Creatrix Tiara @creatrixtiara@mastodon.social

@roroyourboat @creatrixtiara @dthorman Sure. Expecting people to work for free is a no-go. But if someone has shown that they are willing to work for free, I don't think it's unreasonable to talk about the shape of that work. :shrug:

@hatsuki @creatrixtiara I mean... open source folk absolutely say exactly that, both directly to her today and also all the time everywhere? It's a cultural problem for sure. (And I'm saying this as someone very much inside that culture.)

Want to pitch a discussion somewhere: “How the fuck do we get white people to do something about inclusion?”

@creatrixtiara Yeah, that was super cool, and the Pixiv people are also discussing with the devs on legal issues (https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1847) amazing

As an aside:

Being a community moderator means occasionally removing people whose sole offense is being an obnoxious turd. It doesn't matter if they've broken the rules if their presence drives people away. Letting them stick around is just as damaging as being capricious and LART-happy.

Don't let assholes stink the place up.

I made an instance previewer, so you can see the local/federated feeds of an instance without signing up: http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=xoxo.zone&view=federated

Dear white people:

You don't get to tell PoCs to stop making everything about race when we're talking about our experiences and/or tackling race related issues.

Also, you don't get to call us racists for talking about race.

Just stop, please.

I'm working on the documentation and plain language questions with @Raccoon right now.

We'd appreciate any questions you have that need answering. We're trying to get all this into plain language that everyone can understand.

MATRIX (2017): Set in a world like ours, one where everyone has seen THE MATRIX (1999), except that afterwards everyone became viscerally aware that film was true—all of humanity is living in a simulation.

More a documentary than an action movie, MATRIX captures the effect of this revelation on society. There are three kinds of people: those who didn't care; those who wanted to escape to reality; and those who fell into catatonia.

Spoons are an object of ridicule and dissent. They are banned.

This evening I have been preoccupied with writing a post viewing social networking tech as an enabler of increasingly complex, fractal relationships. I was fed up with bikeshedding over blocklists.

As a bonus I get to include images of fractals. https://mastodon.social/media/vsW5VFWoGs6awqnNqO0

@creatrixtiara Follow someone on another instance, or they follow you. Your instance starts seeing their stuff when you follow them.

@creatrixtiara @brendan Hmmm, perhaps everyone followed by someone you follow?

@RexfordGTugwell @creatrixtiara Its a bit more than that, I'm the only one on this instance and people appear in the federated timeline without me having ever followed them (and not just boosted toots).

@creatrixtiara It's a reasonable suggestion, definitely - I've had to block a number of shitposters someone on my instance followed. But that is not the way things work now in Mastodon.

You CAN ask whomever runs your instance to not federate with another instance, if it's full of awfulness. Some instances do this (witches.town, for one), some don't. Then you won't get any communication in either direction between the two.