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
CW meta
@darth_biomech @Curator @AleF2050 The thing with that 'core principle' is that it assumes a "push-based environment", where people have to compete at getting their stuff in front of others. Twitter is such an environment, most places are (thanks capitalism), but fedi isn't!
Fedi instead has a consent-based culture, where it's about giving people control over what they interact with and, perhaps more importantly, *when* they do it. That's the main purpose that CWs serve here - it allows people to engage with things on their own terms, rather than basically "jumpscaring" them with it.
And a lot of people are perfectly okay with engaging on stuff that might under some circumstances even be distressing to them, as long as they get to choose when to do so. And so that means that CWs make your posts more accessible to people, instead of less!
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
boosted
If you are not an #admin
please use #fediblock even though you were told not to
I created the tag
and it is for all of us to use
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I've been watching the twitter flood with my ironic broken-brained detachment and also popcorn but the one thing making my blood pressure spike is all the people who've been here 5 minutes reporting people for posting fully-CW'd nudes/lewds because 'that's not the energy we need here. We don't do that here'. We, in fact, DO do 'that' here and have been doing 'that' here for many years. Take your swerf energy and fuck off to mumsnet
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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As Web 3.0 as a term has been utterly ruined by cryptobros, I propose the next version of the web will be Web 95.
re: twitter and consent
@zens@merveilles.town @rune One possible solution is to download the account data dump, delete them publicly, and then go through the dump manually at some later time. I think it's all in JSON? Probably still a bit of a pain, though.
@f0x Yeah it does seem to work, just the history is gone
@rune Hm, the game still seems to insist on spawning large volumes of cars anywhere I haven't explicitly marked "no cars". Haven't found a solution for that :/
@rune I sometimes feel like I'm the only person who doesn't experience this. Probably because I kinda bounced off on its car-centric game design?
@welshpixie @fluffy Should be fine then :) No idea about the hashtag search behaviour, though.
@welshpixie @fluffy For the second question: yes. Explicitly boosted toots will not be affected by the silence.
There does seem to be a bug when you downgrade from a block to a silence, where previously-known accounts from that instance remain wholly blocked/suspended. At least in upstream Mastodon.
@f0x Hmm, one of my lists seems to have turned into a void
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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I'm going to share this again, so new to Fedi people can see that there is a big community of people with chronic illness here.
There is also a some groups** you can follow here on the Fedi:
@mecfs
@chronicillness
@disability
@longcovid
If you follow these groups, you'll get any toots from people* who include this account in their toots when they are sharing #MECFS posts etc. You can add this to your toots about mecfs etc too.
*including researchers, you are very welcome!
**Groups are a free tool that anyone can use to set up for other illnesses, etc.
#MECFS #ChronicIllness #LongCovid #Disability #Fibromyalgia
re: meta, colonialism
@owl To clarify: I don't believe the impact is remotely the same, of course. I *do* think the mechanisms are very similar, and that it is also roughly the same type of people employing them. Like how many of the loudest people around this have a bio full of "USA! USA! The best country in the world!" and so on.
This is not so much meant to imply that it is *exactly the same as* colonialism, as it is meant to recognize that the dynamics behind colonialism are not just a thing of the past, but still very much alive, and not something that (especially technical) folks are isolated from just because they don't work in electoral politics.
(I've naturally been avoiding the 'refugee' term as well, for exactly the reasons you're suggesting)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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meta, colonialism
This isn't a community. This is a big tent.
Well, if that's your opinion of this place, then don't blame us for thinking you're a clown - because you're already treating it like a circus.
Observation: Twitter is losing notifications for me, but the supposedly unreliable fedi isn't
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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meta, colonialism
@xenophora @joepie91 @thufie big "when all you have known is privilege equality feels like oppression" energy in that thread. watching people fluster because they've never seen communities meaningfully and effectively exercise agency around what gets pushed at them is really something.
meta, colonialism
@nasser @xenophora @thufie Yeeeeep
meta, colonialism
@thufie @xenophora But isn't the internet just a US thing???? You mean there are other people on there??
meta, colonialism
@xenophora @thufie "Why would you CW election day stuff when everybody is talking about it???"
Well gee I wonder if *that might be the exact reason*
- 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
