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
@iJohnnoo Voor wat meer context: in minder dan 3 weken is het aantal actieve gebruikers op fedi bijna vervijfvoudigd(!!), de infrastructuur kraakt aan alle kanten, en een aanzienlijk deel van de nieuwkomers stampt dus inderdaad op modderlaarzen binnen.
En dat alles op een netwerk dat vrijwel volledig gerund wordt door vrijwilligers, voornamelijk door (en voor) mensen die elders weggepest zijn, en met wiens behoeften door veel nieuwkomers geen rekening gehouden wordt.
Dan is het toch niet heel gek dat men overal momenteel een beetje een kort lontje heeft? We krijgen op dit moment allemaal een flinke klap te verduren, eigenlijk zonder enige ondersteuning van buitenaf, laat staan van Twitter zelf.
@textfiles (As a sidenote, many instances have some sort of "please boost" emoji like 
, and it tends to reach way more people that way for requests)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Might as well see how the fediverse responds to one of my typical requests. This weekend, I'm moving my storage items (mostly to-be-digitized stuff) from Beacon, NY to Ardsley, NY on Sunday. If you think you might be able to help, e-mail me at jason@textfiles.com. It's about a truckload, I'm renting the truck but I have to be careful with my back.
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@crocodile The frustration I've seen (and experienced) around lacking CW use myself, is more to do with people not even taking the time or showing the interest to understand those reasons, and just declaring "nah, not gonna do that, deal with it".
I don't expect people to immediately understand. I *do* expect them to hang back for a bit and get a sense of a community and its norms before storming into it at full speed.
@wheeze_NL I *think* you can find them under 'authorized apps' in your account security settings or something along those lines
@notafurry @digdug@socialism.social @ajroach42 Problem is that this only really works if the platform in question is designed to be an outrage machine, which most are, but fedi isn't.
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I just suspended two accounts from Car Companies that have registered on website boy's instance.
If you see more Corporations that are responsible for accelerating global climate change joining the fediverse, please join me in pointing a ban hammer at them.
@AFriendlyBeagle@toot.site (or at /about/more, depending on... the Mastodon version I think?)
@AFriendlyBeagle@toot.site FWIW, on Mastodon instances, the blocklist is usually visible (often only for logged-in users) at /about
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disappointed that I'm seeing more and more non-captioned images cross my TL. I understand and respect that there are a lot of new people around and that means the culture will shift and change with them, but this is one aspect of fedi culture that I would really like to preserve.
so, if you are able, please please please caption your images!
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art q 
you know how those sort of graphic gouache paintings with only imprecise wet blending and details layered on top capture what's really satisfying about using the medium
https://youtu.be/BXPoFmJ82Pc?t=433
what is the style / project that showcases what is satisfying about colored pencils?
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[104] A'dam staakt preventief fouilleren
https://nos.nl/teletekst#104
@Valkyrie Collaborative guerilla art!
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So someone at work has started leaving ducks around. So, I’m adding art captions. Because, of course I am. #ducks #GuerillaArt #office
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My personal recommendation to people who are new to Mastodon is: talk about things that aren't Mastodon. Might sound simple, but during a big time and a big migration it's easy to get focused on the platform instead of... anything else! A timeline full of mostly talking about the platform isn't healthy for the platform itself - and it's not that fun either. Start living here! If you like to, anyway.
@cadey Think of it as a natural growth throttling mechanism
@AgathaSorceress@eldritch.cafe Trader Joe's
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.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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- 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
