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.
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- 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
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Block evasion is harassment
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As more academics reach Fedi, please PLEASE consider not doing research on users here without explicit opt-in consent
This isn't a zoo
It's not just condescending for you to treat us that way, it's also against a lot of instances' terms of use
See "Use of Scholar Social for research" at the following link for an example:
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@h At least the class size for this lesson is suddenly very large
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Turns out centralised social spaces running on capitalist imperatives were a bad idea who knew
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profiles before nov 2022
‘i’m a stinky little bitch who likes to smoke mushrooms, look at my collection of pinecones, oh also i’m a #furry’
profiles after nov 2022
‘yes it’s me Firstname Lastname from the birdsite: influencer, thought leader’
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@joepie91 @leo @whatanerd
>except they actually weren't, and it was just marketing.
Being friends of OSS could even be the former intention of beings who are in charge, which makes the whole corporation world even scarier. Good intentions get twisted by need to be profitable.
In threads about corporations on Fedi, I see lot of posts about "There are good beings in there". No one is questioning that. I for example like what those working at Oxide computer do, and if I had to decide where to go next, working with them would be amazing.
But corporation itself is a separate entity from those who work there. Entity with its own motives that sometimes align, but only as long as it pays off.
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Thoughts on instance admin and more journa.host
If your leadership structure is so diffuse that you can't hit a really slow ball question like "Can your users post Kiwifarms stalker software links?"
Then you fucked it up
You did it wrong
And there's no way to ever fix that
The whole instance needs to burn
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Thoughts on instance admin and more journa.host
So when I emailed Adam at journa.host he told me that he is one of 10 mods at that instance
And so he couldn't tell me whether the behaviour in question is acceptable for a user on his instance
And that is the opposite of what you want to happen with your instance admin policy. That's a fucking nightmare scenario.
re: politics
@Saket Heh, no worries, translation isn't a lot of effort to me :p
@Coffee It does seem to be surprising to many of the newcomers
re: politics
@Saket There's a very good article that summarizes it (+ surrounding research) well, but unfortunately it is in Dutch: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/11/04/het-is-de-sfeer-niet-de-bubbel-a4147353
A *very* concise translation/explanation would be:
- People always tend look for like-minded people to some degree, as a normal social mechanism, to reduce social friction (and this is not a bad thing)
- But they will also venture outside their own group to learn other perspectives
- Understanding for other groups can be actively improved by bringing them together in cooperative scenarios...
- ... *but*, when people are brought together in *combative* scenarios (eg. forced together), it just increases polarization, and actually makes people close up and *not* venture outside their own group
The summary of the summary: people naturally compensate for the risks of an echo chamber, but they stop doing so when you take away their agency and try to force them to interact with others, and it *causes* the 'bubble' problem.
So it's not that 'echo chambers' don't exist as a concept, or that they can't be harmful, but more that the (right-wing) hypothesis of "people must be pulled out of them forcibly" is completely false and the opposite is true.
It's not without reason that right-wingers constantly talk about echo chambers whereas leftists usually don't. It's essentially just a disguised way of saying "we want to force others to listen to us".
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it's not a controversial opinion that being neutral on Nazis is the wrong move. if you think it is, you're in the wrong. also I'll hurt your body
re: Meta re content warnings
@rallias Relevant thread: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20117
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birdsite
@zkat From 7k staff down to under 1k, right before the World Cup... feels like something will break over the weekend...
re: migration
@cgranade I'm honestly a bit confused about what people have been saying. My account backup seems to just contain an organized pile of JSON, including all of the metadata (like screen name of the user being replied to), as well as all images I've posted? Do other people get a different format?
Hello new followers who seem to have imported their follow lists from Twitter wholesale: I hope you're prepared for my decidedly more anticapitalist takes here 🙃
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Somewhere, lurking deep in the terrible uncharted recesses of twitter's most ancient servers, the fail whale begins to stir from its long slumber.
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switter (the sex worker instance) was closed because of literal actual government interference from numerous nations. please do the reading before painting fedi with a swerf or other reactionary brush. i want sex workers to be SAFE dammit and that means knowing when we can't responsibly be a part of your work. and sex work is work.
please read https://switter.at/ - their own words - before developing a Take.
politics
@Saket (Nitpick; the "echo chamber" hypothesis, at least in its common form, is a right-wing talking point, and not really supported by evidence: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207159119)
re: meta, hachyderm, corporate capture
@ariadne@treehouse.systems I do kind of understand why people do it, particularly in the US with its "live to work" culture, but to me (and others) it nevertheless still signals "this person has probably not really looked beyond their personal situation or capitalist models of organization".
- 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
