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
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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ranting about hive social
who could have ever predicted a student coding project with three people working on it and over 2 million users would have multiple critical vulnerabilities?
"The issues we reported allow any attacker to access all data, including private posts, private messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages. This also includes private email addresses and phone numbers entered during login." https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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ranting about hive social
Hive is adding ~500k users daily, passing the 1 million user mark on Monday and then 2 million users earlier today. They're supported only by the 24-year-old founder, two employees, and zero moderators.
It's completely irresponsible for them to have unlimited signups when they can't possibly handle abuse, harassment, scams, spam, disinformation, or illegal content. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-competitor-hive-social-run-by-24-year-old-founder-2022-11
@tessaracht Is this still cryptocurrency shit, though?
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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"It was my belief that as Mastodon adoption grew, the moderators of whichever instance you chose to use would have to deal ever-increasing volumes of abuse. It’d be like how email providers have to develop spam filters to combat incoming spam from every other provider (but so much still gets through).
After a month on #Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/i-was-wrong-about-mastodon-moderation.html
re: meta, FediBlock, long 
@fuzzychef (I'm avoiding naming the specific admin out loud for now, as it's not clear to me how people ended up on that list exactly)
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@fuzzychef It's only a very recent thing, there's at least one admin of large instances on there, and the QOTO admin seems to still be going around trying to peddle it to people.
Merely having it published and look official can be a significant risk (see eg. the Libre Monde thing), and I'm not at all certain that that list won't grow, or that it won't be propagated by some of the, shall we say... less community-aware instance admins.
So yes, it's true that the list of contributors is small right now. But this is something to nip in the bud *before* it gets big.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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what was your first social network?
(plz boost for sample size) 
@randomdent Other; Clubs.nl.
re: meta, FediBlock, long
@Liberonscien Among other things, yes. From the highly cherrypicked rule, it is obvious that the intent here is "promoting certain social norms", and not the "giving people control over what they see" that people normally ask for CWs for. Then the rule would've been much broader.
Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated)
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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 :/
- 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
