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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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
sort of meta? about designing federated systems
I think a big part of why fedi succeeded at being active for so long without an immediate migration wave, is because unlike most other social platforms, it accommodates finding *new* people and communities rather than just talking to people you already know.
That really softens the blow of the network effect quite a lot, and other federated systems should probably learn from this.
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mastodon performance is going to be very bad today. for everyone, on every instance. please do not bother your admins about this. thank you, we love you, maybe take a nice lil walk outside in the crisp late autumn morning (or spring evening, whatever hemisphere) while you wait for your picture of your cat to upload. cheers.
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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".
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’
- 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
