Notices by normy foxyoreos (foxyoreos@mastodon.social)

@satchlj @Gargron I've written about this in other places, but the accessibility argument here also really fundamentally misunderstands what art is.

Who told you that you weren't an artist and that this AI slop is better than even the most basic scribbles you put down on a page?

"Non-artist": what does that even mean? Do you express things? Do you have emotions? Want to communicate them? You're an artist.

@satchlj @Gargron I don't like how this "let non-artists enjoy things" sentiment reinforces the toxic, anti-art viewpoint that there's a quality bar somepony has to clear to be an artist.

@satchlj @Gargron The accessibility argument is based on tearing down beautiful things because they're not standardized enough. It's based on dividing people up into artists and non-artists, and then frames this like the critics are the ones gatekeeping.

I'm angry at OpenAI for robbing the world of things you might otherwise create, and I don't care whether those things would have looked perfectly like another artist's art style.

@ppatel @dansup I've advocated for this for a while on Mastodon, but I guess there's no harm in suggesting it for Pixelfed as well since feature development seems to be happening a bit faster on there: an (optional) ability to have alt text suggestions in the UI without needing to use the alt4you/alt4me tags might possibly help a lot with this?

Getting a suggestion as a notification and not cluttering replies, and being able to apply it with a tap instead of copy-pasting into an edited post.

@evacide I am *begging* Mastodon devs to prioritize adding a way to turn off or limit replies, why are we so far behind on shit like this, why does this get actual debate every time it gets brought up

@evacide Every time I see a hot take about how the Fediverse is for conversation and not publishing and turning off replies is an antipattern I get more radicalized about this.

I should be able to turn off replies from specific accounts. I should be able to force accounts to ask me to reply. I should get to pre-vet their comments. I should be able to delete their comments.

Every art gallery site I use lets me delete comments under my posts. It's great and helps me foster healthy communities

If you do this, I promise that they will either block you or follow you.

Sometimes Linux users on Mastodon can be intimidating or frustrating, so if you ever find yourself getting annoyed by one, here's my advice. Immediately reply with:

"Down, puppy! Down! We don't jump up like that, it's not polite. Siit. Siiiit. Siiiiit."

GOOD DOG! Who's a good puppy!? Is it you!? Are you a good puppy? You want to play?

Go on, write a blogpost about Wayland! Go get it! Get the Wayland!! Link me to your blog post about Wayland!"

#linux #furry #mastodon

I'm not particularly interested in Mastodon vs Bluesky as a team sport.

I'll critique Bluesky's moderation all day, but Mastodon has serious moderation problems too, and we need to fix them.

Critters forget that a lot of trans and Black communities left Mastodon *because* of moderation problems.

Bluesky fucking up is not an opportunity for the Fediverse to say "haha, told you so", it's an opportunity for us to take a good hard look at how we're fucking up.

@janisf @forpeterssake @tarheel @mekkaokereke So just like kink at pride discourse or LGB without the T, race-blind feminism discards allies so that it can cozy up to the same people that are pushing women down in the first place.

It's both bad strategy and morally wrong.

@janisf @forpeterssake @tarheel @mekkaokereke When the marginalized reject solidarity, they are doing the work of oppressors for them: dividing themselves so that they can be more easily conquered.

You are never going to get equal rights by getting bigots to like you. You get equal rights by forming a coalition that is so powerful that bigots no longer have the ability to say no.

@janisf @forpeterssake @tarheel @mekkaokereke Minorities and marginalized groups are almost by definition at a disadvantage when advocating for themselves, and the only way we combat that disadvantage is through solidarity.

Every political movement from feminism to gay rights has always been tempted to throw others under the bus in the hope that by doing so, oppressors will accept them.

It doesn't work. Oppressors don't accept the oppressed and any temporary alliance there is doomed to fail.

@janisf @forpeterssake @tarheel @mekkaokereke I would argue that part of the reason feminism "won" (to the extent it has actually won) is that Black women showed up and did the work anyway, even though they were being excluded. Black voices have a strong history in feminist movements.

If every marginalized group advocates only for themselves, nothing gets done.

@louis what's cool about FOSS is that it's not sterile. It's messy and inclusive and multi-cultural and I can submit patches even if I'm a weird gay dog on the Internet.

If I wanted some sterile, completely apolitical, "is your identity 'appropriate'" stance, I'd go write proprietary software for Oracle. But we're better than that, FOSS is for everyone, not just suites.

@louis It's so backwards.

We're asking the project lead to care less about ideology. To just have documentation that says "we don't care who you are, you're welcome here, we don't assume every user is a man." And that request is apparently political.

What is more corporate than needing to put on a public face and hide your identity in order to write software?

@louis respectfully, the pull request for the #ladybird project was not asking devs to be "for" anything, it was asking them to use neutral language in public-facing documentation for contributors. It's frustrating that being upset about an accusation that one's *existence* is political is equated to being intolerant or caring too much about ideology or being purist.

We're asking not to be excluded. We want to feel like we are welcome to contribute.

@tyil @louis There's this narrative of "just write good code, all we care about the code."

Well, frankly, obviously not, or else devs wouldn't be fighting public battles about whether a readme uses the word "they". The existence of women and nonbinary people or otherkin is not some wild distraction that is going to derail a project. Heck, how much of the FOSS world is built by those groups?

Why drag politics simple acknowledgement of gender? When did FOSS become so "proper"?

@tyil @louis there's a lot to unpack here.

> but you don't need to go around telling everyone "HEY BTW IM A GAY DOG" when you submit patches.

The pull request I'm referencing didn't do that. It just asked for neutral language.

Also... why not? Who hecking cares, is the code good? FOSS community patting itself on the back for being so agnostic about everything, until weird people show up in their communities, and then we're all IBM.

I don't want to be IBM.