It's funny, I don't know what to do with likes/faves on this platform. I feel compelled to do something different than on Twitter, but for me they merely served as read receipts and a way to remind my friends and critics ongoingly that I appreciate and care about their earnest engagement.
I guess it doesn't hurt anybody too much to continue that practice here. Counterpoints welcome! What is the point of faves?
A friend of mine is trying to get some transportation to sustain himself, and honestly it's going to reach more people here than on Twitter despite 25x the followers over there, so this place is already 100% better for some things. https://gofund.me/c6ae7730
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2 poor femmes that care about their community safety on here created #fediblock ages ago
Me, and @gingerrroot helped me by taking it to her network
If every person who uses it were to donate some coin to us every once in a while it would make a huge difference in our lives
my venmo: @AMarciaX
twitter implosion
@scanlime and for web, you can always use nitter
twitter implosion
the latest stuff is so bad i literally did not believe it and had to look for myself. wow.
a reminder, if folks need a way to read twitter without being on twitter, this is what i've been using on android: https://fritter.cc/
The lack of quote tweet function here saddens me in a way because there is all sorts of good they can do in a social environment tuned to supporting it.
The fact that the feature grew in an irreparably and deliberately broken social environment has apparently doomed a basic communication tool capable of preserving and providing great positive context.
It doesn't matter whether you're an activist, an artist, or just another corporate network refugee like any of us … an anarchist with a strong drive to build community, a social media analyst with a broad critique, a prolific coder, a reluctant coder, a network engineer, a Kubernetes administrator -- chances are there is something you can contribute to this movement. I encourage you to join us on Matrix chat at #WebRev:hellsite.net
I am officially over my shit after nearly a year, and just really want collaboration on CommLab and its constituent free & open communicatoon tools, as well as a democratic self-managed community on Hellsite. Yes, CommLab is just a bunch of apps slapped together on Kubernetes, so far. But even if it never graduates from that character, it serves purposes of integration/standardization and education.
Mastodon's failings are many, ranging from onboarding and UX to activitypub implementation and the value of federating SNS/user-created media when web syndication already exists. But the current furor over it strikes me as opportunistic whinging about it being a different paradigm instead, one that casts contextless conclusions about open software alternatives to platforms in bad faith. The new widespread poisoned well public perception will just make diagnosis and improvement of the platform and its concepts more difficult.
Related to this, today I saw someone on the birdsite say (paraphrased) "most people don't want mastodon instead of Twitter because they just want to know that what's posted by the BBC is from the BBC" in among a bunch of stuff about how decentralization isn't that important, actually and like...
I'd rather know it came from the BBC because it came from the BBC's domain name than because some rando corp got thrust into the position of deciding who is and isn't real. Decentralization is the solution to this problem, if anything.
I loathe gambling in videos games. I've long since resolved to never give money to any such game after years ago I realized how worryingly loose my wallet was for just a direct cash shop. For the first time I'm active in a community of a gacha game and I've just witnessed children and young adults dwarf what I treated as a grave warning sign in the past. Fuck this.
Hey friends, I'm streaming Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic and talking about social media, on Twitch and my PeerTube channel https://www.twitch.tv/bobbyd0g
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