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
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literally cannot describe what it's like being one of these people who were on mastodon before nov 2022. Imagine if you were chilling in a field with like 20 other people and then suddenly the glastonbury festival swarms in
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Hello world!
This instance is born as a refuge for gay people, pirates, assassins and gay pirate assassins.
You don't have to get the joke but if you want to, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
The instance runs #GoToSocial and is open for registrations.
We have rules, terms of service and a privacy policy here: https://hyteck.de/gay-pirate-assassins
meta, twitter
An odd pattern I've noticed: on the one hand, people on Twitter are claiming that they can't move to fedi because it's just a place for techbros.
On the other hand, the largest population of techbros I've ever encountered on here has been the group of them that *just* moved here from Twitter...
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How customizable is mastodon... can a server basically adopt its own front-end?
any good examples?
re: new mastodon gripes
@sofia@chaos.social It wouldn't even be such an issue if the reply fetching actually, like, *worked*...
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
#FediAdmin Mastodon 4.x tip: disabling 'trends' at least gets rid of the public /explore page your instance shows to all unauthenticated users
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Constant reminder (especially for the #TwitterMigration folks):
If you want to use a mobile app, most people will steer you from the so-called "official" one, and that's for good reason. First, the way it's structured runs counter to the concept of a decentralised fediverse.
Second, it's just... missing a lot.
You can try whatever you want, but the common recommendations I see are:
Android: Tusky
iOS: Metatext
I can vouch for Tusky. I like and use it. But play around with the supposed "third-party" apps if the "official" one is frustrating you because they tend to give you a better experience.
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During the great migration away from the birdsite, I hope everyone can pause a moment to ask themselves what it is they want from the Fediverse, and social media in general. Exposure to engagement-maxing algorithms has probably skewed how you think and act around social media, so it's useful to reassess what you expect to find here.
What is is that you enjoy about social media? What is it that you hate? Can you make changes to your behaviors to enhance the former and minimize the latter?
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@joepie91 @crablab As far as I know it's not actually possible to indicate severity in a CB message. The 'Extreme Alert' is the channel it's sent on.
The standard includes types, but that's 'earthquake', 'tsunami', 'test', and 'other'. So for technical reasons it has to look this way. At least the standard that the law refers to.
@crowgirl@hachyderm.io So far, the Venn diagram between those groups has indeed seemed to be a circle.
@crablab@chaos.social Oh yeah, it's definitely a problem - and I don't know enough about the alert system to know how fixable it is within the regulations. My comment was more just to remark that they probably legally *couldn't* have just sent it at a lower severity:)
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I'm consistently getting n word toots dropped into my mentions from randos
yea its always pleromama joints
re: Full-text search on Mastodon rant
@SeanWrightSec@infosec.exchange @buherator@infosec.exchange Yes, that process has been taking place over the last several years. The informed decision was to not add the feature.
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#FollowFriday just @geordie
He made this. I'm so sorry.
@crablab@chaos.social There's some nonsense about regulatory requirements to publish "alert over" notifications at the same severity level and scope or something. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.
@laurakm@tech.lgbt I imagine that if they tried to start federating, everybody probably *would* blocklist them, too
@Kye@tech.lgbt @paulstich@infosec.exchange Yep, agreed with this. The Internet Archive's approach is a good template for this.
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As a dyslexic, my heart sinks whenever I am greeted by reams of paper to read on top of a character sheet just as a game begins. My partner is #blind , and not (yet) a gamer. I'd love to bring her into the fold. Are there any #ttrpg which are completely paperless, at least for the players? Something where all she'd need to know is who her character is and what they're about.
@kim That's because you recognize the responsibility, a lot of people don't
- 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
