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

the nature of the #art world being shit comes (also) from the inability of artists to #unionize and fight together. which is linked to their unwillingness to see themselves as #workers.

the individualistic capitalistic mindset is stronger than ever in the art industry for both artists and art-adjacent workers.

everybody is (and must be) a freelancer ffs!

we are also realising this on the light of some conversations that we are having with colleagues in france and italy around issues that could be (more) easily resolved, or dealt with at least, if people would manage to just fightback together rather than having instgram stories and twitter threads as the high peak of their revolutionary agenda.

things are already better than now than, let's say, 5 years ago, but we are still so far from achieving anything.

"Everyone should be welcome!"
No they shouldn't. Nazis can fuck off.
"Expecting people to learn the culture and norms of behaviour to participate is too hard! How are we supposed to learn what they are?"
What part of the "No Nazis" sign are you having trouble with?

ez-cookie needs 302 clicks per session. 302. Clicks. Per. Session. That's outright abusive, IMHO, and shows you how they really try everything to make it difficult for you to express "No, thanks. I don't want to be tracked".

I'll say it again. Don't make me tap the sign.

Apparently Reddit is the latest website to decide, wait, no we don’t want to offer free API access to third party apps after all.

Though the API that people use to perform unpaid moderation for Reddit is apparently still going to be free so that’s very nice of them.

someone: (rallying for accessibility to not be an afterthought)

techbro: devils advocate here, these things cost money. why should we do that when disabled people are poor?

If you come across a (news) article about your government exploring technological solutions to an issue “inspired by Silicon Valley’s approach to problem-solving” what they’re saying is they’re gearing up for yet another assault on people’s fundamental freedoms and basic human decency.

I am not in the least surprised that this is where Nova went straight away.

Heck is the first thing I said when I heard she left fedi. 🤣
#Bluesky #hachyderm

Federation is a privilege, not a right.

Other admins and mods will hold your admin/mod team to a much higher standard than you might expect to be held.

Me, reading Trending: Wow it's weird how people who get censured for not behaving well keep talking about how the rest of us are the ones who need to change our culture. So weird.

hoppala

https://drop.allegutendinge.jetzt

my bed,,the final frontier . these are the voyages of sleepy cat

With this whole bluesky thing, I once again see the take of how bad fedi-ux, no, ux in floss in general, is.

But you know what? Maybe instead of complaining, it's time people learn to look for solutions themselves. I feel like the blame is being put on the devs and projects who are actually doing work; "They" aren't doing their work good enough.

But you know what? These projects and these devs actually bring something not bad into the world. You're comparing a project backed by a billionaire with a project hacked together by a couple of people who, just like you probably, are just wage slaves trying to have something better in what little free time they have.

We don't have a billion, or even a million, dollar to pay people to focus on developing this. We don't have "the right" people to put on specific tasks. The only people we have, is the people who are willing to put what little time and energy they have into this.

And you know what? You too can probably do something. This is a capitalist world and we're all victims of it. You don't need to be a developer. You want better ux? Fine. Find yourself a ux-er willing to put in the work. Find yourself a project willing to work together on this. And find yourself the money to pay people so they actually have the time to work on this stuff you think is so important.

I've worked on pleroma and now i work on akkoma. In both cases i can tell you that people are mostly trying to not let things fall apart completely. There's a big burden crushing our shoulders because we have a sense of responsibility towards the world. We're already doing all this. Why are we expected to not only be devs, but also analysts, engineers, architects, community managers, support, doc writers, and more?

I think it's good that people identify problems, but please, try to also think of solutions. We can't all bear this alone.

Shoutouts to the one trans or gay or furry airline engineer doing this

Das Baumarktgrauen!

Wenn ihr was für #Insekten tun wollt, pflanzt einheimische Stauden, lasst Todholz liegen, kauft keine Petunien, keinen "Sommerflieder" und sterile "Geranien" und bitte auch keine sinnlosen nicht #Nisthilfen aus der Ramschabteilung.

Mit wenigen Ausnahmen haben diese Nisthilfen alle eines gemeinsam:

Billiges Ausgangsmaterial.
eine eher lieblose, teilweise sogar unprofessionelle handwerkliche Verarbeitung.
ein nahezu komplettes Ignorieren der Ansprüche der Insekten an einen artgerechten Nistraum.

Hier im Artikel und in den Videos wird sehr gut beschrieben, wie man gute #Insektenhotels von untauglichen unterscheidet.

https://www.naturgartenfreude.de/wildbienen/nisthilfen/baumarktgrauen/
Foto: Gestern in einem Gartenmarkt 😵‍💫🦋

When you give me a labelmaker:

so, because privilege makes people so oblivious

i guess i have to spell it out...

WELL-TO-DO TECH WORKERS

SHITTING ON POOR PEOPLE FOR TRYING TO SURVIVE

HAVE YOU CONSIDERED SHUTTING THE FUCK UP, AND THAT YOUR OPINION DOESN'T MATTER HERE?

i know you must feel like god's gift to this earth because you know computer magic but

consider that that's not the end-all be-all of existence

and that you -- yes, even smart capable dependable you -- are capable of having blind spots

#hachyderm

and there's a concerning number of people in this conversation who just don't give a shit about the root cause of this most recent flare-up

they're just mad because people are blocking/muting/whatevering their instance or the one their friends are on

they're not out here calling mutual aid posts "scams" but they still just don't see what's all that important about it

to them it's just "a small disagreement" instead of, y'know, SURVIVAL

privileged fucks