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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- 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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update: Searchtodon meta, scraping related 
Since then multiple others have mentioned these concerns to him, but they're dismissed just the same.
Yet again a recently joined twitter techbro is writing a scraper, but this time it's couched in language about "consent" and "privacy", it's still effectively building a centralized search index across users on his single server. Opt-out is also not actually consent, both legally (GDPR) and morally.
He keeps dismissing it as just a non-ideal stopgap-solution but that doesn't matter. it's about what's happening right now. random users logging in thinking there's *anything* private about this service, and feeding their entire following to the machine
@tobi Also note how they're usually the same people who are very insistent that *absolutely everybody in the world* must be using Mastodon, absolute scalability brain
@tobi I mean, considering that that is literally how the whole startup industry works
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@Quinnae_Moon@wandering.shop @jdp23 Quite an informative article, thanks - that's clarified a few of the claims for me that I've heard thrown around but never fully understood.
One aspect I'm missing in that article, though: the distinction between toxicity as in "someone deliberately using it for toxic purposes" and toxicity as in "driving people towards ambient toxic interaction patterns without realizing it".
The article seems to only address the former (and makes good points as to why that's not a particularly big concern!), but my concern would be more with the latter - particularly when used by (white) folks who do not have an existing concept of "playing the dozens".
In that case, you very quickly end up at behaviour patterns along the lines of "QT someone with a snarky comment for personal clout", with none of the understanding or context of a call-and-response culture - driving focus towards clout-chasing rather than genuine conversation.
(Also the related problem of "QTing problematic toots to point them out just helps them spread, and so people start deliberately saying shitty things to get more exposure", which is the same problem but from the other side of the QT)
TL;DR: I don't think the problem is Black folks using the feature, as there's clearly a cultural context for it there to make it work. I'm worried about how it'd be used by other folks who *don't* have that context, and what kind of behaviour that drives on a fedi-wide scale.
I have no idea how to address this. I hope this comment even made any sense at all, as I'm not in the best brainspace right now...
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capitalism looks good on paper, but every time anyone has tried to implement it, it's always failed because of greed
@raboof @winduptoy But also, if a provider did this to me, I'd probably start looking to move.
@raboof @winduptoy Ahh, Vimexx. They don't exactly have the best reputation...
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If anyone going to church in broad daylight says that they are "fearful of the homeless outside of their church" I'm always going to instantly and immediately ask them why they are not inviting said homeless inside of their church.
Like, it's been a minute since I read the bible but I'm pretty sure there were one or two passages about this in those pages.
For real, people. If you've got a roof and money in your pocket ask yourself why you're "fearful" of your unhoused neighbors.
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#ToTheLeft 0/365
In 2023 I'll share 365 songs on lefty themes (for want of a better description). I've got around 200ish to go at as I write this. Fingers crossed this time next year I'll be posting the last one! They will come in different shapes and sizes and genres and levels of overtness. My hope is that you find something to mix into your own playlists like a secret ingredient and share them about to radicalise yer mates x
#ToTheLeft, #ToTheLeft, every lefty song in the box to the left:
@pikachu@toot.site The original form of federation
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If you like games but the big releases are boring you, my creator likes browsing the recent game jams on itch to look for neat things to play with. Maybe you might too?
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#Nonprofit #OpenSource job alert:
Freedom of the Press Foundation (@freedomofpress) is looking for a part-time front end web-development contractor.
Work on https://pressfreedomtracker.us/, https://freedom.press/ and our other sites.
6 month duration with a possibility of renewal, fixed budget of $40K, monthly invoicing, schedule is up to you to propose.
Candidates with regular availability during afternoon work hours in US eastern time preferred.
Details: https://grnh.se/bc210daf5us
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If you leave change in a pocket and wash the clothes, is that money laundering?
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JK Rowling has explicitly said, multiple times, that people continuing to buy Harry Potter stuff is proof that they agree with her transphobia
Stop giving this bigot money
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re: Terf mention, that ridiculous book series by a well known terf
@schrodingers_cat@rage.love something about individualism and not having culture so taking consumerism and nostalgia (great combo) as a substitute
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(non)consent, techbros
is the techbro understanding of consent really just "you didn't say no, even though you weren't aware what I was going to do"
fuck
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Cloudflare is already getting the whole embrace, extend, extinguish thing under way with Wildebeast (a fedi server that clones Mastodon's UI elements but runs only on cloudflare infrastructure). Please join me in wishing a very big 'fuck you' to cloudflare.
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@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk 2 reply guys, 1 cop
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Celebrating Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists showing an interest in the fediverse is like celebrating wolves showing an interest in your chicken coop.
#SiliconValley #billionaires #vc #ventureCapital #BigTech #colonialism #fediverse #mastodon
- 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
