Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The part I keep laughing at about Twitter is how the dude could have just done nothing, and it would have been fine, but we ALL knew he was going to make awful decisions that would result in catastrophe for the platform.

2022 has been shit but we got a gem in the end.

I didn't wanna post it at first cuz it's schoolwork, but I did spend like 60 hours on this assignment in total so I'm gonna be proud of it openly! so here's my final drawing for one of the assignments in uni which had kept me up until 3 or 4 a.m. every night for the last week
#MastoArt

My number one recommendation to all new (and old) fediverse server administrators is: make your registrations closed, however your software allows for it. For Mastodon I think "registration with a review step" is the minimum level you should be locked down. Open-registration instances are

1) going to get overwhelmed with computing needs
2) likely to break down socially, you have no guarantee that the people signing up are a good fit for your existing people
3) going to host spammers

Yes, that seems like a perfectly cromulent number of containers to be running.

no, he's not living in my head rent-free. he paid 44B for the privilege.

so a twitter blue verified account tweeting about insulin becoming free actually crashes that companies stocks significantly, apparently even taking the other insulin manufacturers stocks down with them

i am actually starting to like this new twitter 👍

safe to say people have started finding GoToSocial

#FediTips Sealioning disguises itself as earnest curiosity. No matter how sincere you may be about wanting to learn about what someone else is going through, you're contending with all the countless sealions who poisoned that well long ahead of you. It's only natural that someone, especially someone from those marginalized groups who bear the brunt of that abuse, would turn down or push against the risk you may be asking them to take on.

If you're annoyed with all of the fossbro and cryptobro apologists in your mentions, imagine how it must feel to have far worse people nagging you over your lived experiences, never mind over your neurology or skin color.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sealioning-internet-trolling

http://wondermark.com/1k62/

In January of this year I worked on a little #GodotEngine prototype and tried to pitch it ❄️🚗

The project was codenamed #AShortDelivery

I didn't get picked up, but I'll post about it sometime soon :) #GameDev #PixelArt #MastoArt

boosts are endorsement and favs are meows

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

https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/

babe are you ok? you’ve barely touched your dotsocial metadiscourse

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.

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.

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?

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.

https://transfemscience.org/articles/powers-fact-check/