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

more bad vibes from Helix, a modal text editor written in Rust:

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/5520

they have not developed any kind of proper keyboard layout remapping, which excludes people who have literally anything besides a QWERTY keyboard layout, used mostly by those in English-speaking countries

I point out that this is a hard blocker for people using the editor, and that there's an existing solution that's been sitting around for over a year that has been ignored. instead, I get called entitled for asking for more features when the project is run by volunteers

like… I fucking hate when tech people advertise their projects as revolutionary fucking shit and try and entice more people to use it, and then act like calling them out for accessibility issues is as bad as calling them out for not designing things exactly the way some rando wants without them doing the work

like… there's a difference between a software project, and a community. and these people sure as hell don't know how to run a community, despite advertising it like they're building one

[115] VN:wooncrisis al lang in de maak
https://nos.nl/teletekst#115

@joepie91 @researchfairy i like the notion of referring to companies by what year they got funding so you can tell how close they are to flipping

like now it's become clear to me that the issue with the fediverse and its understanding isn't really about onboarding, Mastodon development being shit, or anything like that

it's about capitalist realism

people literally cannot comprehend social media being in any other shape than that of Twitter

and so people will propose literally contradictory solutions, like that we should have a government-run public good for "socialmedia.gov" while simultaneously breaking up big social media sites so they compete

we can't simultaneously have one social media site, and several competing social media sites, and have those all be the same thing

basically, whenever people propose a replacement, they think of the fediverse, where you can post on Twitter and be seen on Threads. maybe a government-run social media is also available for anyone to join. but in their heads, each one of these "social media platforms" has to be competing to Become Twitter, and the only thing stopping them is this mysterious market force of competition, or the invisible hand of the government, or whatever

that's literally capitalist realism

this idea that no possible economic system can exist besides capitalism. it's this idea that infects everyone's minds when they try to think of a better world. it's so hard to imagine what the world would look like without capitalism, and this is just an example of it

the idea of a "social media site" being run by anyone besides some minority of "weird" people isolated in their own little groups is not only foreign, but categorically impossible in these people's minds

and that's the issue with the fediverse for a lot of people. their vision of social media involves this rugged individualism of everyone going to the marketplace of social media and choosing the one that offers them the best value, rather than there just being a bunch of communities around and they have to actually socially interact with people and become a part of one

and with that in mind, I feel like completely redoing my approach to explaining this, starting with capitalist realism. people genuinely can't see social media as anything besides Twitter-shaped, and unpacking that first is what's necessary to get people on board

You can tell Privacy Badger was designed for websites chock full of trackers, because instead of saying “no trackers found”, it says “no trackers blocked”. I think that alone is a stunning indictment of the contemporary web.

The Torment Nexus has been invented, and you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, it's here to stay

The more important question to ask now is: How do we use the Torment Nexus responsibly?

You don't want to be left behind