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
How has nobody in the TV piracy scene figured out how to deal with Doctor Who specials numbering yet? It feels so broken in literally every piece of TV show management software I've used
How UX apathy leads to corporate capture
Since there have been a number of comments that boil down to "but people should be willing to learn stuff", this thread (not by me) is a pretty good explanation of the difference that I see between "improving UX" and "catering to one's every need", and where the boundary lies: https://eldritch.cafe/@AgathaSorceress/109296512790347301
How UX apathy leads to corporate capture
@lethargilistic@kolektiva.social "Capture" here refers to the capture of an *ecosystem*, not of individual users, it's a collective issue. And there's a huge difference between "being willing to try something new" and "being willing to put up with unnecessarily obtuse systems because nerds only build for themselves". I expect the former from people but absolutely not the latter, it has to come from both sides.
(And obviously actively harmful UI design choices are excluded from this. I'm talking about "UX" in the original sense, ie. improving the overall experience of the end user, and that includes not causing them harm.)
@pingiun Right, I think I'm on exactly the right size instance for it to be useful - there's a bunch of users on here, but not *massive* amounts, and this instance is pretty loose on the trigger for instance blocks. So I get a new toot on the federated timeline probably... every few seconds? Which is manageable, and it's often in some way relevant or interesting.
@pingiun You mean the federated timeline? Because at least that's not outrage-ranked (though probably still a firehose on most instances)
@pingiun Plus extremely toxic social dynamics; because outrage 'sells' in an algorithmic environment.
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FediTip Roundup
• Add Alt Text to images
• Following folks? Fill out your profile and make an introduction post!
• Use hashtags!
• Use Content warnings for long posts and sensitive topics
• Read your instance rules
• Don’t feed Mastodon after midnight
• Use Report to help your admins keep your instance Good!
• Don’t get Mastodon wet
• Have a nice and relaxing time
#fediTips
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One thing that was super common on Mastodon / Fediverse prior to this mass migration was adding image descriptions to help be accessible to our many blind and partially sighted users here. Many people won't boost posts without them.
Please consider adding alt text to your images when you can. 
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discoverability is a false god, niche interests only, no celebrities in the new world, thanks
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How do y'all get anything to ever run under WINE? Like seriously, the only thing I've ever successfully ran under WINE is Netscape Navigator 5, and I see y'all talking about gaming on Linux????
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I wrote a small script to open/close registrations on #Mastodon servers based on user count so that smaller servers can better cope with the current load.
You can find that script on @Codeberg :
https://codeberg.org/Windfluechter/check_mastodon.sh
You'll need to make some changes to the script (editing the limits) and most likely also want to use https://codeberg.org/Windfluechter/cleanup-mastodon-users.sh to automatically remove inactive accounts on your site to reduce the user count again
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Did you know that the first scientist to show that changes in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could affect the Earth’s temperature was a woman?
In 1856!
Eunice Foote broke scientific ground that remains more relevant than ever but history overlooked her.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/pt.6.4.20210823a/full/
Keep in mind that almost all of the fediverse (including almost all Mastodon instances) is run by volunteers!
You should adjust your expectations accordingly - nobody is trying to sell you anything here, but that also means that you cannot make the sort of demands that you might make of a corporation.
And don't forget to send a donation to your instance admin!
@SkyFox Why not just install it from unstable, though? That's basically "master, but once the centralized builds are done".
@aphyr I'm sure that some people have some incompatible expectations at times, but that's really nothing different from any interpersonal disagreements in any community - and I've absolutely been in IRL spaces that were culturally not far removed from what I see here on fedi.
I certainly don't see "actively bring in more of the culture that consistently and sometimes violently suppresses atypical identities" as the solution to that; if anything, I would expect it to make it *worse*, because it does not tolerate weirdness.
And it's very odd to me to call eye-contact CWs a "hyper-conservative" thing - it's the exact opposite, it's about being mindful of other people's comforts and not just your own. That is not what conservatism does.
If there's a disagreement over community rules, fine. Discuss it, figure it out, resolve the conflict into something that everybody involved can live with. But don't blame it on the weirdness. Baby, bathwater, etc.
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Hugops to every single mastodon instance sysop out there.
@aphyr @technomancy I really don't see how that's a "weird mix" at all. The difference is that this place much more strongly centers around queer, neurodiverse, disabled etc. folks than Twitter does - and that's where that culture comes from. I don't see any reason why that would need to be "balanced out" (ie. demarginalized).
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one thing I think that might be lost on newcomers is the fact that this past week has been BANANAS for everyone who's been on the site for years, and if you feel like people are being snippy or pushy about social norms, that's probably why.
on a normal week when people talk about "hey please CW that" or "please don't spam your tweets here with a crossposter" or whatever they're more likely to do so patiently and explain the reasoning behind why we do things that way but on a day like today things are more likely to get a little snippy or terse.
don't take it personally! the old timers are trying to maintain social norms in the face of a flood of change, and they're worn out. keep that in mind if you think to yourself "hm; this place doesn't seem that friendly". give it some time to get back to normal before you bounce.
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New Fediverse new user onboarding instance picker and map interface just dropped!
- 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
