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Bobby Brown

The audience-selection features available on this network are a very good thing, and posting only to followers changes the character of existence in this space in very positive ways. However, if you do want *more* followers, it's a good idea for you to make at least some fully-public posts occasionally if you want newcomers to be able to see what to expect from your feed :) Otherwise, it's empty, and that also tends to read as "new user"

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moby dickgirl

The reason #SocialMedia is bad is because

1) it opaquely curates your feed in accordance with both its equally opaque interpretation of your own motives, and its hardcoded adherence to corporate's

2) it actively incentivises you to do as much #BitchEatingCrackers, #OhSoYouHateWaffles interaction as possible in order to boost engagement metrics to more effectively hawk those ads you ignore

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moby dickgirl

Something I'm noticing is that some folks here perceive "not being actively user-hostile" as "being corporate," and as someone who is medically unemployed and does all of her meaningful work on a volunteer basis, but strives to make all of her output as user-friendly as it can be without changing its actual substance, I kind of take exception to that

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libcom.org

RT @wrkclasshistory@twitter.com

#OtD 26 Dec 1966 1st Kwanzaa was held in the US. Invented by Maulana Karenga, leader of the Black nationalist US Organisation as an alternative to Christmas. The group murdered 4 communist Black Panthers including Bunchy Carter & John Huggins. Learn more: libcom.org/news/why-i-dont-do-

🐦🔗: twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/st

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kylie 🧚🏼‍♀️

not sure on the implementation details yet, but vox octopi bitches
tech.lgbt/@0xAFAEBABE/10957335

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Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

#Indigenous #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousLanguages #Medicine #MedicinalPlants

news.mongabay.com/2021/09/exti

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Bobby Brown

["this decision" == the decision to omit quote post functionality] -- this is not to damn the decision from the beginning; it worked in its capacity for the time, and now its ratio of cost to effectiveness is no longer acceptable for the network

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It's important to remember that, following Black development of "cancellation" as a concept (which today's outcomes often only cursorily resemble -- words change!) and rapid adoption of that power strategy, we queers were the ones who began using "cancel culture" to describe the toxic phenomena that almost immediately extrapolated from it (naturally, given its consumerist frame). The last thing we need is to deny weaknesses our adversaries can so prolifically, effectively, even validly exploit.

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just adrienne

@simid @kdw @scribe @ariadne @peterhil @tsetiady @creatrixtiara @futurebird @dalias What we actually need to encourage is systems of consent, and granular control, that are resilient to shitty people doing shitty things. And we also need to encourage folks not to fly off the handle when different communities thoughtfully build & implement features that they're not in favor of, because that's going to happen.

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LB: On the other hand, it's important to maintain that opportunists have repeatedly used these waves of valid criticism to incessantly harass and forever stain a person regardless of their response to an issue, and that our society has to accept that people who make mistakes [everyone] are sometimes willing and capable to make it right

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Raph

Within a few hours, I came across this post by @mekkaokereke and a friend sent me this screenshot from the re-release of the classic PC game 'Oregon Trail' (where the player takes on the role of a settler).

It was a beautiful reminder that it is possible to receive feedback positively, to take accountability, and to do the work to better ourselves. The outrage around "cancel culture" is largely just a way to shield all of those who are unwilling to do that work.

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Bobby Brown

Just wanted to state that Treehouse .social has my full support in implementing quote posts in their own Mastodon fork, and I will also support broad adoption. Designing your network toward healthy behavior is valid praxis, but this decision isn't effective against deliberate abuse and it prevents a great deal of valid use. It only blunts a lamentable, but surmountable, ill tendency in all of us cultivated by prior forms like Twitter, with a comprehensive environment of toxic contributors.

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Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:

@adrienne @peterhil @tsetiady @creatrixtiara @futurebird @dalias

i’m all for allowing people to specify the types of interactions that they consent to. it has been a theme regarding my work in this space for the past 5 years.

with that said, the discussion of consent in the context of that mastodon issue is really focused around applying stoppage to any serious work in this space. it is not a serious discussion so much as it is a discussion intended to be a time sink for those who want QTs, so they continue to jump through hoops until they eventually give up.

the people talking about that, they fully understand that Eugen has no real interest in implementing a framework that allows users to specify their own consent preferences.

i am therefore not in favor of blocking work on a feature that is (a) already implemented in the wild by many other fediverse implementations, and (b) a marginal improvement from a trust and safety perspective verses the status quo (screenshot dunking), simply because some people think it should block on an intentionally underspecified consent framework.

if people want to talk about building a consent framework for real, they know where to find me. we can even enforce the consent framework at protocol level with the correct constructions. i have written about this extensively, on my blog, and also in various technical documentation about the fediverse.

but unless Eugen will do it, the conversation is pointless if you’re unwilling to drop compatibility with implementations which don’t buy in.

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Bobby Brown

it seems sensible to make a policy to defederate with known, clear, effective defederation opportunists, association-politics cancel-gangers like weirder .earth et. al. who defederate instances that refuse to implement the same moderation policies [especially toward specific instances, like the mendacious campaign undertaken against kolektiva .social]

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Tony was in such a unique position as an athlete, the soundtrack was his to assemble, and he decided to open his video game series in 1999 with an anarchist punk song throwing middle fingers at the cops. and he still calls it his favorite song [choice] youtu.be/EpLphN5OBnc

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These lectures -- explaining Zizek on Hegel —> Lacan -- continue to hit home even more powerfully than I could have anticipated youtu.be/86lxg4TQaGc

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Reddebrek

I've made an MP3 archive of the Audible Anarchist youtube.com/channel/UCaO1QA8QL

Google doc drive.google.com/open?id=1ZDKF

Mediafire mediafire.com/folder/dbz87ckd4

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I do not enjoy waking up to <55°F indoors, nope, not one bit

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Amelia

For anyone who is just now getting worried about facial recognition AI and its threat, please keep in mind that this tech was largely developed at first in order to interfere with refugees.

This is a much bigger pattern than just AI tech.

Listen to the most-oppressed. The warning signs have been there for longer than you may realize.

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Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!

Tbh getting real tired of hearing "QTs were only ever used for dunks" as someone who was part of a community that used them to tell our followers why they should be interested in tweets, ranging from supporting cool creative works to mutual aid

Were they also used for dunks? Absolutely. One would think better moderation on mastodon would take care of most of that by not putting bad dunkable takes in our faces 24/7

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