Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- 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
@StroomAfwaarts Federation as a model mostly just makes sense for identity-centric systems (which is what ~all popular social media networks right now are) because people interact with a wide variety of different people across different communities from the same account, but when your fundamental 'social unit' is a 'community' and there's no individual profiles to speak of, it's much more practical to have the whole community in one place, and just make it easy to move and/or self-host.
@StroomAfwaarts I don't intend for it to federate - it doesn't make much sense for a community-centric thing, and would introduce a lot of problems: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/113764060621165923
@eclectech I'm not associated with the UKUUG but there's usually little you can do about these - what often happens is that the domain doesn't get renewed, and a spammer buys it as it expires, then puts up a cached copy of the old site (pulled from eg. the Wayback machine) but with spam inserted, to try and profit off the domain reputation. It's totally outside the control of the original domain owner in those cases.
@whreq Nah, it's the community-centric model used by Clubs (the Het Net thing) and a couple of other similar services in different countries
I've been working on resurrecting a 20-year-old social media concept and it only just dawned on me that the vast majority of people on the internet today, even those older than me, will have never seen this concept and so it will be brand new to them
related non-Trek opinions
@researchfairy This kind of feels like it fits with my general frustration about TV narratives. It's always either:
1. Liberal drudgery and hidden misery, framed as 'a stable society' and a desirable thing, probably with some "oh well that's just how life is" thrown in for good measure and a total lack of imagination, or
2. Radical/dystopian/etc. narrative that imagines a different world, unfortunately everyone dies and is also an asshole and we're all doomed so why even bother.
Kind of feels sometimes like (popular) TV is incapable of dreaming about hope. Your only choices are hidden misery or blatant misery.
Sven Slootweg
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opinions
I think what I want from Star Trek that's been missing since like Voyager is a little bit more time doing the work of establishing that the Star Trek future is good and a future we'd all want
And a little bit less emphasis on assuming we already have that in mind and subverting it
@smveerman Oof. That seems really unpleasant.
@bram This is a big part of why I refuse to use mobile apps where possible, even though I nominally have a smartphone available to me. I have basically nothing that's critically dependent on a smartphone. The only exception is, like, StreetComplete? And that has a good reason to run on a phone!
(Even when places say that you need a mobile app for stuff, there often *are* alternative options available if you pressure them a little)
re: type of guy
@hazelnot FWIW, you're nowhere near as bad on this as the people I'm thinking of here (and your responses often seem to be less personal/egocentric and more to do with generalized social frustrations).
It's a good habit to unlearn but this post definitely wasn't about you!
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roses are sepia
violets are sepia
everything is sepia
someone is messing with the camera filters again
I've definitely been having A Day so far.
type of guy
Interprets every single direct criticism of their views as a direct personal challenge and affront of their character... even when they weren't even the one being talked about
type of guy
Absolutely refuses to consider the needs or experiences of someone who doesn't look like them, even if it wouldn't cost them anything to do so, and insists on being Objectively Correct solely because their claims align with their own experiences and beliefs
@nick @derickr (And also that of @researchfairy, it seems)
@nick @researchfairy @derickr You have completely and utterly missed my point.
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Most of us are struggling financially rn, it isn't your fault.
@Kaliah Happy birthday!
Sven Slootweg
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You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to MiHoYo
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
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
