Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

#CarolLeigh #SWRights ✊🏼☂️

Session is for private communication, but privacy is bigger than just communication.

What are your privacy-focused recommendations for:

🖥️ Desktop OS
📱 Mobile OS
🔍 Search Engine
🌐 Browser
📧 Email
🔐 Password manager
☁️ Storage
🗒️ Note taking

To everyone who has supported Tor so far during our year-end campaign, THANK YOU. You've helped us reach our goal of raising $100,000, which is made $200,000 with the Friends of Tor match. Thank you for powering privacy online!

Elon Musk announces new shadow banning policy for Twitter, targeting what he considers “negative posts.”

This is a rare confirmation of the existence and practice of shadowbanning by a major platform: https://www.xbiz.com/news/270143/elon-musk-announces-new-shadowbanning-policy-for-twitter

A rich guy with a bruised ego shouldn’t have the power to disrupt your life online. Building an interoperable social media could cut them out of the equation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/fediverse-could-be-awesome-if-we-dont-screw-it

@VickiKyriakakis @syrus @mehdihasan as a newbie here I’ve noticed that too. Twitter used to be a fun communicator but over the last few years became filled with trolls and hate. Here it seems responses are genuine and mostly kind.

@syrus @mehdihasan Engagement levels on Mastadon are also way better than Twitter

Think of people around the world tonight who need Twitter to get their voices heard, to document human rights abuses and injustices, to get attention, expose war crimes, and more.

All of them could be about to be cut off because the world’s richest man wanted to own the libs.

If Twitter users are tweeps, what are Mastodon users? Masties??

@taylorlorenz mastobaters?

@taylorlorenz If you leave a server is that a mastectomy?

Now that we're learning this lesson that centralized silos are brittle and operate in the interest of the owners not the users...

...please note the move toward centralizing podcasts into apps from Amazon/Audible, Spotify, iHeart, YouTube, TikTok etc.

If you like podcasts, use an RSS-based podcast player. Support the open ecosystem. We can only survive if you clearly see the threat and act supportively.

🚨URGENT🚨 - Act now to keep a bad bill off must-pass legislation. #KOSA will make vulnerable kids less safe

Step 1: Use the link below to email your lawmakers.

Step 2: Call 508-761-1268 and tell Sen. Schumer that #KOSA will lead to more surveillance and won't keep kids safe.

QT fightfortheftr: More surveillance won't make kids safe. Tell lawmakers to keep #KOSA out of the lame duck legislation: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/surveillance-doesnt-make-kids-safe

Random Mastodon tip: If you've already written an intro on here, and you don't want to do another one, you can pin your intro post to the top of your timeline. On the other hand, if your intro doesn't cover your whole self and you want to write another one, you can pin up to 5 posts to your timeline, so intro away if it suits you. #FediTip

Circles, Stories and Group Chats

These are the 3 key features I think will bring new users to Pixelfed and encourage continued engagement by embracing IRL conversational and connected experiences via these various mediums.

✨ Show off those iconic photos with everyone

✨ Send those memes to the group chat

✨ Share that moment with followers via your Story

✨ Select a circle of people to share with

#pixelfed #soon