Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

@joepie91 I have had similar interactions with so many people doing web development professionally, all who should know better, so many times.

And the worst part: most of the time these situations can be avoided entirely by "just not doing" something. And for most of the similar situations: with literally no drawbacks.

We are in an abusive relationship with technology.

So, yes, give it a name. Explain it. Notice it. Be outraged by it.

But also, at every opportunity we have, we have to reject it. (I noted, as I read the original article that I was accosted and asked for my email address twice, the second time while reading a section about how invasive and useless that is)

There are places that the Rot has not yet reached. We must identify them, share them, and embrace them.

(Linux and BSD, the fediverse in general, peertube, physical media, jellyfin/kodi)

When The Rot comes to places that should have been safe, we have to destroy them. Starve them of the users that power them or actually burn them to the ground. If you don't sanitize the area, the Rot will spread.

That means Ubuntu. That means bluesky. That means, in many ways, mastodon as a software platform.

I am begging people to think structurally about these things. There's assholes here, and there need to be more structural ways of mitigating the harm that they can do, but you can't build that if you're bound *at a structural level* to the decisions of a singular moderation team.

Expecting any one group of moderators to always make the right decision, especially when there's funding incentives involved, is simply too high a bar to meet in practice.

Saw a post the other day rolling their eyes at reactions on the fediverse to the whole Bluesky/Singal fiasco... after all, there's assholes here, too, right?

That's not the point, though: it's that the core Bluesky moderation team *endorsed* Singal, and there's no meaningful way *at a structural level* to dissent from their decision to do so.

Car drivers and illegal parking that blocks an emergency road

Name a more iconic duo

OPINION: "Heavy" websites which pile on the megabytes with pages bloated far beyond their useful contents are hit hard when shared on Mastodon. A moment for reflection? No. https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/?hehehehe

The life of a Trans person who has lived in the closet is a life of violence. I need to make space for this today for myself.

I don’t want to talk about the physical and sexual violence some of us experience, but the emotional violence we all do, and then, a specific manifestation of this violence.

🧵

honestly i want a crime drama/police show that actually does the inverse of copaganda and has the main character realize that they are a pawn in the system which is designed to enact violence on people for financial and political gain and they were lied to their entire life. they try to change it from the inside but then realize that they can't do it and the only way to do so is destroy it.

also could apply to a war movie tbh

4 years ago I convinced the HOA board to leave the leaf litter for the insects to winter in.

Now every summer we have so many fireflies.

New guy just moved in and asked if he should rake up the common areas.

A literal child stood up to say that he shouldn't because they will not have summer fireflies if he does.

So proud of the little one starting to advocate for the world they want to live in.

6 years told and already learning how to get things done.

The leaves will stay.