Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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- @joepie91@slightly.tech
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- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
pet peeve
People who call out violent rhetoric in an activist context as 'inappropriate', and then launch into preaching pacifism without realizing/acknowledging that from the perspective of the other person, that comes across as *more* aggressive than the original rhetoric
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meta discourse
“What is the biggest problem of the Fediverse?”
BIPOC: “There is too much unchecked racism.”
Trans people: “There is too much transmisia going around.”
Disabled people: “The ableism is rampant.”
Poor people: “People hate poor people for existing and show it openly.”
Admins: “The moderation tools could use some work.”
Mastodon devs: “Alright, we got it, y'all want quote toots!”
Bluesky devs: “Right right, a new federation protocol it is.”
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wtf may 1 is nearly over and there is still capitalism
disappointing 
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paris cops blow themselves up
Hmm. The Prime Minister of France is reportedly very outraged that cops have been injured with explosives while the people were protesting capitalism-extremist Macron's dicatorialism today, May Day.
Turns out... at least in the case I've seen, it seems it was a cop that exploded the cops phalanx.
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oh no it's the consequences* of my actions**
* having to fold laundry
** washing laundry
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Could we just hard fork Mastodon already? Website Boy is a terrible steward
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Mhm, especially the latest blog post feels quite illustrating how #Mastodon is losing its character and move towards professionalism.
I can see why it happens, but I'm somewhat disappointed. I didn't join mastodon because it's professional, I joined because it was unprofessional and quirky.
It seems like the Twitter exodus has caused a bunch of people to feel like they have to accommodate all who left, sadly the only way to achieve that seems to be "becoming professional". 
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ActivityPub can support portable identities, using the infrastructure and protocol that we already have: https://shadowfacts.net/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/
The crux of the issue with current software like Mastodon is that people and posts are identified by where they’re hosted, not who they belong to. It’s as if the URL for my blog post was https://5.161.136.163/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/. It moves the post from being controlled by me, the owner of shadowfacts.net, to my hosting provider who controls that IP address. But the web doesn’t work like that, and nor does ActivityPub have to.
The crux of the issue with current software like Mastodon is that people and posts are identified by where they’re hosted, not who they belong to. It’s as if the URL for my blog post was https://5.161.136.163/2023/activitypub-portable-identity/. It moves the post from being controlled by me, the owner of shadowfacts.net, to my hosting provider who controls that IP address. But the web doesn’t work like that, and nor does ActivityPub have to.
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Masto dev snark
Everyone:
Help we need adequate moderation tools, an attempt to make sign-up less painful without just herding everyone on to m dot s, tools for limiting who can respond to our posts, some serious work listening about and engaging with the anti-blackness problem on Masto
Website boy:
You asked, we heard you! Quote posts are coming to Masto!!
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I love pirating Nintendo games, especially before release date
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hey, this project is really cool: an indigenous photographer went around the entire US photographing other indigenous people however they wanted to be pictured: https://www.project562.com/11397500-gallery
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Seneca Village is why a Black-led instance is not the complete answer. Tulsa, Oklahoma, is why a Black-led instance is not the whole answer. Rosewood, Florida, is why Black-led instances are not the full answer.
Black people have innovated sustainable communities forever.
The problem is that white people *always destroy our shit.*
Stop asking why Black people don't build and start asking why there is no mechanism to stop the insanity of whiteness from repeatedly thwarting our efforts.
If we're not talking about whiteness and its reckless and violent hate as the primary reason there are not more Black and Brown people on the fedi, then that conversation is useless.
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Happy #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay to all workers!
Unions and other kinds of worker solidarity are responsible for: weekends, safer worker places, child labor laws, higher wages, worker compensation, family leave, unemployment benefits, and more!
Do you want to make your workplace and the world better? Join your fellow workers and organize!
Feel free to DM if you want to learn more or need help getting connected to people who can help you organize & organize with you!
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how to protect Black people on fedi, a guide for white instance mods
1. Suspend racists.
2. Don't delete the reported posts and call it a day, suspend racists.
3. Don't limit the account and call it a day, suspend racists.
4. Don't talk about civility or freedom of speech or echo chambers, suspend racists.
5. Don't cop out because there's just so many follows and you're afraid to break them, suspend racists.
6. Don't invent narratives of transfeminine disposability or ageism or whatever else happens but didn't in this case, suspend racists.
7. Don't villify those publicizing it, suspend racists.
8. Don't dismiss your critics as being just white people, suspend racists.
If someone's spouting racist shit full-throatedly, suspend them.
You wanna teach someone, cool. I hope they listen.
But suspend racists.
There's other shit people can do, but a lotta people aren't even doing this much - and it's not much. Suspend racists.
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I was finally getting used to NOT having quote-posts.
Please, can we not hate-share things? Don't QP to dunk. QP to "yes-and," and QP for memes, but don't QP hate into your friends' timelines.
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BlueSky is cosplaying #decentralization
https://rys.io/en/167.html
> Almost exactly six months after #Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager even, to jump head-first into another toxic relationship. This time with BlueSky.
tl;dr:
- #BlueSky seems designed to get secondarily centralized in the "reach" layer (as they call it)
- moderation is an afterthought
- Jack Dorsey
🧵/1
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twitter hillarious
Okay people have discovered if you were previously verified: i.e. legacy checkmark, you can just put "blue check" in your bio and the checkmark reappears.
What level of cursed code is happening over there.
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fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> But if people see themselves as workers rather than entrepreneurs, then we have more possibilities for workers to collaborative attempt to help each other through cooperative horizontal relations
this is why everyone that calls themselves an "entrepreneur" is not to be trusted tbh
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The internet's onboarding sucks. Choosing a website to open before you can even start spilling your unfiltered thoughts into the void? Do you really expect the average person to grasp this kind of complexity? Just make MySpace the default and leave us alone with this technical bullshit
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Tired of big social media corporations that do not listen to the pleas of their users?
At Torment Nexus, we can offer an alternative by also not listening to you!
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
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
