Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

former ceo of github nat friedman blocking me on twitter for informing him hes using a nazi dogwhistle wasnt on my 2022 bingo card

Mastodon has the "Advanced web interface" which looks like the ol' tweetdeck. I don't like the super narrow columns, so I use Stylus (browser extension) to add this little css to make the home column wider:

.column[aria-label=Home] {
width: 650px;
}

one of the kids at scouts camp had this and uhh i might have to go shopping

would you be so kind and help a black non-binary girl out? 🥺

I need some help to cover my monthly bills while I try to recover some of my mental health so I can spend some more time working/looking for work opportunities. >.<

if you're interested. I can do tarot readings, pixel art, spreadsheets, game design consultancy, translations (en -> pt-br and vice-versa). Contact me and I can offer you some really nice rates for we to work something out.

any and every donation helps but so does boosting so this post can reach more people.

https://ko-fi.com/ardydo/goal?g=48

#mutualAid #transCrowdfund #mutualAidRequest #begpost
@mutualaid

A bunch of questions about this instance yesterday:
- The performance/down issues were part of @mastohost overall network issue; going to "beefier hardware" would not have solved that one.
- Funding for the instance is not an issue.
- However I might be looking for more moderators soon(ish), since that will become non-trivial amount of work.
- If your social media host is down: go outside! Look at the clouds! Feel free! :P

Seeing posts about how "Mastodon" is so untwitter, with community, conversation and a lack of posts designed to enrage.

It's not why you think.

There are certainly communities out there that would make your blood boil.

It's the lack of the algorithm deciding what you see to sell "engagement" for ads.

Admins are likely to have blocked entire servers for you. You see who you want, they expose you to things they like.

It's the model that's different, not the content.

It makes a difference.

"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