Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

This is a preemptive call to #Fediblock Meta's #P92‌/‌#Barcelona instance, for three reasons at least:
1. it'll be huge and extremely poorly moderated;
2. it will be a #privacy nightmare, allowing Meta to extensively profile #Fediverse users with greater ease;
3. it will be used to #EEE the Fediverse in the same way their “support” for #RSS and #XMPP was used to wipe them out from the general consciousness with a rug-pull (my full thoughts on this: http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/credible-threat-1/ )

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Today I discovered https://www.whocanuse.com and I wanted to yell it to the world, but 56 people will have to do.

MacOS has opinions.

A quick reminder that there are plenty of alternatives to using actual data in your documentation / training courses.

There's really no excuse for making up an IP address or phone number or National Insurance number etc., or, worse, using customer or employee data.

https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/01/alternatives-to-using-genuine-phone-numbers-ip-addresses-domain-names-and-email-addresses-in-your-training-and-documentation

The benefit of doubt extended to the "existential risk" people, including ppl coming to me talking to me about "building bridges" is incredibly offensive to me given

1) what I know to be the foundations of this movement
2) what I've experienced from them
3) what we know about their various cults &
4) how they have ALL THE $$ & AIRTIME
Maybe they can start by loudly disavowing the awful foundations & ppl of their movement? Why is no one putting the onus on them?

White privilege pure & simple.

I wonder how many persons with an IT background use fedi vs people with no IT background...

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@dansup fedi admins meeting with Meta under NDAs is shit, that's what it is.

It's effectively giving Meta power over fedi, by giving Meta power over what fedi admins can and cannot share with their communities.

Which admins went, do you know?

Edit: as this is getting boosted, please refrain from reacting by getting pitchforks and torches. I stand by my statement that signing Meta's NDAs is shit, but we need to act as a community to deal with that. Not as a mob! 👈

#Fediverse #FediAdmin

A lot of media cannot think in any other terms than VC-funded startups chasing hockey-stick growth, and proclaiming them failed the moment that growth slows down.

#Fediverse in general, and #Threadiverse in particular, are not VC-funded startups. They don't need that hockey-stick growth.

We're here to build resilient, equitable, safe communities, not to maximize shareholder value. Don't get distracted or disheartened because some people don't get that.

Some do:
https://doctorow.medium.com/of-course-mastodon-lost-users-c48ef8102891

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Metformin cuts risk of #longCOVID by 40% in patients with obesity, study

A new study shows metformin can diminish risk of developing long #COVID by more than 40% in overweight & obese patients

Metformin is primarily used to treat type 2 #diabetes and gestational diabetes and helps the body lower blood sugar levels. Previous modelling studies had suggested that it could potentially suppress the #coronavirus' ability to build new proteins & make copies of itself

https://www.livescience.com/health/coronavirus/metformin-cuts-risk-of-long-covid-by-40-in-patients-with-obesity-trial-suggests

Follow me for more recipes.

#redditmigration #reddit

One of my friends is a mod of a very large subreddit that went private for the blackout. Last night she received a message saying that she had been stripped of her moderator rights and the subreddit was taken public again. To be very clear, the subreddit members had specifically voted in favor of going private.

It seems like reddit will stoop lower and lower to try and break the blackout. I'm seething.