Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
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meta about organisations on the fedi
If you're an organisation that wants to participate on the fediverse, you really need to be running your own Mastodon instance.
Most of the Mastodon infrastructure right now is being run by individuals or small groups, for the community.
Trying to put your "official account" on community infrastructure is extremely rude.
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fedi is queer as fuck. let’s prove it
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I’m already seeing devopsy type tech dudes posting about how to ‘scale mastodon’ and it’s depressing to say the least
politics
@TinaThePerson I feel like that's kind of missing the forest for the trees, though. While the value of a vote isn't zero, it's still relatively inconsequential in the bigger picture, and a lot more good can be achieved by organizing things ourselves collectively, also outside of the fediverse. Aren't the experiences that you're describing proof that that works?
facebook, decentralisatie
@RudyBouma@mastodon.social Mja. Dat zijn natuurlijk mooie beloftes, maar het is voor zover ik kan zien wel gewoon weer een silo waar een enkel bedrijf aan de knoppen draait, en waar je dus volledig van afhankelijk bent, ook in de toekomst.
Alle grote socialemediaplatformen van vandaag begonnen met mooie beloftes, die naarmate de tijd verstreek steeds meer verwaterden (zoals te verwachten is van commerciele bedrijven), maar tegen die tijd waren ze groot genoeg dat je eigenlijk niet meer de optie had om er *niet* op te zitten.
Dus ik kan dit soort niet-interoperabele platformen maar moeilijk serieus nemen, want er is grote kans dat het gewoon weer op precies hetzelfde resultaat uitdraait, en tegen die tijd kun je er als gebruiker niets meer aan doen.
Dan is federated software (zoals bijvoorbeeld Friendica, want er is veel meer dan alleen maar Mastodon) een veel relevantere optie, wat mij betreft. Daar heb je die afhankelijkheid niet, maar kan je nog steeds wel vergelijkbare diensten aanbieden.
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obligatory addition to CW meta
Content warnings are subject lines, newspaper verticals, essay titles, forum thread titles. Lots of people will add +/-/~ to a CW to specify tone.
I have either used or clicked on all of these at one point or another. It didn't actually get in the way of anything.
(mental health, -) or (mh -)
(LocalPol, +)
(that wizard TERF insisting she's not owned while withering into a corn cob)
(misogyny, handled surprisingly well!)
(gross thing my cat did today)
(venting, no advice pls)
IMPORTANT NOTE: My personal policy on this is that people talking about experiences of oppression NOT THEIR OWN should use a CW. This is specifically and ONLY for the benefit of the people whose experiences are being discussed.
Ex: I think it's grody for me, as a white person, to hide a Black person's post about antiblackness behind a CW. It isn't my job to shape how people participate in that conversation. If I post something myself about antiblackness, I will CW to err on the side of giving Black people control over how they engage.
I frequently CW posts about my own experiences anyway, but that's still out of courtesy to others who share the experience more than consideration for those protected from it by privilege. Because tbh, fuck em 
@eloy I requested it like... two days ago? And it took under a day I think
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yes i know i was supposed to do this thing and in my defense, yesterday, at one point i thought about doing the thing
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The last couple of days have taught me that out of all the people in the world, there are some people that I know, and some people I don't know. I think it is likely that the latter group is larger.
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more boys in skirts imo
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Mastodon pessimism, GoToSocial
The more I see of Masto development the more pessmistic I get about its future. This is why I am supporting GoToSocial development monthly, like we CANNOT hang the entire future of ActivityPub-driven microblogging on Mastodon, not after fucking exhausting years of Gargron's asshattery and his determination to make Mastodon into another popularity- and engagement-driven platform.
GTS website: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/
Support GTS on OpenCollective: https://opencollective.com/gotosocial
@solene That depends - what will the book be about, and what's the intended audience? I'm a big fan of (the ideas behind) NixOS personally, but it's also still not in a place where I could recommend it universally, it'd depend a lot on the context.
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Please don’t feel bad for switching instances, or seeking one that is a better fit. An instance is also a community, you want to be in comfortable company. Also the values and vibes will matter when it comes to moderation & safety.
When I first joined yrs ago I tried at least half a dozen instances, until I found the right ones for me. I now post on two instances. Take your time exploring the fediverse. Actually you don’t need to join an instance, most of mastodon ones will let you peek into their local TL from their front page, so you’ll have an idea before you go in.
#BlackFediverse #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter
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Well this approach to user data protection is... novel:
"If you would like to remove all personal data from [our site], simply log back in and remove or replace any personal information with fictitious data."
From the folks at Tax Act dot com.
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Imagine *not* trying to craft a #hottake that will stir people up and get you them clicks.
Imagine #vulnerability and genuine human connection.
laughing at the birdsite
@AudreyJune The trajectory is certainly easy to plot :D
@discordiankitty@mastodon.me.uk I wouldn't worry too much about overwhelming a small server, to be honest, as long as your toots are generally in line with the vibe there. Some topic-specific servers ask to put other topics under a CW, but many also don't, I think.
And you could always just ask the admin if you're unsure :) Most admins are very approachable on here
laughing at the birdsite
@AudreyJune (Well, technically Twitter could still survive by being sold for pennies on the dollar fast enough that people haven't emotionally detached from the platform yet, Yahoo-style. But with how stubborn Musk is, I don't really see that happening...)
laughing at the birdsite
@AudreyJune Ah, but the difference there is that they're run into the ground by disinterested rich folks with more money than sense, and who mainly need a place to stash their debts. Elon probably genuinely *cares*, but still doesn't really have any sense, and that makes it much more explosive! :p
If nothing else, I guess we get some once-in-a-lifetime entertainment out of something that was doomed to fail.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
