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

✅ i don't want to see or be seen by .social users

Have a guess who'd catch the most flack:

Me if we were to even *think* about defederating fosstodon for continuing to host an account like this despite it having been reported by a bunch of instances:

https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/110815813243559950

Or Fosstodon, for hosting them

Correct, it would be me

mh – mental health
ph – physical healh
pos (or +) – positive
neg (or -) – negative
~ (sometimes ?) – unsure if it’s positive or negative, or somewhere in-between
ment – mention
pol – politics
uspol/ilpol/ukpos/eupol etcetera – politics, but region specific, the first two letters are an indicator (uspol – united states politics, eupol – european politics, and so forth
oh – overheard
ooc – out of context
nsfw – not safe for work
tmi – too much information
sa – sexual assault
csa – child sexual abuse
sh – self harm
sui – suicide
sfw – safe for work
cw – content warning
cn – content note, haven’t seen this one personally, but used for context rather than warnings
alt – referring to alt-text, which are media descriptions for the visually or aurally impaired
ec – eye contact, usually an image of someone or something looking directly at the camera
what – commonly it’s used for “hotdogs are tacos” type deals, stuff that seems silly that’s meant for messing with people
??? – confusing or nonsensical
veg – usually vegan, sometimes vegetarian
exp – experience
qt – quote toot/tweet
rt – re(toot/tweet)
qn – quote note
rn – renote
qp – quote post
rp – oddly, usually roleplay, but it could be repost too
lb – last boost
ref – reference

– tone indicators –
/lh (or just lh) – lighthearted
/j (or just j) – joking
/s (or just s) – sarcasm
/srs (or just srs) – serious
/sx, /x (or just sx or x) – sexual
/nx, nsx (or just nsx or nx) – non-sexual/not sexual
/ly (or just ly) – lyrics
/r – romance
/gen (or just gen) – genuine

– queer community abbreviations –
enby/nb – a non-binary individual, someone who is neither boy nor girl
terf – trans exclusitory radical feminist, someone attempting to fight for women’s rights while only fighting for some of them
fart – fascist aligned radical transphobe, used for the same group as terf
transmed – someone who believes trans people can only be boy or girl, must medically transition, and must have dyshporia in order to be trans (i.e. a malevolent wilfull ignoramus)
lgbtqia+ – lesbian gay bisexual trans queer intersex asexual etc., used as a general term for the queer community
alphabet mafia – a slang term for the queer community making fun of the lgbtqia+ acronym
grsm – gender romantic and sexual minorities, a more inclusive umbrella acronym for the queer community
hrt – hormone replacement therapy, a medical process using supplements to artificially increase or decrease the hormone levels of an individual, resulting in gender affirming physical changes
ts – trans
saph/sapphic – in reference to the historical lesbian poet Sappho, who was a significant face of early lesbian communities, sometimes used in place of the term lesbian

Feel free to reply with more and I’ll edit them in
Link to this list on my website for longevity

CORRECTION: i have been asked by my source to publish a correction regarding two prominent examples on the list which turned out to be false positives

https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/meet-the-shitpoasters/#correction

osm: here's the exact coordinates of every bollard on this street

google maps: bob's discount curtains and used radioactive sources

I use openstreetmap most of the time these days so it's a weird experience looking at google maps, because instead of, like, detailed locations of pedestrian crossings, or exact layouts of bike paths, there's 20 places that want to sell you something

I saw a twitter tweet embed on a website, and it has the X logo in the corner, and my first thought was "oh, look, twitter knockoff"

i don't have the energy to field any questions along the line of "wait, what's going on?" - so here are some links that you can use to educate yourself. all of these were posted today, and discuss the events of the past... weeks? months? i don't know anymore.

but here ya go, have fun. and keep in mind that these posts were written by people i consider friends, so i won't be tolerating any posts criticizing them in this thread. take it somewhere else.

- https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/defederating-universeodon
- https://indiepocalypse.social/@quon/110804291970123839
- https://ngmx.com/@custodian/110804401052794325
- https://toot.foundation/@MelonTusk/110804465528179493
- https://oliphant.social/@oliphant/110805278098764402

and if you follow me, you'll be able to see these (more raw and emotional) explanations i gave to one of my friends who is currently on universeodon:

- https://cutie.city/@nuz/110801872128450762 (posted last night, before any of the posts linked above were made)
- https://cutie.city/@nuz/110804786367219749 (posted today, after most of the posts linked above were made)

i've temporarily locked my account to prevent people following me just to see those posts, but i'll probably still approve follow requests from people who seem safe to interact with. maybe. we'll see.

💡​ 💡​ 💡​ <UPDATE (2023-08-06)>💡​ 💡​ 💡​

i'm a bit less on-edge now that things have settled down, so i've unlocked my account again. feel free to follow to see those posts, and no worries if you unfollow afterwards. /gen

there have also been some important posts made over the past week (has it really only been a week? oof). so i figured i might as well link those here too.

1️⃣ https://dotart.blog/welshpixie/the-toxic-manosphere-of-fedi (regardless of what you think of welshpixie, this is a must-read. some of the admins of the biggest fediverse instances are misogynistic as fuck, and the receipts are right there.)
2️⃣ https://oliphant.social/@AnarchoNinaWrites/110834569726464759 (if you dismissed welshpixie's post as "oversensitive" or "just fedi drama", that was a terrible judgment on your part, and you should read this post to understand why).
3️⃣ https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/an-update-on-universeodon-yes-still-defederating (this is a follow-up to the very first post i linked in this message - oliphant's "defederating universeodon" post. in this update, he illustrates the mental/emotional turmoil that comes along with being an instance admin who tries very hard to keep their community safe. he also points out the lingering damage from byron's abuse, and how it retraumatized many of us. ❤️‍🩹)

💡​ 💡​ 💡​ <END OF UPDATE> 💡​ 💡​ 💡​

oh, and here's one more link that's useful in general. it's relevant to anyone who's reading this thread and wondering why i sound so angry and abrasive, and thinking that my message would be much easier to digest if it was conveyed more palatably. (fuck you, by the way.)

- https://blog.apaonline.org/2022/05/10/tone-policing-and-the-assertion-of-authority/

(honestly, even if you think you already understand tone-policing, i'd still recommend reading that. it's a really great article.)

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