Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
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- 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.
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- 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
Others have already pointed out that removing any "login with Twitter" access is probably a good idea right about now.
But there's a deeper lesson here: "what if the unaccountable tech company you're trusting to authenticate you goes rogue" is not a hypothetical.
It's probably a good idea to avoid using this sort of "login with _____" feature elsewhere as well.
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as with ham radio, mastodon users face a technical barrier to entry… everyone is broadcasting using janky home made equipment that breaks for no reason... you can get reported to the mods for discussing politics... every public statement runs the risk of attracting the attention of a random german man who will explain his rig in great detail
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you know me i’ll go to bat for this platform but that doesn’t mean i don’t acknowledge that its essentially the social media equivalent of ham radio
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Block evasion is harassment
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As more academics reach Fedi, please PLEASE consider not doing research on users here without explicit opt-in consent
This isn't a zoo
It's not just condescending for you to treat us that way, it's also against a lot of instances' terms of use
See "Use of Scholar Social for research" at the following link for an example:
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@h At least the class size for this lesson is suddenly very large
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Turns out centralised social spaces running on capitalist imperatives were a bad idea who knew
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profiles before nov 2022
‘i’m a stinky little bitch who likes to smoke mushrooms, look at my collection of pinecones, oh also i’m a #furry’
profiles after nov 2022
‘yes it’s me Firstname Lastname from the birdsite: influencer, thought leader’
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@joepie91 @leo @whatanerd
>except they actually weren't, and it was just marketing.
Being friends of OSS could even be the former intention of beings who are in charge, which makes the whole corporation world even scarier. Good intentions get twisted by need to be profitable.
In threads about corporations on Fedi, I see lot of posts about "There are good beings in there". No one is questioning that. I for example like what those working at Oxide computer do, and if I had to decide where to go next, working with them would be amazing.
But corporation itself is a separate entity from those who work there. Entity with its own motives that sometimes align, but only as long as it pays off.
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Thoughts on instance admin and more journa.host
If your leadership structure is so diffuse that you can't hit a really slow ball question like "Can your users post Kiwifarms stalker software links?"
Then you fucked it up
You did it wrong
And there's no way to ever fix that
The whole instance needs to burn
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Thoughts on instance admin and more journa.host
So when I emailed Adam at journa.host he told me that he is one of 10 mods at that instance
And so he couldn't tell me whether the behaviour in question is acceptable for a user on his instance
And that is the opposite of what you want to happen with your instance admin policy. That's a fucking nightmare scenario.
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it's not a controversial opinion that being neutral on Nazis is the wrong move. if you think it is, you're in the wrong. also I'll hurt your body
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birdsite
@zkat From 7k staff down to under 1k, right before the World Cup... feels like something will break over the weekend...
Hello new followers who seem to have imported their follow lists from Twitter wholesale: I hope you're prepared for my decidedly more anticapitalist takes here 🙃
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Somewhere, lurking deep in the terrible uncharted recesses of twitter's most ancient servers, the fail whale begins to stir from its long slumber.
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switter (the sex worker instance) was closed because of literal actual government interference from numerous nations. please do the reading before painting fedi with a swerf or other reactionary brush. i want sex workers to be SAFE dammit and that means knowing when we can't responsibly be a part of your work. and sex work is work.
please read https://switter.at/ - their own words - before developing a Take.
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somewhere out there there's a conference room full of people dressed much nicer than you and I which admittedly is a very easy bar to clear because I'm just wearing my pajamas and anyways they've got a big pad of paper on an easel that has the word "mastodon" written on it in big red letters and "mastodon" is circled several times with the same red marker and nobody in the room can figure out what "mastodon" is and why the company isn't making any money from it toot toot
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#Fediblock journa.host
One of their users wrote an article that contains a link to stalker sofware from Kiwifarms
They also linked back to me without even talking to me
They are also doing block evasion to get material for their stories
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"I wonder why it seems like everybody's getting sick right now"
it's a true mystery, the world may never know
😷
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#NewBot
If you want to know the weather of a random location in the Continental United States, Hawaii, or Alaska every 15 minutes, follow @random_weather_bot
- 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
