Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

No DNS November

Advice for new users, sometimes we tag CWs as "Meta," meaning content about the current controversy of the day on masto.

You may be wondering how you can tell the difference between meta commentary and meta the company, here is a handy way to tell the difference:
No one talks about the company.

To #BIPOC / #POC users of Mastodon (others can boost):

What do you make of CW culture and norms on here?

The people I see being most vocal about it are 99.99% White people which feels like a red flag

Great succes with my #vacuum #former ! Very happy with this low budget hobby project!

If you want to #Invest in #Mastodon #onHere during the #twitterMigration the #best way is to find a #trans person's account and click on the #LinkInBio that says #Donate. #InvestInMastodon #MastodonStock #FediTips #

There is an ITV documentary crew doing the rounds looking for trans people using DIY HRT sources.

While there are no clear red flags it's worth asking:

1. What would you be getting in return for being put at risk by being on camera?
2. What Trans input is there into the questions addressed by this documentary content? Are they seriously including our views or are they just gawping at the desperate state of our healthcare?
3. What have they done to build trust?

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