Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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.
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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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I've had lots of thoughts lately about bounded versus unbounded systems.
A book is bounded; the global library system is unbounded. A CD is bounded; Spotify is unbounded. The world is effectively unbounded, and networked computer systems tend to be unbounded too.
Many things are bigger than a human can experience, or changing faster than a human can keep up with. Many curious explorers and tinkerers are drawn to these unbounded things because they are vast, unknowable, and therefore exciting.
But what finite, bounded things are worth exploring and tinkering with?
@lyncia Yeah they used to be pretty much standard AFAIK, nowadays most seem to have a cheap screw-clamp system, not sure how universal those are
@lyncia There are front baskets with amorphously shaped (usually rubber-coated) hooks that *should* fit onto pretty much any handlebars
@Mirteaaa Not sure yet whether I consider that a good thing or a bad thing... it *does* cut down on brigading (and some other questionable reply patterns) a lot, I think.
@brennen One workaround is to search on matrix.org only - which has a pretty extensive room directory. At the top right should be a dropdown where you can specify a different homeserver to search on!
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About the only tip I have for people landing here post-birdsite is the habit of defensively misspelling/obfuscating terms is not just unnecessary here but harmful.
Search is harder to do due to the federated nature, being a search-botting reply-guy is harder to do. However a lot of people can and do mute hot-button words for their own health.
If you think you need to obfuscate to prevent discovery there's probably a better privacy tool to deploy.
Search is harder to do due to the federated nature, being a search-botting reply-guy is harder to do. However a lot of people can and do mute hot-button words for their own health.
If you think you need to obfuscate to prevent discovery there's probably a better privacy tool to deploy.
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Assorted recs for new accounts:
@plants — plants from the gardens of various fedifriends! (and other topics: https://a.gup.pe/ )
@glitchbot — a bot that glitches photos you give it
The hashtags #cats and #florespondence
@quasihaiku and @poem_exe — haiku bots (quasi avoids latin’s fifth glyph)
@alt_text — reminds you if you’ve forgotten to describe your images
Accounts by topic from the trunk: https://communitywiki.org/trunk
@brennen Ah, right. Load times *should* be pretty fast nowadays unless you're in a lot of rooms (that's still being worked on, requires protocol changes), and I've not seen the 'forget rooms' bug for a long time.
The joining bugs are definitely still there though, especially the ones where it says a "join failed" and then magically succeeds at joining in the background a couple of minutes later... I *believe* there's also work ongoing on that, but I don't know the current status of that.
On the room searching, where did you search for it? By default, the room directory is a per-homeserver thing, not a single global list of everything.
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by way of #introduction hi i'm andie sophia. i'm news editor at the reykjavík grapevine. i'm a nonbinary trans woman, a communist, and i will never not favorite pics of possums, cats or ravens. my presence here will be a mix of trans stuff, politics, and humor. happy to follow back likeminded folks. hope the days are kind to you all!
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#introduction for those who don’t know me: i’m a cool as hell dutch gay nerd who loves programming (NEVER finishing anything i start on ever), typography and mario kart
@brennen Any particular issue you ran into? I've seen most of the weird Element bugs go away over the past couple of years...
(FluffyChat is an option for mobile, it's pretty straightforward - and I've heard good things about Cinny though I don't know how feature-complete it is yet)
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#FediTip if you get a link to a post or profile and want to interact with it, put it in your search box.
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FYI for newbies
Twitter has algorithms to get you engaged. Mastodon does not. So in order to enjoy Mastodon you have to take some time to reach out and find content and follow folks that you enjoy. Don't expect Mastodon to send you random popular posts to keep you engaged, you have to curate your own feed. But this is good! It gives you control.
@spacekatia Thanks, that's actually a great analogy for those "criticism from 3000 feet" type comments in general, I'll probably be using that in the future :)
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like, a lot of twitter takes about mastodon read very much like people who have only ever traveled by car complaining about the existence of any other infrastructure
anything that doesn't exactly replicate the convenience of the car must be shunned
@chemelia@eldritch.cafe That's pretty specific to the ADHD + stimulants combination, as far as I know. It's kinda similar for me with Ritalin as well (just that's way easier to control than caffeine). Whereas for non-ADHD folks that'd just make them very jittery and physically active.
@meike @underwhelming@eldritch.cafe Ik denk dat alles in de Fediverse momenteel een beetje in de fik staat :p
- 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
