Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- 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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- 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
@zens@merveilles.town This is going to depend on what the underlying assumption for that belief is of course, but a common assumption is that every place is as dire as Twitter and therefore without an algorithm, nobody would care.
I usually try to emphasize to people that here when people follow you, it's because they actually care about what you're *doing*, and so that makes them far more likely to share something cool you've created.
I've gotten like 10x as much interaction on here with a fraction of the followers I had on Twitter, and I've seen other people pretty much universally report the same. It's just not a fight pit like Twitter is, people *care* here.
All of that is hard to get across of course, but mentioning it explicitly might help to get at the 'root cause' of her belief?
@zens@merveilles.town Isn't that pretty much the core population of the fediverse...?
re: meta
@anildash @jon@social.lot23.com Addendum: a specific point where I'm strongly questioning the data is "doesn't increase abuse". How was this measured exactly?
Because marginalized folks have been complaining for *years* that their reports are not being taken seriously, and that they eventually just stopped bothering reporting stuff.
So how did you ensure you were actually measuring abuse, and not just a proxy metric for people's maximum tolerance of bad moderation?
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@anildash @jon@social.lot23.com Very much this. I'm seeing a lot of assumptions in there about what Mastodon is supposed to be, not the least of which is "optimizing for the majority of the world population".
That's the goal of a startup looking to establish a monopoly. It's not the goal of people building a nice place for themselves and their friends, which just so happens to also be usable by others.
I don't doubt that this is what the data showed in the context of Twitter's goals and context. But even leaving aside that data can be highly misleading for a variety of reasons, Mastodon and the broader fediverse simply *do not* have the same goals and context, and so you cannot port over the conclusions from that data 1:1.
(There are also some quite questionable implications about 'human nature' in there, but that's a separate topic.)
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Never forget Google Reader
Never forgive Google, reader
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Cyber Alert: hackers have figured out how to "promote" toots, causing viral spread across the fediverse.
If you see any such posts, it's extremely important to avoid clicking the 🔁 icon, to prevent further spread.
#CyberSecurity #CyberTips #FediTips #Cyber #Security
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@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk @selfagency@kibitz.cloud Oh, clearly. But by this point that's a choice, not a mistake.
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so since I am here now, allow me to do some SLEEP PROPAGANDA
SLEEP IS GOOD
SLEEP IS IMPORTANT
SLEEP IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY EDUCATION OR JOB
and the fact that we are forced to compromise on sleep in order to fulfill duties to capitalism is an immense injustice and health risk.
lack of sleep obviously increases stress levels and therefore the risk for all kinds of diseases, but it also damages your brain on a cellular level because SLEEP MAINTAINS THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR BRAIN.
@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk @selfagency@kibitz.cloud I warned the guy running the instance privately about precisely this sort of thing by e-mail, like over a week ago. I never did get a response.
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Here's your irregular reminder that:
Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.
Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers
The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.
Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.
And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.
We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.
@freakazoid Perhaps it's time for a good ol' classic tarpit.
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Upon further news of journa[.]host banning a trans journalist for calling out insufficient moderation action against transphobic posts on their instance
we reiterate that journa[.]host is a threat to safety on the fediverse, especially of marginalised voices and identities, and recommend an immediate #FediBlock
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friends, queer.party has been updated to fix those awful new captive links - right clicking the timestamp of a toot will once again give you the toot’s canonical URL instead of a URL that keeps you on queer.party.
the patch in question is located here if you’re an instance admin familiar with applying patches to mastodon and you also don’t like the twitter-fication of mastodon.
https://commit.pup.cloud/maff/queer.party/src/branch/master/deploy/4.0.0_4-revert-captive-links.patch
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"Meta’s misstep—and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. There is a large body of research that highlights the flaws of this technology, including its tendencies to reproduce prejudice and assert falsehoods as facts."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/
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I've updated our little list of queer and kink-friendly instances with a few new ones. Let me know if you'd like your instance added to the list! #admin https://blog.woof.group/docs/see-also
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@zens *thirty years later*
26: our makeshift photolithography table can now etch up to three photovoltaic modules and one FPGA per ounce of crushed sea glass, now that our vegan photoresist recipe has been adapted to use with saltwater. Soon we won't have to barter with the atoll's magistrate anymore for e-waste
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Does anyone remember the end of The Truman Show? Where he finally leaves the set and everyone's left staring at blank TVs and wondering what to do with their lives?
No reason.
@Rachel_Thorn (The "misleading report dialog" issue comes to mind)
@Rachel_Thorn Well, mostly. There's certainly some problems built into the Mastodon software. But at least you're not required *to* use that software.
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I like myself much better since I quit Twitter. And, yes, I understand that many marginalized people found community there, but it's like making a home in a sewer. The people you live with may be wonderful, but your enironment is poisonous. The thing about Mastodon is that, unlike a big corporation, it's what the users make it. Come here and make a racket until the problems here are fixed. Is there toxicity here? Yes, but at least the toxicity isn't built into the software, as it is on Twitter.
- 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
