Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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"Growth" doesn't matter, because the fediverse isn't about capital. It isn't about having the most users possible to advertise to.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Frankly I don't think we should care about brands in order to enable some arbitrary measure of "growth". I want this place to stay human-focused and empathetic, and allowing brands a space to advertise or the power to mold this place will take it in the wrong direction.
@aethylred No no, that's not quite what I mean. Defederated instances are not included, of course, but those aren't the ones I'm talking about.
For any fedi instance, the view that it has of the broader network (as in, the fediverse) is going to be defined by who people on that instance are following.
So it's possible for instance A to have no connection to instance B even though it would be *allowed* to, simply because nobody on A is following B. And accordingly, A won't know about posts on B, hashtagged or otherwise.
Because of this, there isn't really one singular "the fediverse" - it's more a bunch of loose associations where every instance has a different view of "the network", even before defederation gets involved!
This is largely a feature rather than a bug (it's a big part of how the community-building aspect functions), but it makes fedi much less suitable as a 'broadcasting system', and could pose issues when trying to use it as such.
@aethylred With the important caveat, though, that that will only show the posts with that hashtag that your server knows about, which likely isn't *all* posts across the entire fediverse.
@Miaourt Heh, yep, that would've been me. Someone mspainted this avatar for me yeaaaaaaars ago on IRC, and AFAIK I'm the only one using it :p
It's actually meant to be a punny (if a bit non-obvious) illustration of my username, but you're definitely not the first to see it as a potato!
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Oh no. Now that the federation block scanner thing has been making the rounds out in the open on here, I'm afraid we opened up a whole new Box of Pandora.
Three points:
1. You can't give any instance shit for defederating from yours
2. Absolutely do not harass anyone for defederating from you
3. Don't use a tool developed by the fucking kiwifarms crowd!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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#TIL The peace symbol (☮️) was created in the 50's to campaign for nuclear disarmament. The symbol is a super-imposition of the semaphore signals for "N" and "D".
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I disagree when people say its a shame that Twitter is likely to die - it's been such a huge distraction from making actual social progress. So many people making depressing angry shitposts about headlines instead of getting locally involved and actually *doing things*.
And Musk single-handedly destroying it would be an incredibly useful thing for everyone to witness
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Would really appreciate it if people theorycrafting about twitter's imminent demise and it's repercussions could be more aware that some of us basically convert clout into money for a living and most of us were already on a financial knife's edge when twitter wasn't being burned to the ground
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Apologies don't count if you're still actively committing the exact same harm
And no one is entitled to forgiveness by the person they harmed
An aggrieved party may extend forgiveness
But it can't ever be demanded by the party who is in the wrong
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I just realized that uBlock Origin, which always has a number on it in every page I go t,o has nothing there. Twitter has 538 blocks and growing in one tab. Here it has nothing. I know they said "ad free" but I guess it didn't clock in my head until just now what that meant.
@iJohnnoo Voor wat meer context: in minder dan 3 weken is het aantal actieve gebruikers op fedi bijna vervijfvoudigd(!!), de infrastructuur kraakt aan alle kanten, en een aanzienlijk deel van de nieuwkomers stampt dus inderdaad op modderlaarzen binnen.
En dat alles op een netwerk dat vrijwel volledig gerund wordt door vrijwilligers, voornamelijk door (en voor) mensen die elders weggepest zijn, en met wiens behoeften door veel nieuwkomers geen rekening gehouden wordt.
Dan is het toch niet heel gek dat men overal momenteel een beetje een kort lontje heeft? We krijgen op dit moment allemaal een flinke klap te verduren, eigenlijk zonder enige ondersteuning van buitenaf, laat staan van Twitter zelf.
@textfiles (As a sidenote, many instances have some sort of "please boost" emoji like 
, and it tends to reach way more people that way for requests)
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Might as well see how the fediverse responds to one of my typical requests. This weekend, I'm moving my storage items (mostly to-be-digitized stuff) from Beacon, NY to Ardsley, NY on Sunday. If you think you might be able to help, e-mail me at jason@textfiles.com. It's about a truckload, I'm renting the truck but I have to be careful with my back.
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@crocodile The frustration I've seen (and experienced) around lacking CW use myself, is more to do with people not even taking the time or showing the interest to understand those reasons, and just declaring "nah, not gonna do that, deal with it".
I don't expect people to immediately understand. I *do* expect them to hang back for a bit and get a sense of a community and its norms before storming into it at full speed.
@wheeze_NL I *think* you can find them under 'authorized apps' in your account security settings or something along those lines
@notafurry @digdug@socialism.social @ajroach42 Problem is that this only really works if the platform in question is designed to be an outrage machine, which most are, but fedi isn't.
- 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
