Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

The fediverse is the promise of a liberated media that the Videofreex and The Raindance Corporation foresaw in the 60s and 70s, that the Culture Jammers demanded in the 80s and 90s.

This is mutual aid, this is anticapitalism, this is collaborative ideation.

We are living revolutionary values, right here, right now, on a silly little social media network.

And I will fight to my last breathe any God Damn corporation that tries to Monetize that.

This is the future, and you're a part of it now. Be a good steward of the future.

But there's more!

We can ensure that the situation does not develop in to a gmail situation through cultural pressure and education.

The power of a network is in the people who use it.

If a FAANG company (MAANG? MMAAG?) tries to step in to the fediverse, we have a duty to take the fight against them out of the fediverse and in to the larger internet.

Leverage the fact that they have brought attention to us to bring attention to the fact that they have a record of killing things that work the way our thing works.

We can, all 1,000,000+ of us, make it the worst PR move of their existence.

I'm seeing some Embrace, Extend, Extinguish hand wringing circulate this morning.

I don't want to write another blog post, folks won't stop boosting the last one.

So it's post time. I'll keep it brief.

If Google, or some other big player, shows up in this space, retro.social will defederate immediately.

Before any worrying signs, before any extensions to the standard.

I'll defederate and move on with my life.

M.S is already too big. I already have them silenced instance wide. If any existing player tries to join in with bluster, they'll find themselves banned here (and, I imagine, across 90% of the small instances.)

They still can't stop me from running my own mail server, even if they mark most of my outgoing mail as spam.

So, at the least, we're not going anywhere.

Voor een dagbestedingsproject (voor cliënten in herstelfase, na ernstige psychiatrische problematiek) zoek ik oude computers, randapparatuur en losse onderdelen.

Regio Arnhem/Wageningen.

Ik kan spullen ophalen, als de afstand niet te groot is.

Boost = lief

So I've known that #masto instances can shut down but I found one (that I was considering joining) in the middle of that process: cybre.space, a #cyberpunk #retrofuturist #glitchpunk instance.

The admin's decision to close up shop with an 'end-of-life' plan is written out here: https://cybre.space/~chr/cybre-space-eol

Sad but valuable info, just to know how these things go down and what they look like here on #mastodon

#feditips

1st day on Mastodon: hi everyone, I'm interested in art, architecture, and cat pics!! 😊

3rd day on Mastodon: gonna find bigfoot and fuck him

The internet archive did a foundation/corporation/brand/etc landing on the fediverse right.

They set up their own instance right from the moment they decided they wanted to do it. Their employees are on it and when they post therein they are speaking officially.

Anyone who doesn't want it can zorch the entire instance. Done. Clean. They're not using community resources on an instance some individual is running off donations.

I think about this a lot because fedi does have A Way of getting people to embrace Goblin Mode and it's grand, people being weird internet gremlins is what makes this place fun

during one of the earlier waves of migration someone who had recently signed up posted something along the lines of "when you first arrive it's all very confusing and offputting but by the end of the day you're banging your fists on the table shouting TRAIN FUCKERS TRAIN FUCKERS TRAIN FUCKERS"

Are you new here? New being defined as shorter than 2 months. Today is Nov 6.
I am interested to see how far the fedi reaches.

Please boost. #askfedi #new #poll #toot

Tijd voor een paddenstoel!
Dit is de grijze slanke amaniet. Zoals je kan zien een verwant van de vliegenzwam, te zien aan de dikke witte stippen.

Van het zelfde materiaal is de volva die de paddenstoel aan de voet omringt.

#Paddenstoelen #Schimmels #AllFungiAreBeautiful #Natuur

https://determinerik.home.blog/2022/11/12/grijze-slanke-amaniet/

What would the Internet be if it hadn't been privatised? Probably a lot more peer-to-peer.

biblically accurate vlc

🏴‍☠️ stolen from someone who didn't provide source or alt text

original: http://www.newamericanpublicart.com/protected-knowledge 🐘

mastodon is a consensual hallucination that converts json to shitposts and that’s really all you need to know about it.

Gadget approves of my new board game #caturday #catsofmastodon

looking at a flamegraph in despair, realizing there's nothing major I can actually change, off the top of my head, but also realizing the cost of certain stuff.

33% of application time is spent _just_ on serde_json::de.

10% on alloc::sync::Arc<T>::drop_slow for a single type of thing.

And a whopping 42.47% on tokio::runtime::task::raw::pol<tokio::runtime::blocking::task::BlockingTask>, which makes me wonder if I'm just misunderstanding something, or whether Tokio just has a *ton* of overhead.

I don't really know where to go from here. I can't really make anything faster than serde, and trying to shove those serde_json::de into the blocking task pool didn't change anything, so I assume it's already being done async enough.

I don't really know what the deal is with that Arc::drop_slow, but that's only 10% and I'm hoping to get *at least* a nice solid 30% improvement before I feel like I'm doing something worthwhile.

Anyone know Tokio enough to understand a flamegraph for something that uses it?

#rust #rustlang

So I was checking my logs and people report me to me all the time, but I got a report from mas.to, who has defederated with me, which is fine, but what was said got my attention.

They called me racist and said I didn't use content warnings for my content, which we've discussed at length this week, and how entitled it is. We all know that's just white people shit.

But they say I attack people. This is a bald-faced lie. If you look at every single one of my contentious moments with other users on here, they come at me. I don't attack people. I defend myself. 100% of the time. I do not go after people. That's not my thing, and I have zero interest in the lives of bigots and people who just don't like me for whatever reason.

Earlier in the week, I talked about how much understanding there is for bigotry and hate on the fedi but that isn't extended to it's targets.

The situation is with mas.to is a perfect example of this.

I would urge caution for anyone who interacts with that instance as they've shown a tolerance for bigotry but none for people who are harassed and targeted by it.

We need another sex positive, sex worker instance on the fedi.

We don't have enough smut. Smut levels are far too low.