Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

don’t :)

If you wonder why the memes about mastodon.social and mastodon.online being unmoderated go around

it's because they literally only have one moderator right now

The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces.

System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits.

The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands. <3

If you're an organisation that wants to participate on the fediverse, you really need to be running your own Mastodon instance.

Most of the Mastodon infrastructure right now is being run by individuals or small groups, for the community.

Trying to put your "official account" on community infrastructure is extremely rude.

#meta #mastoadmin

fedi is queer as fuck. let’s prove it

Some recent #streetphotography around #portland.

Content warnings are subject lines, newspaper verticals, essay titles, forum thread titles. Lots of people will add +/-/~ to a CW to specify tone.

I have either used or clicked on all of these at one point or another. It didn't actually get in the way of anything.

(mental health, -) or (mh -)
(LocalPol, +)
(that wizard TERF insisting she's not owned while withering into a corn cob)
(misogyny, handled surprisingly well!)
(gross thing my cat did today)
(venting, no advice pls)

IMPORTANT NOTE: My personal policy on this is that people talking about experiences of oppression NOT THEIR OWN should use a CW. This is specifically and ONLY for the benefit of the people whose experiences are being discussed.

Ex: I think it's grody for me, as a white person, to hide a Black person's post about antiblackness behind a CW. It isn't my job to shape how people participate in that conversation. If I post something myself about antiblackness, I will CW to err on the side of giving Black people control over how they engage.

I frequently CW posts about my own experiences anyway, but that's still out of courtesy to others who share the experience more than consideration for those protected from it by privilege. Because tbh, fuck em

#FediTips

Please don’t feel bad for switching instances, or seeking one that is a better fit. An instance is also a community, you want to be in comfortable company. Also the values and vibes will matter when it comes to moderation & safety.

When I first joined yrs ago I tried at least half a dozen instances, until I found the right ones for me. I now post on two instances. Take your time exploring the fediverse. Actually you don’t need to join an instance, most of mastodon ones will let you peek into their local TL from their front page, so you’ll have an idea before you go in.

#BlackFediverse #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter

Well this approach to user data protection is... novel:

"If you would like to remove all personal data from [our site], simply log back in and remove or replace any personal information with fictitious data."

From the folks at Tax Act dot com.

Imagine *not* trying to craft a #hottake that will stir people up and get you them clicks.

Imagine #vulnerability and genuine human connection.

#FediTips #TwitterMigration

So, fun fact, large parts of the poker economy are tied to crypto.

This is especially true of online poker because ever since congress passed the UIGEA in 2006, it has been fairly difficult to transfer money onto internet gaming sites via conventional means.

Luckily for me, I don’t play online very much these days, and neither do the players in the cardrooms that I am consistently beating.

But it should be interesting watching the panic set in.

Hello, I'm looking for a nice instance who would be cool with porn (under cw)
It's for a friend
Pls boost of you don't know!

personal opinion:

if you want to post a thing and have it easily available for a long time,

make a static website. doesn't need to be a complicated one. get a website generator, or just write the html yourself. you don't even need a domain, you can use #neocities or some other free service.

because moving a social media profile will always be a complicated process. but a static website can be moved to basically anywhere and will survive for much longer.