Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!

brain:

TROUT

TROUT

LET IT ALL OUT

THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT

SALMON

I’M TALKING TO YOU

SALMON

me: cool never mind

I would like to be able to make recommendations to BIPOC who have been scared off by the (non)moderation of mastodon.social and some of the other bigger instances.

If you know of an instance where there are non-white people who are doing the moderation (and also that the moderation is good) please let me know.

Thank you, comrades! <3

Minecraft won't launch. I backed up .minecraft and tried reinstalling. The launcher hangs forever at "Cleaning up". No obvious errors in the logs but can paste them up somewhere if anyone thinks that'll help.

KDE neon 5.26, Linux kernel 5.15.0-52
#minecraft 🐘

Does anybody have like, an actual LIST of known-good instances with decent moderation and not of full of chuds (nazis/terfs/swerfs/etc.), that are accepting new users?

(For sharing with users who are currently stock on mastodon dot social or w/e)

boosts appreciated, also if there's a hashtag that obviously goes with this kind of question let me know

@doorbraak

In the toot above 👆 I'm replying to is a link to youtube video of a violent group in blackface that are targeting antiracism protesters in the netherlands on their way to protest blackface. Video is a collection from various sources about what happened.

The police stood by and didn't intervene to 'avoid escalation'

The netherlands is a racist cesspool

This story with Tracy Chou, an engineer who specifically works on creating tools to stifle organised harassment online, getting posts removed from mastodon.social because of "reverse sexism/racism," is maddeningly infuriating.

We know that Mastodon's flagship instances have been having issues with moderation for a while, but this seems to point that the trend has gone from "ineffective absent moderators" to "moderators protecting the feelings of white men," which I think will backfire. It also validates every criticism the fediverse receives for being a bastion of tepid, neoliberal, unexamined racism-as-reflex whiteness.

Link to Twitter: https://twitter.com/triketora/status/1594348646396559361?s=20&t=CBkHeo8EqdlUfI94EKr-mg

To echo Tracy Chou's bannable offense: I also heavily recommend reading more books by non men, by non white people, and by non cisheterosexual people. What a violent ideology! Tabarnouche.

Heads up folks: if you use spelling tactics that help to prevent getting hassled by trolls or mods on the other sites, such as spelling "Rump" as "R*mp," all that accomplishes here is messing up people's individualized filters for their personal curation needs.

Just spell the word/name/curse from the deep. The filters will do the work. #feditip

Pablo de Pastinaak en Pedro de pompoen gaan in de #soep 🥣 #GooglyEyes

If I could have a minor superpower, I'd want to walk into a room and *whoosh* put everything back where it belongs. Then I'd head straight for the British Museum

A long time ago, I wrote a site called ConRoomies. It has proven to be pretty popular for furries finding roommates for cons.

Unfortunately, it was built in the height of the Web 2.0 login craze, and its only way of authenticating is with a Login with Twitter button. Oooops.

Well, it has given me the opportunity to do some much needed engineering work that really should have been done years ago anyway.

Just another reminder about putting all your tech eggs in one basket.