Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Polite reminder, if you request a follow to a locked account without reading that person's pinned toots, you're likely gonna be disappointed

I had 4 follow Req's I had to deny today, because they didn't tell me the basic info about who they are in their bio. A stream / wordcloud of tags, especially tech terms isn't a bio, it's a CV. Write who you really are in your bio, and read other people's profiles to find out who they really are before clicking follow. There's no prize for following the most people.

I require as a minimum pronouns in your bio and a DM telling me why you chose to follow me. Mastodon's "most private" post setting is "followers only" so if I let you follow me I am trusting you to see a more intimate side of my account. I feel it's fair you tell me why I trust you with this.

This is all written up in my pinned toots, but most people don't both to read those. Actually it seems most clients hide them these days 😔

Read profiles or expect disapointment.

#feditips

If you're response to coming to a place whose mostly-queer denizens have already created rules that allow them to interact comfortably with each other and scream about how you shouldn't have to follow those rules, you're just an asshole, whether you nominally belong to my group or not.

Read the room, learn the history, interact politely. Being a good citizen of a space is not rocket science.

I'm absolutely thrilled to see https://blacktwitter.io is a thing! I've been hoping to see instance centered around the experiences and moderation needs of Black people in particular.

I see a lot of people talking about how Mastodon "Feels like the Internet I remember from 20 years ago."

That's no accident. That's Federation. That's UseNet, IRC, Email, Message Boards, etc. What do they all have in common?

Federation: Users congregating around watering holes of common interest, but still being a part of a larger whole.

THIS IS HOW THE INTERNET WAS DESIGNED TO BE. And I am HERE for it.

every single day for two months now i get two emails from aliexpress, always with the same subject lines

this one was done about a year ago and I'm still pretty happy with it - fishing off a platform attached to a remaining section of the Atlantikwall, having a relaxing summer #PixelArt #ドット絵 #aseprite

When I joined #mastodon, I just wanted an open-source #twitter clone.

I got more than that. Subtle design differences made for healthier conversations in ways I wasn't expecting.

Here's a blog post to try to capture those differences and why they matter. https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/

Interesting to note that the authors of ActivityPub (the protocol Mastodon is based on), including @cwebber whose thread I just boosted, have received very little attention compared to the Mastodon guy. https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Realized I didn't do an #introduction, so here goes -

I'm a #woodworker & #artist in #Hamilton #Ontario #Canada making #sculpture, #marquetry, #boxes, plus various other projects including #spooncarving, small #furniture, and acoustic treatments.

Really enjoying Mastodon and the Fediverse so far. This place seems to be absolutely exploding with amazing artists and makers.

Looking forward to being part of this community.

Here's a box. I posted it before, but this is a better quality pic :)

People treating cell phones like they treat Mastodon: "ok...so you're saying I get a phone number, but I have to pick a provider? wtf that sounds like work...but I can call you even if you're using a different one, because they all talk to each other? so fucking confused rn"

After some consideration, I've suspended journa.host from the server I run (not with this account). There's quite a lot of decent people signed up there, but also at least one prominent right-winger (The National Review's Jonah Goldberg), and I can't risk it.

Also, reporters mining social media for fodder without the authors' knowledge or consent is a plague on every other social media platform, and I think fedi should nip it in the bud.

#FediBlock

One of the things I have always loved about the culture of QueerMasto/TransFedi (or whatever we’re calling the cool part of the internet these days), is that we actually *enjoy* people posting their selfies.

We recognize the importance of people finding joy in their own beauty and sharing that with the rest of us.

I hope that shit never dies.

mijn meest virale draadje ooit in de haatvoliere, niet omdat ik vind dat deze basic dingen zoveel aandacht waard zijn maar omdat @Kuun ernaar vroeg:

hey, laten we even voorop stellen dat ik iedereen een fatsoenlijk verwarmd huis gun. maar dat gaat niet voor iedereen haalbaar zijn deze winter.
daarom een paar tips van iemand die jarenlang in kraakpanden zonder (centrale) verwarming woonde.

tip één: kleding. laagjes. ik kleedde me destijds zo dat ik in principe gewoon naar buiten kon lopen, met hooguit een windbreaker of regenjas.
belangrijk daarin: thermo ondergoed. all day everyday. thermo legging én thermo shirt met lange mouwen.
ook meerdere hoodies over elkaar. of een dikke (wollen) trui over een sweater.
sjaal, col, dat werk, ook top.
zorg ook dat het flexibel is. laagje aan, laagje uit.

tip twee: zones in je huis. in veel panden woonden we met groepen, en hadden we één ruimte waar een houtkachel stond. daar konden we het verwarmen, verder gewoon niet.
in je slaapkamer hóéft het ook niet warm. of je washok ofzo. je huiskamer/leefkeuken verwarmen is genoeg.

Reminder to please CW anything to do with politics and particularly “look at the awful things these right-wingers are doing”. Being able to choose when and how to engage is important and makes a big difference to the overall mood of the timeline.

And please don’t boost politics posts with no CWs either - I’ve been seeing a lot of that recently from new arrivals

So here's what I've learned.
Mastodon isn't Twitter.
And that's by design.
You've grown used to things designed to give you that anger rush.
Mastodon is very deliberately built to avoid that.
The temptation is to replicate your Twitter experience.
Picking arguments, amplifying trolls.
Please don't.
This isn't your house, people here put time into building it.
Content warnings, ALT tags.
Don't turn it into a replica of the mess you just left.
If you miss the fights, the birdsite is still there.

ugh website boy’s fucking app

I’m not sure what vibe I want a post-report screen to have but “vindictive” is Not It