms or tax status)
@f0x must post more
@maya I'm assuming that this is referring to eg. the Twitter thread about "Mastodon is bad, actually, because some people are dependent for their income on begposts or commission posts and those can't get enough reach on Mastodon" (which I still heavily question whether it's actually true)
@schratze Yeah it's basically just an integration problem, kwallet having no way to wire into the OS auth system and verify that you're supposed to be able to access it that way
nl pol, police violence
Update: State of emergency declared in Apeldoorn, as farmers have put out a call on social media to storm the police station and jailbreak arrested farmers (yes, the cops did eventually arrest *some* people!)
why cohost is problematic (long)
@apisashla Actually yes, we *should* be doing everything that's reasonably possible to prevent co-optable power structures.
why cohost is problematic (long)
@apisashla Considering that they are constructing a closed silo under centralized control using leftist/activist language while not actually implementing the corresponding ideology: yes, I do in fact think it is necessary to call this out early, *before* it can do harm.
You'll notice that nowhere in my original post did I accuse them of malice. That was deliberate. I can believe that this is naivete. But *that does not make it any less harmful*, and harm needs to be called out. Not just left to fester until it's too late.
- 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
