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
@ridt@infosec.exchange Hey, just a heads-up: please try to add captions to your images, so that they're also accessible to the many blind and visually-impaired users on here.
For pictures a few words is usually enough, and for text posts like this, you can click the OCR button in the 'edit image' window while writing your toot, and it'll automatically extract the text.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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ok ok, another thing.
"Where are my quote tweets/toots?"
They don't exist here. They're very often used to harass, dogpile, and otherwise cause a bad time for folk. If you want to engage with a toot, reply! If you want others to see it, boost it!
Trust me, it's very freeing to know you can post your personal update without being concerned some arsecandle is going to QT it saying "haha look at this"
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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meta; capitalism (add.)
Also, just because I remember a post that was like “but no brands means no indie artists!”
Obviously, indie artists are okay. Y’all are amazing. Art is inherently anti-capitalist, and even if you do commissions, it is a much more wholesome and worthwhile endeavor than any modern for-profit company or brand.
When I say “brand”, I mean Starbucks. I mean McDonald’s. I mean those types of brands. Those brands can burn to the fucking ground.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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meta; capitalism
Seeing mainstream business media start talking about Mastodon is making me feel like we’re at a tipping point.
Do not let brands and companies into Mastodon except non-profits or indie focused companies like itch.io. If you find one, block them immediately. Do not engage. Alternatively… engage with the most messed up shit ever like furries have been doing for ages.
Make the Fediverse absolutely un-marketable. We cannot let our space be exploited by capitalism.
fediverse, beginner's guide
@masukomi It's a tricky one. My hope in linking to joinmastodon (with its categories) is that it'll get people close enough to a community they care about, without spending much energy on picking a precise instance - and that they'll "graduate" to a more exact choice later on.
I honestly just don't know whether that'll work, but I've seen *a lot* of people bounce off on analysis paralysis, so provisionally I'm ranking "easy choice" slightly higher in importance than "accurate choice"...
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Project time! I wanted to learn a new tool/technique so i’m building a very basic vacuform thing. First up some lasercut work: (thread)
DIY instance running meta
@tillianisafox Honestly, a big part of the operational costs for major tech companies has absolutely nothing to do with the service they're supposedly providing - it goes to absurdly complex marketing and analytics systems, that just straight-up aren't necessary if you're not a corporation.
And from the remaining costs, many costs are labour costs (that volunteer-run stuff doesn't really have), not hosting costs; hosting stuff on modern hardware is actually pretty cheap, and as long as the software is moderately efficient, you don't need a lot of hardware at all!
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Every other space on the internet is constantly filled with fury at the outrage of the day
The Scholar Social Local Timeline is not the place for that; current events are explicitly "off topic" for the Local Timeline
This is so that we all have just one (1) place online that isn't just for doomscrolling
So right now, that means that if you want to talk about the US elections and you're on Scholar, use Unlisted privacy setting, or at least a CW
re: fediverse, beginner's guide
@polyfloyd Yep, understandable - with the massive sudden influx of new people, it's proving quite difficult for the existing community to 'onboard' people culturally speaking...
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Happy four seasons total landscaping day to those that celebrate
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Your reminder that the fediverse does not tolerate transphobes, terves and other gender-critical nonsense.
Trans lives matter, trans people are welcome here, and trans people built this place. If you don’t agree, you do not belong here.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Het heeft me een paar dagen gekost om tot dit inzicht te komen: dat sommige mensen mastodon stom vinden en daarom wegblijven, is een feature, niet een bug.
@whreq Yep, dat is mij de laatste dagen ook steeds duidelijker geworden.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Encountering harassment #FediTips
Unfortunately, it happens here too.
Use the tools and let your #admin help protect you.
• You can Mute, Block, Report a user from their profile page.
• You can also block their domain. If it's not one of the big servers, you should probably go ahead and use defederation as defense and shut it down.
• When you Report a user you'll be asked to choose which of the server rules were violated.
• Admins will be notified and should take action.
• Find a safe instance.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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@ralf Absolutely not. They can be here as human beings who interact with the community in good faith on the existing community's terms, or not at all.
We absolutely do not in any way, shape or form need journalists to "legitimize" the fediverse. We're doing quite well over here with our weird little gay radical corner of the internet, thank you very much.
This is a space for people, not for Brands. Brands are not welcome here.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I just shared a Mastodon toot to a different IM service and my muscle memory "helped" me to remove the tracking parameter that was actually the toot ID 😂
meta
@vyr (combined with the old static post view being removed or something)
meta
@vyr I vaguely recall this being a bug that people were talking about, with AUTHORIZED_FETCH breaking *all* API responses
- 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
