Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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uhhhh I told my kids to read a few pages from @suricrasia 's cursed computer iceberg tonight and now one of them is watching a video about Magic the Gathering being Turing complete and the other is trying to solve FizzBuzz in Befunge
not what I was expecting but I'll take it
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babe are you ok? you’ve barely touched your dotsocial metadiscourse
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People need to know that Eugen is a divisive character among people who have been here since the beginning, and particularly among marginalized people. Don’t accept his opinions as gospel. I am more inclined to listen to the marginalized old timers.
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Hi folks! Quick tip on what those 'post level' terms actually mean because it's extremely unclear even with descriptions
🌎Public: Shows in Local and Federated timeline for any instance that's relayed with yours or knows about you. Any.
🔓 Unlisted: the least clear. This is still bootable/sharable to others but you only show up on the feeds of people who follow you OR who follow people that boosted you OR direct link.
🔒Followers only: only they can see at all, no boosting
Unlisted is good.
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Was just asked by a journalist if I knew of anyone besides white men who would be able to speak about the intricacies of Mastodon and how it works (especially on the backend) - any suggestions?
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apple be like
"bonjour"
"bonjour"
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Trans Safety, health advisory, SLAPP, Gender doctor abuse
It is clear from this that Dr Powers is willing to use his apparent financial might to stifle legitimate critical discussion among the trans community about influential health professionals rather than to simply correct the public record as might be reasonable.
Please share widely.
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Trans Safety, health advisory, SLAPP, Gender doctor abuse
In the retraction blog is a screenshot (https://transfemscience.org/assets/images/powers-legal-threat-emails.png) of a lengthy correspondence where Powers admits the talk that was criticised was erroneous, accuses Trans Fem Science of being "online harpies", and repeatedly pulls the "look what you made me do" trope while refusing to identify the false defamatory statement he is alleging they made specifically.
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Trans Safety, health advisory, SLAPP, Gender doctor abuse
Dr Will Powers, famous for his hrt transition "method" and more recently for promoting Ivermectin as a solution to coronavirus, has forced a Trans Fem science and research blog to retract an article about him using the threat of a SLAPP lawsuit.
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You ever feel like some of the loudest privileged folk who call for change are... unwilling to enact change on a personal level? 
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@welshpixie tbh you and the other instance admins shouldnt have to babysit eugens community like this.
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Mastodon meta / lightly touching my own experiences. (trauma)
I'm on the verge of tears, and I'm not even involved with the stuff that's been coming out over the past day or two.
Just watching people having to go through the same conversations with Gargron/Eugen (Mastodon's creator) again, and all my trauma is just resurfacing.
I used to work with Eugen, I thought I could be some kind of conduit to help him listen to and understand the community's concerns, you know the communities that needs the most protection, not the facists.
I'm not going to pretend that I knew what I was doing, or was even near perfect when I did that work. There was so many things I didn't understand yet, for example about harassment, racism and especially anti-blackness. About micro-agressions and so so much more.
I've been on here since april 2017, and I've always cared for this community. And yes, there are so many different aspects and communities on here. How do I delineat who I'm talking about? I'm talking about the people who came to mastodon because of the tagline
"Like Twitter but no Nazis". I'm talking about you.
I don't remember the actual wording anymore, but once there was a joinmastodon, which we also had to push hard to even get, it was right there "No Nazis.
Now we're sitting here, and watching Gargron wring his hands about .art silencing his server because, he is still actively federating with servers that has known facists on it. How did we get here? I honestly don't know.
His server which we already know has grown all too big years ago, and he keeps pushing moderators away, or not paying them enough for their work when they are the sole moderators.
Apparently he's currently the sole moderator, and this has made him an expert in moderation needs, and this is why we have the new report system which is absolute trash. Screenshot attached.
Every thing we hear, it's always worse, it's always the tip of the ice berg. And yeh, I know I'm mentioning recent stuff and not only my own experiences. The issues is, when I start talking about my experiences, the ones that particularly affect me I get physically ill. But I'm going to copy paste some of the inefficiently described things I explained to a friend today. So please bear with me.
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Because a few people have tried this already:
Please DO NOT try to replace another fedi instance with a GoToSocial deployment on the same domain, with the same username. This will almost certainly cause issues with federation due to public/private keys changing, and it is not something we support.
In the future, we’ll try to provide a proper migration path between GtS and other fedi servers. But in the meantime we recommend deploying GtS at a subdomain that hasn’t been in use yet, like fedi.[example.org] or social.[example.org].
Your enthusiasm about GtS is appreciated! But if you try to drop-in GtS in place of a preexisting fedi server, and things break, we will not be able to help you with them.
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Confused spam is confused.
(Thank you thank you, it's been a great honor to not be able to receive this package. I'd just like to pass on some props to all the people who made this not possible...)
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am wondering if I should put up a queer/trans centered swedish mastodon server? Because I'm missing my peeps over here, missing people to talk about the situation in sweden.
So far, things are going well - this is my first attempt to write a 'real' parser with the parser generator library I've been working on, and I basically have half of a JSON parser now, after like 20 minutes of work
I'm very happy right about now that I built a good debug output feature into my parser generator library... that 'abc,32' is definitely wrong
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Turns out Twitter was the cage, not the bird
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(Nogmaals) Ik reageer nu ook op mentions met een paginanummer erin. Als je dan '@teletekstbot Pagina 501' toot, dan krijg je een screenshot van die pagina terug.
Denk erom dat je de juiste bot mentioned, die dus eindigt op mastodon.nl. Vrgr, je teletekstbot.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
