Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Ik lees dat DHL een klimaatneutrale cityhub in de regio Tilburg opent.

Dat betekent dat ze daar ook gewoon niets rondbrengen en iedereen elke dag een email sturen dat ze mensen niet thuis aan hebben getroffen, en men het op kan halen op het depot.

Saw some takes today about defederation being bad because it means your clueless relatives will wonder why they can’t follow x big account (Stephen Fry for example) from their instance, which means they’ll just join dot social and stay there because it federates the widest.

My official position on this is that that fucking rules actually because you can just defed from dot social and chill with people you actually want to spend time with 👍

I’m seeing an awful lot of photos posted with no alt text, and hashtags not using #camelCase or #PascalCase

Please use these for #Accessibility as it’s considerate to #DisabledPeople and also benefits others (e.g. if your image has text in a foreign language, translation tools can read it; Pascal Case hashtags are more readable for everyone). The #MetaText iOS app actually prompts you to add #AltText when posting an image.

#FediTips #FediCulture

does anyone know of an english-language resource on tironian notes? not just medieval scribal abbreviations

Anybody know of anybody doing analysis or reviews of modern propaganda, specifically in a lot of mainstream movies that have come out in the last few years?
It feels so blatant to me, someone has to be doing this work already lol

spelling it "virtualißation", with an eszett, as a compromise between the british english "virtualisation" and american english "virtualization"

There's a few too many folks wandering about and quacking about how that's "too authoritarian" or "too controlling."

And like. Idk, it's bad enough we're going to be dealing with the "anarchist" grifters and known abusive elements (who keep getting protection ~somehow~).

And those are harder to deal with when you're also dealing with fake accounts trying to run scams on your community. 🤷🏼

Hey, anarchist instances?

You can close registrations for a day or so to go through new accounts and deal with suspicious ones. And you should.

That's not un-anarchist to take time to deal with your spaces before admitting new folks. It's actually helpful to keep people safe and your community healthy.

actual threats to the fediverse:

venture capitalists

embrace/extend/extinguish by big corps

centralization

protocol fragmentation

fascists

non-threats that free speech foss dickheads prefer to focus on:

trans + queer people + people of color defederating from other instances to avoid abuse

replyguying at me about how i don't understand privacy and free speech to defend a company advertising in peoples replies is a great way to get blocked too, just fyi

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration @fediverse

The fediverse is the promise of a liberated media that the Videofreex and The Raindance Corporation foresaw in the 60s and 70s, that the Culture Jammers demanded in the 80s and 90s.

This is mutual aid, this is anticapitalism, this is collaborative ideation.

We are living revolutionary values, right here, right now, on a silly little social media network.

And I will fight to my last breathe any God Damn corporation that tries to Monetize that.

This is the future, and you're a part of it now. Be a good steward of the future.

But there's more!

We can ensure that the situation does not develop in to a gmail situation through cultural pressure and education.

The power of a network is in the people who use it.

If a FAANG company (MAANG? MMAAG?) tries to step in to the fediverse, we have a duty to take the fight against them out of the fediverse and in to the larger internet.

Leverage the fact that they have brought attention to us to bring attention to the fact that they have a record of killing things that work the way our thing works.

We can, all 1,000,000+ of us, make it the worst PR move of their existence.

I'm seeing some Embrace, Extend, Extinguish hand wringing circulate this morning.

I don't want to write another blog post, folks won't stop boosting the last one.

So it's post time. I'll keep it brief.

If Google, or some other big player, shows up in this space, retro.social will defederate immediately.

Before any worrying signs, before any extensions to the standard.

I'll defederate and move on with my life.

M.S is already too big. I already have them silenced instance wide. If any existing player tries to join in with bluster, they'll find themselves banned here (and, I imagine, across 90% of the small instances.)

They still can't stop me from running my own mail server, even if they mark most of my outgoing mail as spam.

So, at the least, we're not going anywhere.