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.
- 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
@Clipsey Yep, it's in the list: https://social.pixie.town/about/more -- not sure why (cc @f0x)
@Mirteaaa Isn't it just mastodon.lol being overloaded? I noticed that it was much slower to respond to my follows/lookups/etc. than most other instances
Long thread of other fediverse platforms
@GLaDTheresCake Additionally, there's Matrix https://joinmatrix.org/ for private messaging and group chats and communities and such, which *isn't* based on ActivityPub, but works very similarly (the Element client for Matrix is pretty Discord-like)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Long thread of other fediverse platforms
#FediverseTip Mastodon is not the only fediverse social media platform! It's based on the standard called activitypub, which implements a lot of different use cases mastodon does not! There's a lot of different types of fediverse social media out there, like pixelfed (instagram like) https://pixelfed.org/ or friendica (facebook like) https://friendi.ca/ or even peertube (youtube like) https://joinpeertube.org/en or funkwhale (spotify like) https://funkwhale.audio/
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev ... in minecraft
Okay, either I'm imagining things, or Mastodon is definitely sometimes posting replies as not-replies.
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Very "Oh, the one with the wolf hoodie and the gas mask? Yeah, their address is on a post-it in the car" energy
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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'lo peeps! I'm Tatra, I'm non-binary (They/He), and I'm a UK-based developer working in education. I'm into videos, games, and occasionally making videos about games (and, if I can get my bum in gear, video essays about more important things). Follow and/or boost if those sound interesting to you! Take care out there! :)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Best transactional mail for Mastodon servers
I used Mailjet, but they only have a 200 daily limit a that is not good enough for two middle sized servers. One of the servers I switched to Sendinblue, with a 300 daily limit. Mailgun needs a creditcard for their free plan and I don't have a creditcard (most Europeans only can get a creditcard when they earn enough money).
So what is the best free transactional mail provider in 2022? If you need to pay a few euro's per month that's Ok.
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Dunno, I think that's more just a layout/documentation thing; it's actually much clearer with Matrix what you're supposed to be implementing than with the pick-and-mix XEPs of which many stick around in a de-facto-obsolete state, but the single-page format is what makes things miserable.
The new layout does improve on this a bit, at least: https://spec.matrix.org/v1.2/client-server-api/ -- I think more 'modular' writing would go a long way to get the Matrix spec into better shape, even if it's still a monolithic spec.
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev (Also I think this is actually the big redeeming quality of XMPP over Matrix - the technical writing in the XEPs is *so much* better and more consistent, on average. All I want is a Matrix spec with XEP-style writing...)
@TatraT815 Yep, pretty much! It's *very* close to e-mail actually, in how it works (though *technically* speaking the protocol part is ActivityPub and Mastodon is just a client)
@Dee In fairness, there's a pretty good chance that the 'bad' posts are precisely what people are here for
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Yeah, I have.... Feelings about the technical writing quality of the Matrix spec
@TatraT815 There's also the "federated timeline" (don't recall if that's displayed automatically!) which will show you the toots from your own instance plus all people followed by other folks on your instance, I believe. It's not a Twitter-style global view (that's difficult-to-impossible to achieve in a federated system like Mastodon), but should hopefully provide some places to explore :)
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Honestly I can't really agree with the 'unnecessary complexity' - bad documentation and API design choices are an obfuscating factor here, but I've found that neither XMPP nor Matrix are meaningfully more technically complex than is actually required for the goals they try to achieve. Keep in mind that feature-wise they compete with WhatsApp and Discord, not with IRC!
@determinerik@climatejustice.social Aan de ene kant wel, maar aan de andere kant zijn er ook best usecases waar mensen Twitter nog niet *kunnen* ontvluchten, bijvoorbeeld mensen die afhankelijk zijn van fundraisers waar ze veel mensen tegelijk mee kunnen bereiken. Dus daar is wel voorzichtigheid geboden.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Shlee fucked around and
Admins don't read DMs, and I'm hoping that soon enough that'll be encrypted and I won't be able too.
Mastodon DMs should be considered "restricted messages" visible to people mentioned.
DMs are not that important when snapchat exists for sexts, and signal exists for crimes!
Real chat style DMs similar to Twitter/facebook is coming to the ecosystem soon and will be encrypted and secured from admins... but until then, you need to consider "DMs" in mastodon different than the normal style.
It's more of a direct toot, then a direct message.
and in fact, the #mastodev team really should rename Direct Messages to Direct Toots or restricted because people have mental associations with the word "direct message"... and I get annoyed when I see a DM in my timeline and the back of chat style DMs..
@cadey I did see somebody bring up the similarity elsewhere!
@evelyn@misskey.bubbletea.dev Isn't that just an argument for its perpetual *coexistence* with other systems, though? Kind of by definition that property means that the protocol won't/shouldn't meaningfully evolve, and so it fills a very specific niche that it makes no sense to develop replacements for, but that also doesn't match what most people are looking to get out of a chat system. So I'd more think of it like "IRC plus something else" rather than "IRC instead of something else".
- 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
