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
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As a growing number of instances block journa.host, I'd encourage people to steer clear of the narrative that Mastodon's culture is somehow anti-journalism. If you're looking for a natural experiment, take newsie.social — I could be wrong, but as far as I know there's been no widespread blocking of that instance, which also predominantly hosts reporters. This is about the moderation decisions made by a particular instance, not some broader antipathy for journalism.
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I’m beginning to see quite a few “this is a positive space, there is no place for negativity here” style posts (especially by newer folks) so I want to hopefully clear something up:
This is also a space to be protected. From fascists, bigots, etc., and also from corporate capture (unless you want to watch it turn into what the greater web turned into. Some of us lived through that once. Would be nice not to again.) Opposing such things—and vocally if need be—is not a negative; it is a positive.
re: meta, talking about transphobia
@pikhq@tech.lgbt Definitely very "fuck around and find out", with a particularly low latency between the two
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@rra I'd be very concerned about creating systems of power that are easily exploitable -> lead to oppression, which would make things worse.
This sort of large-scale power-building makes sense in situations where you're dealing with a large powerful adversary (government, employer, etc.), but... is that actually what we're dealing with here on fedi?
Or would a loose association of likeminded folks, like we have now, be capable of achieving the same thing but without the risks of power systems? Because that certainly seems preferable.
@zens@merveilles.town (And in "yeet from community" I also include "immediately close any issues they file without further consideration")
@zens@merveilles.town Speaking as a FOSS person: they are full of shit, and while there is good (technical) reason not to carve out exceptions in the license, that absolutely *does not* extend to the community around it or who things are built for. The sole correct option there is to yeet fascists on sight, and that is entirely compatible with FOSS.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
obviously the best part of being an "adult" is that you can buy all the plushies you want
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about political know-it-alls (they annoy me)
anarchism is a group effort and nobody has to know everything to think that everybody deserves nice things and have their basic needs met. You also don't need to know everything or read much to recognise that hierarchies are shit.
Cool down.
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I have a request.
Bad actors will soon figure out - if they haven't already - that setting up impersonations of important organizations now will allow them to set off an explosion of chaos and confusion at a time of their choosing.
So if you run an account for an organization (especially #LGBTQ), please set up link verification between your Mastodon account profile and your organization's website.
If not, please boost.
Instructions are here under "Link Verification":
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/
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If you think it’s horrible one billionaire bought up the public square and killed it, wait until you find out why your city doesn’t have a trolley system
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shitposty about bad instances and transphobia
Instance blocks, like puberty blockers, are completely reversible.
They are also almost never reversed because the regret rate is vanishingly small.
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It would be neat to try to make an activitypub client that doesn't do anything useful but instead uses the feed to create pretty art that changes in response to all of the activities pubbed like imagine having a tiny picturesque rural village on you computer that's full of tiny people going about their lives visiting busy market places and shops and riding a tiny train and then suddenly a building burns down because someone complained about not having "quote tweets" again.
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I've mentioned this before, but beep
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I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.
It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.
It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.
Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.
@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...?
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@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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- Pronouns
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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.
- 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
