Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Are you on an academic/scholarly/sciencey Fedi server?

Does your server have a policy regarding researching its users?

This is Scholar's, for example:

https://scholar.social/terms#research

We should be having this conversation about user consent, expectations and instance policies *now* before you end up having to explain why your cool cool paper about Fedi is getting retracted

attention new peeps

welcome to mastodon, which is part of the wider fediverse

this place was built by marginalized communities coming together and deciding they were done with the bullshit on twitter

and trying to forge a more comfy space free from corporate influence

queers, furries, neurodivergent peeps, etc. built this place

we generally don't like cops, corps, landlords, and the like

i hope if it isn't immediately clear why, it becomes more so over time

and we hope you enjoy yourself!

I just want to make this one thing clear for all the new folks sending follow requests right now

There is no such thing as a good cop

Even if they're part of the absolute minority that joined the police force with good intentions, they still chose to become part of an institution with a long history racism, arbitrary violence against minorities, and an uncompromising agenda of suppressing the right of workers in favour of the interests of capital. Hanlon's Razor does not apply to the police

Policing does not reduce crime, social workers, decriminalisation of psychoactive substances, and a strong welfare state do

That's all for now, Souvka out

❌ we should have daylight when we go to work in the morning

❌ we should have daylight when we come home from work at night

☑️ we shouldn’t have to work so many hours that we have to ration The Sun

I love how I can zone out for a day and miss the creation and solution of a fediverse-wide problem

Perhaps you are new to Mastodon and wondering, "what's wrong with choosing a huge instance like mastodon.social"? Have a peek at this for one good reason https://www.patreon.com/posts/74436103?pr=true

"Home invasion: Mastodon's Eternal September begins" by @hugh https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

This past week has been wild. I have mixed feelings about it as well.

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!

Oh right I should re #introduce myself!

I'm Prism, and I'm a genderqueer dev working in VR. I'm also invisibly #disabled with #fibromyalgia . I will likely be posting #gamedev things, #knitting , and #cats , among other things I find funny. I also speak some #japanese and am looking to practice more!

Nice to meet you! Here's my cat tax payment. So hamsome

A publishing company they partnered to make a board game with a few years ago has used the opportunity to take all of their intellectual property/claimed ownership of Webcomic Name as a whole :/
From what I read, seems like its not the first time this publishing company have done that either.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/alexnorrislegalfund

*Please* keep sharing your food pics! Loads of people here love to see them, and engage, and talk about food! It's great! This isn't me asking you not to post them!

You'll also get more boosts on your content-warned food photos, because people can share them knowing they're giving people the opportunity to opt-in to seeing them ^.^

Thank you!

But it's important to realise that the attention economy doesn't work quite the same way here as it did on twitter. If you insist on *grabbing* attention you will be muted, or blocked, or defederated.

Ask yourself: is getting eyes on your content more important than the mental health of those around you?

As a quick addendum to this thread, I think it's curious how often objections to the custom of wide-spread CWs tie into that conception of social media as a broadcast network.

For creatives trained to see social media as a gallery window, and for journalists drilled on the importance of headlines to grab your audience, the idea of adding even a single-click barrier before their work must seem antithetical to years of best practice.

During the recent exodus, I've been trying to think analytically about why twitter failed for me, in contrast to the appeal of the fediverse.

And while there's many reasons, one which rings true to me is that modern twitter functions as two distinct, overlapping services: first, a social network (with the emphasis on the *social*), and second, a wide-scope broadcast network.

Crucially, these two are in competition with each other for the attention of users.