New Parliamentary session in Canada and the new leader of the NDP is getting down to business calling on the Government to ban surveillance pricing before it has a chance to take hold.
MP Leah Ghazan will be tabling a motion in the House, but it will take government to step up and sponsor a bill to make it illegal, particularly if after today they are working with a majority parliament.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Food #Affordability #NDP #Canada #SurveillancePricing
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Someone needs to start quoting Jesus without saying it's Jesus to Trump to see if he condemns him as radical left too.
The stuff about rich men not entering heaven etc (and before anyone says it, the "eye of a needle" is not a mistranslation about narrow gates, it really did mean the eye of a needle).
Given the current climate, one might say that being wicked and depraved is typical of the right, whilst fighting against it – or simply pointing out what is wrong – is a left-wing stance.
If that is the new reality (which I don’t think is all that new), then I must be a radical left-winger.
I mean, taking away the dishonest way the Americans use the words 'radical left'...this Pope is far more openly left wing than his predecessors, and supports real leftist positions.
This isn't an overton window thing, this is the fact that a committed Christian in a position of authority is willing to speak the truth, that following Christ's way is incompatible with the disgusting economic system promoted by loudly 'Christian' countries.
To me, that's a much more important shift.
The german CDU is doing this a lot, usually following a US agenda.
When you swift the window in the right-side direction:
- the 'left' becomes 'extreme left'
BUT more importantly
- the 'extreme-right' becomes the 'right'.
on the other hand, there is a far-left current within catholicism.
For example that book, *Le Christ rouge*, by the Christian philosopher Guillaume Dezaunay.
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Nul ne peut servir deux maîtres... Vous ne pouvez pas servir à la fois Dieu et l'argent » (Mt 6, 24). À travers les nombreuses paraboles des intendants, l'Év...Salvator
Trump has his own bible! Who does this "Pope" guy think he is?!?
Like, it's not that difficult. The pope says: don't murder people, don't start wars.
Not only are people in disagreement, they think THAT is a radical statement and if you think that not wanting random wars over covering up your involvement in a pedo scandal is radical, you're not on the non-radical side of things and should not be merited with the label of fucking rational thinking
When mainstream is Nazi, anyone who's not a Nazi is called left.
Doesn't mean they have any politics worth defending.
He is a conservative religious authority and the head of the worst criminal enterprise in human history.
Fair enough, but if the Christian Church had been following the teachings of Jesus, the author of their own faith, they’d already be considered part of the radical left. Why do you think they killed the Christ the first time around? Too radical.
Between Francis and Leo, the Vatican has been moving Left. No doubt about it. Still, you’d have to put them right of center.
no.
you would need only ask the question you have always needed to ask from the very beginning, which is: who is it that you, personally, have been empowering to do the considering.
@Precis they’ve called FOX NEWS leftist for a while. Fuckin Tucker Carlson was catching shit for being too far left.
Up is down, left is right, war is peace.
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The AI Great Leap Forward
Similar to the #Chinese Great Leap Forward's inflated grain production reports, companies are fabricating or exaggerating #AI adoption and productivity gains to please leadership, leading to increased investment based on made up numbers. The focus seem to have shifted from genuine AI development to "demoware" – impressive-looking prototypes and interfaces with little underlying validation, data infrastructure, or maintenance plans, creating future tech debt.
[…] Entire departments are stitching together n8n workflows and calling it AI — dozens of automated chains firing prompts into models, zero evaluation on any of them. These tools are merchants of complexity: they sell visual simplicity while generating spaghetti underneath. A drag-and-drop canvas makes it trivially easy to chain ten LLM calls together and impossibly hard to debug why the eighth one hallucinates on Tuesdays. The people building these workflows have never designed an evaluation pipeline, never measured model drift, never A/B tested a prompt. They don’t need to — the canvas looks clean, the arrows point forward, the green checkmarks fire. The complexity isn’t avoided. It’s hidden behind a GUI where nobody with ML expertise will ever look.
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In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...Han Lee (Han, Not Solo)
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This is key to political understanding: austerity causes a rise in support for the far right. BTW, austerity is *not over*, unless you accept the meaningless official definition. A meaningful definition is "a decline in public services caused by a shortfall in funding". catherinedevries.eu/NHS.pdf
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The irony.
Everyone should understand that at the national level, for a currency sovereign, that would be the United States and the UK, a shortfall in funding is deliberate.
Money goes to the super rich by means of direct payments and privatized public services and economic consolidation which is hardly ever taxed, and the few pennies that go to the rest of the population are taxed, destroying their wealth, but not that of the rich
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Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.
That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.
words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline…
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.words.filippo.io
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Of course it won't. That model is important to keep 'upstreams' from breaking things that we need to actually work.
@neverpanic
We inventoried _everything_ once for Y2K and once for DST 2007 🇺🇸 , at least here.
We _can_ and _will_ do it again.
(Doing it for both CRQC and Y2038 simultaneously would be a cost-savings.)
(If you can't make a 100% inventory, ask your Red Team or contact a gray-hat hacker, see if they'll take $ for becoming white-hat red-vest on Red Team.)
Considering the stakes, combined with the scope of resources some superpowers possess, plus the "disclose this and it might cost you your _life_" level of "nda" they enforce, I wouldn't count on "a few years". Might already be here?
I suspect anyone who might have the actual info as to what the state-of-the-art crypto-breaking capabilities are at the level of a military superpower, they certainly aren't in a position to talk openly about it.
@robpike Here's an NSA publication on this topic, from 10 years ago. What I love about this is how they describe their requirements: they have to field systems and guarantee their security for 30 years into the future.
archive.org/details/cnsa-suite…
NSA Guidance on crypto algorithms, and defending against quantum computing.Internet Archive
What about WebAuthn, Passkeys, etc?
I don't see any movement in that side of the pond. Just as we are convincing everyone to switch to them
> If you are thinking “well, this could be bad, or it could be nothing!” I need you to recognize how immediately dispositive that is. The bet is not “are you 100% sure a CRQC will exist in 2030?”, the bet is “are you 100% sure a CRQC will NOT exist in 2030?”
How big is the physical computer going to be?
What are the power requirements going to be?
Is this going to be a quantum CPU that doesn't need its temperature and voltage meticulously managed to prevent qubits from changing?
How many of these are we going to be able to manufacture per year?
If real, this is a super serious threat. Where are our sanctions to prevent the breakthroughs from being picked up by e.g., China? Shouldn't this be guarded like nuclear secrets? It was too dangerous for them to have Nvidia GPUs but zero policies about quantum computing as far as I know?
> In symmetric encryption, we don’t need to do anything, thankfully
Ok. So the IoT garden must rewind to the Kerberos or physical provisioning. I can't imagine lattices on small silicon yet.
Thank you, Filippo.
I still think hybrid is the way to go. PQ crypto algorithms and their implementations are still very new, with undiscovered flaws. If you use hybrid and PQ is broken by a bug or flaw, no problem, you still have the same protection or better than the classical one.
Even when quantum computers exist you'd have to break both the classical one (with a quantum computer) and the PQ one (with an implementation flaw, or mathematical breakthrough).
If you deploy only PQ and a flaw is found you are *worse* than classical, depending on how bad the flaw is you might not be much better from transmitting in plain text.
IOW a PQ crypto algoritm protects against an attack from a machine which doesn't yet exist. Deploying it standalone makes you vulnerable against a bug that doesn't yet exist. *But* we've seen a steady stream of bugs in OpenSSL, and it is very likely that there will be one in the PQ implementation too.
I think it is more likely that such a bug is discovered before a quantum computer is built that is capable of a practical attack.
For example there could be side channel attacks if you forget to implement protections similar to RSA blinding (constant time CPU instructions are not side-channel free, see latest Hertzbleed attack from 2025 about remote power analysis leaks). And there probably plenty of other "classical" attacks that will work on PQ algorithms too, since they execute on a classical computer...
Of course implementation flaws in a classical+PQ hybrid could be worse off than just classical too (e.g. some C memory bug), but that might be an acceptable risk.
I'm not sure what the best ordering for a hybrid would be, but I guess PQ encryption first, then classical? So you always have to break the classical first (which won't be instant, even with quantum computers).
There is of course a performance cost, but AFAICT encryption isn't really the bottleneck in TLS, from some testing with 'curl' and 'stunnel' they achieve much lower speeds than what 'openssl speed' reports, so increasing encryption time may not affect overall time that much.
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The unnamed American city I grew up in, built out in the second half of the 20th century, had many roads with no sidewalks to walk on.
No shoulders or bike lanes to ride a bike down.
Sketchy scant bus service.
No light rail.
It was aggressively anti-pedestrian.
It requires a lot of fossil fuel to keep a place like that running, so the future has little good in store for my hometown.
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@murodegrizeco The American collective imagination tends to be limited to its quarter-millennium scale when cities can last many centuries, but even within thirty years I can see a return of streetcars, the conversion of parking lots to usable space, even greenspaces, the retrofit of bike and pedestrian paths on former streets; we could accomplish so much with just a little investment and commitment. Add some public charging from solar or wind on the taller buildings and people who need (electric) motors can access them with no import of fossil fuels.
I grew up somewhere fitting that description, but for some years even the Republican mayor was a cyclist and that created some significant, if discontinuous, arteries for pedestrian and human-powered traffic.
@murodegrizeco
The aggressive anti-pedestrian features of the 20th century expansion of American cities was intentional. It was meant to preclude transport except through the use of private cars.
Shutting out public transport was a purposeful feature. One excuse was that not putting in sidewalks, bus or bike lanes, etc., saved public funds, which paid for much of that expansion, though the money was spent on private contractors.
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I'd just let people like these browse the #CarryShitOlympics hashtag for a few minutes.
#CarryShitOlympics is amusing, even exciting when done well.
But the average 4x4 shopper wants their trip to be r e a l l y b o o o r i n g, so they can focus on their whatzapp or farcebook properly as they go thru the motions habitually.
Global warming or traffic injuries and deaths. They're acceptable costs, right?
(There are few things I despise more than people who use their phones while driving.)
#FirstDogOnTheMoon #cartoon this morning in The Guardian
I'd love this even as I also enjoy driving from city/town to city. As I view cars as great for distances over 10 miles, 2-10 miles being bike/trike ideal & under 2 to be walking sense.
*Not sure how many people who aren't athletes have walked from one edge of Manhattan to the other, but as a teenager I pulled off said stunt, because I was really a suburban kid & too spooked & confused by the routes to use the trains/subways much..
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@plutarch I've now spent over 7 years living in a semirural area as is my current home, 4 in a big city (3 without a car), and about 25 in suburbia (5 without a car)
I'm now within "city" limits, so most things I can walk or (if I had a tricycle) trike to, except medical specialists, the furniture lumber store & other bigger places in other cities & towns, all of which are over 22 miles away, which is nowhere near sensible to pedal to & from. *If there were better sidewalks here, especially to our town grocery store, I'd likely never bother driving to it, as it's about 1/4th mile away but as it is, I've done the "walking along the shoulder of a 45-50mph road" thing just a few times (when a car battery needed replacement).
In Suburbia & that big city, I had to walk at least 1/2 a mile (each way) beyond public transportation to do much of anything or get anywhere, 1 mile not being uncommon in the city & 2 miles not uncommon for suburbia.
After I get the Kosher meat deliveries to become routine & the plumbing fixed, aside from specialty stores & medical practicioners- I doubt I'll leave town much, hence I will at least try to budget in a trike for grocery shopping.
some of my favorite vacation cities are that exactly because i don't need a car at all.
SF, Chicago, Boston, London, Paris, Barcelona, Edinburgh. all have good public transport but are also wonderful to just walk everywhere.
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we won't even go into GPS navigation that hasn't been updated for disasters or road closures...
@paul_ipv6 I looks at first like a nice grid, but there were rivers and hills once, and they still exist under the pavement and buildings, and those nice straight roads just aren't as straight as you expect. And the freeways bugger the hell out of whatever sense there was, since they came later, massive walls through the middle of a city that you can only cross every mile or two.
Every major city is a terrifying challenge to a driver unfamiliar with roads and driving patterns though.
@W6KME
oh so true. the streets and drivers are nuts and not at all car friendly. i avoid driving there if at all possible.
i also hate driving in the DC metro area...
i'll drive in manhattan in preference to Boston or DC.
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@Catlynn It's very true. I live in Portland and I don't really *need* to drive anywhere… 😅
Oh the horror!
@Catlynn oh yeah, Laurelhurst Park is awesome. I live a little bit of a ways away.
Who knows what the feature may hold?
I once heard a nice thought experiment: Considering most cars are parked somewhere most of the time; imagine every parked car would be a tree.
Now imagine a good public transport could make this possible.
(I have to admit, it may work better from a German point of view, since we all live quite close together compared to some parts of the US)
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hey so this is probably completely pointless but: looking for a job (NZ or fully remote willing to hire a kiwi) in SRE, security, or linux/Unix system administration. 15 years expereince administering Linux and Unix boxes, intermediate level of experience working with docker compose and containerisation and container security. No prior job experience unfortunately, all those 15 years were mostly personal projects and small-scale stuff for friends. Currently running an entire multi-machine personal cloud infrastructure with a demonstration of all the services I have running at status.highenergymagic.net. Entirely willing to accept entry-level job placements, no expectation of being paid a lot or anything, just want to be doing something and move the needle a little on my current "being broke" status. #fedihired #infosec #cybersecurity #linux #unix #docker #sre #DevOps
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attention anybody with substantial experience with Rust and networking: my team is hiring!!
one of few rust jobs I'm aware of that is not web 3.0 horseplop.
fully remote (US timezones), good culture, good trans-inclusive healthcare, good work/life balance, and a nice defensive cybersecurity mission i can get behind.
feel free to reach out for more details and the job posting.
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Dear Fedi friends,
Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).
I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).
I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.
Merci beaucoup ❤️
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@stefanie@social.anoxinon.de @haubles@hachyderm.io I think it is also more than one campground, bunch of campground. Sometimes you will hear another campground having a party and wander over and join in.Supermoosie (Mastodon Australia)
Nell'attuale modello sociale, gli spazi comuni, gli spazi liberi, vanno riducendosi sempre di più, a tutto vantaggio dei luoghi "a pedaggio", luoghi in cui per stare seduto, per fare sport, per giocare, devi pagare in denaro o in natura. Così come gli architetti urbanisti cercano di trovare soluzioni per fare in modo che la cittadinanza riconquisti il diritto agli spazi liberi e gratuiti, allo stesso modo gli "urbanisti digitali" del Fediverso hanno realizzato un'infrastruttura che consenta ai cittadini digitali di riappropriarsi dei propri spazi senza svendere le proprie relazioni e i propri pensieri alla profilazione dei data broker e alla manipolazione algoritmica a fini di lucro; questo è il Fediverso: uno spazio comune, pubblico e intimo allo stesso tempo.
en français 😅
Dans le modèle social actuel, les espaces communs, les espaces de liberté, se raréfient au profit des espaces payants – des lieux où il faut payer, en espèces ou en nature, pour s'asseoir, faire du sport ou se divertir. De même que les urbanistes cherchent des solutions pour garantir aux citoyens le droit à des espaces libres et ouverts, les « urbanistes numériques » du Fediverse ont créé une infrastructure permettant aux citoyens numériques de se réapproprier leurs espaces sans que leurs relations et leurs pensées ne soient instrumentalisées par des courtiers en données pour le profilage et la manipulation algorithmique à des fins lucratives. C'est le Fediverse : un espace commun, à la fois public et intime.
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who wrote in to share what they love about the Fediverse.
I had almost 200 replies (all very thoughtful) and I just spent an hour trying to respond to everyone 😅
Off to sleep now, more inspired than ever. Good night everyone! 🌛
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Pour moi le Fédivers était une échappatoire aux réseaux sociaux "classiques" à la base. Peu de nous admettent qu'ils ont un problème de dépendance excessive sur Facebook, Instagram, et compagnie. Je voulais reprendre main sur ma vie et mes heures tout en promouvant la liberté d'expression, la transparence et le juste traitement d'une plateformes de ses utilisateurs.
Ma session moyenne sur Mastodon est de quelque minutes, cumulant toujours moins d'un tiers d'heure par journée. Celle de Facebook, à l'époque, cumulait aux alentours d'une heure parfois, et je n'en retenais absolument rien.
@neil
you will do fine !
sorry my French is still très nul (working on it), but I would like to say;
The Fediverse is a special place due to it's decentralized nature, hosted by a kind network of volunteers instead of a centralized big tech company. It brings together a broad range of people that feel safe to post here.
(I shouldn't type while walking)
I nominate phire.place/@paparatti/1163590…
It is deeply funny to me that Mastodon is a place where AI bros cry because they can't get any traction, but a single picture of moss can give anyone, no matter their other content or follower count, positive feedback for the rest of time.
My take:
Community is built by people *for people*, not by companies for profit. The fediverse attracts those who are looking for that sense of community online and many find it in the fediverse.
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Je suis un vieux bonhomme qui a découvert Internet avec le "mail" et "usenet" à l'époque où l'informatique était totalement libre : il "suffisait" d'acheter un ordinateur et un compilateur. Certes,
c'était onéreux. Mais même les produits Microsoft et Apple étaient, de ce point de vue, libres.
Je n'ai jamais eu besoin des réseaux propriétaires sur lesquels je n'ai pas de compte.
J'utilise un peu - beaucoup trop ? 🤔 - Mastodon et Matrix.
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Matrix : parce qu'il me permet de retrouver le même type de relations que Usenet : des communautés de passionnés d'un sujet.
Mastodon, à l'origine pour la même raison que Matrix (ce qui est une erreur). À l'usage, cet outil permet des rencontres fortuites. Par exemple vous. Au fil du temps, je suis un petit groupe de personne dont je partage les intérêts. Mais pas toujours les opinions : il s'en suit des débats toujours courtois. Et quand ils ne le sont pas, je masque et j’oublie.
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Un bel exemple de la convivialité de Mastodon n'est-il pas la belle aventure de Bubulle-Bis ?
Je suis de longue date un zélateur des logiciels libres.
De plus, même si ce n'est pas un critère premier, la confidentialité de ces réseaux est importante.
Ps : mes pouets ont une courte durée de vie
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We don't know each other, but I speak french!
Le fediverse est centré sur les gens, pas sur leur réputation ou leur notoriété. On y discute, on y fait pas du marketing.
On y rencontre véritablement des etres humains, on n'interargit pas juste avec des community managers.
Mon ressenti très personnel après 2 ans sur Mastodon, un réseau social open source au rythme très éloigné des réseaux habituels.Aemarielle (Aemarielle - Aquarelles sexy et magiques)
oh very very good luck to you! you will ace this. I've seen you present and you're so clear and confident. they are lucky to have you.
(in my terrible French my testimony is that aux autres résaux sociaux je lis, je vois des choses, de temps en temps j'écrit. c'est bon mais ce ne change rien dans ma vie. chez mastodon j'APPRENDS. quand je le ferme j'ai appris des novelles choses et vu des liens nouveaux entre les choses que j'ai su.)
@mariafarrell thank you Maria, it means so much coming from you ❤️ and I completely agree with you re: learning here.
I once replied to someone (toot gone bc of autodelete sadly): "14 years on Big Tech platforms and I learned nothing. 4 years on the Fediverse and I feel like MacGyver" 😆
the Fediverse is special, because it feels like "our" network, "our" social media. I run my own Mastodon instance and I love it. There are no algorithms, it is just a whole different experience to Twitter (where I was active for many years before) and other platforms.
As an advocate for open source software and operating systems, Mastodon/the Fediverse is the logical next step for communication and socialisation for me.
@joncounts Everything @joncounts said.
For me it feels like I can interact with real people and have real discussions. So far, people have been kind. I like that I can pay for the infrastructure directly without having to deal with ads, or influencer’s, which are basically ads.
I love how much agency I have in the Fediverse. My feed contains only what I have chosen and not what an algorithm spits out.
Also I feel like the sense of community is stronger here. People are here because they want to be; there seems to be a general appreciation for real personal interaction and not just what will occupy the most minutes of human attention.
I wrote this yesterday:
aus.social/@chestas/1163628690…
It seems that echo chamber is the key phrase of the day. Here's my takePersonally, I left Twitter because it was full of bullying and celebrity/influencer worship. I didn't fit in, and felt very uncomfortable.
I left Facebook when my friends and families posts started disappearing and an algorithm started feeding me things I should have interest in.
I haven't used any other social media, except the Fediverse where I have been accepted and feel comfortable, even though my introverted nature sometimes tells me to stop interacting and go back to lurking like on Twitter.
As social media goes, I have found a happy place. I follow what I want, block what I don't, and am really happy with the moderation of aus.social admins. Is it an echo chamber? To be honest, I don't care. I'm not going to the pub with a bunch of people I don't like the opinion of, and that's how I think of the Fediverse, a social environment, rather than a soapbox.
Anyway, I'll go back to talking about chess, and posting photos of Tasmania and cats. And thanks to all of you who happily tolerate me 🙂
#Fediverse #Mastodon #EchoChamber @aussocialadmin #Socialmedia
here you go:
Best social network money can't buy.
And:
Fediverse proves that if nobody is tipping the scales to artificially boost "engagement", toxic people end up being blocked. Mainstream social media toxicity is not inevitable, it's a business decision, a choice. And Fediverse chooses not to have any of it.
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@rysiek Unfortunately this works 2+ ways or is multi-reasoned.
So the same good kind of blocking etc can be part of the similar culture of not going deep / teaching anyone / seeing others as your own (or as part of humanity) / work in progress etc...
Something positive in communication and not just fleeting (which counts) but something deeper / more frequently developed as humans.
Any thoughts on that?
@rysiek
I'm against the obvious #spam or #Nazism etc but I mean the #normal people are too sterile / not active (other than #job) and not able any longer to really be flexible / see past comments... too clean / doesn't grow the us (non-techies) as imperfect / human as we are.
Know what I mean?
Many kinds of #Truth to understand.
This is mostly Mastodon experience but:
I feel like I'm in control.
The system is made for me and I can sort and select what I see through filters and lists.
On the fediverse we have real choice in who we can communicate with.
We can choose where we communicate in safety. It's not a centralised community, it's overlapping communities choosing to communicate with each other.
We can choose to exercise freedom of association on here, not just free speech.
I used to go to a restaurant that was super popular and really small. They had a sign in their door:
Too small?
Too loud?
Too crowded?
Too bad.
I think I can adapt that to the #fediverse
No AI?
No monetisation?
No algorithm?
No problem!
le moment où on franchit cette porte, on comprend à nouveau la différence entre être utilisateur et utilisé.
Les réseaux sociaux les plus connus aujourd'hui réduisent les personnes à leurs données et à tout ce que l'on peut exploiter de leurs clicks, leur navigation et leurs questions.
Sur le #Fediverse l'humain redevient un être social capable de bâtir une communauté de gens avec les mêmes centres d'intérêts sans, pour autant, être exploité ou piègé par l'addiction aux contenus.
J'adore que les gens ici sont poli.e.s en général, parfois plus que les gens qui je rencontre au quotidienne 
et aussi que souvent ils/elles posent des questions concernant les sources des informations ou se souviennent de mettre des textes décrivant des images.
Ouff, and I don't mind if anyone points out grammatical errors in the above. No need to be too polite in this case
I’m the algorithm,
you’re the algorithm,
we are the algorithm.
That makes the Fediverse human.
Bonjour et merci.
Les personnes qui écrivent et postent sur le Fediverse, elles ne le font pas pour compter les vues, mais parce qu'elles ont quelque chose à apporter. Du coup, c'est facile de trouver du contenu intéressant, vérifié ou vérifiable et de conserver ce contenu bien visible dans son fil.
the biggest qualification for the fediverse is that amongst major social media platforms/ protocols, there is no plutocrat ownership and control
so while there is still conflict- there's always conflict, it's genuine. rather than manipulated and stilted by agendas that serve bigotry for political ends
because the largest problem in the world today is how the media, social media and traditional media, now serves a plutocrat-bigot political axis
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La principale caractéristique du Fediverse réside dans le fait que, parmi les grandes plateformes et protocoles de réseaux sociaux, il n'est soumis ni à la propriété ni au contrôle de ploutocrates.
Ainsi, bien que des conflits subsistent — car il y a toujours des conflits —, ceux-ci sont authentiques ; ils ne sont ni manipulés ni artificiellement orientés par des agendas visant à instrumentaliser l'intolérance à des fins politiques.
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Car le problème majeur auquel le monde est confronté aujourd'hui réside précisément dans la manière dont les médias — qu'ils soient sociaux ou traditionnels — se mettent désormais au service d'un axe politique alliant ploutocratie et intolérance.
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il y a quelques années, j’ai “jeté une bouteille à la mer” pour essayer de trouver une location longue durée de vélo à Paris. Je ne voulais pas utiliser de velib pendant tout mon séjour.
Quelqu’un sur le fedi (voir réponse ci-dessous 😉) a lu mon message et m’a prêté son vélo pendant tout mon séjour ! C’était super. Ça m’a permit de découvrir un nouveau Paris, de rester en surface, de rencontrer un voisin qui m’ai aidé pour le garer la nuit. Ça m’a refait!
@psoul c'était moi et c'est mon vélo 🥹
Tu étais la 1ère personne de Mastodon que j'ai rencontrée "en vrai", je venais d'arriver sur ce réseau 🤗
@_elena
J'ai retrouvé en Mastodon la raison pour laquelle j'aime internet depuis toute petite : l'internet qui rassemble et crée du lien.
Auparavant peu habituée à m'exprimer sur les réseaux, Mastodon m'a apporté de la force lors de mon 1er voyage à vélo solo.
Depuis, les échanges avec la communauté ont largement contribué à développer ma passion pour le vélo et continuent de me faire grandir. J'aime que les interactions y soient si simples et de voir certaines connexions se transformer en de vraies amitiés 🥹
@emeline @psoul
C'était sur ce réseau social que je me suis inquiété pour quelqu'un que je ne connaissais pas pour la première fois, à force de suivre ses aventures lors de son 1er voyage solo (oui, c'était Emeline).
C'est là que j'ai fait les premières rencontres IRL depuis longtemps : un petit tour dans une salle d'escalade parisienne où j'étais en déplacement pour quelques jours.
C'est aussi des échanges avec d'autres Masto pour préparer mes vélorando en famille !
@Eriatolc je me rappellerai toute ma vie de l'émotion que j'ai ressentie en découvrant ton message privé sur Mastodon le lendemain de mon accident, suite à mon absence de post quotidien que j'avais pris l'habitude de rédiger chaque soir 🥹.
Quand je parlais de la "force que m'avait apportée ce réseau" pendant ce voyage, je faisais notamment référence à cette histoire.
Je suis vraiment heureuse qu'on ait pu faire cette session de grimpe et j'y repense souvent !
To me, it is the absence of algorithms. The resulting calmness is what truly differentiates fediverse from the big platforms.
Algorithms favor "conflict" over "dialogue" and since everything is displayed in chronological order, there is no incentive - as a content creator - to "feed the algorithm" to have your content prioritised.
I have yet to see a "Follow link in comments" post in fediverse - because there is just no need for it.
I don't feel like my human rights are constantly being questioned. Moderation is much better handled, specially in smaller instances.
I only see the things I am interested in, there are no narratives being pushed.
I can either have a nice walk around cute things or enter debates. I can choose. No algorithm is trying to force-fed me anything.
I can follow people or topics. I discover new things everyday.
There's no faking being happy. Everyone is human with good and bad days.
I love the Fediverse because it restored focus on People having Conversations again. The so-called "Social Media" sites started out that way, connecting you with friends you lost touch with, and gathering your extended family, but these days they treat you like an Audience instead.
The people who seem to have the greatest frustration using Fediverse systems like Mastodon are the ones looking for "reach" or "follower count" or other metrics of how big their Audience is. This is Big Tech thinking, and I recommend they instead look for people to talk *with* instead of *at*. Because that's where we really shine, and I love this space for it.
Attaché : 1 image Découvrez l'histoire de #Mastodon ! Lien vers la version numérique gratuite (PDF - Epub) https://drive.proton.me/urls/AKQQ7E0WVM#xQIxPdhIQM4yRomain Leclaire :mastodon: (Piaille)
Ooooh cool!
My French is beyond bad so in English:
The Fediverse allows me to connect to others how I always wanted to - on my own terms, in chronological order, without A/B testing, algorithms, adverts or biases from unpleasant CEOs being thrust upon me.
I have been extremely online since 1998 and have many treasured friends made via the internet from the pre-Big-Tech days, and now I'm able to make friends in the same way again.
@sarajw
I knew no one when arriving here. Empty feed. No friend. You Sara were among the very first one to talk to me and kindly answer messages from an stranger. Thanks for that.
Je ne connaissais personne en débarquant ici. Timeline vide. Aucun ami. Et Sara tu as été parmi les toute premières à me parler et à répondre avec bienveillance aux messages d'un inconnu. Merci !
@sarajw
Je rejoins beaucoup de monde ici : Le fil chronologique, suivre ce que l'on décide et non ce qu'un algorithme ou des annonceurs décident pour nous, la bienveillance de la majorité, la générosité des bénévoles qui font tourner tout ça, les combattants de l'accessibilité et les surveillants des textes alternatifs, le respect des sciences et de la cultures, l'inclusivité, l'humain... quel bien cela fait !
Et bien sûr foss, protocole, interopérabilité, auto-hébergement etc.
💜💜💜
That is the one thing here which is different to what we have grown used to in the last decade - feeds pre-filled with suggested content, to help you get up and running.
That does mean discovery here can be tricky - but also built in are the local and federated firehose feeds that you can dive into, so I don't see it as a bad thing.
I found making friends hard on Twitter - to even be seen anywhere, on anyone's feeds - you had to keep feeding the algorithm. Grim.
@sarajw
Oh yeah! when I said "empty feed. No friend" I didn't mean it was a bad thing. Just a fact. That could have been intimidating but that was quickly circumvented by the warm welcome of the people here (and the fact I wasnt in a hurry).
Also I would not say discovery is hard nor tricky here. Following tags or people is easy.
It's just that it can be felt a bit more slow that on traditionnal networks (and i say "felt"). And slow is not bad.
@villapirorum agree with you :)
I can't help but think for some people who use the internet as entertainment rather than connection to people (and no shade on that) they're simply not going to seek out a place like the fediverse. It makes sense then, for it to be more automated.
Salut Elena!
J’adore le fediverse parce-que ça ressemble un peu le village mondial parfait. On parle avec tout le 🌍 , de tous les sujets- mais toujours d’une manière amicale et respectueuse.
Je me suis intégré l’année passée, je suis ici presque tous les jours- et je n’ai vu aucun post insultant. Sauf deux occasions, quand les modérateurs les ont publié pour expliquer l’exclusion de l’auteur de Mastodon.
Et presque tout le 🌍 contribue des choses productives - c’est bienfaisant. Thx😉
j’ai évolué dans le monde de l’informatique libre et des telecoms entre 1998 et 2005.
J’ai survécu dans les réseaux sociaux propriétaires et toxiques entre 2012 et 2017, en y trouvant mon compte (travailleur indépendant isolé c’était un moyen de maintenir une vie sociale).
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J’ai trouvé dans le fediverse un espace qui entretien cette socialisation et permet de construire soi-même ses communauté, selon ses affinités, hors d’un contrôle marchand et de l’exploitation d’une économie de l’attention. Un retour aux fondamentaux d’un internet du partage et de la découverte de l’autre.
Les forces du fediverse se sont pour moi :
- la taille humaine des instances et la modération
- la bienveillance et la diversité
- la TL chronologique
- les #
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J'aime pouvoir participer, collaborer et contribuer activement à quelque chose et ne pas être qu'un consommateur passif, pouvoir agir et ne pas que subir.
Surtout à l'ère de la montée de l'autoritarisme américain et des technos facistes.
Boycotter, c'est bien. Construire autre chose, c'est mieux. Et le Fédivers est cette autre chose.
Le fédivers, c'est un peu le Wikipedia des réseaux sociaux.
Nice, good luck with the presentation!
Looks like you already have plenty of responses, but in case you're still looking for more, in light of this: stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…
I'd just like to add: The fediverse is special to me because it's a scrappy group project where we all contribute without needing to sacrifice our integrity, whether that's through accepting venture capital, or resorting to ads or crypto.
We don't always get along, but we can all pretty much agree that fediverse has been successful without those things.
Pretty interesting read. The TLDR here would be that the Blacksky community is gearing up to vote on whether they want to rely on AI coding tools, seek investments, implement ads, or not grow. https://blackskyweb.Stefan Bohacek (Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server)
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Le fait que ce soit plus européen est une bonne chose pour ceux qui en ont marre que le discours soit dominé par les américains (qui ne comprennent même pas la place qu’ils prennent), et a suivre un peu plus ce qu’il se passe chez nous. (À voir si ça marche aussi pour les autres non-américains).
Les fonctionnalités comme suivre les hashtags et l’absence de publicité sont des "a coté" quand même très appréciables.
Bonne chance pour la présentation!
The ability to:
Filter my feed using keywords. Every platform needs this.
Cater my own feed to something meaningful and manageable instead of being at the whims of the slop algorithm.
The lack of ads and there being no incentives for them or any enshitification to be added in.
I can decide exactly what notifications I want or don't want, instead of having to choose between none or too many.
The privacy options are much stronger here than every other social media or content platform.
I left Twitter, expecting to find a similar experience on Mastodon. But what i found instead was community.
I'm brought back to the ways of the old internet, where humans matter and interactions are not fueled by algorithms, but curiosity.
Cher Président Macron, pourquoi êtes-vous encore sur X et toujours pas présent sur le Fediverse ? Quittez X et laissez le aux trolls et aux extrémistes. Rejoignez nous sur le Fedivers, le réseau social européen, souverain et démocratique.
Why move away from platforms like X, Instagram, Tiktok, snapchat? Let’s take back control of our digital spaces. Social media platforms derive their power from conventions: we want to be there beca…xodus.online (Xodus)
The Fediverse is regularly an inspiring alternative vision. I draw on it constantly as a reminder that we are the ones build who build these systems and we can build better systems that reflect different values and priorities besides extraction and capitalization and algorithmic injustice.
I’ll be using the Fediverse as an example in an upcoming keynote that’s on ethics and hope and metamodernism. I look forward to seeing what you speak on once you’re able to share.
@_elena What makes the fediverse special to me comes down to a few core differences from corporate social platforms.
First, control. On the fediverse, I decide what I see and what I don’t. Corporate platforms are built around engagement algorithms designed to keep you scrolling, clicking, and reacting. That usually means being shown whatever is most likely to provoke a response — often outrage, conflict, or sensational content. Advertising is also baked into that model, because those platforms exist primarily to generate revenue.
The fediverse works differently. There’s no global engagement algorithm deciding what deserves your attention. Instead, you follow people, hashtags, or communities you actually care about. That alone changes the experience dramatically. You're not being pushed toward content designed to manipulate your attention — you're choosing your environment.
That leads directly to the second reason: the tone and atmosphere. When I use the fediverse, I’m not stepping into a constant stream of negativity. If I make a post, the people who see it are usually those who chose to follow me or share similar interests. That tends to produce more thoughtful, constructive, and positive interactions. Likewise, what I read is content I intentionally opted into, which creates a healthier and more welcoming social space overall.
Finally, ownership and autonomy. On the fediverse, no single corporation owns your voice. Your posts aren’t controlled by a company, a billionaire, or a centralized platform. Your instance may have moderation policies, but your content ultimately belongs to you. Privacy is also built into the structure itself. If you post to followers-only, only your followers see it. If you post directly, only the mentioned people see it. That behavior isn’t an afterthought — it’s part of how the system was designed from the start.
Ultimately, the fediverse is built by users, for users. It isn’t controlled by a single entity, and that decentralization creates something rare: a social space shaped by communities instead of profit motives. That’s what makes it special.
-Kaelaeth & -Anivara
It's the trust that I have in the Fediverse. The trust that, even if individual instances come and go, the Fediverse will remain - and so will my presence here. And that it will only get better over time, instead of worse.
I put a lot of time and effort into Google+, but then it was gone. Then I put a lot of time and effort into Twitter, but then it was bought my Elon Musk. With the Fediverse, I don't have to fear any rug pull, and that does _woners_ for my peace of mind.
J'aime le fédivers parce qu'il est conçu pour faire profiter des communautés en tous genres, qu'elles soient thématiques, créatives, régionales, etc. Par opposition les grands réseaux commerciaux ont pour seul but de monétariser chacun de mes clics en nourissant leurs algos optimisés pour le ragebait, le clickbait, l'addiction, la manipulation, la propagande, etc.
Humain vs. inhumain.
it's #DemocracyOfReach.
freedom of speech is not enough if the wealthy determine who gets attention. decentralized social media can displace them, allowing the public to collectively decide what information, ideas and art goes viral. based purely on human boosts. no owners, no algos, no ads. that's the revolutionary potential here. while there's other ways to find and participate in community and be entertained, nothing else can do this. nothing else can so empower all the people.
The Fediverse is a great place to learn about queer identities and anti-capitalism stuff that the super rich don’t want you to know about.
Plus it’s a pretty solid dating app.
I grew up with Web1.0, a free garden of oddities, trivia, useful bits of tech knowledge, weird and wonderful stuff, which was maybe limited by scant access, and tech-savvy required.
Web2.0 ("AOL") created walled gardens, where sheeple were allowed to see and go only where corporate goons wanted them to. Web3.0 monetized and enshittified that.
The #fediverse is Web1.0+, the freedom to access wonderful stuff, free of corps oversight... now with obscene broadband and storage/processing =D
Le Fediverse est le dernier coin de tranquillité, imperméable au marketing dans un Internet rendu inhospitalier par les Big Tech.
Ce sont nos potagers qu’on cultive et où on se détend entre voisins, là où le reste de la ville est pollué par les publicités et manipulations de Meta et consorts.
La porte de la Fediverse, c'est une communauté bien à soi, que l'on peut s'approprier à sa façon et selon ses propres besoins sans en déléguer le contrôle à autrui, tout en restant connecté aux autres communautés et à leurs membres, dans le respect des valeurs et des besoins de chacunes et chacuns.
(Thanks Elena ! I am eager to learn what this prestigious venue is 🤔)
Le Fédivers construit des ponts — entre les humains. Ici, je ne suis ni un utilisateur, ni un point de données, ni une cible marketing. Je suis simplement moi. Et le Fédivers n’a pas été conçu pour le profit, mais pour nous.
It's hard m there's so much good to say about the fediverse...
...because we don't suffer the advertising incentives that built the modern internet into a caricature of humanity.
Thanks to the dampening of that, humans can have real interactions in the fediverse. We are all imperfect, but our imperfections are our own rather than magnified and marketed.
We are allowed to be as whole as we can be without some marketing department telling us we are defective in a way that they magically have a product or service for...
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@LisaBanana awww 😂 your comment just made my day Lisa, thank you! 🥰
I look forward to a future playdate with our little ones ❤️
what I like about it is that holds within it a precious gem, something you cannot put a price on. The promise of a better world. A hope for the future. It has idealism and the promise of world where we all partake as equals. A public democratic space.
Pur trop je ne peut pas exprimer ça en français (encore).
I just don't get the rage from it like I do with Meta products.
I've been so angry for so long.
Fedi is much calmer, chill, easy to nope out if things do get a bit weird in a way you don't like (just mute that conversation, mute someone for a period, or forever, or block, lots of options!)
Conversation is meaningful.
It's random, niche and nerdy.
Whatever your special interest, you can find it, if you look - there is no algorithm hiding things from us or presenting us with things we should apparently love/hate.
It's so much more.. Real. It's not sanitised or exaggerated for reach and clicks. People just put themselves out there for whatever reason. It's more like when the internet was better (granted not for every marginalised group but nowhere has achieved that yet - we can keep trying!)
And overall it's got more good things like: anti-AI sentiment and critique, no quarter for fascists etc. Again not perfect but, a definite improvement over for-profit socials where you and your life are the product. No one is a preiuxt product here. Just people!
Chère Elena,
je préfère le Fediverse parce qu'il est cool, important et progressif. Et parce que je veux éviter tous ces idiots sur les grandes plateformes:)
Bien des salutations de Berlin,
Elke
Why I'm not on Facebook, whilst everyone else seems to be, and prefer the Fediverse:
- I'm annoyed by the amount of advertising, which don't exist
- In the Fedi the Moderation is dar superior to Facebook
- I find my people in the Fedi, but not on Facebook (Facebook is somehow dead in my nieche.)
- I feel much safer to speak in the Fedi than on Facebook. There is some toxic culture at facebook
- The Fedi has no algorithm, which amplifies only, what brings engagement, which are mostly toxic things
- Instead at the Fedi is much more genuine engagement even for positive and more rational things.
- The Fedi is open to connect to the whole World wide web by open standards, no walled garden. A Link to something outside the Fedi isn't a crime unlike Facebook.
- In the Fedi no interesting post suddenly disappear just because you got disturbed by something. It is a huge annoyance with Facebook.
- If you post something in the Fedi and ask something, you get serious
hi @_elena fingers crossed for your talk, here is a testimony in French (feel free to cut some parts if it's too long).
« J'aime l'idéal que porte le Fédivers, d'un internet collaboratif, pensé et construit par et pour des humains. Différentes communautés (individus, institutions...) peuvent y créer des espaces où elles décident de leur objectifs et de leur fonctionnement, mais leurs membres peuvent aussi continuer d'interagir avec d'autres communautés au sein de cet écosystème plus large. »
What I like about the Fediverse is that there are real communities here in a way that there isn't and cannot be on websites where every bit of interaction with other humans, every who and what, is shaped by optimization to maximize some metric, like "engagement" or "ad views". It feels more natural here and more normal, and at the same time, messy, the edges haven't been filed off like they have off like they have off the experience of Consuming a continuous stream of content selected to keep you on a website as much as possible.
Most of the things that absolutely destroy peoples brains on social media sites are *just not a thing here*, which is healthy in a way that is genuinely difficult to explain to people who haven't tried it and don't remember this kind of thing.
Not that we don't still have problems (boy do we still have problems), but here, we can start working on fixing them. while on the corporate social media websites, everything just always gets worse, by design.
I really like the culture of consent and respect. CWs let you give people notice before blasting them with political shit, or severe depression or anxiety attacks, or just plain old lewdposting. Or spoilers. Or the punchline to a joke!
I also really love how public doesn't mean Public™. When you make a post, it doesn't instantly go to the entire world at once. It just goes to the servers your server knows, and then if someone boosts it, the servers their server knows, etc. Things bubble outward naturally.
This means you get real communities on here in a way that's probably harder on a more centralized site. I'm in a big furry bubble, which rocks. But there's also a large contingent of Firstname Lastname Human Fedi and we see them occasionally but it's not like, constant.
It also really cuts down on harassment when the trolls/queerphobes/anti-furry haters/whoever just don't even know your server exists, and/or have been blocked. They can go be hateful in their little hate bubble. :3
Oh yeah that's another thing. "You're allowed to say anything you want, but people don't have to listen" is actually a thing here! Nobody's censoring the nasty people, they can and do still exist in their little corner. But nobody talks to them. And this wasn't some decision handed down from on high, it's just that all the admins of the servers in our region of fedi went "nah, go away" and blocked them. We didn't have to block them (we selfhost our own server and are our own admins), we just never ran into them 'cause we keep a low profile and don't federate much.
Speaking of... if you're queer, furry, marginalized, or otherwise a target for being banned for no reason in corporate places – around here, you can find a server ran by someone like you, full of people like you. That gives you both community /and/ assurance that you won't get banned just for being yourself. Even if the credit card companies push to get you labeled Evil and scrub you from existence. (...I wish I was joking.)
There's a lot of good here that comes out of it being (unlike Bluesky) truly decentralized.
Nothing fancy, but here's my take.
I've been on the 'net since it was called Arpanet. When the commercial social networks first came around, I was already jaundiced enough that their future business model - advertising, surveillance, exploitation, extraction - was obvious and inescapable.
So I never signed up for any of them. No Facebook, Twitter, or even any of the early ones. Sometimes I knew I was missing out on something that others weren't, but the costs didn't outweigh the benefits.
When Fedi came around - decentralized, independent, non-commercial, ungovernable, cooperative - I finally knew I could join something "social".
I love it here.
Commercial social media platforms are built for ‘influencer’ engagement and sponsored content - the fedi is not. It’s lack of an global algorithmic feed and global moderation make this type extremely of high-engagement content difficult to achieve. Additionally, the lack of an algorithm ensures even smaller accounts have equal voice to larger ones. This comes at the cost of users having to strictly curate their own feeds through follow requests, instead of passively accepting an algorithmicly generated feed. For people used to other platforms, this model can feel burdensome, initially.
Generally speaking, it is misleading to try to compare the fedi to other social media platforms, like Bsky, X, Threads, etc. These latter platforms are singular in operations, ownership, and moderation. The fedi is best understood as a confederation of different communities (which we call instances). Each community has it’s own unique characteristics, culture, and moderation policies. No community is forced to interact with another but must come to a generalized, and understood, social contract, or face consequences of being ‘defederated’ by one or multiple instances (see various fediblock dramas). While this may create – what appears as a – hodgepodge of content restrictions or moderation policies, it is – in fact – the single most scalable and democratic model for moderation possible. This model does not rely on the exponential growth of a large centralized team or the implementation of questionable AI moderation bots, but requires merely that every new and ongoing instance abide by a general social agreement to participate within the larger fedi community.
alas my French is very rudimentary these days.
In an age where most social media sites implement algorithms to control what we see based on the whims of tech billionaires, and people are encouraged to chase popularity and influence, the Fediverse frees us from those algorithmic barriers and allows us to find true human connections and build supportive communities, while giving individuals greater ownership and control of their data.
I suspect others could write it more eloquently!
interestingly, I'm reading a book right now by your fellow countryman Carlo Rovelli about Anaximander, a 6th C BCE Greek philosopher/scientist who is credited with bringing about the start of the modern scientific method to understand the world rather than attributing everything to the gods' influence.
The chapter about the political situation in the region at that time seems like an apt analogy with social media! (All quotes © Carlo Rovelli)
je vais pas mal répété ce qui a été dit j'pense :
Je préfère ici parce que l'environnement de scrollingl'air bien plus... "choisi"
Enfin, on a le contrôle sur ce qu'on veut voir. Si je veux pas de... je sais pas moi... de vache (pardon les vaches, c'est juste un exemple 🤷🏻) dans ma TL, je choisis tout simplement de pas suivre des gens qui en parle. Ou de masquer les mots-clés liés. Et ça fonctionne !
Tandis que les grosses plate-formes nous imposent beaucoup de choses. On peut bloquer des gens qui parlent de vaches à tour de bras, on continue encore d'en voir beaucoup.
Aussi on est + proche des "chef" des instances, et on peut discuter -
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I was about to write mine when this came across my timeline, almost exactly what I was going to toot.
wandering.shop/@realtegan/1163…
The thing I like about doomscrolling on Mastodon is that I get the news I feel I need to get - but in between there are photos of cats, moss, and beautiful old trees, discussion of repairing and reupholstering old chairs, lockpicking discussions, out…Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸 (The Wandering Shop)
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Malheureusement, je n'ai parlé point français depuis il y a trente ans, donc je ne le parle plus bien.
Mais je peux le lire assez bien.
Ce que j'aime, ce sont les conversations non filtrées par les algorithmes de Musk et de ses amis, sur les sujets qui m'intéresse, avec des gens raisonnables.
It ought to be enough that an organization can have an online presence not owned & controlled by Zuckerberg & Musk, but here goes...
If by "prestigious" you mean they have the resources (staff, money), they should have their own instance. As complete control as anyone can have in social media.
Corollary: Having a social media handle like CEO@Company.social ROCKS! (You might want to translate that to corp-speak.)
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Le fediverse nous donne le pouvoir de décider comment gérer nos réseaux sociaux:
1. Les normes d'usage sont établies par consensus et peuvent se changer par consensus. Cela inclut aussi la possibilité de connecter ou bloquer certains serveurs.
2. Aucune entité privée ne peut censurer nos conversations au fediverse.
3. Aucune personne ou entité privée ne peut transgresser ces normes. Ni son argent ni sa réputation peuvent acheter un traitement de faveur. Le fediverse n'appartient qu'à ses utilisateurs.
4. Par conséquent, les utilisateurs sont plus conscients des normes et des conséquences de les violer, et cela peut s'apprécier aux interactions, plus respectueuses que dans les réseaux privatives.
En plus, le fediverse est un projet très proche à l'esprit de ce que l'Internet doit être, un réseau de communication libre et respectueuse.
I started out humbly, on mastodon dot social. Now I run private servers for Mastodon, PeerTube, and Faircamp, all of which run off of a PC in my living room. I couldn't host any of the corporate platforms at all, and here I am looking forward to adding users at some point.
It's also like a knowledge hub, with added pictures of dogs, cats, lizards, birds, arachnids, and countless close-ups of lichen and moss. Plus Monsterdon!
Anyone can join in!
The Fediverse is what social media was supposed to be.
Count me as an old guy, in my 70s.
In the Fediverse I define my "algorithm", following people who have interesting things to say or post). It means paying attention to individuals to determine who to follow, and expanding my lists both on relevant hashtags as well as strangers who appear in a thread.
Yes, there's certainly some confirmation bias in selecting who I follow, but the diversity of opinions is large.
I get to see posts in foreign languages, some of which I can read, but most I translate on-line.
I learn things from perfect strangers, sometimes inspired by them. And there's a level of engagement I don't see elsewhere.
les plateformes modernes poussent les utilisateurs à se comporter comme des commerciaux qui vendraient une marque / un produit, comportement renforcé par les algorithmes récompensant ces comportements.
Le Fediverse, c'est le retour au web d'avant ces services.
Why do I like Bluesky: - Why do I like X/Twitter: - Why do I like Fedi: - Cool peoples - Cute peoples - These things :neocat: :neofox_256: :neobot: :neodog: - Controlled Timeline - idk, just better than other social media platform that I ever u…LinkyKatsumiVT (Furry.Engineer - Duct tape, hotfixes, and poor soldering!)
J'ai rencontré deux personnes extrêmement spéciales ici. Les deux ont devenuent très proche à moi. Une est maintenant ma partenaire.
J'ai rencontré ces personnes à cause d'une petite blague que j'ai publié. J'ai fait beaucoups de telles blagues sur des réseaux sociaux bourgeois, mais chaque fois, les algorithmes ont décidé de les oublier. Ici, les gens ont aimé la blague, alors elles l'ont partagé, alors tout le monde l'a vu. C'est à cause de ça que j'ai rencontré ces deux personnes. À cause de l'absence des algorithmes, nous avons pleines des opportunités pour des connections vrais.
Pour les curieux-ses, la blague malheureusement ne fonctionne pas en Français, mais c'était:
Ouais, chuis LGBT:
L - Absence d'
G - Allez au
B - Lit a l'heure
T - Transgenre
The kind of engagement I’m looking for in a social network are conversations with inquiry, curiosity, and kindness. I see this all the time in the Fediverse and get great value whether I’m an active participant or not.
Three years ago a person I followed was having a very very hard time with a chronic illness.
I wrote this thread for them, about growing Saffron … and by the end about taking a breath and making the next moment a bit better.
ruby.social/@stepheneb/1096231…
Attached: 1 image @bluebirdblvd@mas.to Here’s a true story in the class of things I sometimes call “domestic magic”.Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) (Ruby.social)
Recently I find myself thinking and saying: “It is a kindness to have the opportunity to be kind.”
I find more opportunities to be kind here than in any other social network.
what's special about the fediverse for me is that the feed eventually ends and i can't scroll forever
unless it's a live feed, which i can't bring myself to scroll even for a minute
I used to love Twitter but then a terrible person took it away from me. Nobody can take Mastodon away! It's a system, not a website or a company.
J'aimais Twitter mais puis un person affreux m'en à emporté ca. Personne peut emporter Mastodon! C'est une système, pas une site web ou une compagnie.
According to the Internet Archive's Wayback machine I joined the proto-Fediverse (identi.ca) in 2008. It was fun. It was people who were not normal. We inspired each other to self-host, to make silly podcasts, and to share.
Eventually, I started thinking "Wow. I follow a lot of trans women. Well, I suppose that just shows what a diverse community we are."
There followed a series of personal epiphanies. I cocooned for a few years.
(Apologies because my French is not fantastic!)
Je suis Américaine, et le Fediverse a été absolument crucial pour que je puisse continuer d'accéder à des médias indépendants et à des perspectives importantes venues du monde entier. Je lui en suis très reconnaissante.
good luck!
And as for me, I love that the fediverse is all us as humans, not us as a product someone else makes money with.
The Fediverse is special to me because it's full of interesting and friendly people and I can always find an engaging conversation to join or just read. Unlike the big commercial sites, the Fediverse lets me control my own feed, so I see just what I want to see and nothing else — no adverts, no hate speech and no ragebait designed to keep me on the site regardless of the cost to my mental health.
But more than that, the Fediverse is where, late in life, I discovered that I'm autistic, and lots of lovely autistic people helped me understand what that means and how to use it to understand the past and improve the future. That realisation has revolutionised my life. Even if the Fediverse disappeared tomorrow, I'd carry the gift of that insight with me for the rest of my life.
I love that the Fediverse is what I want when I want it. Curated lists take me straight to the latest news or hobbies. An algorithm isn't hiding things on me or pushing someone's paid advertising.
Discussions are real here. It has a small town feel.
And yes. I feel closer to leading edge thinkers here. And a comment is likely to get a response. It feels more respectful around here.
I was already an adult when internet became available to everyone and so I am certainly old enough to remember the first social media. Fediverse is as social media was originally invented: people sharing stuff to more or less public circles and everyone deciding for themselves whose stuff they follow. It's not that Fediverse is special or new (it isn't); it's only that algorithmic commercialization ruined the other platforms.
Also it's still August here. September hasn't even started.
the fediverse is... difficult. It's not nearly as easy as "go to Twitter.com and you'll be tapped into the feed". It takes research, and work, and a little bit of technical knowledge to make a mastodon account and add users from different instances.
This modicum of difficulty has been a SPECTACULAR remedy to the Eternal September of the rest of the internet. So many people post thoughtful, quality content, everyone seems educated and knowledgeable. No dummies allowed.
Le fédivers/la fédvierse appartient aux utilisateurs et non à une grosse société et son CEO blanc cis mascu.
C'est tout.
- Part of what makes the Fediverse special is how UNspecial it is. It's not flashy, it doesn't go out of its way trying to "wow" you. It's pretty simple and boring technology. A mechanism. A standard. It just gets the job done.
- It's permissionless. Which is basically another word for "free as in speech". There's no big rich corporation behind it. There's no dictator at the top. You don't need to ask anybody. Your account is your own. Your server is your own. Your Fediverse software, in case you write it, is your own. The consequences are also your own. It does mean that the entry threshold is steeper, because nobody is coming to baby you into signing on and building your own social graph, but that's the deal.
- This, however means, that if you're invested into finding friends on your own, it very quickly starts feeling like a true home. I've found friends here. I've found a family here. My ragtag tribe of adorable goofballs. No other social network can provide that.
ok here goes!
What really impresses me?
The Fediverse has diversity built-in. It is a core function.
ActivityPub enables a truly open and interconnected social web of people and platforms that is more like the original 'world wide web'.
While currently it is small, and thus less diverse in active users than the established giants, the way ActivityPub and the Fediverse are built means diversity can, and should be, infinite.
That's why I believe this place will thrive.
You have a bajillion of these so I'll be short,
#Fedi is the public radio of social media.
Meta, LinkedIn, Xhitter, BSky are giant trees, users (the leaves) send their nutrients (data) to the (billionaire owned) trunk.
#Fedi is a slow-growth forest of interconnected plants all sharing with each other.
And this is hardest to convey, #fedi isn't for people looking for audiences, or influencers, or "engagement". #fedi is for building a social network of relationships and interaction.
Il y a quelques années, j’ai lancé le projet social.overheid.nl à partir d’une conviction simple : une communication ouverte de la part du gouvernement rend les Pays-Bas plus forts.
C’est encourageant de voir que ce mouvement se poursuit, notamment au sein de notre administration fiscale. La transparence, le dialogue et les plateformes numériques ne sont pas des “atouts”, mais essentiels pour instaurer la confiance.
J'aime beaucoup le réseau Mastodon parce-que quelque temps je veux voir le buzz de seulement mes intérêts, (ça veut dire les trains), et aux autres temps je veux voir une vue plus générale.
L'assemblage du ton flux Mastodon personnalisé est comme cuisiner. Il a un saveur unique, et tu as le contrôle de l'améliorer.
Translation inside #Mastodon is a real game changer + step up.
But people who don't make #time or see the point in replying limits it all.
Using all levels of people / energy here 👍
rather than feel depth is a kind of liability or time-drag, seeing people as kind of #Spam for it.
I prefer the less defensive "show me what you got" usage instead of looking for perfection or short text.
Sincerity (people who critique) and #Spam can also look the same if not given time / care ur side ⚠️
If you live in California, you have probably been getting spammed a lot lately on multiple channels about a ballot initiative to “protect retirement from new taxes” or another one pushing “spending transparency”.
You will perhaps be unsurprised to learn that these initiatives have nothing to do with retirement or transparency, and everything to do with billionaires attempting to defeat a proposed tax on the ultra-rich.
Follow the money. “Cui bono?”
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It’s been a weird couple days; I keep running into this talking point that “journalists won’t use Mastodon unless we incentivize engagement farming”.
Meanwhile I’m having a *great* experience here, because I use it to— I dunno— actually talk to people and form relationships?
I reject the premise that mastodon isn’t useful for reporters. I think it’s more accurate that modern news orgs use social media in purely extractive ways.
You might get more reporters that way, but you won’t like them.
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@OliviaVespera thanks, fam. Sometimes I feel like the phrase “personal brand” has just absolutely melted our minds.
Surely the point of social media is to communicate with people? And surely the point of reporting is to do the same.
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I think if we’re honest with ourselves, the “service” most reporters provide on social media is entirely self-serving. A one-way firehose of signal boosting and self promotion.
“Look at me! I wrote this story. Click on it!”
And then you ask them a question, or have a correction, and nobody reads it, because Wired doesn’t care about building a community, just reaching a consumer. It’s fire and forget.
We already have a tool for that, it’s RSS. What value does reposting a link here provide?
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I wasn't on Twitter before its downfall, but from what I've heard I got the impression that microblogging was a two-way street with journalists, scientists and 'common' folk.
It probably was more like you are suggesting though. But it does make me wonder if early Twitter really was less self-serving in a way.
@odd I’m not sure. I wasn’t on Twitter in the early days. By the time I got there it already sucked. lol
I did get to experience invite-only Bluesky, but I can’t really comment on it from a reporting standpoint because I only used it to shitpost. Which was very community oriented, but totally devoid of professional value.
Mastodon really is the only place I’ve had any interest in my work and I just assume that’s cause I’m pals with folks that live in Seattle here.
@odd when twitter was smaller, two way conversation was indeed more common, there was
more a vibe of experimentation and play- and the rules were a bit different than how it is now:
no pictures, no replies, no retweets, no search, and history only could go back about 100 posts.
as soon as retweets, replies and search got added, the vibe got less fun because retweets let dumb throwaway remarks go “viral”, blind replies turned virality into pile ons, and search enabled kiwifarms style analysis of targets
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@bri7 @odd I bet the internet itself is also kind of different than back then. I don’t have a base for comparison with twitter but I encountered this recently going back to play WoW.
It’s like.. the sewage we’ve all been wading in has made people more cautious and cynical. So it’s kind of just harder to talk to strangers than it used to be online?
At least, it’s hard to imagine using the internet in some of the ways that used to feel normal.
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@bri7 @odd exactly. Britain's Communications Ministry (Ofcom) recently noticed that folk were using social media less. and moving to private messenger services.
A lot (especially younger women) have had way too many bad experiences to go around "talking to strangers", and I don't think they are going to be flocking to Fedi either - the damage has already been done.
Could be. I'm pretty nostalgic for the time when search was Webcrawler and Altavista. Don't know if the early internet was as trustworthy as I'd give it credit for now, but at least there were less financial incentives to lie to users.
Now I don't really have the energy to retake the net. I read about the small web and it sounds a lot of fun, but somehow I can't really get the hang of it.
@bri7
It is different. It was more fun 2 decades ago. The Internet wasn’t controlled by grifters running scams.
I was talking with a friend about the dead Internet theory, and how it relates to online services, and everything really. Something starts cool, gets popular, reaches the mainstream then dies due to it being overrun by desperate crabs trying to make a dollar in this capitalist hellscape to escape the bucket.
This time, most of the Web is on the backside of the bell curve rather than a single service.
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Because there is no way to _know_ who anyone actually *is* in an online enviro now. The only way to be sure who anyone is, online, is to know them irl. Voice, video, images, identity- it can all be easily faked now. The world of posting up yr pic in a gaming or a hobby forum (what's left of them) and making close LD friends is pretty over. Sharing your voice, image and personal life now is just setting yourself up as a target for fraud. Sux, but that is the internet today.
@odd Early and even late Twitter was so much better from what "journalists" do on "social media" now.
Back on, I felt like they did provide a service. They cited their own articles, but adversarially to the publications they worked for - poking through the clickbait and bullshit headlines, telling the stories of what they cared about, how they researched the story, etc. that they weren't allowed to do in the actual publication.
Now, all they do is act as mouthpieces for the companies they work for. 🤮
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@odd
Old journalist here. Early Twitter was really good for getting those two-way exchanges that made your reporting stronger. But that didn't last, and being in those spaces became increasingly caustic. I quit FB in 2018 and Twitter in 2021.
But even in the beginning of for-profit social media, you could feel the shift as a journalist--we were unpaid workers for all those walled gardens.
But the problem is, loads of people get their "news" on social media. Journalism is community work, and really good, independent journalism is part of the resistance. But when your community is there looking for news on the for-profit socials, it's a huge problem. Mastodon is one of the few places where people have a little more understanding of this framework and have taken some affirmative steps toward fixing it.
Perhaps it needs to be said: very few people get into journalism because it pays well. I was never paid very much. Most of us believe in the importance of this community work.
Thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past two decades. No one came to help us. But no one working in the business was surprised. The old business model doesn't work anymore. Those remaining know that. Chasing clicks is just the last few drowning men grasping at straws.
@phwolfe @odd Thanks for doing that work, fam. I know how thankless it is.
It’s funny (not funny ha ha, but funny cry emoji) that the “nobody wants to pay for news but also they all demand it be accessible on Facebook” thing was called out in Elements of Journalism way back in 2014! Way, way before I got into the profession. The layoffs were also a problem then. And it’s only gotten worse.
I dunno how to fix this. But I’m damn sure becoming Instagram won’t do it.
@odd
I'm putting my time in with our local community radio station and a nonprofit journalism collaborative that seems to be getting momentum. And a little bit of my money goes every month to ProPublica.
I'm imagining a whole lot of reasons why you could expect better turnaround from social media posts, even if you treat it just like a feed and never reply to anything. Primarily engagement--like my blog probably won't get any attention not only because it sucks but also because there's no way to engage with it. Until I fix that I'm probably wasting time.
I can add comments to my site but that's going to be a new service they have to join or I'm enabling social media commentary.
Oo, interesting.
… I want to talk through stuff with people i reasonably trust, with enough variety to have many opinions, with some social norms so disagreements don’t spiral.
That’s both a LOT and something we’ve been doing since language, yesno? I’ve decided that online groups are “easy come easy go” by nature.
I’m still on some old timey forums for specific interests, with more or less “just friends” structure stuck onto them. More blew up. Moderation is hard.
@clew @OliviaVespera I miss phpbb forums 😭 Im always thinking about starting one again but I’m not sure if it would see any use.
Is it that the internet is a different beast, or that my imagination has become limited?
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it’s so much easier for them to negotiate a deal with a central owner of non-federated social media to artificially force their posts into your view.
That doesn’t work here if there is an instance devoted to fire and forget with no community participation I’d personally block it at the instance level.
It’s amazing to me that corporations have positions for social media posters but not necessarily participatory users. It’s all about an initial hook, click and view counts.
I don’t care who sees my posts here some are just into the void. I can be as weird as I want to be. Also I have no relatives that call when I post ambiguous song lyrics worried about my mental health.
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Back on , I felt like they did provide a service. They cited their own articles, but adversarially to the publications they worked for - poking through the clickbait and bullshit headlines, telling the stories of what they cared about, how they researched the story, etc. that they weren't allowed to do in the actual publication.
Now, all they do is act as mouthpieces for the companies they work for. 🤮
I've run into a small handful of reporters and journalists who've done that, along with a few other content creators who... don't really engage with folks but are here to just drop self-promo and that's that.
I don't really mind certain kinds of self-promo (e.g., "I wrote a thing!" or "I made a thing!"), especially when it's nested within genuine interaction or other interesting posts (even if it's shitposting with another person). I love seeing people drop their art (whatever it is) or writing, and it's given me a lot of cool and new perspectives I haven't otherwise found.
But I think if more journalists and reporters actually engaged with people, it might alleviate (not solve) the issue of how a bunch of 'em forgot who they claim they write for and inform. It might even get a few to stop doing disinformation or strong one-sided perspectives of news stories (e.g., when all of their info for a story comes primarily from cops or corporate mouthpieces without further looking into it).
makes a lot of sense! And I think this is a good place for reporters too, but not reporters as *reporters* but reporters as *people* if you know what I mean. Just the same way people from any other profession is welcome
Leave the promotion behind on the other places where it (as fate would have it belongs) and come here when you want to engage with people
this is neither an AD platform nor a platform for one way communication to build an audience which is just consuming.
Hence it's uninteresting for 90% of journalist making a living in corporate media.
Let's keep it that way.
Everybody else who wants real connection and two way conversation is welcome, though.
@rhold I will say I’ve noticed an uptick in… not ads, exactly, but buttoned up branded “content” in the popular feed on .social.
I’m curious how long the “no brands” vibe will last.
Some days it’s like… Proton product announcement followed by Tuta product announcement followed by Open Office product announcement. It’s not overwhelming yet but it rhymes with social media as I’ve experienced it elsewhere. Makes me a little nervous.
we will see.
I have nothing against artits, local and comminity based or open sources biz tooting their horn here. But aggressive captilastic consumerism produchts probably won't find buisness here. But true: as long as we are niche it's easy to remain pure.
@rhold those semi commercial FOSS brands (along with some of their devs) have been present on Fedi for years (you can add Nextcloud to the mix as well).
I'm occasionally mildly annoyed by the way some of these brand accounts never seem to reply to anyone and they often go quiet if folk point out bugs/issues in their replies, but they seem to have got better in that respect and at least its software/services that folk on here tend to actually use..
@vfrmedia @rhold yeah so I’m actually pretty happy to see FOSS tools here, so I look the other way for things like Open Office. I want them to be successful.
I have however noticed that same tendency with adjacent brands (specifically Firefox) to not engage with the community, especially when the question is critical.
(I do agree that this is not really a convenient place to submit but reports, it would create confusion for engineers, so I’m leaving that alone)
@rhold in some cases (particularly on Fedi) its not as much full bug reports (as folk know not to do that, or have already checked issue lists), but queries about the project which never get a response (not even a post to a link on the projects official website).
Or the same marketing post is cut and pasted to everywhere (Fedi, Bluesky, Threads etc) without any plans to engage with anyone..
Also as Fedi attracts more non-techie folk (as it is slowly doing), some might at least need some gentle encouragement to point them to where issues lists and forums are for the software they are using.
@madargon @rhold I followed a lot of those kinds of accounts, from journalist lists, when I made my account in 2021 or 2022. Most of the ones I followed were abandoned within the year, which was a bummer, but there are new folks here worth following.
Propublica and 404 Media have an official presence on Fedi, for example!
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@oberstenzian and if you look at the average news site, it's filled with trackers (hint - there's no such thing as an "essential cookie") and clickbait ads.
Block JavaScript and most paywalls stop blocking you. The ones that use JavaScript to insert story contenf, you can find alternatives elsewhere.
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Dunno, I kinda feel like it is a chicken/egg issue here. The nice thing about Twitter was that everyone was there. Once it fell people moved, but no a lot moved here.
So journalists (well everyone) need to post in more places and likely want to optimize for eyes seeing their stuff. Maybe it's just me, but I just don't see as much engagement here as I do on other platforms?
Then why are WSJ, propublica, the verge, forbes, etc (crap complicit press) on #mastodon trending page without logging in?
Here for the propaganda spreading phenomenon alone or trigger bait?
Gotta believe what they tell us, nothing else, you're not to think on your own. Got it!
Hence why no uproar about the overthrow, biggest news of the century, millennium, which should be front page since billionaires made their bribes using illegal citizens united loophole.
Exactly this.
Getting engagement on Mastodon is quite easy. But if you're uninterested in a dialogue and sees engagement as a zero-sum game you must win, then you're in for a rude awakening.
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I'm still a newbie here, but, it seems to me that reporters, lawyers, scientists, etc find that mastodon is isolating because it's harder to be visible. The redundancy of separate instances that lead to a robust independence also leads to scattered bases with not all posts being visible to all people.
I think professionals want to find other professionals, not just grift for their own income.
"modern news orgs use social media in purely extractive ways"
And post junk instead of doing journalism.
Murdoch has replaced some titles with AI Slop.
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that isn't being a journalist, that is being an influencer....
they can stay on tiktok
urgh yes ... mastodon.social/@patrick_h_lau…
threads and bluesky are single monolithic platforms. masto federated. so would likely depend on which masto server someone's posting on i'd guess as a starter...also, purely anecdotally/for my own part, there's less of a culture of boosting/liking/trying to make things go viral for the algorithm. lack of apparent engagement may not signal lack of people actually reading posts/following links/etc.
reporters who are just looking to increase their views will fail, the ones who bond and make connections will thrive.
Which to me, is perfectly fine. The journalists who thrive here will be the ones who keep people as their central focus, instead of vanity metrics.
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I was on Twitter when folks copied and wrote rt:
It worked because people put in the effort. People were engaged. The engagable people are here, the lazy ones aren't. The ones who want to be spoon fed, and that's what it seems publishing companies want.
yup. bluesky has engagement metrics and algorithms and is much more suitable for influencers and extractors. it's also why i'm not on bluesky.
and that's fine. folks that want engagement metrics can have their space. those of us that like more "social" than "media" have our place too.
I mean, why as a reporter would you have conversations?
Then you'd have to perhaps think about what was being said in those, and use this to form some kind of picture of what other people think. It might change what you write about, or how you write about it, and end up giving you a unique voice.
This seems utterly detrimental to the job description.
TPM/Josh Marshall was very vocal about this being his problem. Nothing prevents the creation of 50 TPM handles on 50 different servers all pretending to be him or his organisation. All spewing garbage in his name.
I believe the issue is solvable but it was easier to jump to Post and BlueSky.
I really don't get the journalists thing anyway. It's literally the only style of platform that makes sense for journalism. For one thing, they can own and control their own server instead of relying on the whims of a company that may or may not manipulate their messages and reach — or worse, turn their info in to the government.
I just don't really get it. Every large business that uses social media should want to own their own server... Journalists should want to more than anyone.
This thread reminds me of defining "standard of living" as "how much stuff you own", and "worth" as "how much money you have"…
…and of rejecting those definitions, to the utter bafflement of they who won't see.
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Over the same last few days actually *Bluesky* has been having an argument about "right-wing opinions get so much negative pushback here, it's going to drive away the right-wingers and centrists". And also Twitter has been getting so concerned about "Wow this site is dead for anyone except right wingers" that even Nate Silver is kinda freaking out
…maybe this just doesn't work? Maybe social media is just never going to be the thing that it was in 2015 again, ever again?
@mcc funny how it always comes back to the “safe space for differing viewpoints” thing, isn’t it? Which of course is code for “I think I should be able to say fascist shit and get away with it”. Smh.
I have also observed the dunk culture thing about Bluesky (which I left)! I assume because that was the language of Twitter before it.
I’m okay with not being able to re create some lightning in a bottle moment for social media. Maybe it’s not *meant* to exist in that form, or not healthy too.
I get way more engagement here than I ever did on birdsite. And I have fewer followers here too, so the ratio of engagement per follower is higher.
I think at least part of the low engagement myth is that Mastodon adds a "nofollow" tag to links and that prevents *measuring* engagement. It doesn't show up in their spreadsheet so they think it doesn't exist.
@jef I feel like “engagement” is chasing the wrong thing anyway, right? You mentioned getting more of it here, like quantitatively, and that’s excellent, but (maybe it’s just me) I’ve also noticed the quality of conversation is higher here.
And I’d way, way rather have one person in my network that I can have an interesting discussion with, then five thousand that press like and move on.
So that seems like a great trade twice over.
where the journalists go, the large scale influence psyop bot farms go
... you don't want journalists. stop listening to them they're all captured by the billionaires and the epstein class
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@secretsloth your comment once again summoned this delightful clip to my hyperactive brain.
m.youtube.com/shorts/HcG_4GDDA…
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.AmySunHee (YouTube)
well put.
the way I see it, it is not even about "journalism" it is about the for profit model that journalism is subordinate to.
for profit agendas belong in a a for profit ecosystem. the corporate owned social media gaggle that enables its agenda.
for profit agendas in a for people environment fail. and they know it. so they call our for people environment "hostile" because to their minced up viewpoint it is hostile.
the people talking of courting them are just being silly.
TACO it is then....thankfully.
#Trump #IranWar #OperationEpicFuckUp #Iran #USPol #USpolitics
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Actually I'm proposing a drinking game for every time I see that "What's Going On With Shipping" host do an impersonation of the FIFA Peace Prize trophy
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'A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed divorcing "#gay" from "#queer" people reinforces a hierarchy of belonging that privileges proximity to straightness, rewards conformity, and marginalizes anyone who cannot or will not meet its terms'
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Opinion: A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed divorcing "gay" from "queer" people reinforces a hierarchy of belonging that privileges proximity to straightness, rewards conformity, and marginalizes anyone who cannot or will not meet its terms, argues J…Josh Ackley (Advocate.com)
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This one takes the cake.🤷
Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.
Turns out it works because the claims are adjudicated by, you guessed it, AI agents.
"Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute, Campbell’s channel was effectively handed over [to the AI company.]"
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Une boite d'#IA clone la voix de Murphy Campbell, une chanteuse folk américaine, à son insu, bien entendu.
La chanteuse a vu ses propres vidéos démonétisée car elle s'est faite striker par #youtube pour infraction au copyright suite à une réclamation de droits par la boîte qui a cloné sa voix.rudevulture.com/ai-company-clo…
AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs
Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income.Oswin Vex (Rude Vulture)
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Time for Afroman's approach, and some Lemon Pound Cake!
Which is to say, publish a few catchy songs that go after the AI company, tell her story, drop an occasional f-bomb. Let them "own" those.
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I blame Saul Zaentz. Any attempt to legally steal an artists' work, he was the start of it.
But also, #FuckAI.
See, that's the problem:
Shit like this is why #Copyright is intrinsically linked to #Authorship (in any decent juristiction) and only humans can legally create copyrightable works!
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I’ve been thinking about what’s at stake, and what we can lose, if the tech monopolies aren’t stopped. For example: Silicon Valley apps like Uber Eats and...Mark Hurst (Creative Good)
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Time for a theft of intellectual property lawsuit. I hope she copyrighted all of her material.
I'd *love* to see the judges face when this lawsuit lands.
Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
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The hot new thing in social media has some big problems.Lance Ulanoff (Mashable)
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I blogged about that last year:
mstdn.social/@rysiek/114284660…
To his credit, Lance Ulanoff admitted then he was wrong about fedi:
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It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (Mastodon 🐘)
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Today more time has passed since the Mastodon Won't Survive piece got published than there is left until the AI bubble pops. 
Feeling old yet? 
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@quinn I don't think growth for growth's sake is the way to go, and while it does provide *a* signal, it is not *the* signal so to speak.
I fully expect Bluesky to start enshittifying, because of course they will with their cryptocurrency bro overlords looking for payout eventually.
Meanwhile fedi is doing its thing, getting more resilient, easier to join, dealing with some long-term issues around moderation and so on. And will be there, better prepared than ever, for the next wave.
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@quinn Diaspora* is proof positive of that. I log in like once every 3 years at this point and it's all still there.
I'm interested to hear your perception that fedi is shrinking, I don't share it (despite knowing that "Mastodon" MAUs - however they're tracked - are down from peak) but I also think I have a sort of bottom-up approach to finding ppl to follow after being here almost 10 years and also being distrustful of Firstname Lastname clearly-has-a-mortgage accounts who post Takes.
@quinn it's one of the old-skool FOSS social networks which just won't die, been persisting for 15 years now with a few thousand users
@deutrino @quinn yeah. I used to be pretty active there, years and years ago.
The sad thing is Diaspora* used to be the biggest of the FLOSS federated social networks, and they kinda acted up because of this. Never properly documented their protocol, I believe, and were definitely not interested in implementing any other protocol.
It's a sad irony that at some point Mastodon and broader ActivityPub-verse grew way larger than they've ever been and now they're kinda in a pickle.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even twitter may died. 
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#VivaMastodon 💪 😁
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Hopefully he's learned a bit more than that because WOW!
I honestly thought AI wrote it and hallucinated the whole time. Something trained on rage bait from middle schoolers. Wasn't a coherent argument in it anywhere.
"The logo is cute, but the service right now stinks almost as badly as a thawing woolly mammoth."
Even if mastodon had face planted, this article wouldn't be relevant to anyone but the guy who wrote it...and maybe Shatner because it's got him in it.
Ulanoff got stuck and can NOT evolve past his scant understanding of the "internet", beyond Web2.0
He never had a single tech opinion that was not handed to him, with a check, by some corporate PR douchebag.
Always consider your sources.
2 Problems and the #answer below:
1/ The weakness is in people / their learning curve / energy + tolerance needed to figure it out. Iit's always going be the problem / challenge initially.
2/ Sometimes just better to install a new operating system / app + account FOR grandma etc *instead of understanding the install *
Allowing " #dualboot " (both commercial and #FOSS version to play around / migrate instead of just one or the other which probably good for learning curve.
The #ANSWER: (Continuing post... )
People need more active help on #Mastodon (a #helpdesk)
Not having help limits adoption.
Without commercial partners (for the good) etc it's less / not as actively good / not as practical.
Only for #techies obviously / mostly...
We need a constant team or #helpline to be like the #commercial teams (and #convert people to the good *more actively / personally*.
(E.G.) The addressing or people of same names etc is not easy.
6 reasons:
1. dumb name
2. i dont get what federated means
3. dumb name
4. i dont know how handles work
5. valid concern
6. valid concern
33.3% grade
The apps one is kinda strange though. Half of it's kinda valid ("no one knows how many instances there are and there's no list"), but just the fact that there's more apps than the official one? That's just weird (and deliberately forgetting the plethora of twitter apps there used to be before they shut that possibility down).
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Why would I *need* a list of all the instances?
Yes, listing them is largely impossible. Most of them are probably single-user servers in somebody's homelab. But so what? I'm not the Federation Police.
@rysiek@mstdn.social I love being proven wrong. I mean, this is no Bluesky, but it seems to be making out just fine. 😁LanceUlanoff (Mastodon)
"This is no BlueSky"
Said like it's a bad thing to not be scraping everything for ai, or to be beholden to crypto bros.
@revengeday
To be fair, there are plenty of missing toots on Mastodon, too.
The other day, on a whim, I decided to go through my Mastodon archive, pick some random toots I boosted once upon a time, and view them again. Many of them were 404.
Probably because a fair number of people here use the auto-delete feature.
Nothing on social media---any social media—is permanent. Not unless you save a copy of it on your own computer (and have good backups of said computer).
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I was going to say «I would not read it, but I didn't... sorry, I just read the headers XD XD and noooow, I will retut it
@nblr
I've seen people say that about BS accounts. Just signing up to protect my brand! Like copycat accounts are concerned about accuracy in account impersonations. They'll let some celeb have their real "protected" account of @johnsmith on BS and just use @johrsrn1th to ask people for iTunes gift cards.
Obviously this looks painfully ridiculous reading it from the year 2026, but even back then he was laying it on a bit too thick, like he wanted it to fail 😡.
We of course know it will live forever...
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How is the Metaverse going, anyway?
Mastodon has outlived the Metaverse, bitcoin usefulness, NFTs...
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@chrisp
Unfashionable take, but I really liked G+ (in the early days, before the mandatory YouTube disaster).
I got in as part of the first wave of general public users, courtesy of an invite from a friend who worked for Google.
Woz was on it, and I found a lot of interesting music there (that wasn't being pushed anywhere else).
It (unsurprisingly) went to shit after they added the mandatory requirement to have a G+ account to add comments on YouTube videos.
@dec23k why unfashionable? I never used it, but that doesn't mean it was bad. That was years before all the really toxic social media stuff started happening. No shade if you liked it.
The point I was making is that this here tiny little fedi has way more staying power than a social network with over a hundred million users at the time, pushed hard by one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
That, to me, is the superpower of decentralized services.
I was not anti-google back then and I wanted Google+ to thrive. Technically, it was pretty good for the time, but not many people joined. It couldn't overcome the network effect other platforms had achieved.
I'm glad of it now. I shudder to think of Google being dominant in the social media sphere today.
Mastodon having a bit of a learning curve is one of the best things about it IMO.
Much like the Internet before AOL and the masses having easy access, and we all saw how that went.
What "reporter" uses words like this in a tech article
I think they had the feeling they where on Twitter still
Clowns! 🤡
@CoolerPseudonym nope!
you appear to have depression. bye!
@vfrmedia @RoyHorace @mxchara
I suppose that includes me.
I'm 71 and although I have worked extensively with computers during my career, IT was never part of my core job.
I do have a very early paper published where I'm a joint author on the development of an HTML 'database' which I'm proud to say has now morphed into a fully maintained international web resource.
Does that make me techie? 🤔😁
@MikeFromLFE @RoyHorace @mxchara
I think you have tech-related interests and hobbies, but what you put together tends to be considered "shadow IT" in the industry (even though its now more widely used).
I suspect a lot of those aged 50-70+ do now have greater tech skills than younger generations as they *had* to learn a bit more about how the computer works (such as file and directory structures) and until 1990s computers with GUI weren't that commonplace..
the thing is fedi is just not comparable to twitter, no wonder one loses when held to the standards of the other
you go to one social or the other for different reasons, I believe fedi excels at less but better connections and conversations, while twitter is the instant winner when it comes to keeping up to date with higher profile people (non-indie music artists and such) or generally what's hot on the internet at a given time
I am not considering twitter's ideological issues here cause they're a recent problem that's not intrinsic to the platform I feel
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Attached: 1 image Happy First Contact Day! I know I’m crossing the streams, but I finished the Captain Picard Day #CrossStitch last night so that’s what I’m posting in celebration.InarticulateQuilter (Mastodon.ART)
it sure has failed as an experiment!
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"Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"
- Fediverse
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„Unless someone buys the code off Rochko today and consolidates this mess ASAP, it can't survive.“
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Welp, he was wrong about Mastodon fizzling out in two weeks, but the one thing he wasn't wrong about was Mastodon growing stagnant. Mastodon's sat at the same active user counts for a while and it's plateau'd. The platform hasn't seen any significant growth since the 2022 Twitter exodus, and though growth obviously isn't everything, Mastodon remains relatively niche.
Still, funny reading about this dude just having a massive skill-issue with using Mastodon.
Counterpoint: that article is over three years old and was written not long after the Twitter exodus. That doesn't counter my point that the platform has plateau'd in terms of active users:
fediverse.observer/stats&month…
Estimates range from ~750k - 1m monthly active users, and I know it's been sitting at that for a while because I occasionally check in with FediDB. Monthly active users has been coasting around 1.1m - 1.2m for over a year now. Mastodon Analytics show that the monthly active user count is currently coasting downwards when zoomed all the way out:
Server counts have also been decreasing.
@Eeveecraft the point that piece is making is: such numbers do not mean "stagnation".
Mastodon (the project) has overhauled it's management structure at long last and for the better, implemented a lot of functionalities people have been asking for years for (quote-toots, grouped notifications, many others).
Fediverse (the community) understands itself better, has done a lot of work around becoming a more friendly place for newcomers – and that work continues.
Fedi is anything but stagnant.
If you interpret the word, "Stagnant," like that, sure, but that's not what I mean by stagnant, and I thought that was pretty clear with the arguments and links I provided.
I mean stagnant in terms of growth, and I am talking about Mastodon specifically, we're not talking about the Fediverse in general. Where did I mention the Fediverse as a whole and not Mastodon?
@Eeveecraft He might be right in terms of what happens (I'll take your word for it) but to me, that's not a negative thing.
Personally I find that growth almost always happens at the expense of people already at the platform or who are customers because growth focuses on everyone who is not there and not to those who are.
@hamatti
My issue is that a platform the size of Mastodon isn't going to encourage sweeping changes to how the internet is inhabited. People keep talking about how the Fediverse is going to revolutionize things and fight back against ensh!ttification and centralization, but if the biggest platform on the Fediverse can hardly maintain 1m monthly active users after about a decade, then it's not doing its job very well at inspiring that change.
It's great that the people already inside the Fediverse are having a great time, but that's not stopping the rapid ensh!ttification of everything outside it. I don't really want the Fediverse to solely be a nerd's club because only nerds use it, that wasn't the point of it. Like, if the Fediverse is so good, why wouldn't we want to share it with more people and encourage them to adopt it and get away from algorithm/slop hell?
> My issue is that a platform the size of Mastodon isn't going to encourage sweeping changes to how the internet is inhabited.
It already has. EU institutions have official presence here, EU regulations are inspired by the interoperability and federated nature of this here social network. There are many ways to "encourage sweeping changes" without having to be the biggest kid on the social media block.
Cool, and that doesn't mean much if hardly anyone actually interacts with said EU presence because hardly anyone uses the platform in comparison to others. Also, which regulations? You mean like the rapidly sweeping age-verification laws that are actively perpetuating mass-surveillance?
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I am totally ok with this plan. Slow is good!
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@paninid @dgodon No, really, move slow.
I intentionally say "Move slow and fix things" as the rejection of "Move fast and break things", as opposed to the more popular "Move deliberately and fix things".Because I want, very specifically, for *slow* to be seen as a virtue. Slow gives time for people whose entire life focus isn't what we're working on to react to changes, provide feedback that change is breaking things for them, participate in consensus process moving forward.
- Terrible name
lol
"Lance Ulanoff was Chief Correspondent and Editor-at-Large of Mashable"
That aged well lol
Ulanoff sounds like a very self important person. Hopefully he chose to remain on X.
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to me there is fundamental flaws in his arguments and to anyone trying to mock him.
On one hand the chief complaint of Mastodon for him and for many is also its biggest feature. By its very nature Mastodon has no reason to ever “die”. It has no stakeholders no profit margins no business to keep a float. If someone just one person is willing to keep a server running In their basement forever with Mastodon on it. Mastodon will live for ever.
The gist of argument in my view ? Or what I see is the argument; is that Mastodon will never outgrow Twitter or X. And I agree, it won’t. Mastodon GMBH essentially guaranteed that by killing the ability to find other servers while using their servers.
I am done caring if Mastodon grows to billions. If people don’t want to put in a little work and see something amazing. That’s their problem ! Mastodon has plenty of interesting funny people who toot everyday. And that’s more than enough for me
The article itself is douchey as I imagine the author of it Is. But I think the argument is won that Mastodon will not achieve mainstream. My argument is that doesn’t matter.
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At this rate the internet itself won't survive..
Which is not a good idea for the ones making it unusable since it will be their heads rolling down the street when they realize a free and open and not slop infested internet is the only "circus" left keeping the people from burning their respective countries to the ground.
this "Mastodon" sounds pretty bad if you get stuck in a closed-off room and can't even see any other people.
Edit: although I can also see the upside.
Thanks for sharing! It's been a while since I last re-read this.
I joined Mastodon in September 2018 and this article was a significant influence on my decision to join.
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@stevenaleach ironically I was car-free from 1981 (gave up the family ’56 VW Bug -not even a gas gage- for 40 years of public transportation) to 2020 - Tesla Model Y — which absolutely does have a screen with excellent software— everything from Dog Mode to FSD none of which exist in a car with dials or gauges, or even with CarPlay.
I am all for being car-free, but claiming that ICE cars (with dials & gages) are better than EVs is simply false
And not a claim anyone would be likely to make either, I'd expect. Seriously, I've never heard a single person ever try to claim that internal combustion was "better" in any way.
EDIT: On further thought, I'm sure those people *do* exist... but it'd be like trying to defend vacuum tubes and claiming they are somehow superior to solid state for building computers. No matter how dumb the argument, someone somewhere is probably making it.
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whenever something thats typically provided for free is suddenly attempted to be monetized theres always the same comments about like how its going to completley ruin everything, and then the other comments about 'we live in a soceity and under capitalism and people need money to be able to exist'. usually followed by some shit about 'overreacting'
but is it over-reacting? monetizing shit kind of is where things go to die; even if we do live in a society, paid bukkit plugins completley ruining running servers for funs? yeah pretty much actually; minecraft marketplace ruining modding? yeah kind of (atleast for bedrock) youtube having ads and algorithm chasing ruining the platform? yep definitely-
i dont think these fears are wrong, i tink they are genuinely accurate, capitalism ruins everything it touches, but then also not complying means your expected to just die on the street and we will do state violence against you if you dare try access things anyway
.. sigh
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@zaire i see it more as a 'how things should be' / 'how things are' type deal; and idealist view on it, and a realist view, and both are kinda correct; i dont think anyone is wrong anyone for having to charge for something in order to make ends meet, (i do if their a multi billion dollar corperation who doesn't need to do shit-) i also dont fault anyone is wrong who pirates or tries to get around that in order to access services or have needs met or whatever ..
i also dont think thats how it should be .. and fuck capitalism .. shits complicated
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Conversations in our house, an occasional series:
"Why has no one invented Möbius strip pasta?"
"I think you might have just solved world hunger."
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don’t use either. use @openstreetmap or @CoMaps. it’s the #antifa thing to do.
I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
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@DukeDuke Stolen from elsewhere on mastodon (and obvs twitter)
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🚨 LinkedIn runs a silent browser scan on every Chrome user who visits the site. 6,222 extensions. ~405 million users affected. No consent, no disclosure, no mention in their privacy policy.
The scan identifies your sales tools, VPN, ad blocker, job search extensions, and extensions tied to religion, politics, and disability.
The full technical breakdown, legal analysis, and searchable database of every scanned extension:
#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #privacy
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.BrowserGate
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Good that we didn't trust them with anything related to security. Only imagine they'd keep the gates of, for example, secure boot or so – unthinkable! Or that banks, health institutions, or even governments, would store sensitive data on their servers. No way!
right? RIGHT? 😱
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Not to mention the very large numbers of Jews who don't live in Israel.
I regularly use the Trump example of the contrast between leaders and the country as whole to clarify my criticism of the Israeli government.
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I want to point out that there still is a way Republicans can win in November.
By now, everyone is used to Republicans suddenly reversing positions on every imaginable topic, and that is the secret to victory.
All they have to do is reverse their position on Israel.
Come out as anti-genocide and anti-Israel, and Republicans will be able to defeat all but a handful of Democrats, who will 100% continue to express their support of Israel and genocide, thus pissing off both Democratic and a surprising number of Republican voters.
Democrats have already made it very clear that they would rather lose elections than stop supporting Israel.
Poll after poll shows that Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose genocide and are no longer buying into the little narrative the US mainstream media spent decades selling us on.
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The Republican base almost instantaneously turned anti-Bush when the shit hit the fan in the financial markets in 08. American conservatism is adaptable in that way.
Trump bulldozing the rest of the Republican primary field in 16 was a brilliant hack, which I do believe Russia played a role in, but the popular demand has to be there first. The Democratic Party is much more resistant to that type of hack of presidential primaries due to the superdelegate system, which the Republican Party lacks.
At least twice in my lifetime, the Republican Party has undergone a hostile takeover by its less moderate faction, and been strengthened by that process. As in many things, strength comes from resilience, not rigidity.
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@lori
What happened in the 2015 Republican primaries still shocks me.
Whenever you get a “First Black X” to hold a particular office in the USA, the next person to hold that office will be the white candidate who is perceived to be the most racist.
So whoever was the most racist during the Republican presidential primaries was guaranteed to win in the general election.
I get why the average white Republican voter didn't understand what was going on in the primaries, but Republican politicians are usually so sophisticated about how to use racism for political gain, and yet none of the other candidates understood that the assignment was to be as racist as possible during the primaries.
I don't know if Trump understood this. I think he just really is that racist and was being himself, but I still shake my head in wonder that none of the other Republican politicians understood what was happening.
Coordination problem. If the other Republican candidates were to draw straws or something, choose one among themselves to be the Republican alternative to Trump, MAYBE they could have stopped him. For one election cycle. Coordination problem because egos get in the way. No other plausible explanation.
Thing is, since about 2015 (the year of Gamergate or the year of Brexit, take your pick) practically every country in the world has had at least one anti-immigration party that has emerged seemingly out of nowhere and at best even established democracies are hard pressed to come up with a majority coalition of non-fascist parties. Like in the 1930s the entire world is going through a fascist phase, and it's obviously for the same reason. Working class economic prospects have become BLEAK. Waving raw meat around works.
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That would show that they did not understand what was going on.
Any of them could have defeated Trump just by being more racist than Trump, and in so doing, would have guaranteed victory in the general election.
The fact that NONE of them grasped this is shocking because Republicans are generally very sophisticated when it comes to the political use of racism to win elections.
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The belief that money is evil can cost people opportunities. Dog only knows how much opportunity it's cost me. Even setting aside opportunities to earn money (which of course can't be set aside entirely), you also won't get the opportunities to work as part of a team, to be challenged by projects larger than hobby scale, to be a contributor, etc., if you don't demonstrate willingness to be money motivated. At least I never found such an end run.
Likewise with politics. Moderates love to point out that victory is a prerequisite for policymaking. Money happens to be a prerequisite for winning. Everyone wants money out of politics, but nobody's in a hurry to run a zero budget campaign. That would be unilateral disarmament.
For what it's worth, I'd rather live in a constrained monarchy (such as Sweden) than an unconstrained oligarchy (such as Russia).
My main complaint with "no kings" as our most prominent slogan is that I'd prefer something more directly insulting to the political right.
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"Is the democratic party afraid to say 'no oligarchs' instead of 'no kings' bc so many of the donors paying their leadership and consultants are oligarchs?"
Yes.
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Exactly.
Congressional Republicans have the power to stop this insanity, but are spineless weasels by choice.
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Ugh. It's been a day already and it's only 9:30am.
With a layoff at my now former company, lots of us have been impacted, including me. The good news is my calendar is now free and clear.
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Avete visto Ben Gvir festeggiare di nuovo la reintroduzione della pena di morte in Israele (che era un paese abolizionista di fatto)? Aveva distribuito dolcetti, ora avrebbe brindato al voto definitivo.
Ceto, Ben Gvir è Ben Gvir, che si presentò in parlamento con una spilletta col cappio (a proposito ve li ricordate i nostri leghisti?).
Ben Gvir ne ha di strada da fare per arrivare ad essere all'altezza di un R. Akiva. Mi spingo al punto di dire che IMHO non lo sarà mai.
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They Trump regime still thinks allies (we) don’t understand that the greatest threat to us right now is not Iran, it is the US. But we do. We already know the US can’t be trusted or counted on (see: Ukraine, Greenland, delusional maps of “Greater America”) so why on earth would any NATO country make itself a target of Iran for the US? Pure nonsense.
Everytime a US “patriot” missile is lost at sea a baby Canada goose flies around the lake.
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Today is rough in this world for so many.
Israel has voted to start exterminating Palestinian prisoners.
I refuse to CW this post.
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I'm now surprised that the Israeli Parliament has gone so far as to pass a law to kill Palestinians for killing Israeli's!
Usually no previous crimes committed by Palestinians against Israeli's was needed for mass murdering them.
Children as well.
And Trump bombed Iran for that POS Netanyahu.
There are no negotiations ongoing or in the future with Iran and if anyone believes that they are delusional.
Jensen Huang of Nvidia
Peter Thiel of Palantir
Mark Zuckerburg of Meta
Larry Ellison of Oracle
Tim Cook of Apple
Jeff Bezos of Amazon
Sundar Pichai of Google
Sam Altman of Open AI
Elon Musk of X(it)
All of these things have contributed and continue to contribute to the downfall of democracy and the murder of innocent people on this planet.
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Understand something, the super rich will pull out all the stops they can to make sure that data centers their precious totalitarian surveillance system, gets all the energy and water and resources they need. Data center construction is probably about 10% of what headline numbers you see, but even these numbers are unrealistic as the supply chain falls apart.
Remember that billionaires are an extinction cult they want the world to fall apart
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They have every kind of moral abomination justifying their accelerationism.
Extinction cult is apt. (Taylor Lorenz's appellation for them)
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And to think, if you were to openly wish bad things on these people equal to what they do to others, there would be grounds to have your post removed.
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If your ISP can be liable for huge amounts of money for not terminating your access to the internet because of accusations that you—or someone in your household or college network—has committed copyright infringement, that is dangerous.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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