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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YouTube started recommending me some videos about EDC stuff (Everyday carry) and from what I can tell so far it's mostly silly guys getting silly gadgets and trying to justify it to themselves by making it seem like they're serious tools that they might need at any time and it's actually super cool and not at all silly or unnecessary!
No Jarred, you don't need to carry a premium titanium flashlight-screwdriver-fidget-toy-knife combo tool with you every day. It's totally fine if you do! You're allowed to have nice silly things that you like. You really don't have to try so hard to be manly and cool about it though!
I feel like most people would never even fully utilize the most basic Victorinox tbh ^^'
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people will really join a decentralised social network and then be like "admins please don't make your own moderation decisions"
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CSAM and tech companies
Between the Stable Diffusion data set containing child porn and the fact that Tesla vehicles' internal cameras record video that's on their servers apparently available for employees to share (keep in mind that minors will take their parent's Tesla out to have sex in it from time to time), there's been a lot of tech companies doing an "oopsie" and creating kiddie porn databases this year
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/20/ai-child-pornography-abuse-photos-laion/
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CSAM and tech companies (this is sarcasm)
Don't worry though, I'm certain that there will be a raid on the implicated tech companies' server locations and arrests of those responsible for these decisions
Any minute now, of course
Because all you straights actually care about children being abused, right?
And you actually want those laws against child porn enforced to the fullest extent even if you can't use it as a cudgel to make life worse for queers right?
RIGHT?
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At the end of the day, moderation is about safety. And to be blunt, far too many moderators here don't know what it is to be unsafe.
re: invite tree discussion
@aris@pleroma.envs.net Err, sorry, "as a spammer will only have one invite code or maybe a few", typo
invite tree discussion
@aris@pleroma.envs.net Strangers cannot really exploit your invite code for spam, and that makes it safe to hand them out; as a stranger will only have one invite code or maybe a few, and so all of their spam accounts will be under *those* subtree(s), not yours.
Spam (and other forms of sockpuppetry) are fundamentally volume-based attacks; they rely on the cost of "trying" to be effectively zero, so that even if most attempts fail, it'll still be worth it. But if you have to interact with a human - *any* human - to make an attempt, that's no longer true.
So no other measures would be necessary on the other unspecified platform, because no spammer is going to expect success by sending one person thousands of requests for invite codes, or even *finding* thousands of people to send one request to. The economics just don't really work.
Basically, the idea is that the "other anti-spam mechanisms" literally are just "you need to talk to a human, *any* human", and that is already enough. The spam account problem is hyperspecific to "systems that require no non-cheaply-automatable effort at all", so basically just "open registration", and pretty much any kind of hurdle prevents it.
Regarding the social graph: sort of, but not exactly. It's a very partial social graph, it will never get updated over time, and it will be less complete than literally just looking at who someone is interacting with on the site. There would have to be a very specific situation for this to reveal any more information than the operator already has.
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Holyyyyyyy, it seems sterilizing vaccines might actually happen? If this ends up working out, it’ll be huge. This would mean vaccines which actually meaningfully stop transmission!
pessimistic concern
@yosh The phrase "sterilizing vaccine" is going to lead to a whole new wave of antivax bullshit about how "a pill will make you sterile", won't it? :(
@aris@pleroma.envs.net (This is a big part of why the invites need to be unlimited and why "originates mountains of spam accounts" should be the only reason to ban a 'source' account)
@aris@pleroma.envs.net Invite trees don't entirely remove that possibility; the 'responsibility' that people have for who they invite is extremely limited.
So "send me an e-mail or message on $platform to get an invite, even if you don't know me" is still possible (and likely too, because invite sharing is common), but that likewise doesn't scale to "asking for thousands of invites to spam a place".
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St Louis news, ACAB
The proper title for this is "Rookie pig hurls 2500lb steel rocket through bar storefront and at owner, arrests owner on fabricated assault charge in aftermath"
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/two-videos-lots-of-questions-after-police-suv-crashes-into-st-louis-bar-owner-arrested/article_4b1326f0-9ea1-11ee-b9f8-4bffd8753cda.html
I'd say this ruined my day but my sour mood doesn't hold a candle to the crap the couple victimized by these bastards went through.
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We already know Google’s Web Platform Baseline does not consider AT, so it seems unlikely this will be tracked.
Numbers can’t go up if you report on your broken stuff!
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Imagine if *all* the listboxes on your site abruptly failed at once.
You would have to get on that *fast* given how much of a barrier that introduced. You might be shouted at. Sued?
Google Chrome broke listboxes across the web for all TalkBack users… let’s see… 9 months ago!
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1425494
kinda meta, more politics
You can often see people complaining about things like the fediverse, going "but how do I know what instance to use???" - and that's not specific to the fediverse, it occurs in many places.
What I think isn't discussed often enough is how this seems to be indicative of a much broader societal problem; people have become so accustomed to choices being made for them, that it seems like they have entirely lost the ability to navigate social spaces and conflicts.
This same problem reoccurs in other contexts; consider all the reporting about how people are growing increasingly lonely and don't know how to make social contacts, for example. Or how social organizing is at an all-time low in many places.
And again, the same thing in any discussion around conflicts in social circles; arguments go in endless circles and nothing ever gets talked out or resolved. Nobody ever takes accountability, empathy is generally missing.
It's like a lot of people have completely unlearned how to exist in, and take agency over their social spaces, in the span of what, two decades? Should this not be extremely worrying?
(Disclaimer: this is written from my perspective, based on the people and communities I interact with - that's not just nerds, but it probably also isn't going to be representative of the whole world, and I don't know where the exact boundaries are)
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Idk how anyone can interact with American medical systems for more than two hours without becoming radicalized lol
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So, about that idea of using invite trees for preventing spam on fedi instances...
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*Turns off phone so it can charge faster*
*Forgets to charge it* 
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general moderation meta, fedimins, not a subtoot, but the legendary retoot
- When marginalized people make progress, look to see who responds as if it's too much. It's usually a small percentage shift like from 95% to 90%, but watch for privileged folks who act like it's already past 50% and into their entire disadvantage.
- Look also for privileged people to take criticisms as attacks. As I've said before, when a marginalized person provides criticism, they'll remember how you respond, and they may never give you a second chance.
Unfortunately it seems that fatigue has sapped me of my strength here, so I'll stop while I'm still focused.
To sum up, it's very possible for admin and moderators to be not so great at identifying and responding to their own privileged assumptions. And while it may result in a set of moderation decisions that have no impact on their white users, the same decisions may expose marginalized users to unacceptable risks to personal safety and comfort.
My instance, rage.love, is moderated according to many principles that are tightly associated with the fedimins' general moderation priorities, and I'm happy to have that protection as a complexly marginalized user. I'm grateful for the moderators and their efforts, on rage.love.
I hope you're happy with yours.
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general moderation meta, fedimins, not a subtoot, but the legendary retoot
Please note that I'm about to outline some basic principles of anti racism theory that are the baseline assumptions I've seen fedimins promote, what I promote, and what led me to join them originally. I'm not going to justify these points. If you want to discuss it, feel free to ask, but going deeply into it will require paying me my consulting rates.
Principles:
- It's not possible to be racist to white people. In general, it's not possible to be bigoted towards the people in power.
- Freedom of expression, unmoderated expression, promoting uncareful expression, not being sensitive to people with access needs (e.g. alt text) or trauma e.g. content warnings), are all problematic, and potentially traumatizing.
- When you are told by someone directly affected that something is problematic, you should take it seriously (unless you've seen it before and already evaluated it), and if you believe the criticism is valid, you should make amends.
- You can't unlearn racism or supremacy or colonialism and then just be good. It's a lifetime of learning and reviewing.
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- 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
