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

hey if ur gonna pull a whole ass "i work for a human rights org pls give me the data from spyhide" ruse you should maybe not do it from the email address that when googled takes me to your skid hacker blog and like at least make up a fake identity and story

can't believe i need to give advice on how to social engineer me

Fighting for the open web.

#krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpensource
#Firefox #Privacy #Chrome #WebEnvironmentIntegrity

no one is saying to ignore things that are happening and not talk about it

what Is being said is that people should be able to consent to reading about horrible things instead of being bombarded 24/7

yall need to get back into the habit of using cw and start operating under a culture of consent

deaths should have a cw
opression at the hands of the state should have a cw
covid and climate change should have a cw

triggering people into hypervigilance is not consent culture, nor is it effective or helpful

Look at what the Teamsters got for UPS workers. $21/hr for part time. The end of mandatory OT on days off. A/C in their trucks. Unions WORK. Don't let anyone tell you differently.

It seems rude that things pile up while you are being lazy in an attempt to recover energy

i've been thinking about how academics (and academic institutions) have been trained over the course of the past 15 years or so to think about social media uncritically as a means of professional development, to the extent that universities themselves offer "how to advance your career with social media" workshops etc. and how that makes certain habits hard to break for academics, because their careers and networks (and self worth?) have become so enmeshed with (e.g.) twitter

#Abolition #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @blackmastodon
The question is: what is the function of the police? Can we create a system where safety functions are carried out without the police? Advocates and communities are thinking through what that would look like. In the meantime, those of you who want to spend energies on reform, pick something that will increase transparency and accountability. If you understand the down sides of some harm reduction but want to work with that do so. 11/12

Remember, friends... #furry hate is just a coverup for #lgbtqia hate. If you meet anyone who fits those statements, run the other way and do not interact. It won't help you, it will only make you a target. People like that are best ignored. Take away their audience/platform/"debates" and they're nothing.

kim here, just with an addition to help frame some of the discussion that's being had over this:

anything we make for GoToSocial whether disabled by default or not, will end up getting used by people.

and given that GoToSocial has a fairly sizeable user base at this point, decisions like these will end up swaying (even if just a little) what becomes "expected" or "new normals" among those implementing social media.

which is to say that even if it feels like a lot of privacy / safety discussion over small features, i think it's necessary given the state of everything right now (gestures at capitalism) and the unknowns it may lead to.

Hi everyone!

We're currently doing working on our hashtag implementation. We've got hashtags federating in and out nicely, and we've got hashtag timelines viewable via the API, which is cool!

However, we're now wondering about web endpoints for hashtag timelines.

Mastodon already exposes people's posts (regardless of instance of origin) on their public web endpoints, unless authorized fetch is turned on. For example: https://mastodon.social/tags/GoToSocial

However, we're doubtful about going down that same route, because it potentially exposes peoples posts more easily to scrapers and the general public, which conflicts with our goals of providing a more privacy-focused alternative.

In the developer chat, we're discussing possibly using the 'discoverable' flag on accounts to determine whether or not their public-visibility hashtagged posts are exposed via the web endpoint, so that's one option.

Another option would be to only show hashtagged posts from local accounts that have 'discoverable' set to true.

Yet another option would be to skip displaying web view of hashtag timelines altogether, and only have them visible via the API (so, for a logged-in user).

Finally, if we end up implementing any form of this web view for hashtagged posts, we will definitely allow it to be turned off by the instance admin (and 'off' will probably be the default).

What do you think? Constructive opinions please! Thank you! <3

Self care™️ is cute and all but have we considered investing in community care????

Community care asks us:

Do we earnestly check in on folks?

Do we have the language to ask for help?

Is our intuition such that we understand when someone needs care?

Do we know our capacities?

Are we building relationships founded on reciprocity?

Have we created a community wherein holding space for one another is normalized?

If we understand that individualism, as popularly understood, is a capitalist ideal, and by proxy often an ableist one: has our conception of care shifted from the personal to the communal?

- Queer X Chisme (Facebook)

#SelfCare #CommunityCare #anarchism