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
meta cw personal
@scanlime On politics: I've noticed in my time here that I open almost every politics-related post that's CW'ed as such... but un-CW'ed politics posts consistently cause a stress response. That small courtesy make such a big difference.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I just want to make this one thing clear for all the new folks sending follow requests right now
There is no such thing as a good cop
Even if they're part of the absolute minority that joined the police force with good intentions, they still chose to become part of an institution with a long history racism, arbitrary violence against minorities, and an uncompromising agenda of suppressing the right of workers in favour of the interests of capital. Hanlon's Razor does not apply to the police
Policing does not reduce crime, social workers, decriminalisation of psychoactive substances, and a strong welfare state do
That's all for now, Souvka out
Fedi meta
@rune Would probably save folks a lot of migrations if we just rebranded one of the right-winger instances to a cop instance, given the significant overlap
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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All the folks down at handwringing dot social and pearlclutchers dot online who left Scholar are gonna kick themselves when they find out that Scholar has a "no cops" policy that they didn't even have a meltdown over while they were here
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Hey if you put together a space that is cop-friendly
You just built a queer-hostile space
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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meta
where eternal september discourse is bad: elitism, snobbery, privilege, antidemocratic impulses.
where eternal september discourse identifies real problem moments even if it mislocates the causes: scale is poison.
there's good food for thought in both pieces, i think.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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❌ we should have daylight when we go to work in the morning
❌ we should have daylight when we come home from work at night
☑️ we shouldn’t have to work so many hours that we have to ration The Sun
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I love how I can zone out for a day and miss the creation and solution of a fediverse-wide problem
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Perhaps you are new to Mastodon and wondering, "what's wrong with choosing a huge instance like mastodon.social"? Have a peek at this for one good reason https://www.patreon.com/posts/74436103?pr=true
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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"Home invasion: Mastodon's Eternal September begins" by @hugh https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/
This past week has been wild. I have mixed feelings about it as well.
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It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Oh right I should re #introduce myself!
I'm Prism, and I'm a genderqueer dev working in VR. I'm also invisibly #disabled with #fibromyalgia . I will likely be posting #gamedev things, #knitting , and #cats , among other things I find funny. I also speak some #japanese and am looking to practice more!
Nice to meet you! Here's my cat tax payment. So hamsome
meta, colonialism
@IgnisIncendio@tech.lgbt The idea of a "big tent" is basically the centrist concept that everybody must coexist in the same space and any concessions necessary for that should be made, because "why can't we all just work together and there will be no conflict"
The real-world effect of that, of course, is that marginalized folks are thrown under the bus, because they're the first "concessions" to be made
meta, colonialism
@IgnisIncendio@tech.lgbt So... in principle, yes, that would be fine, and is indeed how things are designed to work.
The problem here arises because many of the newcomers are not just refusing to use CWs, but *also* complaining about getting instance-blocked. They seem to be of the belief that they should be allowed to push their content in the face of people who do not want it.
This is sometimes dressed up in language like "improving reach" or "staying in touch with other communities" or "big tent" or "healthy engagement", but it all ultimately boils down to the same thing: "you should have to receive the content that we push on our terms".
Likewise, many of these people aren't even thinking about "own instances" in the first place, but are of the (often unspoken) opinion that existing instances, particularly large ones, should accommodate what *they* want instead of what vulnerable people need, essentially forcing a cultural transition.
*If* newcomers accepted that instance bans are a normal part of how the network segments itself, and that they should set up their own instance if they disagree with the existing community norms, then all would be fine. But they just... don't. They try to force everybody else to change to their own personal demands instead.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Legal fund for Alex Norris, creator of Webcomic Name (the 'oh no' comics)
A publishing company they partnered to make a board game with a few years ago has used the opportunity to take all of their intellectual property/claimed ownership of Webcomic Name as a whole :/
From what I read, seems like its not the first time this publishing company have done that either.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/alexnorrislegalfund
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@jnonfiction Much appreciated, I wish more people approached it that way!
I'd recommend just hanging around for a while until the influx dies down, to get a first-hand impression of the general vibe and norms. There's only so much that can be explained in words, of course, and there's always a lot of nuance in a community-run place.
This may be helpful for the topic of CWs, at least: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/109314119359875097
The most important thing, really, is to proactively keep an eye out for the needs of vulnerable folks on here, who have no other place to go. As long as you do that, things will work out fine, and people won't mind missteps :)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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*Please* keep sharing your food pics! Loads of people here love to see them, and engage, and talk about food! It's great! This isn't me asking you not to post them!
You'll also get more boosts on your content-warned food photos, because people can share them knowing they're giving people the opportunity to opt-in to seeing them ^.^
Thank you! 
@supakeen@mastodon.tty.cat The internals remind me a lot of my own speakers, though those have *way more* of it...
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birdsite meta, analysis, CW meta
But it's important to realise that the attention economy doesn't work quite the same way here as it did on twitter. If you insist on *grabbing* attention you will be muted, or blocked, or defederated.
Ask yourself: is getting eyes on your content more important than the mental health of those around you?
- 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
