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

Did you know we have a Github project dedicated to client compatibility issues? We don't have time to investigate all of them at the moment (there are so many Mastodon clients!) but if your favorite client has an issue open in this project, and you feel like taking a look at it... well, that would be cool :)

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/projects/5

"Me in 2009: Adulting is way harder than looks, I feel like I haven't gotten any better at this at all. My parents must have really had their shit together.

Me in 2019: The concept of "adulting" is bourgeois propaganda designed to keep us questioning our own worth instead of questioning the absurd inefficiencies and inequalities of the economic structures that govern social relations in our society. Nobody really has their shit together as much as they appear to on the surface, and my parents didn't actually have the slightest clue how to survive outside of riding the wake of the mid-20th century economic boom and not questioning anything too closely."

@deadsuperhero he shouldn't need to be forced and people harmed in order for these changes, somebody with that power in the architecture of a theoretically infinite social space should pre-empt or listen to people pre-empting these situations before they become situations. This is definitely the "too little too late" network for so long as it's one guy at the top is calling all the shots based on whatever works for him. None of this is new problems

Okay, so… choosing a fedi instance is "hard", #BlueSky is "much more easy to use" because there is no need to choose instances, but on BlueSky users will have to choose both the recommendation ("reach") algorithm, and a "community blocklist" (if moderation tools ever materialize in the first place)? 👀

Am I getting this right?

The local newspaper did an article like, what to do if the electricity wouldn't work for a longer period of time.

We're supposed to look at a government website for instructions.

Also, I learned from the same article that the entire internet will probably be offline.

Is there any guide on making surveys trans inclusive? I'm a queer trans enby woman, and I'll admit there's a lot of options. Sometimes one wants to know if a marginalized gender is being over/under represented. Collecting that in a survey helps address that. Is there any ““““official””” (/“prestigous”?) guide I can send to someone?
#trans #survey #gender

i think things really started going downhill once it became mainstream to say "social media" instead of "a website" or even just "online"

there is nothing ambiguous about "i posted it online" and certainly nothing extra added by "i posted it on social media", except perhaps the oily sensation i get from the latter sentence

we need to stop letting our lexicon be defined by marketers

You are in the position of trying to have a safe work site where you know there is nuclear material and you don't have a Geiger counter and most of the people on the site don't.

So you need strong rules about believing the people who do and reacting when they tell you they are going off, if you wait to hear it yourself well everyone gets a really high dose of something that will sicken your community.

The thing about targeted harassment that should be obvious but that is also easy to miss is that it is targeted.

As a result if you are not a member of the group you are not going to be targeted and you just are not going to see it often and because it isn't about you it is generally going to be something you miss.

Being part of the majority means you just don't have the sensor systems and you can't really develop your own.

Hopefully you never have to make policies or moderate targeted harassment of a minority community you don't belong to, but sometimes these things happen.

If you do find yourself in this position let me share an analogy I have found useful in these situations.

I short cut it as you don't have the geiger counter.

Quote posts and broader search capabilities here without more effective privacy and moderation tools being delivered first will be insufferable very quickly. You can search for this toot and quote me on that later.

wtf may 1 is nearly over and there is still capitalism

disappointing

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.

oh no it's the consequences* of my actions**

* having to fold laundry
** washing laundry

Could we just hard fork Mastodon already? Website Boy is a terrible steward