Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

https://ohai.social/@thatkatharine/113699764867774617

If you don't in the WordPress ecosystem, you may not understand how HUGE this post is



https://joost.blog/wordpress-leadership/



Joost is probably the second biggest figure in the entire WP ecosystem, only after Matt M himself. He is the biggest voice from the "Enterprise WordPress" world.

This is not anymore open source contributors complaining about governance. This is the Business WordPress demanding a leadership change and suggesting it either happens or a hard fork, backed by big business, is on the way.

You ever see someone say something else and go "oh, so other people go through this too, huh?"

#Autism #ADHD #Masking #Neurodivergence #tootrue

@joepie91 same, i was really disappointed about how much of the program was “ai” related, and not in a critical way. not to mention that so-called “ai” is also deeply anti-hacker. they are closed systems owned by corporations. the only “ai” talks i want to see at something like ccc are about how to burn it to the ground.

is me being into older stronger men somehow connected to the fact that my father is a cold abusive authoritarian asshole and thus i need to compensate with a figure that would actually love me or is it just speculative bs that pathologizes kinks

I felt a tingling in my toes. I looked down and my toenails were bright red.

Uh, what. I pushed the game controller stick the other way. Back to normal.

I looked up at the TV. The character editor in “Battle Shell” lets you change *everything* from species to earring length, but I had never noticed the “player” checkbox in the edit screen before; I’d reflexively toggled it to see what it did. To be fair I skipped reading the release notes for the update that downloaded overnight.

I adjusted the hair slider. Oooh that felt weird. I sat forward and long red hair fell down my chest, from where it had been bunched up behind my head. Hmmn, chest… could it be?

It could. I am gonna be here for the /day/.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

@joepie91 I have had similar interactions with so many people doing web development professionally, all who should know better, so many times.

And the worst part: most of the time these situations can be avoided entirely by "just not doing" something. And for most of the similar situations: with literally no drawbacks.

We are in an abusive relationship with technology.

So, yes, give it a name. Explain it. Notice it. Be outraged by it.

But also, at every opportunity we have, we have to reject it. (I noted, as I read the original article that I was accosted and asked for my email address twice, the second time while reading a section about how invasive and useless that is)

There are places that the Rot has not yet reached. We must identify them, share them, and embrace them.

(Linux and BSD, the fediverse in general, peertube, physical media, jellyfin/kodi)

When The Rot comes to places that should have been safe, we have to destroy them. Starve them of the users that power them or actually burn them to the ground. If you don't sanitize the area, the Rot will spread.

That means Ubuntu. That means bluesky. That means, in many ways, mastodon as a software platform.