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

The likes of Verge will never cover those people because they're not in the spotlight; they're behind the scenes doing the real fucking hard work, taking out the trash, cleaning up the mess, getting their hands dirty instead of fucking around paying someone to make a button purple.

I don't care about a shiny interview with the 'mastodon ceo' in a mag that's only interested in who's going to be the 'next big thing'. That's tedious as fuck.

Give me takes from the people who are actually deeply invested in and stewarding the communities here. Who are setting up strong barriers around safe spaces and holding their ground. The server hosts who are making fedi more accessible by covering the tech for people like me who don't know that side but know about communities.

uh, excuse me?

"anthropology is when your furry friend apologizes for something"

--me

Trust me, your teen is pretty worried about your use of social media too.

fedi is a lot of things but I think for me, most of all it's a box in my house full of trans lesbian anarchists

My favourite part of transitioning is when the illusion of cisheteronormativity falls away and you start to understand the world in an entirely new way, and you begin to exist outside of a system that honestly seems built only to keep you shackled and complacent.

And how trying to describe or explain this to a cis person is like trying to describe the colours a hummingbird sees which we don't.

God damn, The Matrix was spot-on, huh?

i spent years thinking that i wasn't "really" trans

i "wanted to be" a girl

i hated "being" a boy

i fantasized about magic or science that could change my body

but somehow i still thought i wasn't "really" trans

bc i didn't say it

(scared)

and didn't transition

(super scared)

but i was ALWAYS trans

even before i said it

even before i transitioned

even before i knew the word

there's no legal amount of pride merch you have to own before you're 'really' trans

you are trans enough

if mass reporting can be weaponised somewhere on the internet, that place is obviously too big to moderate effectively

@luna

anyone else feel mild resentment towards button-shaped objects which are not pushable?

BREAKING: Social media app Twitter announces likes are now "florps", and users can expect the timeline to "go sideways". The company was not available for comment.

AI-generated images are becoming extremely convincing. It's becoming very easy (and cheap!) for bad actors to peddle them as part of disinformation efforts.

We cannot allow them to hide behind "oh dear I thought it's obvious!" afterwards.

I believe we need to start assuming bad faith when AI generated works are posted without being clearly marked as such, just as we assume bad faith when alt-right dog whistles are posted without them being clearly marked as sarcasm.

please always make sure to read the ToS of any financial service before using it, and operate with caution. watch out for terms like 'pornographic' or 'obscene' in the part of the ToS that says what kind of transactions are disallowed.

stripe, paypal, cashapp, kofi, and a lot more, will not allow any kind of adult content. the reason is essentially that credit card companies consider sexual stuff 'high risk' (i believe due to the possibility of chargebacks and also because of the general hostile political landscape around even legal sex work). high risk transactions carry big fees and overall are rather disincentivized, so, basically everywhere says Nope

your safest bet will always be to set up thru platforms that exist primarily for or heavily are based on sex work - platforms like manyvids, onlyfans, etc. these platforms are, of course, still capitalist and bad and etc. but their core interest of 'making money from sexual content' aligns with your own enough to keep you safe in this regard.

that's all ✨
#SexWork