jo

@jo@blahaj.zone

She/They. 🏳️‍⚧️ Almost 50. 🔞 DNI.
Cat mum of 4 former street cats.

Popular account but not a mod or admin here at #blahajzone.

Sometimes #NSFW, always #CW'd.
🔞💦 alt is @jo_

#ADHD #AuDHD #anxiety #bipolar
#Queer #Bisexual #Polysexual
#Polyam newbie #Trans #TransOver40 #NEISvoid #Mentalllness #Fatigue #Exvangelical #UX

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

jo, to fediverse

Holy shit. It's not just that the #Lemmy dev is a tankie, he's a LaRouche conspiracy-brain NazBol. Okay #fediverse tell me how this isn't as bad as Gleason's Soapbox and how you are separating art & artist because making them a Eugen-level BDFL just has to happen because of the #Reddit exodus.

https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-about-your-privacy-everything-is

jo, to random

Push now available for users using the .
If you update to iOS 16.4 and "add to home screen", that version (called a PWA) will have full notifications and background/offline support!

For those with the PWA already added, you may need to go into Settings> Notifications> and enable push notifications.

jo, to fediverse

I'm wondering how the folks who were mortified to find out the protocol specs to be pretty wanting re when they found out the *key apps had long had 'full text search' are feeling now having all these folks joining the from , and being able to access the same social timeline. Oh and coming soon.

For all the talk about the being queer-built and a space for minorities, it's quickly been shown to not be that rugged wise at the mass adoption level beyond a social contract and the fediblock.

My is on private, thanks to the amount of bots and creepy guys that try to follow & message me. Can't wait until they can harass me on , or worse - here. And if the laugh-reaction pile-on cookers that harass the queer creators I follow on Facebook ever get here, let alone my Karen and Kevin relatives and school friends, who'll force me to lock down here when they're not longer "over there", then we're gonna need to reinvent the fediverse again. Web 1.0 third times a charm or something.

I'm beginning to see why being a niche unknown community mostly using the same software was considered safety by so many.

jo, (edited ) to fediverse

Moved to a #Iceshrimp, #Firefish, #Sharkey or #Misskey instance and missing watching #Hashtags? Well do I have something for you!!

Antennas.
Antennas are effectively custom timelines. They work approximately like watching hashtags, but they can look for normal text as well. You can add as many phrases as you like and the results can be filtered with an ignore list.

You can make an antenna that just shows posts from specific users and notifies you when they post something new, you can make an antenna that collects posts containing or excluding certain key words, or you can make an antenna that collects only posts with files attached. You can even make an antenna consisting of “Posts from specific users” with “Show replies” checked.

Setting up
You can set up antenna by going to the More! section on your sidebar, and selecting Antennas. Press Add + to create your first. This is where you can also manage & edit previously created antennas.

Images:

  1. Where to find More! on the sidebar (highlighted)
  2. Where to find Antennas in the More! menu (highlighted)
  3. My antennas page showing Add + button and my previously created antennas.
    4 & 5) When you click Add + you get this page to set up your antenna. I've set one up as my Calckey antenna and another to alert me when PastaThief posts. There's a lot to go through here. Expect a separate post sometime soon.
    6 & 7) What those antenna feeds look like.
  4. On our progressive web app you can access your antennas by selecting the UFO in the top right corner.
  5. Clicking on the UFO button brings up all my antennas and the link to manage/edit them

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Feditips #Calckey #Hajkey

I plan on writing up a fuller explanation soon, but happy in the meantime to help anyone wanting to set them up.

jo, to fediverse

5 million users already. The feed is garbage. GaysAgainstGroomers and LibsOfTikTok are already using quote posts to pile on. No fucking way that shit should be coming here.

jo, to Instagram

Erin joined #ThreadsApp and the transphobes followed her to continue the harassment. #Instagram moderation thinks the targeted harassment of #trans folks with "Ok, groomer" is fine. #Meta #fediverse #BlockMeta #queer

jo, to fediverse

I saw @Uraael mention how their engagement had really skyrocketed with the influx of folks from #mastodon at calckey.social and they posted a screenshot of their activity graph. Thought I'd heck mine, too.

Yeah, that's absolutely crazy. 😅

#Calckey #migration #fediverse #FindsAServer

jo, to fediverse

@atomicpoet It hasn't been about abuse of QTs, mostly because the crowd are the tinkerer crowd; but the lack of mods - perhaps you need a mod broadcast account - being in the timeline to say "hey we CW that here" when folks are talking breaking news about politics, that Fox guy getting sacked, or the young black man who was murdered on the subway, is what visible, active moderation is all about.

As a trans person I had to get out out of there when the timeline devolved into Fox guy talk. And some folks there were posting last night (my time) that they were distressed that most users weren't CWing when posting their takes on the chokehold killing of a black man. If you want to rail against mastodon.social poisoning #Fediverse social culture, there's a start right there.

I'm @jo there, if you hadn't already realised.

@ada @shoq @thatonecalculator @panos

jo, (edited ) to mastodon

A big hello and welcome to all the new people who've joined the past couple of days. It's great to have you here!

Our admins are @ada and @supakaity.
Ada leads the front of house and moderation side of Blåhaj Zone, while Kaity leads the back-end and maintains Hajkey for us & a small group of other instances.

Our server runs a fork of that we call (pron. hi-key). A summary of the features unique to Hajkey.

Here's the link to our Community Documents such as our Community Guidelines, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy.

If you're wanting to migrate from a account, here's a step by step instruction guide for moving to Blahaj.zone.

We also have a server available for signups at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone and a server that's soon to be open, for those looking for - like communities. They can also be interacted with from here or other places in the Fediverse.

I'm neither a mod nor admin here, but am happy to help if I can. I've written this about how the five main timelines work and this popular post about .

If you haven't already, please take the time to post an . Here's my here and I've attached a with

I look forward to getting to know some of you more.

Kind love xx
Jo (she/her/they/them)

jo, (edited ) to mastodon

It's interesting sitting here on an old version of seeing someone on server telling their fellow user that posting to unlisted will opt-out of when I can see Unlisted posts in my antennas quite easily though I believe this has been rightly rectified in the newest versions of [ / but need to confirm]. Being hidden from the Explore tab on Mastodon is not the same as being unsearchable across the fediverse. Frankly, there's little understanding even among admins across the about what's a Mastodon / Mastodon API function that is federated to other Mastodon servers but doesn't translate well outside of Mastodon on other connected platforms like and it's forks, and , or rapidly growing platforms like and . Kbin also scrapes posts from across the fediverse and puts them into its own magazines.

Unfortunately simple, up-to-date documentation doesn't really exist to explain the realities of federation vs what your admin said was the reality. AP was not built with privacy in mind, and 'security through obscurity' was mostly a Mastodon thing from when folks thought either the Mastoverse was almost the dark web, or the whole fediverse [which has never been the case], and Google et al weren't interested in scraping it.

Unfortunately we have a cadre of devs across all fedi platforms who'll give glowing lip-service to both the fedi and ActivityPub histories of being built by queer or other minority identities but still won't work on giving folks the granular and controls that weren't included in those protocols, and whose feature roadmaps now just look like bird site 2.0 funded by the milquetoast liberals in political tech who provide their seed money.

Beyond Mastodon and GoToSocial, every other fediverse project treats posting to public as opting in to search and indexing. Indeed, this is pretty much how the ActivityPub protocol handles such too.

jo, to fediverse

I have been seeing lots of talk about #Firefish and the "dumpster fire" that FF social has devolved into. I have a lot of sympathy for the dev team finding as we have here at blahaj.zone that FF/IS doesn't scale well. The devolution has been more public over at FF social cos Fedi's own Guy Kawasaki was hyping it up and was part of the team until it wasn't producing the results he expected and he slinked off. I wonder if the seed funders have done the same. Chris and Kainoa had separate funders, both involved in political tech. I think they were hoping to throw some seed money at something that wouldn't drag the chain like Mastodon development and be the new Twttr for liberal politics to electioneer on. 🤮 Kainoa told me who his funder was and from that point I haven't promoted Calckey/Firefish since.

Gotta love the "but we're the good guys" tech VC people, male, white, older, cishet, been "around" social tech for a while, looking to ride this Fedi thing into "significance"/"success", who found their side project who they fed "advice" to without any real stakes/responsibility. And when Kainoa wasn't the 10x dev they hoped, they've jumped ship, not that they could do any better.

It would be nice for the sake of transparency that there was some kind of repository where such funding was disclosed. Ironic when one of the funders is about protecting democracy.
#Fediverse #FediDev #FediDevs

jo, (edited ) to random

Smash or pass? Sunday in my hoodie edition.
#selfie #eyecontact #trans #queer

jo, to mastodon

If I #block and mute a user on a #Mastodon instance from this #Calckey #Hajkey instance where we have #AuthorizedFetch turned on, what can that user see wrt my profile and posts?

I still see their post displayed in my timeline as the parent post when someone I follow replies to them. What can they see of me? #fediverse #block #FediverseSafety

jo, to fediverse

I'm a bit fatigued atm, so I haven't replied to a thread I'm in with some of the #calckey .social mods about moderation and safety tools, but here a snippet of what I did have prepared to say:

So here's the rub, the fediverse will not let calckey.social get away with the same crap that they begrudgingly let mastodon.social get away with. You will be silenced and Fediblocked long before you get their leverage.

But we're absolutely not at that stage. This is not anything near the whole Pleroma and Gleason thing. It's far, far, far, far from it and I'd hate to think that my public raising of concerns as a neighbour of calckey.social would lead to any platform-based defederations at this stage.

It's real kick in the face to suggest that #Calckey devs and mods don't care about safety.
Blahaj.zone is actively, not passively, moderated. Our front end admin @ada has decades of cross-platform moderation experience and she puts our safety first, while our backend admin @supakaity has been working to improve safety tools on our instance and many of the other enhancements we've enjoyed here have been PRd and merged into the main Calckey release. I will not stand silent while my friends are tarred as being part of an unresponsive or unconcerned platform, particularly when many of the issues are #fediverse issues-at-large

2/2
#fediblockmeta #fediblockdiscussion

jo, (edited ) to mastodon

Folks should take a look at the function that Eugen is proposing for and how closely it resembles the patch of the woman who he kicked off the Mastodon repo GitHub & Discord a couple of months ago. Also, her patch was more configurable that the thing he's bringing to main that has zero attribution of her work.

jo, to random

I feel like I'm now going backwards in my transition timeline. Sigh.

jo, (edited ) to internet

Excellent points made. Share widely. You can read the post here: https://infosec.duck.rodeo/

RE: https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/doot/statuses/110575176879285402

jo, to Instagram

Well-known trans writer & commentator Alejandra Caraballo (Esqueer) was hit with a content violation after replying to harassment from gay transphobe Ian Miles Cheong.

jo, to random

Who knew I'd so quickly grow to loathe large font Misskey-Flavored Markdown in my feed, even with the animations now turned off. I'm seriously reconsidering if we should support GIFs if this is the future. My eyes and brain hurt.

jo, to fediverse

Tbh, I'm on a proactively moderated server that has preemptively kept a lot of the worst folks from being able to reach us queers here, and the feedback from a handful of black users here is that has also been generally been harassment free in comparison to other servers they've been on.

Imo, it's actually not to hard as a queer or trans person to find on the that will protect you from harassment, but that it is harder to find servers that will also protect indigenous, black, Asian users from racist harassment. And too many queer white folks get a free pass for ignorance tbh, a privilege that many of us have had for far too long.

It's much the same on where I haven't been harassed for being and trans - again there's large communities and plenty of allies - but anti-black racism has been in the spotlight again recently and the devs called out for lagging behind on safety and moderation features that bigots exploit for harassment campaigns.

Far too many fediverse projects are led by men, mostly white men, who are lionised, promoted and financed by another layer of mostly white men. They ultimately get the veto on minority protections.

RE: https://firefish.social/notes/9hs7vrern5ptmu66

jo, to trans

Woot woot!! Two years!! #HRT #Trans #selfie #eyecontact

jo, to random

How gorgeous are trans folks who play Euro Truck Simulator!

  • Says trans woman who plays ETS.

RE: https://social.lilac.lab.shortcord.com/users/shortcord/statuses/110829311464051722

jo, (edited ) to random

Feel like I'm am a corpse with no physical energy but I'm also mentally overloaded. Kind of a sad agitated buzzing fatigue hell.

#NEISvoid #fatigue #anxiety #bipolar #AuDHD #disability

jo, to Instagram

FYI. You can't delete your #ThreadsApp account without also deleting your #Instagram account.

#Meta #Threads #fediverse

jo, to random

Had my first photodynamic therapy treatment today and my arm is sore. Like a bad sunburn concentrated in one spot. I'm back again next week for the same. Hopefully the doctor will be happy with the initial two (and thank you again to everyone who gave the $600 I needed for these two sessions). He was asking more questions today and I have a bad feeling from his tone that he has concerns that the length of time I have had the actinic keratosis on my arm and the possibility it has been cancerous for some time might have given it the opportunity spread. I really hope that I haven't fucked this up, that next week is my last treatment, and my 3-month follow up shows no signs of cancer emerging anywhere else. The not knowing is messing with my anxiety.

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