Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

Hello world!

This instance is born as a refuge for gay people, pirates, assassins and gay pirate assassins.
You don't have to get the joke but if you want to, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

The instance runs #GoToSocial and is open for registrations.

We have rules, terms of service and a privacy policy here: https://hyteck.de/gay-pirate-assassins

How customizable is mastodon... can a server basically adopt its own front-end?

any good examples?

#FediAdmin Mastodon 4.x tip: disabling 'trends' at least gets rid of the public /explore page your instance shows to all unauthenticated users

Constant reminder (especially for the #TwitterMigration folks):

If you want to use a mobile app, most people will steer you from the so-called "official" one, and that's for good reason. First, the way it's structured runs counter to the concept of a decentralised fediverse.

Second, it's just... missing a lot.

You can try whatever you want, but the common recommendations I see are:

Android: Tusky
iOS: Metatext

I can vouch for Tusky. I like and use it. But play around with the supposed "third-party" apps if the "official" one is frustrating you because they tend to give you a better experience.

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