Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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- 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
@Paulinebvr Where could I find that article?
@haven4books @PanickedFoodie @McCullohMD @mecfs Historically, a convention on fedi has been to put such posts behind a "from Twitter" CW or so. Very context-dependent though.
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A small list of the few things that would improve my experience here:
- A change to keep an author's replies in a thread all together;
- Thread/response markers on the web interface (as Tusky has done);
- Lists where I can 'remove' the people on it from home timeline (e.g., if I do want to follow news, it *only* goes in the news list);
- Bookmark folders;
- Editing (not only deleting) image descriptions when using 'edit'.
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today’s really cool thing I’ve seen someone do… Bad Apple with Minecraft Sheep - https://youtu.be/tO6sfku_1b8
@josh That having been said, there definitely *is* a very skeptical view of journalists among many marginalized folks, due to the industry's long-standing failure to regulate its own misconduct, and the innumerable harm that that has caused to marginalized folks in particular.
That doesn't mean that no journalist is ever welcome on fedi, but as a journalist you do actually need to show that you understand the impact of this, and that you intend to be part of the solution rather than the problem.
That's where journa.host fucked up, despite early warnings from several people about this.
They barged in, repeatedly violating the community norms (see also: quoting people without their consent), and doing their whole "we are journalists and you shall Respect Us, you need us" thing, apparently refusing to accept that... we really don't.
So yes, this certainly could be avoided, had the journa.host folks been more cautious about understanding the community they're wading into, and done their part in keeping bad actors out.
Instead, they chose a power play, and that predictably backfired into their faces. That sort of approach is not appreciated here.
@Dee As part of consulting work (paid and otherwise), I've occasionally had a look at analytics setups and what people were measuring.
Exactly zero of the systems were measuring what people *thought* they were measuring.
This is something I've long been complaining about publicly; your metrics are almost certainly worthless, and will lead you to wrong decisions.
Interview 10 random users and you'll get a much better insight into the state of things than any amount of analytics will give you.
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As a growing number of instances block journa.host, I'd encourage people to steer clear of the narrative that Mastodon's culture is somehow anti-journalism. If you're looking for a natural experiment, take newsie.social — I could be wrong, but as far as I know there's been no widespread blocking of that instance, which also predominantly hosts reporters. This is about the moderation decisions made by a particular instance, not some broader antipathy for journalism.
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I’m beginning to see quite a few “this is a positive space, there is no place for negativity here” style posts (especially by newer folks) so I want to hopefully clear something up:
This is also a space to be protected. From fascists, bigots, etc., and also from corporate capture (unless you want to watch it turn into what the greater web turned into. Some of us lived through that once. Would be nice not to again.) Opposing such things—and vocally if need be—is not a negative; it is a positive.
re: meta, talking about transphobia
@pikhq@tech.lgbt Definitely very "fuck around and find out", with a particularly low latency between the two
meta
@rra I'd be very concerned about creating systems of power that are easily exploitable -> lead to oppression, which would make things worse.
This sort of large-scale power-building makes sense in situations where you're dealing with a large powerful adversary (government, employer, etc.), but... is that actually what we're dealing with here on fedi?
Or would a loose association of likeminded folks, like we have now, be capable of achieving the same thing but without the risks of power systems? Because that certainly seems preferable.
@zens@merveilles.town (And in "yeet from community" I also include "immediately close any issues they file without further consideration")
@zens@merveilles.town Speaking as a FOSS person: they are full of shit, and while there is good (technical) reason not to carve out exceptions in the license, that absolutely *does not* extend to the community around it or who things are built for. The sole correct option there is to yeet fascists on sight, and that is entirely compatible with FOSS.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
obviously the best part of being an "adult" is that you can buy all the plushies you want
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about political know-it-alls (they annoy me)
anarchism is a group effort and nobody has to know everything to think that everybody deserves nice things and have their basic needs met. You also don't need to know everything or read much to recognise that hierarchies are shit.
Cool down.
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I have a request.
Bad actors will soon figure out - if they haven't already - that setting up impersonations of important organizations now will allow them to set off an explosion of chaos and confusion at a time of their choosing.
So if you run an account for an organization (especially #LGBTQ), please set up link verification between your Mastodon account profile and your organization's website.
If not, please boost.
Instructions are here under "Link Verification":
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/
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If you think it’s horrible one billionaire bought up the public square and killed it, wait until you find out why your city doesn’t have a trolley system
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shitposty about bad instances and transphobia
Instance blocks, like puberty blockers, are completely reversible.
They are also almost never reversed because the regret rate is vanishingly small.
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It would be neat to try to make an activitypub client that doesn't do anything useful but instead uses the feed to create pretty art that changes in response to all of the activities pubbed like imagine having a tiny picturesque rural village on you computer that's full of tiny people going about their lives visiting busy market places and shops and riding a tiny train and then suddenly a building burns down because someone complained about not having "quote tweets" again.
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I've mentioned this before, but beep
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I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.
It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.
It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.
Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.
- 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
