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

why is it called defederate meta and not faceblock?

Alright fedi, last time I moved I had to leave my old account open 'cause I've got a bunch of old threads that keep getting updates and there wasn't a way to move your posts, still isn't on Mastodon 'cause if there were then .social would be easier to move off, Fedi ppl please tell me if there's a different engine that I can import my posts to on a different server

So purely theoretically:

If you sign an NDA and the large company tells you a bunch of things they are absolutely not planning to do, but essentially just a bunch of possible futures for the fediverse.

Then you, open source developer implement or talk about them at some point.

Then the megacorp threatens to sue you for NDA breach, unless of course you stop talking/implementing that feature.

Then the open source developer complies because lack of funds.

“All gendered "-men" nouns immediately become delightful when you substitute "-folk": fisherfolk, countryfolk. And even when there's a perfectly suitable gender-neutral alternative, firefighters & guards pale in comparison to firefolk & watchfolk. In this essay I will”

https://twitter.com/laura_hirsb/status/1483789703564259328
#gender #english #language

Given that I've seen the "admin kneejerks a server block, then regrets it and reverses it within less than a day" play out like 3 or 4 times in the mere months I've been here, instances being able to facilitate reconnection between users strikes me as a necessary feature, not a luxury. Users should be able to insulate themselves and their communities from boneheaded kneejerk admin calls

as an extension of that I think the clear solution to a lot of problems is to shove the five loudest asshats into a lake and explicitly tell the other asshats that that's what asshattery gets you

While I’m having a moan about stuff - and this is something I got wrong in my early days here…

Following hashtags is great, but I’m starting to unfollow some of the more popular ones (mosstodon, bloomscrolling etc) as half the toots using them are just recommending them to other people, not actually posting cool moss pics or whatever. If you want to recommend hashtags to your followers, stick ‘em in your profile, or boost some examples of them in the wild.

is the CEO of mastodon working with european police agencies?

https://paper.wf/downas/is-the-ceo-of-mastodon-working-with-european-police-agencies

i don't think most spaces online are that "polarised"

it's more, loud asshats will dominate any otherwise reasonable conversation if given the opportunity

and inside "loud asshats" there's no meaningful way to tell the difference between "an absolute ignoramus," "a child," and "an evil person."

i think it's interesting how in the regular internet world, a company providing a service and folding after 10-20 years is a regular occurrence, and in some situations (like online games) actually a significant achievement

if the fediverse was just another regular project, it getting absorbed by meta would be seen as the end of a moderately successful 15-year run

but since fedi's goal is to actually have a viable long-term community and to serve its users and not the admins, it's instead our nightmare scenario

Don’t worry, if GMail ever gets to be too abusive, we’ll just defederate from them!

“Hey, some fediverse instances are growing larger and larger, isn’t that great? Yay!”

Stop and think about what this means. You’re celebrating the creation of fiefdoms and feudal lords. Mini Zuckerbergs, if you will.

There’s a reason I’ve been shouting from the rooftops about limiting server sizes for as long as I can remember.

e.g., If mastodon.social blocks my instance of one, they block 1,196,910 accounts from interacting with me. If I block them… I do the exact same thing to myself.

Ok, this made me chuckle.
#StarTrek