Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
Ahora pueden donar a #TIC con @circles@mas.to 😃
https://circles.garden/profile/0xfba64287b96824BBab0E087D15F1e59A8747Cdb2
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You know the #fediverse isn’t just #Mastodon, right? :)
Do you live stream? Check out https://owncast.online
It’s a lightweight free and open live-steaming server. (We use it at Small Technology Foundation for our streams at https://owncast.small-web.org)
And you can follow people’s Owncast servers from the fediverse and get notified when they’re about to start streaming, etc. (e.g., hit the follow button on our stream and enter your Mastodon/fediverse account) 
@aral
Cool. And meanwhile, don't forget that we can all keep working towards a society based on justice and mutual respect, where authority works for the people and not the other way round.
So renember, Signal runs on AWS so we might want to consider if supporting that mega corporation alines with the above in any way.
Also, if you are really, really, really concerned about privacy, better not connect any devices to the public Internet at all. Especially not "phones"
If I were to "worry" about social media, then yes, the noise has a potential to degrade fediverse experience, especially as more and more toxic twitter-learned behaviour becomes common:
@axbom -> "I'm more and more encouraging people to choose small, niche instances with less noise due to sheer volume."
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I've noticed a small wave of new people making their way to Mastodon from the birdsite.
Here is my brief Mastodon guide for social media worriers that may prove useful for making yourself more at home.
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Editorial: Between Mastodon and Feedbin, I Now Have All the Tools I Need to Avoid Using Twitter While Following People’s Tweets https://ryanschultz.com/2022/10/21/editorial-between-mastodon-and-feedbin-i-now-have-all-the-tools-i-need-to-avoid-using-twitter-while-following-peoples-tweets/
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As someone in my discord server said - “the best way to make politicians anti-facial recognition might be to use it on them”.
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The web is rotting out. I'm seeing more and more active organizations with broken content, bad links, and out of date websites. But don't worry, their facebook page is up to date!
We paved over the library of alexandria and put a walmart in its place.
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@rabble
oh. Hi there Evan. Long time..
Here's another example of an attention grabbing headline:
"A former Facebook engineer wants to help you make your own cell network."
The fact that facebook funded the (failed) opencellular project that Kashif worked on is irrelevant.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/6/23389641/ukama-open-source-cell-network-internet
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@NGIZero “Open Source” for a surveillance capitalist like Google is one or several of four main things:
- The potential to use free labour
- The potential for positive public relations (which, when amplified, will hopefully get people thinking about them as a benevolent philosopher kings instead of the robber barons and people farmers that they are)
- The potential to influence the stack (with tools that function in line with their success criteria)
- The potential to find new talent
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How useful is the federated timeline on your instance?
(Or if you have multiple accounts, on the largest instance you use)
"Firefox won't work unless you enable...."
It has been a while since I have seen this (inaccurate) message for any app.
First time I've seen it for #Firefox and it happens as a result of opening a github link to unsub from a repo somebody subbed me to.
Does anybody know what is happening here?
@swansinflight@mastodon.nz @wolf480pl
I wonder if one could still move away a little more from the previous toxic behaviour of "social" media on fediverse.
* One might question the concept of blocking people, In fact you are blocking accounts (that may not really be people).
* I do wonder about the use value of the federated timeline. Blocking accounts might be a way to have your timelines be happier places.
* Muting those that respond with noise to threads you end up on might work better than blocking?
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
