Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @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.
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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
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If an #ActuallyAutistic person shares information w you, it’s NOT because we feel negatively toward you or “think we know everything” or are judging you.
We’re doing it because we like you.
Most of us LOVE information.
We’re just sharing our favorite thing.
@f0x But are they auto-scaled yet
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Twitter, vent
That fucking Twitter engineer has the same energy as a gatcha game designer explaining that multiple currencies, timed events, and carefully-calculated friction are what people want in a game, because they make the numbers go up
@wmd@chaos.social kolektiva.social, maybe? Not entirely tech-focused, but there are still quite a lot of nerdy folks there
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"Mastodon is just like email."
Like email? So I use Microsoft Outlook?
"Use WHAT"
(Tools -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds -> New -> https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss)
Like email? So I use Microsoft Outlook?
"Use WHAT"
(Tools -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds -> New -> https://mastodon.social/@Gargron.rss)
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@rune @kim @dumpsterqueer Crowd-sourced social media break scheduling
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re: journa.host
I think this signifies a profound change in the fediverse. It's not like seeing a Pleroma instance crawling with swastikas and 4channers and smashing the suspend button. That's easy.
Reporters control narratives. They are watching us because we are a "beat" (an actual remark I have seen by one of them). We are material for their careers.
We can be as objective as we want in their interviews, but at the end of the day, they're the ones who decide what we said and how we said it.
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journa.host crosspost
A think a lot of us have been patient with this instance as it's been finding its place in the fediverse, but it's time to #fediblock.
I appreciate that Adam apologized for using, and removed, a Kiwi Farms scraping tool. I appreciate that Mathew Ingram removed his link to that tool in his article for Columbia Journalism Review.
I want to support journalists and the essential work that they do.
However:
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re: journa.host, racism
It's finally sinking in for me, and I'm devastated to see journa.host take so long to enforce its server rules, as well as outright punish reporters that identify violations.
Mike Pesca, who was fired from Slate in 2021 for defending his "right" to use the N-word, who endorsed flawed, biased, transphobic reporting, was allowed onto journa.host. Why? Why are white men so fucking bad at just listening to the rest of us?
And when are they going to figure out that we're actually really good at finding out exactly what they're doing outside of the fediverse?
@Paulinebvr Aw :( I've been looking for a while for a well-sourced overview of "how this model has worked throughout history" that is smaller than a book, hence the question :)
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"i use arch btw"
boring, old, may get you mistaken for a techbro
"Federal regulations require me to mention NixOS at least once"
sparks curiosity, menacing
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Being autistic does not exclude or excuse one from being an asshole. The autistic community must take responsibility for fascists, abusers, and other jackasses in our own ranks. Not try to claim "they're not actually autistic" to wash our hands of them.
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#Drag kings, quings, queens, artists of the Fediverse, where are you?
I wanna connect!
Boost appreciated
@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.
- 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
