"Since I've slown down on Facebook [the algorithm] is only showing me wholesome contents. Before it was mostly distressing news…"Sorry to bring that up, but the "click to enlarge" image/media display is borrowing from capialistic (i.e. organizational/systemic abusers-owned) social media deliberately implementing the cycle of abuse.

3% of battery. A limit for artists with Instagram is that they can't display several projects on a single account, like they would at a local art market.They may pin stories on their profiles with the model "one story = one projects", but they can't show them to non-followers.@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

So the first thing that I want to make clear is that Mastodon has a history of being inhospitable to marginalized users. This history is born out, as I’ve learned, through the marginalization and eventual shuttering of instances of color, of instances that were dedicated to hosting and supporting sex workers, of harassment of disabled users and so on. So Mastodon– while its federated model was premised on, well, the activity protocol, if I understand the history correctly– it was built in some ways to produce affordances that would avoid the kinds of harassment on Twitter. Things like quote tweet pile ons, things like other kinds of usage of the quote tweet or the comment or the reply feature to do violence. What that hasn’t done is prevented the violence. In fact, it’s given the kinds of bad actors who would do violence an opportunity to say, adjust to the new affordances because it’s not simply identities that are enabled by means of a digital environment, it is oppression that is enabled by means of a digital environment. So the oppression that one experiences on a platform like Mastodon will necessarily be different than the oppression that one experiences on a platform like Twitter, because of the different affordances of the platform.

The Whiteness of Mastodon

I’m recommending to read the entire article of course, but this specific paragraph reminded me of an idea I had, to let instances subscribe to other instances’ block lists… With an option to sort the blocks by category, and to display followers-only comments? @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

I’ve spent a delightful time on honk, until my partner’s come back with the keys I’d forgotten at home, so I could start doing something productive. I’ve also had an excellent time yesterday, teaching an autistic kid about life and earth sciences, and mathematics – while being in the closet –, and then I came back home, feeling sick and unable to connect with my partner, work, or move on.In both cases, the following have happened:I’ve been rewarded for what I was doing, respectively by scrolling through interesting contents and by seeing him "get" it and become more confident;these rewards weren’t related to what my identity as a transgender woman was doing; in the first case, it was mere contents consumption, and in the second case, these rewards were meant for what someone I wasn’t was doing – a man I wasn’t was doing.If you want to have a glimpse of what gender dysphoria means, although you should know this is about a 5th or a 10th of what I experience, go spend a few weeks using honk.Social life is made of rewards, and they’re good, actually; what’s truly creepy is selectively rewarding your users for spending their time in front of their screens, and to this regard Bonfire can be perceived as the first truly post-surveillance capitalism social network. (Now looks like a good time to ask you to move the code repositories to SourceHut or git.coop? Pretty please?) Notifying people about them having a new follower as mere notifications, in the same stream, and with the same layout is pretty creepy too; so is showing someone’s number of followers or whether they follow you or not, enabling easy, routine, and innocent checkups. (This raises obvious security concerns on which I’ll try to shed some light later.)First because someone’s profile comes pretty close of their face, as Goffman defines it. I haven’t read him by myself yet, but this does look like a vulnerable part of their presentation of self, which social media and especially biographies/profile pics are about, because they may be stained by contact with lay and in order for the stain to go, it would require reparation rites. It’s fairly easy to optimize for engagement with such a powerful, angular aspect of online profiles, and honestly I couldn’t see them with honk and if anything they’ve helped to curate interesting followings.In more mundane terms, because as a user I need to be able to follow and unfollow people liberally, without having them notified, and because after this notification, unfollowing them would expose both of us to have our faces soiled, in a manner that’s arguably a stain in itself. (Please be nice with me, I’m translating “profaner”/“profanation” with Deepl.) Unfollowing a bunch of people was the best thing I’ve made within the constraints provided by honk, because Mastodon has a “family” aspect than Twitter hasn’t, which has led the witches.town users to project their family relationships within and out of the instance, and a few men that seem to be struggling, for various reasons, to project e.g. their family relationships on a French female philosopher and to mansplain her, which has led her to react in a fairly… weird manner, maybe for similar reasons. This user profiles, presentation of self, and following notifications dispositive of power would’ve probably prevented me from doing it.Following the same rationale, showing followers counts on the users’ profiles, or tying that in any way, such as by using the same layout, to rewards has, among others, the following effects:forcing a mentality of vanity on your users,making your users look for influence with minute detail, baiting for influential followers (whatever that means),making your users chase for clout, which is responsible, by the way, for attention deficit,reinforcing the whole "presentation of self" dispositive of power, without improving the production or consumption of contents in any way (but rather in a way that degrades both).But this obviously raises the concern that minorities of power need to keep a track of who’s following them and to block either submarines, fascists, and/or bots. I’m suggesting two ways to manage this:an opt-in way to let instance members with this specific role to inspect the instance members’ new followers, instead of leaving the reporting burden on the instance users, anda dedicated "security" tab, maybe next to the "notifications" one, maybe with a shield icon and a different color scheme (why not green), letting them inspect who’s followed them, or who’s sent them a follow request, all at once, without necessarily showing how many new follower there are. They could either opt-in for each follower or let everyone follow them, but either block, soft block, or assign them to boundaries by using shortcuts (they could default to "people I ghosted"),this isn’t specific to the current issue, but I could think about a fine-grained white list/black list system depending on the instance and maybe other filters like who’s following them or who they’re following (although this data could be unavailable and it would be resource intensive, if not illegal, to build a social graph for each).To conclude, Bonfire is the first social media where I regret not putting my initial in uppercase, while having done so with honk feels senseless, or even degrading my own identity.If anything, this message shows that the Bonfire development is heading full steam ahead in the right direction. Thanks for everything! And especially for taking care of vulnerable Fediverse members. I’ve never seen such a level of care online, and pretty rarely offline.@BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

I’ve spent a delightful time on honk, until my partner’s come back with the keys I’d forgotten at home, so I could start doing something productive. I’ve also had an excellent time yesterday, teaching an autistic kid about life and earth sciences, and mathematics – while being in the closet –, and then I came back home, feeling sick and unable to connect with my partner, work, or move on.In both cases, the following have happened:I’ve been rewarded for what I was doing, respectively by scrolling through interesting contents and by seeing him "get" it and become more confident;these rewards weren’t related to what my identity as a transgender woman was doing; in the first case, it was mere contents consumption, and in the second case, these rewards were meant for what someone I wasn’t was doing – a man I wasn’t was doing.If you want to have a glimpse of what gender dysphoria means, although you should know this is about a 5th or a 10th of what I experience, go spend a few weeks using honk.Social life is made of rewards, and they’re good, actually; what’s truly creepy is selectively rewarding your users for spending their time in front of their screens, and to this regard Bonfire can be perceived as the first truly post-surveillance capitalism social network. (Now looks like a good time to ask you to move the code repositories to SourceHut or git.coop? Pretty please?) Notifying people about them having a new follower as mere notifications, in the same stream, and with the same layout is pretty creepy too; so is showing someone’s number of followers or whether they follow you or not, enabling easy, routine, and innocent checkups. (This raises obvious security concerns on which I’ll try to shed some light later.)First because someone’s profile comes pretty close of their face, as Goffman defines it. I haven’t read him by myself yet, but this does look like a vulnerable part of their presentation of self, which social media and especially biographies/profile pics are about, because they may be stained by contact with lay and in order for the stain to go, it would require reparation rites. It’s fairly easy to optimize for engagement with such a powerful, angular aspect of online profiles, and honestly I couldn’t see them with honk and if anything they’ve helped to curate interesting followings.In more mundane terms, because as a user I need to be able to follow and unfollow people liberally, without having them notified, and because after this notification, unfollowing them would expose both of us to have our faces soiled, in a manner that’s arguably a stain in itself. (Please be nice with me, I’m translating “profaner”/“profanation” with Deepl.) Unfollowing a bunch of people was the best thing I’ve made within the constraints provided by honk, because Mastodon has a “family” aspect than Twitter hasn’t, which has led the witches.town users to project their family relationships within and out of the instance, and a few men that seem to be struggling, for various reasons, to project e.g. their family relationships on a French female philosopher and to mansplain her, which has led her to react in a fairly… weird manner, maybe for similar reasons. This user profiles, presentation of self, and following notifications dispositive of power would’ve probably prevented me from doing it.Following the same rationale, showing followers counts on the users’ profiles, or tying that in any way, such as by using the same layout, to rewards has, among others, the following effects:forcing a mentality of vanity on your users,making your users look for influence with minute detail, baiting for influential followers (whatever that means),making your users chase for clout, which is responsible, by the way, for attention deficit,reinforcing the whole "presentation of self" dispositive of power, without improving the production or consumption of contents in any way (but rather in a way that degrades both).But this obviously raises the concern that minorities of power need to keep a track of who’s following them and to block either submarines, fascists, and/or bots. I’m suggesting two ways to manage this:an opt-in way to let instance members with this specific role to inspect the instance members’ new followers, instead of leaving the reporting burden on the instance users, anda dedicated "security" tab, maybe next to the "notifications" one, maybe with a shield icon and a different color scheme (why not green), letting them inspect who’s followed them, or who’s sent them a follow request, all at once, without necessarily showing how many new follower there are. They could either opt-in for each follower or let everyone follow them, but either block, soft block, or assign them to boundaries by using shortcuts (they could default to "people I ghosted"),this isn’t specific to the current issue, but I could think about a fine-grained white list/black list system depending on the instance and maybe other filters like who’s following them or who they’re following (although this data could be unavailable and it would be resource intensive, if not illegal, to build a social graph for each).To conclude, Bonfire is the first social media where I regret not putting my initial in uppercase, while having done so with honk feels senseless, or even degrading my own identity.If anything, this message shows that the Bonfire development is going all steam in the right direction. Thanks for everything! And especially for taking care of vulnerable Fediverse members. I’ve never seen such a level of care online, and pretty rarely offline.

Is is possible to safely implement viewing my account balance, my partner’s, and the household global balance on Bonfire, i.e. by using ActivityPub? @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Sorry it’s me again, but has anyone thought about reading Boltanski and Thevenot, "De la justification"? It seems that what Bonfire is trying to organize (similarly to Google organizing mere information) is, at least in part, the "beings" they describe and that belong to the "worlds" that people refer to to justify their actions.According to these authors, people use everyday items to justify what they’re doing according to e.g. whether they’re efficient, whether something could be sold on the market, their reputations, the fitness of something for civic participation, etc.(I’ve read Dodier’s "Agir dans plusieurs mondes", which summarizes it)

I’m tired and I’ve spent too much time online but unlike humans, my laptop, the software I use, SourceHut aren’t transphobic (it an awful coping mechanism and I wonder for how long I’ve coped with it)

Solus seems to work great, the only issues I went through were related to the command line interface (vim wasn’t installed, and only available through eopkg, not through the GUI packages installer, and doas isn’t ported yet), which isn’t a problem given its graphical focus (conversely to Alpine Linux which focuses on the CLI experience first).texstudio and rstudio are both available through the graphical packages installer so let’s see how this turns out…

This post has been shared by @maxmustermann@shitposter.club and faved by @supersid333@gearlandia.haus https://playground.bonfire.cafe/post/01GGZB8YCR7SVQPWJPYEJ64F8M#My first reaction was of course to feel that I couldn't wait to federate with them when Bonfire would become stable but I also wonder if this isn't a bug?

Dumb idea but if the UI was only available in the languages the admins speak, for a modular social media service, it could encourage its users to contribute to the git repository, raise issues, etc. in their own languages (instead of feeling gatekept as non-English speakers)? @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

In the last UI update, I don't see the "load more" button? (And I don't miss it?) @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Sorry, I wrote dumb stuff about the RMS open letter (i.e. that I didn't account for the fact that he wasn't "cancelled" but asked to step down to maybe stop gatekeeping and hurting women and trans people?).

I've assigned myself a few tasks two days ago and haven't completed them, but still been very busy doing so, moved furniture (with my partner's help, an architecture student) to gain more sapce, bought a better type of cat litter at a local specialized shop down the street (no more going to the supermarket!), and felt driven to accomplish these tasks for the last 2 days.

Could I sort the tasks that are assigned to me by due date, and improve their visibility? @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

Bug report, when I changethe boundary of a taskit erases all the fields @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

The "I don't deserve to be who I am" to "I don't deserve to do these chores quickly and then spend the rest of my time translating libre software projects" pipeline (it's real, sorry I'll try to improve this quickly, I've been back into the closet for the entire day)

Sk8er boi, what a banger

Bonfire doesn't merely make me want to interact with people instead of with a user interface, it makes me want to organize my life.

Can I complain about toxic masculinity being a by-product of the urban/babellian myth of concentration of economic, social, political, military power? That the need to be successful in this social context is asserted on young boys, who then tend to neglect domestic life, communication, their families, empathy, in favour of economical success and physical coercion? Pretty please?