Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
health update, transplantation
It's official: new transplantation date is January 14!
#AskFedi: For those using Ko-Fi with monthly donations (without tiers): do monthly donors/subscribers automatically receive updates you post by e-mail? Or does that require manual action on either end?
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funny post about the UHC shooting, eat the rich
politics meta
After repeatedly trying to discuss "what does the EU actually do, how does it actually work" with people, I can really only draw one conclusion: it's not that the anti-EU folks don't understand, it's that they *want* to keep believing the anti-EU rhetoric because it gives them someone to blame for everything as an easy answer, whether it is true or not.
(This is only about specifically anti-EU stances that usually come with some sort of nationalist rhetoric, not general anti-government or anti-hierarchy stances which are much more varied)
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Boy do I ever hate websites that turn grey as you scroll down until the point where a modal appears asking you for money or personal information
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I'm open to collaborating with anyone who's willing and able to initiate a community-driven WordPress-derived project (non-governmental non-profit org, limited leadership powers, rotating board and a proper org structure) in a responsible manner.
In fact, I've started drafting bylaws and have experience with the formalities and nuances in a European and international context.
DM me for my Signal contact or send me an email.
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A common question in parenting groups is:
"I'm a good white liberal and I haven't taught my child any racism. They're now somewhere between 4-8 years old and have just expressed a racist idea. Where could they possibly have gotten it from???"
And then half the comments are horrified white parents who tell OP to interrogate their child, their child's friends and teachers, check what they're watching on YouTube, etc.
White parents STILL don't want to recognize the impact of systemic racism.
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ACAB
now that i think about it it must have been bots from mas.to
so yeah, people. mas.to has apparently a wave of scam art bots in process going on, because as soon as i blocked the guy prompting this entire thread, another one popped in its place. watch out.
Sven Slootweg
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chat i wanna get a keyboard that's cheap (or at least not that expensive). what would you recommend
I've written a thing about dependency management models, and how it relates to the commons: https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/miscellaneous-notes/page/transitive-dependencies-and-the-commons
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De eis: sluit Tata’s vervuilende fabrieken nu! Kies voor gezondheid, klimaat en een eerlijke transitie voor werknemers. Mooie woorden zijn niet genoeg. Rechtvaardigheid kan niet langer wachten! #StopTataSteel [3/3]
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Tata Steel vergiftigt dagelijks omwonenden, overschrijdt normen en veroorzaakt enorme CO₂- en gifuitstoot. Terwijl gemeenschappen letterlijk stikken, weigert de Provincie in te grijpen. Dit moet stoppen! [2/3]
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Vandaag besmeurden rebellen en Kappen met Kolen de glazen pui van het Provinciehuis Noord-Holland met zwarte en gele verf. Tijdens de Statenvergadering riepen ze: trek de vergunningen in van Tata Steel's giftige kooksgasfabrieken! [1/3]
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Finally, it starts washing up on the fringes and reaches people who are not that interested, or actively hostile to your post / interest group.
And I think that's where you get the "reply guys" and toxic comments. Somebody in their circle liked your post for whatever reason, but most people in that group don't.
I can imagine that this is also how racist/sexist responses often happen -- a post gets boosted into a toxic community, and then you get comments (or DMs) from haters.
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The way boosts spread across the Fedi is also interesting. I once heard somebody say that posts "don't go viral on the Fedi, they go fungal" -- the comparison being to mycelium fibers and mushrooms popping up from them, I guess.
Because you have these overlapping constellations of instances, and so sometimes a boost will bring a post to a new audience.
And that often comes with delays, so there will be these little waves and bursts of activity.
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meta, positive, tangentially related to bluesky
I've said many times before that we don't actually need to worry about 'marketing' things like Mastodon or Matrix, we just need to make it good, and then people will organically and sustainably discover it and stick around. That we don't need to play the Silicon Valley game of "making a big splash and growing massively" because that only benefits startups, not community networks, we have different goals and costs.
And the situation with Bluesky is a really good example of this in action. Look at the amount of people on here who were using Bluesky, and with the latest events went "actually this sucks, huh, I guess I'm going back to fedi".
*That* is what I'm talking about. Notice how quickly people realized the problems with Bluesky. And how quickly they returned to fedi! *This* is how you grow a community network sustainably. You don't need or want to be the 'hot new thing' that's popular for a month and then drops off. You just need to be the reliable rock in a stormy ocean and people will slowly accumulate over the years and rarely or never leave.
Focus on making fedi better and better. Don't waste your energy and goodwill trying to play a corporation's game on a shoestring budget.
(And one of the most important ways right now to make fedi better is to improve moderation tooling and actually listen to marginalized folks.)
Sven Slootweg
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➡️ NFC
fun fact: in SVG, "1mm" isn't guaranteed to be 1 millimeter
(1mm is 3.543307 "user units" which is "the parent environment's notion of a px unit", which might be a physical pixel, instead of an abstract DPI compensated size)
meta, positive, tangentially related to bluesky
I've said many times before that we don't actually need to worry about 'marketing' things like Mastodon or Matrix, we just need to make it good, and then people will organically and sustainably discover it and stick around. That we don't need to play the Silicon Valley game of "making a big splash and growing massively" because that only benefits startups, not community networks, we have different goals and costs.
And the situation with Bluesky is a really good example of this in action. Look at the amount of people on here who were using Bluesky, and with the latest events went "actually this sucks, huh, I guess I'm going back to fedi".
*That* is what I'm talking about. Notice how quickly people realized the problems with Bluesky. And how quickly they returned to fedi! *This* is how you grow a community network sustainably. You don't need or want to be the 'hot new thing' that's popular for a month and then drops off. You just need to be the reliable rock in a stormy ocean and people will slowly accumulate over the years and rarely or never leave.
Focus on making fedi better and better. Don't waste your energy and goodwill trying to play a corporation's game on a shoestring budget.
(And one of the most important ways right now to make fedi better is to improve moderation tooling and actually listen to marginalized folks.)
Sven Slootweg
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mechanical keyboardists first went wrong when they decided the model M was the best keyboard ever made and the new ones ""don't count"
but the second way they went wrong is by calling a full keyboard "100%", so they can make smaller ones and call them 60% or 40%. That's wrong. They're going in the wrong direction
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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
