Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@tomfinley @determinerik @odanu
I tried to sum this thought up a little. It might be helpful, it might not, but I humbly submit.

A lot of the time I interact with the offical Mastodon Discord and I'm just left absolutely fucking pissed or disheartened or just ... just ... ruined. Ruined by the bad takes, ruined by the refusal to consider why or how people will be impacted by things. Crushed under the weight of having someone who doesn't get it and prioritises things that only help m.s and m.o make such sweeping and offputting decisions.

Got me told off by Eugen, I want to be clear.

i like when people say 'slippery slope' as part of an argument with no real reason to accept it would go down said slope, literally naming the fallacy they are committing

You ever think about how quickly everything would collapse if we all just stopped working for a month?

That thought warms my heart.

Someone recently suggested I should look into grants for funding independent tech projects run by Black folks, but I know nothing about that world.

And recs?

Does anyone know of a unions-centric Mastodon instance? Please boost for reach.

Lets support people on here who've been cleaning up for a while. Ones I've learned about are @Are0h and @CaribenxMarciaX.

Ro has a patreon you can donate to here: https://www.patreon.com/Are0h

Marcia has a gofundme here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-marcia-get-stable

If you know of any more please comment in the replies so I can learn about them and support.

Doing some research for fake 3D found again this gif about how Tomb Raider on the Sega Saturn drew 2D sprites & distorted to get the 3D feel. It always amazes me.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VutzIK3DqZE&t=267s

#Gamedev #Indiedev #TombRaider #retrocomputing

And I can imagine some (thankfully, not all) of the new people here wondering "gee, you guys are so sensitive, what's wrong with that?"

Well, here's the gist:

#Neurodivergent and #ActuallyAutistic folks in here ​ do not appreciate images with eye contact, and much less images of angry guys cursing at you and looking at your eyes (yes, there was a post like that in my timeline; I've also seen elsewhere images of people laughing and pointing at the camera - I was bullied in school, how do you think that makes me feel? 😢​)

Even nice people smiling at you are still disturbing for neurodivergent folks.

"But if that's so disturbing, why didn't they complain before?"

And the answer to that is, YES, THEY HAVE, and they were harassed TO HELL.

So the reason why you never heard of people complaining about eye-contact images in twitter is because, as most neurodivergent folk, we've learned that raising our voice in front of hundreds or thousands of bullies is not going to result in anything good.

So you know what happened to these neurodivergent folks who were pushed away from twitter?

We moved to somewhere else. And that somewhere else is HERE.

Would you kindly consider that? Thanks in advance.

hey guys from Twitter.

we are glad to see you here but please understand that the fact that fediverse is anti-viral, anti-hierarchy and anti-capitalist is the point of it

please also understand that CWs, alt text and other stuff here is not there to "silence you" — it is to allow users greater agency over their feeds for their mental benefit, and to support disabled people.

this network was built by marginalized people. who disliked Twitter for the same reasons you do.

don't bring it back.

poly people 🤝 businesses
"our partners"

If you have seen people adding content warnings to #AIart its because sometimes the subjects can be distressingly uncanny or represent some type of body horror with misunderstood anatomy. #TheMoreYouKnow #feditips

Note to white hacker culture, we can't keep brushing racism under the "this was built by Communist trans furries" rug. We aren't beyond question just because we are left wing. That's precisely the sort of attitude that has domestic abusing union leaders running a lot of the Brit left.

Radical politics is a community of practice not a moral position you assume via some identity signifiers.

As a trans person I'm ashamed of the way transness (white transness) is being drawn on to pinkwash.

i guess this explains why all of infosec twitter (which i am not a part of) suddenly started following me on fedi all at once

handing around exports of your follows for people to just import certainly is an interesting idea especially if you follow locked accounts (like mine) and i am not sure if literally any thoughts about ethics and consent went into that idea (probably none)

thanks for completely flooding my follow request queue i guess and i hope you enjoy your gay shitposts filled timeline

"photo id verification for social media" is an idea that should never be parroted uncritically