Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

@jeffjarvis
It's deeply frustrating watching my friends who ought to know better—journalists, tech policy people, etc.—acknowledging that Twitter's on the outs, but then getting excited about moving to yet another closed, proprietary platform.

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Good news, we'll have a major letter signed by dozens of #LGBTQ #humanrights #privacy #digitalrights #civilliberties #racialjustice and #freeexpression organizations out on Monday opposing #KOSA the poorly named (and terribly drafted) "Kids Online Safety Act."

Top Democrats were trying to sneak it into a must-pass spending package. Hopefully this is enough opposition to stop them. HMU if your *organization* wants to sign on (not individuals at this time)

Things are extremely scary over on the birdsite, and I don't pretend to have all the answers. But I do know that calling for Apple and Google to outright ban apps used by millions of people for all kinds of important things is ... playing with fire and not in line with global human rights. Pushing for moderate at that level of the stack is not going to lead to more safety for LGBTQ+ people or other marginalized folks. It's gonna get us censored & silenced. Sending love to my ppl. I get it

I own activitypub.io, activitypub.network and activitypub.social and want to put them to use somehow.

Some ideas I have:
- activitypub.io: technical guides and implementations
- activitypub.network: server list
- activitypub.social: community group (when groups are ready)

These would be community maintained, and ultimately depend on @cwebber approval, I'd prefer to work with her on these or transfer domains to her rather than them sit unused!

I ❤️ ActivityPub

If you know anyone working on an ActivityPub project and they need any advice/feedback/help or want to spread the word, tell them to DM me! I am more than willing to help or spread awareness! #activitypub #fediverse

Updated Quick Scan Server (Instance) List

Here is an updated listing of the top 120 most popular popular Mastodon instances >>>

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hN-0bNfjaV7UTuLP6eudmXCNNPdeNQoFtbfcqxl4FFQ/edit#gid=0

This is not to suggest that smaller instances are bad. In fact many smaller instance are dealing with the wave of new migrants from the #birdsite better than some larger instances. For a complete list of instances check out >>> https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/list

#mastodonmigration #twittermigration #mastodontips #NewUser #instances #servers #feditips

Also, a warning to others looking for a #Twitter alternative:

DO NOT use Tribel Social. I looked into it and their Privacy Policy is bad. They collect a lot of unnecessary information from your device, including IMEI numbers.

#Newbies, it might we worth passing that along to your friends. I know a few accounts on Twitter are really pushing it as an alternative.

Every police force everywhere will always want to employ facial recognition, backdoor decryption and armed robots. It’s on us as citizens to make sure they don’t get them.

The #OnlineSafetyBill "threatens 40 million users of WhatsApp and other messengers with constant surveillance of their private messages. It will create a culture of everyday censorship that will disproportionately remove content from vulnerable, disadvantaged, and minority communities while claiming to protect them.”

@jim calls for a complete rethink of the Bill for it to be fit for purpose.

#BlockTheBill #privacy #freedomofexpression

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/24/online-safety-bill-to-return-to-parliament-next-month

The UK Online Safety Bill threatens security online and freedom of speech. Together with Access Now, The Tor Project, Phil Zimmermann and others we have signed an open letter to call on the UK government to amend the Online Safety Bill. 💪🔒

#Fight4Privacy #StrongEncryption #No2Backdoors

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/online-safety-bill-criticism