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

During the great migration away from the birdsite, I hope everyone can pause a moment to ask themselves what it is they want from the Fediverse, and social media in general. Exposure to engagement-maxing algorithms has probably skewed how you think and act around social media, so it's useful to reassess what you expect to find here.

What is is that you enjoy about social media? What is it that you hate? Can you make changes to your behaviors to enhance the former and minimize the latter?

I'm consistently getting n word toots dropped into my mentions from randos

yea its always pleromama joints

#FollowFriday just @geordie
He made this. I'm so sorry.

As a dyslexic, my heart sinks whenever I am greeted by reams of paper to read on top of a character sheet just as a game begins. My partner is #blind , and not (yet) a gamer. I'd love to bring her into the fold. Are there any #ttrpg which are completely paperless, at least for the players? Something where all she'd need to know is who her character is and what they're about.

if pixie.town goes down today it'll be because of a local power outage, there's a big fire in the substation 😬 👁️

If an #ActuallyAutistic person shares information w you, it’s NOT because we feel negatively toward you or “think we know everything” or are judging you.

We’re doing it because we like you.

Most of us LOVE information.

We’re just sharing our favorite thing.

#ActuallyAutistic

That fucking Twitter engineer has the same energy as a gatcha game designer explaining that multiple currencies, timed events, and carefully-calculated friction are what people want in a game, because they make the numbers go up

A think a lot of us have been patient with this instance as it's been finding its place in the fediverse, but it's time to #fediblock.

I appreciate that Adam apologized for using, and removed, a Kiwi Farms scraping tool. I appreciate that Mathew Ingram removed his link to that tool in his article for Columbia Journalism Review.

I want to support journalists and the essential work that they do.

However:

"i use arch btw"
boring, old, may get you mistaken for a techbro

"Federal regulations require me to mention NixOS at least once"
sparks curiosity, menacing

Being autistic does not exclude or excuse one from being an asshole. The autistic community must take responsibility for fascists, abusers, and other jackasses in our own ranks. Not try to claim "they're not actually autistic" to wash our hands of them.

@actuallyautistic

#Drag kings, quings, queens, artists of the Fediverse, where are you?

I wanna connect!

Boost appreciated

today’s really cool thing I’ve seen someone do… Bad Apple with Minecraft Sheep - https://youtu.be/tO6sfku_1b8

As a growing number of instances block journa.host, I'd encourage people to steer clear of the narrative that Mastodon's culture is somehow anti-journalism. If you're looking for a natural experiment, take newsie.social — I could be wrong, but as far as I know there's been no widespread blocking of that instance, which also predominantly hosts reporters. This is about the moderation decisions made by a particular instance, not some broader antipathy for journalism.