Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"mute" is een fantastische functie van Mastodon, waarbij je een verlooptijd in kunt stellen. Handig als je iemand wel wilt blijven volgen, maar dies preoccupatie van de dag na een aantal toots over hetzelfde onderwerp je toch even te veel wordt.

Het zijn dit soort grijswaarden tussen zwart en wit waardoor sommige software beter is voor je geestelijke gezondheid.

@prehensile we need the fediverse gayer and fruitier. So gay and fruity and silly that the big important media types wouldn’t even think of touching it so it stays a nice little gay safe haven

#fediTips #mastoTips Don't forget to tip your server (go to the Amazon data center and physically knock over a server rack, causing network outages)

For everyone new to the Fediverse, keep in mind there's no algorithm! Likes don't do much (kind of like in old-school Twitter), so if you want others to see something cool you found, boost it! 🚀

It's the best way to share content from other creators you like, and of course you don't have to be on the same instance as them to do it! ✨✨

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

The owner of this website has banned the country or region your IP address is in (TOR) from accessing this website.

path to tor citizenship

@amberage Hell yeah!

I'd love to see more researchers exploring how much of allistic "communication" comes down to power dynamics and how often one party is expected to do most of guesswork and overcompensation and how trying this on autistic people can expose so much of the sexism, racism, classism, etc. behind those implicit expectations.

No wonder they can get so frustrated with us when it means confronting their own privilege and biases.

i could do journalism. editorials are just like long-form shitposts that the petroleum industry pays you for.

In a world where your servers are operated by volunteers rather than big well-resourced SV corporations with security teams, it’s interesting to think about how we can make identity and authentication require fewer shared secrets.

Musing while setting up 2FA: one of the nice old auth systems I remember is S/KEY. It allowed you to generate one-time codes such that the server only needs to store a “public key” (verification key) rather than a shared secret. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY

Polite reminder, if you request a follow to a locked account without reading that person's pinned toots, you're likely gonna be disappointed

I had 4 follow Req's I had to deny today, because they didn't tell me the basic info about who they are in their bio. A stream / wordcloud of tags, especially tech terms isn't a bio, it's a CV. Write who you really are in your bio, and read other people's profiles to find out who they really are before clicking follow. There's no prize for following the most people.

I require as a minimum pronouns in your bio and a DM telling me why you chose to follow me. Mastodon's "most private" post setting is "followers only" so if I let you follow me I am trusting you to see a more intimate side of my account. I feel it's fair you tell me why I trust you with this.

This is all written up in my pinned toots, but most people don't both to read those. Actually it seems most clients hide them these days 😔

Read profiles or expect disapointment.

#feditips

If you're response to coming to a place whose mostly-queer denizens have already created rules that allow them to interact comfortably with each other and scream about how you shouldn't have to follow those rules, you're just an asshole, whether you nominally belong to my group or not.

Read the room, learn the history, interact politely. Being a good citizen of a space is not rocket science.

I'm absolutely thrilled to see https://blacktwitter.io is a thing! I've been hoping to see instance centered around the experiences and moderation needs of Black people in particular.

I see a lot of people talking about how Mastodon "Feels like the Internet I remember from 20 years ago."

That's no accident. That's Federation. That's UseNet, IRC, Email, Message Boards, etc. What do they all have in common?

Federation: Users congregating around watering holes of common interest, but still being a part of a larger whole.

THIS IS HOW THE INTERNET WAS DESIGNED TO BE. And I am HERE for it.

every single day for two months now i get two emails from aliexpress, always with the same subject lines

this one was done about a year ago and I'm still pretty happy with it - fishing off a platform attached to a remaining section of the Atlantikwall, having a relaxing summer #PixelArt #ドット絵 #aseprite

When I joined #mastodon, I just wanted an open-source #twitter clone.

I got more than that. Subtle design differences made for healthier conversations in ways I wasn't expecting.

Here's a blog post to try to capture those differences and why they matter. https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/