Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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
re: birdsite billonaire, hi my name is elilla& and I have a problem
@elilla It's extremely reminiscent of the Freenode / Andrew Lee drama, which followed a very similar trajectory, and was likewise better than TV in many ways, despite the shitty situation
If the trajectory remains the same as that of Andrew, then Elon's next step will be to ban anyone on Twitter who mentions Mastodon, primarily hitting those who were still on the fence and thus making their decision for them
birdsite billonaire, hi my name is elilla& and I have a problem
@elilla Oh, I now see you already saw that one 😅
birdsite billonaire, hi my name is elilla& and I have a problem
@elilla Your wish has been granted, though it's funny for entirely different reasons than Elon thinks: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589646682710417408
@SunDancer Oh, sorry, that's specifically for game *development*, maybe that's not what was being looked for
@SunDancer I'd say that gamedev.lgbt probably fits the bill?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Seeing posts about how "Mastodon" is so untwitter, with community, conversation and a lack of posts designed to enrage.
It's not why you think.
There are certainly communities out there that would make your blood boil.
It's the lack of the algorithm deciding what you see to sell "engagement" for ads.
Admins are likely to have blocked entire servers for you. You see who you want, they expose you to things they like.
It's the model that's different, not the content.
It makes a difference.
@musicmatze@social.linux.pizza Oh, of course. But you only have to set it up once, as an env var :)
@tobyjaffey@mastodon.me.uk Hey, just a heads-up: a lot of blind and visually-impaired users on here rely on image alt descriptions to understand what's shown, so ideally it should at least include an actual description of what's in the image, not just commentary.
And as a bonus, that can also help people understand the joke who would otherwise have missed it :)
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"mute" is een fantastische functie van Mastodon, waarbij je een verlooptijd in kunt stellen. Handig als je iemand wel wilt blijven volgen, maar dies preoccupatie van de dag na een aantal toots over hetzelfde onderwerp je toch even te veel wordt.
Het zijn dit soort grijswaarden tussen zwart en wit waardoor sommige software beter is voor je geestelijke gezondheid.
Yes, things are probably slow for you right now. That's because the fediverse is a volunteer-run network that just tripled in user count pretty much overnight!
Give it some time to settle, and if you are able, consider running your own (semi-)public instance - that not only helps the health of the network, but also reduces load on other servers, making things faster for everybody.
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:real_world_tip: :psychopomp_smile:
@prehensile we need the fediverse gayer and fruitier. So gay and fruity and silly that the big important media types wouldn’t even think of touching it so it stays a nice little gay safe haven
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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#fediTips #mastoTips Don't forget to tip your server (go to the Amazon data center and physically knock over a server rack, causing network outages)
meta, colonialism
It just occurred to me how uncomfortably close the behaviour of many new Twitter users here, is to colonialism.
Disregarding local culture and population, assuming they know better about what "works", acting as if they're the first to discover this magical fediverse and it is theirs to shape and control. Loudly declaring that they're here to tell everybody how to "make it scale".
@musicmatze@social.linux.pizza It does! That's the whole point of NIX_AUTO_RUN in that command. It does all that automatically (ie. transparently) based on the `command-not-found` data, you don't need to manually spawn a shell or use `nix run`.
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@PastaThief @discordiankitty@mastodon.me.uk Ah yeah, that sounds like an actual bug then, not just overloaded stuff. It would definitely be a good idea to file an issue about it, if it doesn't exist yet!
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@Tekstkok@mastodon.social Persoonlijk vind ik het vooral ergerlijk en respectloos, eigenlijk. Zelfde verhaal voor mensen die nog geen 24 uur op de fediverse hebben doorgebracht, en dan al vol overtuiging publiek verklaren dat "dit nooit kan werken zonder [dingen die er Twitter van zouden maken]".
Alsof er niet al mensen jaren hier zitten waarvoor het prima werkt.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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For everyone new to the Fediverse, keep in mind there's no algorithm! Likes don't do much (kind of like in old-school Twitter), so if you want others to see something cool you found, boost it! 🚀
It's the best way to share content from other creators you like, and of course you don't have to be on the same instance as them to do it! ✨✨
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
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@PastaThief @discordiankitty@mastodon.me.uk Is that something from just the past week (or any of the other migration waves, for that matter), or has it been going on for longer? My first suspicion would be that it's related to servers being overloaded.
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@PastaThief @discordiankitty@mastodon.me.uk Huh, that's not an issue I've heard about before. It seems to have worked for everybody I've talked to. Is there an issue filed for this already somewhere?
- 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
