Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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More fedi meta ranting
Of course if we *do* block mstdn.social now, which we will only do (as with all our blocks) if we have a legitimate reason to do that in order to protect our userbase, there's this fucking annoying 'gotcha' - which as others have pointed out, is the kind of thing you hear in abusive relationships.
And the sad truth of fedi is, we never have to look for reasons to ban instances. There's no shortage of shit people spinning up their little fash echo-chambers.
subtoot, re: venting, meta (both)
Also, it sure is something to be a privileged white dude and tell a bunch of marginalized folks who are distressed about their only safe social space disappearing, to "touch grass"
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i actually want straight people to be more freaked out and stop treating pride like a fun summer street fair thank you for coming to my ted talk
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If I call stux a wanker he can press a button and all the folk on his server can no longer follow me, if he's got 2000 users fine whatever but his server is Big and it should Never have been allowed to get this Big, I should not have been allowed to do the silly thing I did which was joining one of his servers
(I'd call gargron a wanker too but he already knows)
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Seriously, seriously-seriously, why does activitypub software not default to having a maximum number of users per server. It's legit to not have seen this coming but this absolutely needs to be a thing going forward
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Fediblock - Stux, list of all his instances and domains that I'm aware of.
Mastodon instances:
• mstdn.social,
• mastodon.coffee,
• masto.ai.
Pixelfed instances:
• pixey.org,
• gram.social,
• catgram.co.
Misskey (shut down):
• misskey.ai.
Peertube:
• peertube.tv,
• stux.tv (I assume that was Peertube based on the tld),
• stuxmedia.com (shut down).
His Goldfish project & instance:
• goldfish.social.
His Twix project:
• twix.social.
Lemmy:
• u.fail (redirects),
• geddit.social.
Kbin:
• forum.fail.
Wordpress:
• stuxstore.com.
Other domains:
• stuxhost.com,
• stuxcraft.com,
• stuxnet.ai,
• stux.info,
• share.fail,
• social.as,
• social.fo,
• loazy.com,
• stuckr.net.
His account handles on the various instances:
• stux,
• stuxhost,
• stuxcraft,
• io,
(Will list them all I find below: https://toots.hwl.li/@jase/110578809874522137)
This is for informative purposes for anyone desiring to block anything ran by Stux, since he runs so damn much.
And for anyone that saw when he blocked my instance at the end of May, and if your only context is based on my pissy report at him, here's context on that, all the reasons that lead to me blocking him 10 months ago that he had a tantrum to his followers over about:
https://toots.hwl.li/@jase/110572122255495642
(And his Geddit instance hasn't blocked anything yet from when I last looked either and is actively federating with baest and crap, how clever..)
Edit: just remembered, Stux also runs the Soapbox front end at coffee.mastodon.coffee.. another thing I have not been happy at all at him about, and he used to have it also at beta.mstdn.social.
venting, meta (both)
Seeing the responses of some of the more.. 'respectable' instance admins to critical questions about their stance on the Facebook thing, I am starting to understand the term "white fragility" better and better
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I think it's really funny that Apple's HQ is a literal walled garden
Yes I am in a bad mood today
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Juneteenth is a reminder that the assholes are not going to stop just because the rules said they lost. You have to make them stop.
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Q: What do you call it when for-profit social media companies are able to spread their malware into open-source code by having a secret meeting with the lead dev?
A: An Eugenvector
(That's pronounced OY-gen-vek-tor.)
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Something else that frustrates me: the casual manner in which some people are betting *other people's* safety on their own confident belief that Facebook "would never do such a thing"
angry, long, sort of meta, but also about politics in general
And yet again, the greatest threat to the Fediverse isn't Meta - but the people doing their work for them and actively making room for them by "giving them a chance", "we should have a calm conversation about this", etc.
You're actively complicit in this. Instead of listening to the many marginalized folks sounding the alarm, fearing for the continued existence and safety of their communities... you choose to give the "benefit of the doubt" to a corporation with a decade+ track record of exploitation, consent violations, and literal genocide(!).
You care more about "growth", about some superficial appearance of neutrality and rationality, about recognition by a 'prestigious' tech corp, than you do about the safety of vulnerable folks in your community.
You chose to trust a demonstrably dishonest corporation instead of your fellow community members.
And while you might think that this is 'just being rational' or 'not a big deal', it's extremely clear to everybody else what choice you've made, and that people cannot depend on you for their safety.
This has consequences, and if you wonder why people stop trusting you or being patient with you, this is why.
And all of this applies much more broadly than just the current Facebook/fedi situation, because this happens *all the time* in politics, with (especially privileged) people defending oppressive and violent institutions, often just to avoid their own discomfort.
You are complicit. You chose to be a part of the problem. You're not neutral - you picked a side, like it or not.
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you must put water into your body so that it will function, thank you from a robot who loves you.
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Also, as for the "we should have a careful conversation about Meta, not this panic":
The correct time to have that "conversation" was several weeks ago, when marginalized folks first started talking about Facebook's problematic plans, not "possibly days before Facebook launches and it will be too late if we don't act now"
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And by-and-large, it's not the privileged cishet white dudes, of course
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Sure is starting to shake out who are actually willing to fight for the continued existence of fedi
meta (both)
Want to bet that the Facebook folks that fedi admins were invited to talk to, are the exact same folks that handle acquisition outreach?
You know, the people who are specifically trained and whose *entire job* it is to appear friendly and cooperative and generally lie about things, so as to convince smaller companies to sell out to them?
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- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
