Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

well, if you're wondering how i'm doing today:

i just realized that today is tuesday and not wednesday and am elated

of course i'm sure that in two months everyone will have changed their avatars and usernames and i'll be Completely Lost again but *until then*

kind of like, y'know, jogging. i have no interest in jogging and so on but it's always lovely to see a neighbor out and about doing his regular jog.

community! or... something!

the fedi timeline is feeling less like a bunch of strangers and more like people i've seen around. just kinda how you're like "oh yeah, there's somebody who goes to walk his yorkie in the afternoons, i know him."

things like... oh hey, there's the solarpunk person whose pronouns idk yet with truly magnificent hair. oh hey, there's the fella with the clown fighting game. do i like clown fighting games? well no, but i support his follow-through of artistic vision dangit! and it's good to see.

anyway it's taken months but i do feel like i'm settling into mastodon a bit.

i definitely miss my community friend-group on tumblr, a lot. i might pop my head in and see if there are any discords to scoop me up in. it's natural; most of those people i've known for... jesus, 8 years at least, maybe 10. we all landed on tumblr after being ousted from fucking foopets lmfao.

but it's nice to like... know the neighborhood a little more, and feel comfortable in it.

this is it, this is my telltale heart, it's just me howling as i roll around in anguish about how purism is not only shit at being ethical, but shit at doing a software, and also really shit at doing a capitalism

THESE PEOPLE CAN'T EVEN BE MONEY-GRUBBING EVIL RIGHT

i mean like. come the fuck on. if you're abandoning morality for money, at least actually do it in the way that gets you money, not the ways that are just going to be doomed i mean jfc it's so stupid my head hurts

(i mean, idk if their encryption works like that. i'm a bio/english major ok? i took one semester of java for non cs majors for my math requirement. but i'm just sayin', if a company like purism sells stuff with "you're safe with us, pinky promise we swear!" and then pulls these boneheaded stunts that show their definition of "ethics" is bass-ackwards, i would not trust that pinky promise very much.)

honestly reading the ad copy, it feels like the market for these services are "people who know just enough that privacy is good, but not more." they're aiming to be the America Online of internet privacy, all made easy.

...but declaring you're letting bigotry happen because you get money for it is not good ethics.

with that obvious, i don't think any of their other claims - not accessing data, etc. - can really be trusted.

so - it's a dangerous product, and warnings should go out accordingly.

honestly, with @brainblasted talking to the admins and the admins making it clear their stance is pro-bigotry in the "well mneh mneh we just luv freeze peach too much so we can't do anything to stooop that" way, i'd urge everyone to be really vocal that #purism / #libremone are now selling dangerous products

the some products might even be good! but paying for the security of a gated community means nothing when the guard knows your roommate's a serial killer, and does nothing about it.

i should probably stop throwing popcorn at techbros but it's a distraction ok

my pupdog got up from a nap limping on one of her back legs, and it's kinda worrying me, but she doesn't seem to be in pain, will let me touch it, still very much wants food, etc. etc. and this has happened before with a foot where i flipped out and took her to the vet..... .......the next day when she was totally fine and the vet found nothing lol

i may see if half a rimadyl (doggo advil basically) helps in a min

this is becoming a running gag for #purism i feel.

"ethics" okay, how is your company ethical "with ethics!" don't you think if your company is ethical you should acknowledge better how you're using open-source stuff "BUT WE'RE ETHICAL"

"we're against harassment!" okay, how are you doing that "we're against it!" what do you consider harassment "we're against harassment." so... you're against taking any stand about what harassment is, other than being against it. "we're against harassment!"

i honestly do not see the sense in *why* someone would, as a non-bad actor, look at the pre-baked community covenant and go

"ok, now that we've listed examples of how to be a good community member, here's the section about bad shit you shouldn't do. ...let's just say don't do bad things. i know these are all good examples that will let people know we will not tolerate that sort of thing here, thus making it a safe and appealing space. ...but let's just take all that out, we don't need it :)"

this is either planned maliciousness, OR a level of naiivete that means the ethical security #purism offers can never be fulfilled.

this is a safe space, but being run by people who think that a safe space can first be achieved by no moderator reports at all (!), and now is emphatically saying safety can be achieved by NOT letting people who are targets of specific types of harassment know they're safe because the space is explicitly against sexism/racism/etc.

...peak techbro.

ultimately it always translates to "we don't publicly post the rules because every single person gets a different version of them to follow, depending on sex, gender, skin color, phase of the moon, and if we like you or not."

aka, get ready for the bff of a mod to get away with murder while you get bounced for eating a hot dog with mustard instead of kechup.

or, the more likely variant in this case? " #purism refuses to list #libremone rules because who stays and who goes depends on $$ given"

the attribution's right there at least for the open-source community guidelines. but comparing the two?

https://community-covenant.net/version/1/0/ lays out explicitly bad behavior to avoid.

#purism just says "don't be bad. and if you have any questions about what bad is, privately contact an admin."

listen, i may not be a tech wunderkid, but i've been around for awhile. "follow the rules or else. the rules are all unspoken and we're not going to elaborate more unless it's in private." ...is dodgy.

well, #libremone and #purism are continuing to be run by "is this just them being hopelessly naiive, or is this some sort of malice"

i'd still think a "hey, we're sorry bout the screw-up" would be in order, as it now just leaves the rules stressing about how they totally will have moderators accepting reports from other instances hanging there awkwardly, smelling of an unfinished scandal.

the effort is commendable - but boy, that removal of examples of harassment is GLARING.