Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Little PSA:

A huge chunk of the fediverse came here because they were harassed, literally and aggressively, off birdsite. Understandably, they don't want to be inundated with reminders of the things they went through there.

I know it's big news right now, but please, if you're talking about that place, consider using a content warning <3

Thank you.

To be honest and maybe I forgot but since I started to use the Internet/Fidonet around 1988, I never seen a migration so big from a CORPORATE service to a community decentralized service in so many numbers, I seen the opossite but never from evil to good, tends to be from good to evil (centralized, closed source Internet) so I guess now I seen it all this gives me some hope all the new people will learn about other things also ethical in the fediverse, like #Matrix and #PixelFed even #Gemini

Het is allemaal decentraal, dus doe je donaties ook decentraal: steun eerst je instance met donaties (als je het kunt missen, en de admins om donaties vragen), en als je dan nog geld overhebt, dán is het interessant om "Mastodon" (de Duitse nonprofit) ook geld te geven.

Er is een populair bericht dat veel geboost wordt dat je vraagt geld te betalen aan Mastodon, omdat Mastodon te weinig geld zou hebben voor de 1 miljoen nieuwe accounts.

Lief, maar zo werkt 't niet. Donaties aan die non-profit zijn cool en ondersteunen de ontwikkeling, maar het netwerk is decentraal en de kosten voor het in de lucht houden zijn dus ook decentraal. Doneren aan een centrale organisatie is echt niet nodig.

The secret recipe for a good toot is to mix equal parts earnest post and joke post.

Now these can be stirred together and strained over a nice image, or shaken and served up in a martini glass.

Every now and then tho, I like to pour them in separately over a bartender’s spoon and create a nice layered effect.

This is one of the few spaces on the internet where we can actively shape the experience ourselves. Where we aren't beholden to the whims of a company that will throw us under the bus for a quick buck.

To me, the fediverse is about having a community of people collectively maintaining this public space where they can freely share their thoughts, passions, and problems. Where they can support each other and keep each other safe with community power.

"Growth" doesn't matter, because the fediverse isn't about capital. It isn't about having the most users possible to advertise to.

Frankly I don't think we should care about brands in order to enable some arbitrary measure of "growth". I want this place to stay human-focused and empathetic, and allowing brands a space to advertise or the power to mold this place will take it in the wrong direction.

#TIL The peace symbol (☮️) was created in the 50's to campaign for nuclear disarmament. The symbol is a super-imposition of the semaphore signals for "N" and "D".

I disagree when people say its a shame that Twitter is likely to die - it's been such a huge distraction from making actual social progress. So many people making depressing angry shitposts about headlines instead of getting locally involved and actually *doing things*.

And Musk single-handedly destroying it would be an incredibly useful thing for everyone to witness

Would really appreciate it if people theorycrafting about twitter's imminent demise and it's repercussions could be more aware that some of us basically convert clout into money for a living and most of us were already on a financial knife's edge when twitter wasn't being burned to the ground

I just realized that uBlock Origin, which always has a number on it in every page I go t,o has nothing there. Twitter has 538 blocks and growing in one tab. Here it has nothing. I know they said "ad free" but I guess it didn't clock in my head until just now what that meant.

Might as well see how the fediverse responds to one of my typical requests. This weekend, I'm moving my storage items (mostly to-be-digitized stuff) from Beacon, NY to Ardsley, NY on Sunday. If you think you might be able to help, e-mail me at jason@textfiles.com. It's about a truckload, I'm renting the truck but I have to be careful with my back.

I just suspended two accounts from Car Companies that have registered on website boy's instance.

If you see more Corporations that are responsible for accelerating global climate change joining the fediverse, please join me in pointing a ban hammer at them.

disappointed that I'm seeing more and more non-captioned images cross my TL. I understand and respect that there are a lot of new people around and that means the culture will shift and change with them, but this is one aspect of fedi culture that I would really like to preserve.

so, if you are able, please please please caption your images!

you know how those sort of graphic gouache paintings with only imprecise wet blending and details layered on top capture what's really satisfying about using the medium

https://youtu.be/BXPoFmJ82Pc?t=433

what is the style / project that showcases what is satisfying about colored pencils?