Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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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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- 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: uspol, technology, bad
@bstacey I don't know. Fedi as a whole is far, *far* less vulnerable to this sort of thing than your typical centralized US-based social network. Doesn't mean it isn't a risk at all of course, but the model does insulate it from this to some degree.
re: kiwifarms, suspend list scraping
@f0x @tonytins@tonybark.com 🤔 shouldn't this be prevented by CORS restrictions?
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@nova we all live in a society and all of us need to interact with corporations in some way. The issue beings on Fediverse have is with directly inviting them, because in past, it always ended badly.
They can always self host. Even our startup has it (if nothing changed) planned, corporates can handle that too. Yes, most companies will get defederated from big part of wider fediverse, but at least they won't take other users with them :)
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update: the Fediverse is no longer cooling so here is a #FediTips: you can put any pronouns in your bio. you don't have to use the ones you used on the previous site. you can change them to the ones you want to try. do it do it do it do it
also it's pretty easy to dye your own hair, but if you just wanna try a new color reversibly, i recommend cosplay-grade wigs
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
live set recordings that don't mute the MC :(((
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Anne C.A. Baanen
there's a difference between pouring in milk first and then tea, or pouring in tea first and then milk. this is called noncommutativitea.
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@joepie91 this is exactly why you NEVER make personal accounts on an email address managed by your work or school, not just because it's against policy, but because they could use your personal account without your permission
@y3mz It's... complicated to track. I *suspect* that much of the Cloudflare skepticism today can be traced back to my article indirectly, based on how people talk about it, but I don't have concrete evidence for this.
For the VPN gist it's much clearer; that gets shared a lot directly. It does also seem to have influenced a lot of later articles and videos on the topic, to some degree.
Overall, I'm fairly happy with both; it took a while (much longer than I'd have liked for Cloudflare in particular), but the vibe in the 'public debate' has noticeably shifted from "look how cool this is" to "ehhh welll... I dunno".
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I suppose this is why I don’t worry about Twitter dying off.
In many respects, I made my peace with the fact that Twitter isn’t a platform that serves its users. If anything, it needs to die.
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So I suppose this is where we have to talk about the displacement people will experience when Twitter’s demise is complete.
It’s not going to be pretty (we’re already seeing what that looks like) but I do think the displacement will be temporary. Our need for community and our collective penchant for advancing how we communicate with one another has always outweighed and outlived every platform we’ve ever had.
Others have already pointed out that removing any "login with Twitter" access is probably a good idea right about now.
But there's a deeper lesson here: "what if the unaccountable tech company you're trusting to authenticate you goes rogue" is not a hypothetical.
It's probably a good idea to avoid using this sort of "login with _____" feature elsewhere as well.
@tldrellie @scanlime And it's really obvious that they're *not* used to being the house guests somewhere rather than the operators
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as with ham radio, mastodon users face a technical barrier to entry… everyone is broadcasting using janky home made equipment that breaks for no reason... you can get reported to the mods for discussing politics... every public statement runs the risk of attracting the attention of a random german man who will explain his rig in great detail
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you know me i’ll go to bat for this platform but that doesn’t mean i don’t acknowledge that its essentially the social media equivalent of ham radio
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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.
- 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
