Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
- 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
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i only want emoji reactions that only the poster can see. little private post-attached emoji DM mechanisms.
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Charts like these – showing the immense carbon footprints of billionaires – should make us seriously question any exhortation on what "we" must do to address #ClimateChange (I'm guilty of using this phrasing too). Always ask: who is the "we"?
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Found it! (Thanks @largess)
If the world's richest 10% reduced their carbon footprint to the EU mean, carbon emissions would fall by 32%.
lewd-adjacent meta, kink
Also also, I've noticed that the other people who seem to share my kinks (and don't fail the vibe check), are overwhelmingly trans/queer, autistic, and anarchist - and I'm quite curious why that is, because I can't attribute *all* of that to the vibe check
lewd meta, kink
Also, I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding other folks with an interest in CNC, and all that I can find also seem to be subs
lewd meta
Browsing lewd stuff, I can't help but notice that even on the kinky instances, the cis dudes always seem to have the absolute most boring feeds, just endless fields of dickpics in nearly the same pose every time, no creativity, no fantasies, no identifiable kink
Presumably some people find this interesting, but for me... no thanks, a bit more personality would be nice :/
I still remember when I first learned that there are places where parents have to drive around their kids all the time, to go to friends or other places.
It baffled me at the time, and it still does today.
re: Facebook Threads
(For those unfamiliar: MAU means Monthly Active Users, and so it's measured over the past month.
"After a month" is exactly when the user surge drops outside of the measuring frame, and so everybody who tried it out and didn't return suddenly no longer gets counted. And so you *always* get a sharp drop.)
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getting a phone call from someone who hasn't spoken to you since you transitioned
Facebook Threads
"Threads userbase drops by 80%, only a month after launch"
Yes, this is how MAU metrics work, when are journalists gonna stop reporting these misleading metrics?
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At the last tech job I worked at, the part-time CFO of the company revealed that he also owns apartment buildings in another state that he rents out. He explained that this was his main source of income. When he asked me if I rent or own my place, I told him the truth and replied that I rented.
His response? "Oh, so you're one of those people?".
I fucking hate landlords. Glad that company went under.
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re: theorising about why people defend large, bad instances
I hate to summarise all arguments with "actually it's just capitalism again" but
it's just capitalism again
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re: theorising about why people defend large, bad instances
like a lot of the capitalist mentality is that of a constant fight for survival, where the sole benefit is the illusion of independence in your choices
whereas in reality everyone is supported by others and breaking down the barriers to turn those people supporting you into actual people you need to care about, is a scary prospect, since before you were under the illusion you could do it all yourself
but like, you couldn't. there were people exploiting and controlling you all along. now you have the choice to choose your community, but that comes with the fear of choosing incorrectly, even though that's not nearly as bad as you'd be led to believe
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theorising about why people defend large, bad instances
I think that the reason why people stay on places like mastodon.social and hate people telling them to leave and go to another instance is because they're used to being on a website run by people who don't give a shit about them, and confronting that means confronting the possibility that they won't find a place that does give a shit about them, and would have to just fuck off to nowhere
so you have this self-fulfilling prophecy of self-antagonism where if you stop fighting you cease to exist, when in reality you can just stop fighting and be fine, with the occasional requirement to actually be part of a community instead of fending for yourself
The world if programmers, instead of trying to make it faster to write code, focused on making it *unnecessary* to write that code in the first place
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Bluesky is a place where people who don’t like computers assume computers can do things well, Fediverse is where people who really like computers are sure they cannot do things.
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discord popped a user survey for me and it's pretty much what you'd expect
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
✅ debug a non-booting homeserver from 500km away
✅ negative covid selftest
✅ first mate of the day
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The Jeffiverse
All of these instances are run by Jeff of newsie.social . Some of them now redirect to others when they didn't 'take off'. I think I'm also missing at least one but I also think that one got shut down and redirects to his business now.
bigrelay.social
celebrity.social
civiq.social
conchrepublic.social
honeytree.social
lawstodon.social
verifiedjournalist.social
newsie.social
- 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
