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

This is a recreation of a Twitter thread of my response to someone who said re: scientists moving to Mastodon: "Leaving the global community to enter a silo makes no sense."

I think this represents a common misconception about Mastodon! The entire point of federated social media is that it isn't a silo. On Twitter you are in a Twitter silo. On a Mastodon instance you can interact with anyone on ANY instance.

[thread continues :) ]

solarpunk.moe now presents...

the glitch-soc cybre.space theme ​!

This theme is inspired on the late cybre.space instance that many of us remember fondly.

Is it 100% perfect? No. But I will continue to tweak it as necessary.

If you have a glitch-soc instance feel free to give it a try. The theme is hosted here.

mastodon is crumbling again so it's time to repost the mastodon crumble recipe!

i think my favorite pro cohost/twitter anti fedi argument is about how companies can be held liable and sued

because an llc famously has more liability and is easier to sue than your friend with a raspberry pi in their basement and no lawyer

for 8$ i will manually edit my database to add a to your display name

don’t let those fuckers try to sanitize/control/monetize this messy space

make the fediverse completely inhospitable (actively hostile) to capitalist types

Wishing all the new businessy/venture-capitaly people on the fediverse a very go fuck yourself

Het is de sfeer, niet de bubbel

COLUMN Floor Rusman

"Ik heb ze niet allemaal gesproken, maar ik vermoed dat de nieuwe Mastodon-leden niet op de vlucht zijn voor andersdenkenden, maar voor een omgeving die een oprechte discussie steeds minder goed mogelijk maakt. Met hun vertrek willen ze niet polariseren, maar juist staken tegen het grote polarisatiespel. Als Musk echt in de beschaving geïnteresseerd was, zou hij dat begrijpen."
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/11/04/het-is-de-sfeer-niet-de-bubbel-a4147353

Just resist the urge. Because you're not going to think to check for robots.txt, but you ought to, that's how we communicate we don't want to be involved. You're probably not going to bother to read the various terms of service for the instances you touch, many of which explicitly ask you not to do any scraping or automated activity beyond normal use of the service. You're not going to know to respect people using the NoBot hashtag that was meant to prevent automated follows. You're certainly not going to parse user profiles and pinned posts to learn how people like to be approached, what will get you blocked, or even think to heavily throttle your activity because instances are falling over in response to load.

Whatever your thing is, make it 100% opt-in. Make it appropriate for a significantly more at-risk user than you are. Make sure it forgets things, purges info about servers it can't contact, can't operate in any sort of logged-in mode where consent is an issue.

We will straight up help advertise your cool thing if it respects users properly and takes the time to consider the safety and preferences of every person involved. There are a lot of fun, thoughtfully-designed toys! And there are a lot of people really tired of having to come and tell you off when you wanted to help, honestly. Help yourself and ask around before you flip on your cool new thing, let folks point out what you're missing.