Notices by piegames (piegames@flausch.social)

I wrote down some thoughts on community moderation:

"Enablers of abuse in online communities" – https://piegames.de/dumps/enablers-of-abuse/

My takeaway from today's election results: the left-leaning parties mostly do a shit job at convincing voters, and often times are too distracted with infighting.

@samueldr This traces back to my main and most fundamental issue with Matrix design: IMO they federated the wrong thing.
Rooms should not be federated, but identities should be.

Matrix once again is not able to actually do the one thing it ought to do as an instant messenger, quickly and reliably transmit messages.

I know that this is a matrix.org failure this time and I really should move off that server, but on the other hand my motivation for self hosting that pile of misery is not increasing with each of these incidents. Doesn't help that the migration story is still pretty much non existent

Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".

90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.

Better tech ed won't fix this.

@scvalex @fasterthanlime wow, this is evil. Even knowing what to look for, it took me several attempts to spot it. (Side note: I would likely have no difficulties spotting this with GitHub's diff rendering. Good UI matters.)

I want to do my part in making this place a bit less hostile towards minors. Therefore:

– Always CW lewd and NSFW content, *regardless of account, post visibility or instance*.
– Don't put a generic "minors DNI" (or equivalent) on your main account. Per-post CWs are much less hostile instead. Dedicated alt accounts are an option too.

I'll slowly start to unfollow and make people unfollow me who violate the second point. (I already block people who violate the first point on sight.)

@AgathaSorceress One's body horror is another's trans joy

@a1ba This is so gloriously unhinged https://www.php.net/manual/en/gender.example.admin.php ?