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we are a strictly antifascist organization. we have zero tolerance for fascism or anything that enables or allows it. (yes that includes capitalism)

We do not work with transphobes/fascists/racists. If you open an issue or PR on our git repo and we see you are one of those things, or hang out with people like that, we will kick you out of our space. We have no patience for bigotry, and we see no reason whatsoever to tolerate having it anywhere near us. Fuck terfs and fuck nazis.

Hello sloth enjoyers! Thank you for helping us test stuff! We fixed a bunch of bugs that were present in the first release candidate for v0.7.0 of GoToSocial, and now the second release candidate is available!

You can grab it here: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.7.0-rc2 or use docker tag superseriousbusiness/gotosocial:0.7.0-rc2.

Highlights of this:

Videos actually work now
More stable fetching avatars + headers.
Much more thorough prune logic for stale/unused media files.

Enjoy, and please let us know via a github issue if you find a bug peculiar to this release candidate.

Yes, it really sucks when an instance shuts down. Yes, it really sucks navigating interpersonal conflicts. Yes, it really sucks discovering that some admins are shitty, actually.

But, consider this: this isn't just about a migration from Twitter to Mastodon - or to fedi, for that matter.

Rather, we're all collectively having to relearn how to build and maintain communities and their infrastructure, after two decades of total reliance on corporations to (fail to) do so.

That *is* going to be a messy process, involving a lot of conflict as people figure things out. For many, it's learning these things the hard way, through trial and error.

It may be painful, but it's very much worth it in the long run. And fedi just happens to be the environment that people learn it in.

abolish frontex

It's really telling how many people will go to extreme lengths and efforts to develop and use JS blockers for browsers... but put zero effort into eg. educating developers on better development approaches to solve the problem at the root.

"Using a script blocker" is an individualist "solution" to a collective problem. It doesn't work. It's even worse when people try to peddle it to *others* as some sort of obligation to 'protect themselves'.

Collective problems require collective solutions. Please stop this weird "I got mine" approach and actually put work into solving the underlying problem. I'm sick and tired of being the only person in the room doing this.

someone: "GoToSocial looks good"
me on the inside: yay
me on the outside: "es caca señor"

tech optimism in the 1990s: computers allow unlimited copying. this will be revolutionary for society! that's right, no more property! communications that the government and corporations can't trace! yay, free culture!

tech optimism in 2020: with this revolutionary new technology we can make private property and money a reality on the Internet. we'll financialize everything and force the middle class to live in VR! all at the small cost of disastrous climate change!

when thinking about cloudflare trying to get in on the fediverse hype, you should remember that their vision of "free speech" means shutting down a mastodon instance for sex workers while platforming literal nazis