mattbk @mattbk@social.coop

One reason I quit Twitter after 7 years was the stress and effort of maintaining and performing a consistent and intelligible persona despite learning and growing.

Leaving worked: it released all that dammed-up drive to explore new points of view. (And it made it impossible to go back and pick up where I left off.)

I hope I can be on the fediverse differently from Twitter. I want to ask questions and share what I learn, not play a character or push my line.

Programming is this weird job where you need to find this 1-2h of concentration to do something game changing but the whole world of distraction, old bugs, stupid problems and everything else is against you.

Also it's hard to have way more than 4h of real concentration per day.

Registration is open!

https://pixelfed.social/register

So tired of tech evangelists praising xyz Thing without considering how "normal", non-tech people are able to interact with said Thing.

:: shuffles to microphone :::: shuf
:: awkwardly stares at shoes ::
:: clears throat, looks up ::

...Uhm, hello? Anybody there?
...
I'm new here. I'm a software engineer living in SF Bay Area. Very curious about social.coop in particular and in general about better ways of interacting, working and being together and in society.

:: waves ::
#introduction #sfbayarea #SocialCoop

@dansup Trending hashtags are a discovery feature, and the crowd who was attacking this seems to be against any and all discovery features. I don't see how trending hashtags, possibly with admin moderation, would not be a great discovery feature for any social media app.

All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.

We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?

This is one of the worst deals in history.

#privacy #selfhosting

i'm bad at self-description but here's a seasonal reminder that i need Help

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http://paypal.me/trwnh
http://cash.me/$trwnh

literally anything helps, i've since gotten set up with a computer but would very much appreciate any aid given. i'd like to be able to contribute more to open-source projects and do more creative work again!

"... and everything's horrible and there's nothing we can do."
"Hold on," she said. She stepped off the path to pick up a discarded water bottle.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"There's a recycling bin a bit further up."
"Oh. Anyway, we're so powerless-"
"Let's do what we can."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

After having dropped Flattr already a while ago (due to the privacy implications its "migration" caused), I've just created an account with @Liberapay to (partly) cover expenses for the IzzyOnDroid website and app repository.

Will I see you there? 😀

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#phoronix cc @Liberapay #liberapay

*** Débuter comme mécène / soutien avec Liberapay ***

Nombre de mes lecteurs n’étant pas habitués de ce genre de plateforme, j’ai rédigé un petit pas-à-pas pour ceux qui souhaitent y soutenir un créateur ou un projet :

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Si jamais vous voyez des améliorations à y porter, n’hésitez pas à m’en faire part.

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