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.
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- 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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politics-adjacent, infrastructure
A (paraphrased) description by someone I know, of the "fallacy of the factory", which describes a serious risk of centralized manufacturing:
You build a factory to manufacture something that people need. That requires a big investment, that the factory now needs to make back in some way, but the legitimate need isn't big enough to do so.
So now the manufacturer starts inducing demand, by lobbying, advertising the product, whatever is necessary to make back that investment. Eventually the demand exceeds production capacity, and the factory needs to expand, again requiring significant investment - plus surrounding infrastructure *also* needs to expand.
This cycle repeats until your small "factory with a legitimate purpose" has turned into a self-serving sprawling system that keeps expanding unsustainably, regardless of what exact economic system it exists under.
re: meta, FediBlock, long 
@Liberonscien Specifically calling out nudity/sexuality as requiring a CW *but nothing else* is a tell-tale sign of puritan politics, and it's the root of an awful lot of oppressive shit
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@ada Ah yeah, I can see how that might happen :)
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@ada Wait, are we looking at the same document? This is what I'm seeing:
"The following acts are strictly forbidden on all instances within the UFI: 1. Hate-based racism, sexism, and other hateful speech, but generally unpopular opinions voiced respectfully will be fine."
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@ada Thing is, that's obvious *to us*. But the whole "hate is banned, but critical questions are okay" is unfortunately a very effective dogwhistle to draw in naive centrists, who don't (want to) see the intentions behind "just asking questions" and such harassment tactics.
It could absolutely gain traction, when framed as the "reasonable compromise" approach. It very frequently does work in other contexts :/
meta, FediBlock (additional receipts)
So I've been told that the QOTO admin is also planning to sue Eugen over their removal from joinmastodon.org (presumably over the toot about the reason for their removal specifically). I do not have further context to confirm the details here, but here is the receipt.
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@ada (That is, we're not the target demographic, the 'clueless centrists' are)
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@ada I suspect the play is to try and make defederation appear socially unacceptable, to a broader public which doesn't quite understand yet why it's a thing on here.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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composite video is so funny like let’s do 480i 30fps video over one cable and then use two for audio just cuz
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@stevelord Oh, *on paper* anyone is welcome to contribute suggestions. In practice, I've talked to the guy, and he absolutely did not listen to a word I've said that didn't already fit into his preconceived notions and conclusions.
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hellsite
I'm starting to feel really skeeved out by companies, government services, and nonprofits that maintain Twitter presences but nothing on the fediverse. That means an endorsement of COVID denialism, white supremacy, transphobic violence, and other right-wing causes, all at an institutional level.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Hello I am going to repeat for the hundredth time that I used to love technology but now I spend more time complaining about technology.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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the "danger of a filter bubble" is that you might, through tremendous effort, construct a useful, readable and enjoyable incoming flow without turds bobbling in it
this idea is strongly objected to by the turds
@baldur If I got a euro for every time I had to tell someone "{fedi,Matrix} is not a startup, there are literally only downsides to scaling fast"...
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You’ll note that all of the discourse around Mastodon and Fediverse adoption now is about it “challenging” or “taking over” from Twitter.
This is yet another instance of pop culture taking over the discourse. Pop culture has to have a winner. It’s always a competition. Improvement or serving the end user is always secondary to winning out in a popularity contest.
Be extremely skeptical of any advice that is framed by the pop culture leaderboard. It’s likely to be toxic in the long run.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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"The fediverse needs critical mass to survive!"
I've been here since 2017. Sometimes it's been a quiet place. Sometimes it's fast-paced. But it's had enough critical mass for survival for a long while.
Now what it needs it to become a _better_ place, not bigger.
Safer, nicer, friendlier, more welcoming to those at risk. A hasty push for more "critical mass" is likely to make these communities more aggressive, less forgiving, and less sustainable in the long term.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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The people in the neighborhood wanted a bridge over the creek. The city had no funding for #PedestrianInfrastructure for something like that. But they did get an #art grant, so they hired an artist to create an art installation that would span the creek that people could walk on. I frequently walk my dogs along this creek and yes, over the bridge sometimes.
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/08/06/drift-pedestrian-bridge-fort-worth-texas-volkan-alkanoglu/
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Acid test for any social network or fedi instance:
If you say "fuck you" to a Nazi, who gets banned?
- 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
