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

this is what an ecosystem looks like, right?

my hobby is getting computer hardware that people don't want anymore and finding out there's very good reasons why they don't want it anymore

If you look at a tool and don't see politics

what you are instead seeing is that your politics already align with the tool.

I fucking hate how classist the Democrats are ;-;;;

⚠️​ REFILL GENDER FLUID

i realize much of the above thread comes of as me being kind of superior and holding the whole thing at arm's length to inspect it through my fucking monocle or whatever, with my nose wrinkled up, and I'm really sorry about that. I know I do that, and it's really annoying.

i think i'm a bit uncomfortable when i sometimes look into that side of fedi cuz it's a real feeling of 'there but for the grace of god go i': I could have had this morbid attachment to right-wing shibboleths; I grew up around and have been friends with people who leaned right wing and all that. I get it. I made HORRIBLE jokes when I was a teenager which would have fitted right in with the kind of shit I see these people discussing. I could have been a nazi shithead!

I think I was ultimately put off from that by listening to a fuck ton of punk music, reading a fuck ton of good books (so, you know, having the privilege of having access to such things), and trying to get in touch with my queer identity over the years, but who knows what might have happened had I not?

All white westerners, I would say, are extremely prone to getting sucked into fashy cliques; it's basically just good fortune when it doesn't happen, and it's something to be constantly vigilant for. We're raised to be fucking monsters. That's not to say there's nothing to be angry about when people do get sucked in and embrace it, you know. There's always an out and folks choose not to take it. It's infuriating and has deadly real world consequences. But I do think a little more recognition that 'that could have been me' might be helpful in some cases.

OK, that's it, that's all I got! Weeeeeeeee!

so I remain not super convinced that their vision of the fedi is very appealing, honestly, beyond catering to the aesthetics and grievances of frustrated techy white dudes who are weirdly attached to edgy humor

further insights from my reading: they also seem to often console themselves that well-moderated instances are 'slowly defederating themselves' and will therefore die out, but this doesn't make a lot of sense: if i'm having a slamming house party with my friends and I don't let random fash dickheads off the street in, does that mean my party is slowly dying out?

love seeing people post lists of issues they have with mastodon which boil down to "defederation shouldn't exist"

just spent a bit of time looking through threads posted by chuds where they complain about 'canceldon' (ie., well-moderated Mastodon instances) and how folks with big block lists are uptight and have no humor etc

but from my perspective (an instance that currently blocks 941 domains), the fedi is bright and colorful and creative and thoughtful and alive

so i'm not really sure what the fuck they're on about

Made a last minute decision in Breda to switch trains, the train to Den Haag Centraal leaving a couple of minutes before the train coming from Belgium is operating with #ICNG 🥰

non-expert speculation: i'd bet some amount of "ultra-processed" foods' health outcomes impact is due to plastic packaging.....

https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fstory%2Ffor-the-love-of-god-stop-microwaving-plastic

"The Toxic Manosphere of Fedi"

https://dotart.blog/welshpixie/the-toxic-manosphere-of-fedi

I wrote a thing. It's long. It has many feelings in it, and posting it is skyrocketing my anxiety which is already at pretty shit levels after this month, but I have to say it.

Thank you to everyone who's supported me through all of this, and who helped me write it, and big hugs to all of us who went through this together and are still dealing with the emotional fallout.

big instances really seem like a fucking drag because you're expected by these assholes to legislate and debate every fucking little thing

v. much encourage people to run their own little instance and just pootle about with their close mates

yknow, ~11 or so years ago when the browser engine market share was significantly less lopsided, there wasn't drm, and you could still run a web browser on fairly old/limited hardware (netbooks were a thing! seriously!) i thought the idea of moving everything to webapps was pretty cool

"Ah," the robot said, "now I understand."
"Understand what?"
"The concept of 'uncanny valley', where something is subtly wrong, unnatural, but you can't pinpoint why. I've experienced that now."
"Oh? How?"
"I talked to ChatGPT."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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