Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- 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.
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- 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
long, vivaldi
@ruario @aral @Vivaldi Hi, I appreciate that you're around to talk about the details of the implementation :) I'm hoping that this will turn out better than previous attempts by others at corporate instances!
I do have two crucial concerns that I'd like to address, however:
1. You really should commit to an instance size limit of some sort. Huge instances are a problem - not just operationally for you, but also because even if you have good intentions *right now*, a change in eg. leadership may suddenly make it a liability for the network. This remains true even in the face of explosive network growth.
Large systems are tools of power, therefore prone to eventual misuse, and should ideally not be constructed at all.
2. You'll have to think carefully about moderation - don't make the mistake that Librem One did, for example, where they argued that they couldn't moderate anything non-obvious because "they're paying customers" (and got promptly defederated as a result).
Also note that moderation norms on here are generally stricter here than on typical for-profit platforms; this place was built by marginalized folks, and so there is a culture around community safety. It's a good idea to replicate that.
Bundling it with a 'browser account' is also pretty risky here, because it means a ban has more impact (it might affect the functioning of one's browser?), and so you may be more reluctant to issue it. Kind of like the "my Quest doesn't work anymore because I got banned on Facebook for my name" problem. Decoupling it in some way may be better for everybody involved.
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I'd say that both of these points (instance size and moderation) need concrete commitments immediately from the start; if there are no such commitments, it is highly likely that you will be defederated by a large part of the existing network very quickly, because it will pose a threat to other network participants. Folks have bad experiences with corporate instances. It's best to avoid that situation :)
I'd be happy to provide some further pointers on how to approach this, if wanted - though especially for the point of moderation, keep in mind that while I do have a lot of moderation experience elsewhere, I don't run a fedi instance. It may be best to talk to other actual instance admins for that.
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this is why we android users can't have nice things. omdat impulsieve clowns als musk zonder blikken of blozen system files weg zitten te mieteren zit onze telefoon zo op slot dat we met achttien google apps opgescheept zitten die met klinknagels in het scherm gemept zijn.
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it may be an issue of how the conversations are being framed, but it's as if marginalized communities were never here
It would be good to engage with those of us that have been here and done some work
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Something I don't think new users to this platform are considering, particularly for how queer PoC navigate this space, is that despite not having the same tools as birdlandia, we still have carved out ways to care for ourselves here
we have managed to build community across instances here
and that work, that precedent should not be forgotten or not considered in these fanciful critiques
sorry not sorry
@colapunk Dus uh ik realiseer me net iets https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/109347786515862825
musk
holy shit
I just realized that musk is 'leading' entirely by aphorisms
calling 'bloat' (without understanding what stuff is for), the 80/20 rule (firing 80% of contractors, killing 80% of microservices), and doing a 'scream test' (for turning off those microservices)
@colapunk Ah. Ik denk dat iemand hem even moet vertellen dat de scream test niet werkt in gedistribueerde systemen... zoals Twitter...
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Having a chat with the @Vivaldi folks about some of my concerns regarding the integration of Mastodon into the Vivaldi browser (and potentially having it extended by features only available in the Vivaldi browser; the first of which is sign in with your Vivaldi account, which only works on vivaldi.social).
What are your thoughts?
re: trains
@griffinkate Possibly related to the update note here? https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/paris-to-barcelona-by-train.htm
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People that run an instance are like cat looker-afterers and we are the cats
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The fact that we've already gone from "it doesn't matter what server you join" to "it sometimes really matters what servers you join" is a huge leap forward in collective intelligence when thinking about social media.
We've moved from technological considerations to social, cultural & political considerations. We've already democratized our mindset when thinking about tech.
re: meta shitpost
@slothrop@chaos.social It's not a fire, it's a cloud migration
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just a note for new artists coming to mastodon:
i've noticed some of you tried to censor words like "patreon/paypal/ko-fi" etc because you seemed to do that during your stay in twitter because the algorithms would prevent your post from being massively seen
but you don't have to do that in mastodon, because there is no algorithm at all!
so don't worry, you don't have to hide links and other stuff!!
(ps: don't forget to cw your art please)
have a good day!
@norikawa Can confirm. With people who behave like that, the only thing that *sometimes* works is actually that immediate ban/suspension - it at least communicates that your moderation notes weren't optional...
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what i've learned from moderating efdn these years has been that if someone doesn't respond positively to the first time you ask them to knock it off and stop being a shithead, you should just immediately suspend them because you're not going to get through to them
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Ik hoop echt dat organisaties in het oog blijven houden dat online deelname aan een evenement of lezing echt toegankelijker is, zeker nu er allerlei problemen zijn met de NS en andere vervoerders.
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Hey there, Admin of the Internet Archive Mastodon here. I've seen some people speculate/rumor that the Archive's mastodon instance is set up to be an involuntary vacuum spot for all toots passing back into the Wayback, and it is NOT that. Any archiving of toots would be some other project (and outside my knowledge) but the Internet Archive Mastodon is just another instance, doing the mastodon thing. Communicate with us at will.
re: meta shitpost
@slothrop@chaos.social Hey, some are at OVH too!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Flauwe opmerking over DHL dienstverlening
Ik lees dat DHL een klimaatneutrale cityhub in de regio Tilburg opent.
Dat betekent dat ze daar ook gewoon niets rondbrengen en iedereen elke dag een email sturen dat ze mensen niet thuis aan hebben getroffen, en men het op kan halen op het depot.
- 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
