Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Hi all. Can any other #blind people recommend an #accessible #mastodon app for #iOS? I'm trying to find a good one that works well with VoiceOver.

Wow. This needs to be read by everyone who joined Mastodon in the last week: https://www.hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

There's a woman on the train this morning with her sunglasses sat up on top of her head and my first thought when I looked over that direction was "oh those are nice cat ears".

That's what five years on the fedi does to you, folks. Just be ready for it, ok?

what is the professionally appropriate way to say "sorry, code machine 🅱️roke" to your manager as an explanation for why your work isn't getting done

asking for a me

Please do not ask marginalised people to do the work of teaching you how to be a better ally, especially if that's not explicitly their job or business. Some of us may choose to do it, but it's on our own terms, not something to be demanded of us just by virtue of existing.

There are more than enough resources out there for you to learn on your own. Plenty you can observe. You don't need us hand-holding you through your every misstep. We've got our own things to do!

"Please teach us because the only way we can learn is if you tell us where we got it wrong" is not reasonable.

the non-binary condition is having to look up which side of the non-binary flag is up literally every time

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!