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

People that run an instance are like cat looker-afterers and we are the cats

The fact that we've already gone from "it doesn't matter what server you join" to "it sometimes really matters what servers you join" is a huge leap forward in collective intelligence when thinking about social media.

We've moved from technological considerations to social, cultural & political considerations. We've already democratized our mindset when thinking about tech.

just a note for new artists coming to mastodon:

i've noticed some of you tried to censor words like "patreon/paypal/ko-fi" etc because you seemed to do that during your stay in twitter because the algorithms would prevent your post from being massively seen

but you don't have to do that in mastodon, because there is no algorithm at all!

so don't worry, you don't have to hide links and other stuff!!

(ps: don't forget to cw your art please)

have a good day!

#art #feditips

Ik hoop echt dat organisaties in het oog blijven houden dat online deelname aan een evenement of lezing echt toegankelijker is, zeker nu er allerlei problemen zijn met de NS en andere vervoerders.

Hey there, Admin of the Internet Archive Mastodon here. I've seen some people speculate/rumor that the Archive's mastodon instance is set up to be an involuntary vacuum spot for all toots passing back into the Wayback, and it is NOT that. Any archiving of toots would be some other project (and outside my knowledge) but the Internet Archive Mastodon is just another instance, doing the mastodon thing. Communicate with us at will.

Ik lees dat DHL een klimaatneutrale cityhub in de regio Tilburg opent.

Dat betekent dat ze daar ook gewoon niets rondbrengen en iedereen elke dag een email sturen dat ze mensen niet thuis aan hebben getroffen, en men het op kan halen op het depot.

Saw some takes today about defederation being bad because it means your clueless relatives will wonder why they can’t follow x big account (Stephen Fry for example) from their instance, which means they’ll just join dot social and stay there because it federates the widest.

My official position on this is that that fucking rules actually because you can just defed from dot social and chill with people you actually want to spend time with 👍

I’m seeing an awful lot of photos posted with no alt text, and hashtags not using #camelCase or #PascalCase

Please use these for #Accessibility as it’s considerate to #DisabledPeople and also benefits others (e.g. if your image has text in a foreign language, translation tools can read it; Pascal Case hashtags are more readable for everyone). The #MetaText iOS app actually prompts you to add #AltText when posting an image.

#FediTips #FediCulture

does anyone know of an english-language resource on tironian notes? not just medieval scribal abbreviations

Anybody know of anybody doing analysis or reviews of modern propaganda, specifically in a lot of mainstream movies that have come out in the last few years?
It feels so blatant to me, someone has to be doing this work already lol

spelling it "virtualißation", with an eszett, as a compromise between the british english "virtualisation" and american english "virtualization"

There's a few too many folks wandering about and quacking about how that's "too authoritarian" or "too controlling."

And like. Idk, it's bad enough we're going to be dealing with the "anarchist" grifters and known abusive elements (who keep getting protection ~somehow~).

And those are harder to deal with when you're also dealing with fake accounts trying to run scams on your community. 🤷🏼

Hey, anarchist instances?

You can close registrations for a day or so to go through new accounts and deal with suspicious ones. And you should.

That's not un-anarchist to take time to deal with your spaces before admitting new folks. It's actually helpful to keep people safe and your community healthy.

actual threats to the fediverse:

venture capitalists

embrace/extend/extinguish by big corps

centralization

protocol fragmentation

fascists

non-threats that free speech foss dickheads prefer to focus on:

trans + queer people + people of color defederating from other instances to avoid abuse