gonna start to add a "se" to "X" when referring to it

Well… #Twitter #X

place bets now as to how long it'll be before we see find-replace s/twitter/x/g related bugs




also place bets on what they'll rename retweet
is it going to be re-x

“Download our native app”
looks inside

After Twitter rebranding to X, Mastodon has announced they’re rebranding to Wayland.

i'm guessing elon will also replace the word for tweet with something else

the twitter rebrand will traumatize multiple generations when they try to look for videos coming from "X"

lmao hacked

awawa

regarding snowdin shutting down, if y'all need an instance mine is open for registrations. don't hesitate to sign up if y'all need a new home

snowdin.town will shut down in one month.

this might come as a shock to most everyone, as i haven't been very public about this, but this is a long time coming. there are... a few reasons for why i'm deciding to do this, but first:

the instance will go down in a month
media will remain up for one year
you may ask me for a copy of your data for at least one year, after which i may wipe it with no notice

why am i shutting down snowdin?
in the past snowdin has been in bad circles. i've tried my best to steer the ship away from them and cultivate a more accepting and friendly community, but history rightfully doesn't go away, and it often feels like we're guilty until proven innocent. a lot of instances simply don't know or care about the changes we've made, and that's fair, but i just think snowdin is too stained to continue going. other instances have managed to fill the same niche much better.
on the same note, i feel like i personally don't fit in the community i've cultivated. maybe this comes off as insensitive or rude, but i'm just not proud of what's here, i don't feel at home here, and i don't like going on fedi anymore. changing the vibe might be possible, but it also feels sisyphean, and besides, i have no right to police how other people converse with each other. i just know that it's not for me.
the past year has been hectic, and having a 200-user instance to maintain has definitely not helped. i don't think i'm mentally stable enough to continue, and for my own health i have decided to end things.

i'm sorry to everyone i or someone on snowdin have hurt in the past year. i hope i can turn over a new leaf.

it's been a wild ride. i can't say it's all been fun, but i've made some friends and some nice memories here, and i hope the rest of yous have too.
see you on the internet.

https://snowdin.town/goodbye

who's gonna make a stamped ukelele with colleen ballinger's face now

celeste is so good. i wish trans girls were real 🥺

Reddit decided the thing to do to distract from all the anger at the site and at u/spez for the recent Reddit API horseshit etc. was to do a fun community collaborative drawing thing and, well

remember folks: tech is politics. you cannot keep one out of the other. they are inseparable.

the technical problems you choose to solve, and the way you choose to solve them, are an expression of politics.

building open source software indicates that you think information should be free, which is a political stance. building closed source software indicates that you think information should be controlled, which is a political stance.

building software that discriminates against people of color is a racist action and reflects upon you as such, regardless of your intent in building that software (hint: that’s how racism works everywhere else, too)

building software which can be used to remove control from the masses and give it to corporations and rich people, indicates that you think that corporations and rich people should amass power, and regular folks should not have freedom.

it does not matter if a company for whom you work paid you to do that thing, or if your intentions were good, or if you were only trying to see if a particular technical challenge could be solved. technical problems are political problems. business needs and decisions are political ones.

if there is a mismatch between the politics you express via your actions, and those you express via your words, the actions are the ones people will care about, not the words. you cannot fix bad actions by saying good words.

do good actions.