Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @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
re: Openning a big instance
@ajroach42 I feel like the most important question isn't addressed here: how do you prevent this from becoming another mastodon.social-esque poorly-moderated general server?
The real scaling problem is in dealing with people, not with servers, and if there's not even a unifying factor in terms of interest/politics/etc. among the users, I don't see how it could ever be moderated effectively, even with paid mods.
re: meta, Hachyderm, FediBlock
@mxkoder@hachyderm.io Right, this is why I added an addendum reply to my post shortly afterwards - I realize that not *everybody* on Hachyderm is like this.
The problem however is that Hachyderm as a whole is very rapidly starting to become a threat to the broader fediverse and everything that people have painstakingly built up, and that is a higher priority to me.
This wouldn't be such a problem if people were willing to hang back and get a read of the community first, but instead a lot of people are driving capitalist nonsense into fedi at full speed, and that's a real problem.
The corporate policy is a great example of this - the sensible thing would have been to *not* invite corporations and wait it out for a few weeks to get a sense of the community first, but instead they're just... going ahead with it anyway. "Do it first, ask questions later".
And that's just not how it works here, consent is generally considered to be non-negotiable around here. This is a big part of *why* fedi was such a nice place.
Obviously people need time to acclimatize. But there are just too many people on Hachyderm who aren't taking that time at all and just *assuming* that their behaviour is welcomed here, and very little seems to be happening on an instance level to prevent or discourage this.
All in all, people seem to care more about onboarding corporations onto fedi, than they care about onboarding people to the existing community norms...
And this makes Hachyderm and particularly its leadership a threat to the existing community, and the typical response to that is an instance block.
All in all, I would recommend moving to an instance that has leadership that's more mindful of the broader fedi community. There are quite a lot of queer tech folks on here on other instances too!
(Honestly, the fact that Hachyderm advertises that it "has both capitalists and anti-capitalists" is a pretty clear indication that the moderation isn't going to improve. Capitalist-tolerant instances do not fare well here.)
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Introducing the first alpha release of Mastodon 3.11 for Workgroups!
Available for Windows 95 
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@sam god I wish I could triple boost this.
People with “Twitter experience” seem to not realise that _the point_ of Mastodon is explicitly not the same as that of Twitter.
Mastodon centres safety, intent, and humans. Not numbers. Not engagement. Not any of the goals of Twitter.
The design that worked for Twitter is not what will work for Mastodon because they’re not shooting for the same goals.
Design is also about saying no to some things. Even if users “want them”.
re: meta, Hachyderm, FediBlock
To clarify: it's not that Hachyderm *only* contains this sort of thing, there is definitely a mixed population. But *every* time I see this stuff it is from either Hachyderm or m.s, and that's not good.
re: meta, Hachyderm, FediBlock
@Kye@tech.lgbt Yeah, it's extremely obvious that folks are uncritically trying to import startup culture here
meta, Hachyderm, FediBlock
The more I read conversations between Hachyderm users, the more the whole instance starts to look like a threat to the community to me, honestly.
Why is everybody over there constantly talking about marketing strategies and pivoting and onboarding of brands like fedi is some exciting new resource to exploit?
They still don't seem to realize that they are talking about people's metaphorical living rooms instead of some corporate platform, and repeatedly violating any concept of consent in the process.
That apparently the admin decided *not* to retract the "let's invite corporations" plan does not exactly help either...
I'm inclined to call this a #FediBlock recommendation, but receipts-wise I don't know that I want to call out any specific users, considering that this seems to just be the vibe of the whole instance, and it's not exactly very hard to find.
Please remember to feed the hamsters powering your instance during these trying times
@kim cache.set(cbor.encode(key), value)
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Hey, friends: If you're still on mastodon.social or mastodon.online, you're about to lose track of weirder.earth, and other servers to follow soon. It's for the safety of our comrades: this is the quieter, kinder part of the fedi where we walk away from instances that can't or don't control harassers.
I know a lot of you still on mastodon.social and .online are newcomers who landed there because so many other instances have closed to new accounts. Please take this time to explore the fediverse and find somewhere with more reliable moderation. The move-instances tool works pretty well these days!
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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?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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.
- 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
