Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @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
Today's project: a proof-of-concept to see whether a Nix-like system can be built with JS
@serapath @joelving @powersource The rich do not get rich through printing money. They get rich through exploitation.
@serapath @powersource Sorry, but this is just completely false. Early forms of money were often collectively-managed exchanges of value where the money was based on existing things and a mutual agreement about their value. There was no central issuer. These kinds of systems were even cited as an inspiration for Bitcoin!
re: digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
@whreq And that is how we ended up with the overall hostility. It was entirely avoidable if said people actually took the time to talk this through with others.
re: digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
@whreq It may not be. But that is not a reason to just storm ahead and not give a shit about the rest; it's a reason to tread cautiously and carefully think about how to approach this without causing excessive issues for others. And that simply didn't happen.
Basically, in any conflict, the healthy way to resolve it is to collectively find the solution that works the best for everybody. What happened here is that one group went "well I don't care what you want, *I* want this network to grow bigger, so fuck you" and just went full steam ahead on their own preferences.
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
@whreq (And I understand that this wasn't very clear to many of the newcomers - they mostly just ended up being collateral damage in the conflict, more or less)
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
@whreq My criticism is not so much towards the newcomers, to be clear, as it is to a specific contingent of people who just stormed ahead and started trying to Grow The Network without talking to anyone else, and basically trying to speak on behalf of the entire network with no acknowledgment whatsoever of the lack of consensus on this.
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What cool historical examples of marginalized people providing medical care to each other outside of the antagonistic system should I be learning about
uspol, advice, tech
In the coming weeks after the election, keep a very close eye on which tech companies mysteriously suddenly decide to expand their services to government and defense. They're fishing for war business, and more specifically fascist business.
You probably want to cut these companies out of your life *before* that happens.
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Klingon lesson
Hat pagh
Nobody is illegal
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
Like, to be clear, I totally agree that you should be patient and welcoming to newcomers who need time to find their place, when you want to expand that community! It's crucially important, and if you're going to be trying to tempt people over, you also need to do the work of making it work for them.
But we never got to that point! We never even had broad agreement that people *should* be invited to move over here!
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US politics adjacent; Personal relationships
This post brought to you by an angry American who voted Democrat and counts himself a politics hero because he posted so many pro-Harris memes and did: absolutely nothing else, and now he blames me personally because he read about Trudeau talking about foreign interference in (Canadian) elections, assumed that he was talking about the US (what else could he talk about) and then informed me that Canadians didn't do enough and this is why Trump won
@Dex I use NixOS so this is kind of handled for me now by having a shared configuration, but if I *weren't* using it, I would most likely point (something local-default like) Syncthing at that fonts path in the home directory that I keep forgetting (assuming Linux systems of some sort), and sync them that way.
Could theoretically also work on any other system that has a user-writable fonts directory and that Syncthing works on, but I'm not sure which ones do.
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
"Bringing in new people without talking to the existing folks" is something you do when you're trying to do a capitalism, not when you're building or fostering a community
digging up some old meta frustrations that still bother me
The problem with chiding people on "you should be more welcoming to newcomers to fedi" has always been that nobody ever bothered to ask those people whether they actually *wanted* the place to grow bigger, it was just assumed to be okay and then when people objected to this, those objections were immediately paved over
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there was this fedi post from a while ago about how community isn't a party that you show up to, expecting to be served. it's more like a potluck, you're supposed to bring something to the table too. I think about that a lot. it's just really good to remember. everyone wants community but it's so easy to forget to participate in building it. I wish I realized that earlier. now I'm just hoping that I learn how to interact with people better and feel more assertive about my agency over the spaces I occupy.
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uspol & fedi meta
Now that their failing campaign is over here’s to hoping the #Mastodon4Harris libs redirect their funds to mutual aid, especially for marginalized people in the US whose communities have been destroyed by the successive Republican & Democrat administrations 🙃
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"leftists don't even necessarily mean capitalism is bad"
Yeah we do tho. We do mean that.
Yeah we do tho. We do mean that.
- 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
