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

Hi! If you're finding me, this is a stress test of the ActivityPub ecosystem's IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) support.

It isn't great! The software works fine, but mentioning this account on Pleroma/Akkoma right now is impossible with Markdown, unless you change the TLD to Hiragana (minna in romaji)

Other software seems to handle it alright, switching between without effort.

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IDNs are rare; you likely will never see this in the wild! The whole "xn--" prefix is by design, this is how the internet "ASCII"-ifies domains that aren't plain ASCII.

I am not breaking your instance. Your client is fine. It's doing its best. Even if it adds an emoji.

Love you~

if you replace "the economy" with "my investments" in most financial articles it all starts to make a hell of a lot more sense

I think I'm starting to get the hang of hex grids.

I’m starting to think fedi needs a two-tier follow system.

“follow” as in “I want to see all public posts from that account on my timeline”.
“folllow” as in “I want to actually be a follower and see followers-only posts”.

now we only have 2. but there are valid use cases for 1. that I am encountering both as a follower and as someone others want to follow.

as far as I can tell, there is no reason for 1. to not exist: those posts are public anyway. is it possible and practical at protocol level? is there a way to get the source instance to federate all such posts to the “follower’s” instance despite no “real” follow? no clue. someone who knows activitypub would have to chime in.

as for my use cases: I am posting almost everything public, but sometimes do a more personal post (usually related to mental health) that’s followers-only. I restrict my followers to queer neurodivergent beings that pass my vibe check because that’s the audience I’m comfortable sharing this with.

but there are others interested in less personal things I post and right now they have no way to get those things on their timeline. this is annoying.

sure, I can do multiple accounts. but that feels like a kludge that got carried over as a “solution” from tw*tter instead of doing it right in the first place. also, using multiple accounts is a pain in existing frontends. they implement an impractical paradigm of switching the context of the entire application, instead of presenting a combined timeline. then there’s the entire bullshit with having to boost things from the other account so they reach the rest of the relevant audience and so on. kludge.

I wonder exactly how much of the internet would evaporate instantly if you detonated a high-altitude nuclear weapon over the bay area?

I'm not saying it'd be a good idea to destroy silicon valley in a flash of nuclear fire, but just EMPing the area would take out a frightening amount of servers all at once.

reminder to not reply to a post or dm someone just saying "hi" because that i very much interpret that as trying to trap someone into a situation, if you're gonna talk to me and i don't know you please state your intentions with your introductory "hi"

*Superb* thread here in which @shauna posts her notes from reading Jessie Singer’s book “There Are No Accidents”

It’s about how corporate interests create dangerous/lethal products — from automobiles to addictive medicines and more — then capture the regulators, so that reasonable precautions around their use are tossed out …

… then, when people are injured or killed, they say, “whoops just an accident”

Read the whole thread!

https://social.coop/@shauna/110187830523238194

She may have been born in winter, but she's no winter #cat. I think she hasn't been outside for a month now. She will sit in the windows, but when given the opportunity to go out she couldn't care less.

#Caturday #CatsOfTheFediverse #CatsOfMastodon

He pushed this box to the heater.

#caturday #blackCats

Molly Crabapple, artist and activist:

You know what would be nice?

An "open firmware" project, where people produce and share FOSS firmware for common household devices, replacing the manufacturer's firmware with a decrapified version.

A smart TV? Reflash it with FOSS firmware, which removes tracking, calls to the manufacturer's servers, and any Internet-connected services that you don't want?

A printer? It's now yours. No ink subscription, or need for an app to print remotely.

And so on.

A man can dream, eh.

there is not a wall more impenetrable than the one separating people's minds from realizing that the world doesn't have to be full of torment to be full of meaning

Whaaa I got stuck in a scanner!

It'd be okay if people let us actually live, or even SHARE how FUCKING SCARED this bullshit makes us feel.

But no. Whenever we do go "oh, hey folks, this is kinda scary" we're told to shut up or to stop being political.

I'm not going to lie. I'm not okay.
#LGBTQ