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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
Mastodon has the "Advanced web interface" which looks like the ol' tweetdeck. I don't like the super narrow columns, so I use Stylus (browser extension) to add this little css to make the home column wider:
.column[aria-label=Home] {
width: 650px;
}
@whreq Met hoeveel minuten gratis boodschappen? :p
twitter, freenode, activism, positive
I'm really quite happy about how many people are recognizing the similarities between the Freenode implosion and the current Twitter shitshow, and how it's helping to inform people on what to do and expect next.
This was kind of a stretch goal for the Freenode thing from an activist perspective; clearly communicating the power dynamics behind the implosion, so that people could learn from it and prevent/mitigate similar situations in other places in the future.
It's always hard to measure whether that sort of thing works, but I think it's safe to say that it has indeed worked in this case! Though I have to admit, I didn't expect Twitter to be the place where it'd become relevant :)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
one of the kids at scouts camp had this and uhh i might have to go shopping
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
begpost; mutual aid; boosts please; 
would you be so kind and help a black non-binary girl out? 🥺
I need some help to cover my monthly bills while I try to recover some of my mental health so I can spend some more time working/looking for work opportunities. >.<
if you're interested. I can do tarot readings, pixel art, spreadsheets, game design consultancy, translations (en -> pt-br and vice-versa). Contact me and I can offer you some really nice rates for we to work something out.
any and every donation helps but so does boosting so this post can reach more people.
https://ko-fi.com/ardydo/goal?g=48
#mutualAid #transCrowdfund #mutualAidRequest #begpost
@mutualaid
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
A bunch of questions about this instance yesterday:
- The performance/down issues were part of @mastohost overall network issue; going to "beefier hardware" would not have solved that one.
- Funding for the instance is not an issue.
- However I might be looking for more moderators soon(ish), since that will become non-trivial amount of work.
- If your social media host is down: go outside! Look at the clouds! Feel free! :P
@jfhbrook Oh nah, definitely not! We need *more* instances, not *bigger* instances :p
re: birdsite billonaire, hi my name is elilla& and I have a problem
@elilla Oh yeah that's been a problem on Twitter for many years, incorrect blocklist entries, I'm definitely thinking something more... explosive than that
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)
boosted
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 :)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
"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.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
: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
- 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
