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

@studiofox this^

I think that's a symptom of looking at the fediverse the same way we do at a corporation. corporations need quick, large scale, growth to ensure that their platform is commercially viable.

this does not reflect the growth needed for a healthy community in the slightest. the fedi won't get disbanded by shareholders if we don't grow. it doesn't matter if there is 50 000 or a billion fediverse "users"

what matters is that the fediverse can organically scale in a way that maintains the integrity of its core values. anything that acts against this is counterproductive to the project as a whole and should be rejected by the community

Fedi and Matrix are queer dating apps

#SolsticeSchool is open for sign ups! It's an 'an informal online conference covering a variety of topics' hosted by the scholar.social instance.

See https://solsticeschool.scholar.social/2023/about/

I have it on good authority that they'd love a Bob Ross style tutorial from someone on .art - anyone up for the task? Presentations are 10-15 minutes long with time for talking and questions after.

Sign ups close on the 1st so if you want to present, register soon!

https://solsticeschool.scholar.social/2023/presenters-signup/

everyone staring at the red hat situation rn

I gotta say, I'm really disappointed in stux and the universeodon admin

when I first joined mastodon, I was amazed that we could have a community that would take a bottom up approach to removing bigotry. this was the first platform that I could be on and *know* that I wouldn't be bombarded by hate

the system of distributed instances that all need to keep their acts clean lest they be defederated, has created an open environment that should not tolerate questionable content.

basically, if you want to present your content to the rest of the fediverse, you need your content to be presentable

I'm frankly disappointed that *on the fedi* I'm being told by cis, white, middle to upper class, men that the moderation is too strong. this is supposed to be a community where we can *all* feel **safe** and comfortable to be social. this is not the place for free speech absolutism or some fantasy of an online wild west, and I think any admin who wants that should be defederated full stop.

the whole point of this damn platform was to remove centralization and curate a comfortable environment. if a person here really wants a monolithic platform with virtually no moderation, they can go back to the birdsite.

Five types of movement disruptors

In any radical movement or project, you're eventually going to run into *disruptors* - people who may not necessarily *intend* to sabotage your movement, but you can't say for certain either, and they're certainly having that effect. The exact dynamics vary from case to case, but a common factor among them is that they are often privileged folks who are unwilling to reflect, and often resort to abuser tactics as a defense response when criticized.

They can be difficult to moderate, because many people do not recognize their behaviour as being *overtly* abusive. Nevertheless, it's important to moderate such people, because if left unmoderated, they will destroy your movement from the inside. Crucially, their *original intention* doesn't matter here - if they are unwilling to reflect and change their behaviour, then they will cause damage regardless of whether it is intentional, and that is why moderation is needed.

So let's talk about a few such cases (and one person may exhibit more than one of them!) - this is not an exhaustive list, but hopefully it'll help to recognize these problems early in your movement.

THE GROWTH SEEKER

The growth seeker only seems to care about scale. They'll constantly focus on recruitment, expansion and growth, even if it comes at the expense of everything (and everybody) else. They will rarely stop to ask "can we actually handle this scale yet?", and generally won't have a plan for actually *dealing* with the growth - or when they do, their plan won't consider the needs of vulnerable and marginalized participants in the movement.

They generally will not recognize the validity of smaller-scale approaches, subprojects, or subgroups, and continuously insist on expanding their scope or group size. They may reject solutions to problems that do not immediately work for everybody everywhere, even if they would materially improve things for some people without downsides for anyone else.

Leaving them unmoderated will cause your movement to blow up; you will get overrun by people who barely understand the goals of your movement, and you will not have the capacity to deal with that. The growth seeker, if they refuse to accept that growth is not everything, should be removed from your community.

THE BUMBLER

They frequently end up saying harmful things or taking harmful actions, and don't seem to quite understand why they're harmful... but they also never seem very interested in learning about it, either - instead choosing to insist that "that wasn't their intention" and "they didn't mean it that way". They might argue that they can't be expected to know this because of their background.

They might superficially apologize, but show no real understanding of the problem, and likely reoffend soon after in a slightly different way - with a slightly different comment, harming a slightly different group of people, and so on. They're usually privileged (cis, white, men, etc.) and don't really recognize that privilege; often subscribing to a view that "everybody is equal" as if it's already established fact. Considering themselves "racially color-blind" is a variation on this theme.

Leaving them untouched in your movement will lead to marginalized folks burning out from the constant harm; and the bumbler will likely become angry if you keep subtly calling out their behaviour. If a direct confrontation on the subject doesn't help to change their behaviour, you should remove them from your community.

Alright so last night I said hey folks, I'm 40, dyspraxic as heck and can't draw, and it bothers me, pls recommend me a beginner-friendly course, and drawabox was recommended among others.

Started it today. Dude's telling how to draw smooth lines that don't wobble; use your whole arm not your wrist, practice each stroke first to build muscle memory, put your eyes on the end, do the whole thing in one constant motion at one constant speed and don't think until you're done with the line, I nod along and go alright and give it a try and ffs this is welding, this is literally MIG welding, it's also how you spray paint and clearcoat, it's how you brush polycrylic onto wood, and I've been drawing crappy wobbly lines my whole life because no bugger ever told me "Hey Dan why don't you try moving the pen like you're spraying lacquer onto a pinball playfield."

Still cannae draw, but at least I've figured out how to do straight smooth bloody lines with a pen, wish I'd put two and two together ten years ago

verbazingwekkend (niet echt eigenlijk)
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/06/28/hoe-nazi-onderzoeken-binnen-het-leger-werden-gesaboteerd-a4168443

Shattering the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-shattering-myth-men-hunters-women.html

"They found that women hunt in 79% of the analyzed societies, regardless of their status as mothers. More than 70% of female hunting appears to be intentional—as opposed to opportunistic killing of animals encountered while performing other activities, and intentional hunting by women appears to target game of all sizes, most often large game."

#Archaeology

@nickwedig Me, 2013: I'm gonna google a thing real quick
google: yesssss, make our name synonymous with searching, this is great
Me, 2023: I go to duckduckgo when I wanna google stuff these days
google: no not like that
Me: You can google stuff in a lot of search engines
google: little help here, Escalator Company?

Ik vind het zo apart hoeveel overheidsorganisaties het beleid hebben dat als je iets in termijnen betaalt, en dan termijnen mist, automatisch het hele bedrag in één keer opeisbaar is. Alsof je dat dan wel kan betalen?