Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

As of the moment it appears 111 **known** instances have defederated to some degree from Mastodon.social. Most likely unknown instance count is much higher.

People are claiming this is a result on the article I wrote, which largely cited facts with photo evidence and effectively accused Eugen of caving to a Nazi's agenda.

I do **not** want to see anyone defederating from mastodon.social. However, my article presented the facts, made no suggestion to anyone to defederate. If those those facts cause people to get mad with Eugen and defederate, so be it, thats his fault for not being a better person, for not having a discussion about his decisions. I wont take blame simply for exposing truths, the reprocusions are on him not me.

The irony is what is happening to him is the same thing happening to me as explained in that article. The difference is what is happening to me is largely fueled by lies which Ive disproven. Cant say the same about Eugen

Anyway, I do hope all of you will stop defederating and start talking. I'd much rather see people try to talk to Eugen and tell him why he is wrong and get him to be better than anything else. Perhaps stand up to the misinformation you hear as well and do some fact checking so #QOTO doesnt get wrongly accused of lies while your at it.

#mastoadmin #fediblock #Eugen

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#MastodonNews Nov. 27, 2022

Financial Post: CIRA teams up with Mastodon Canada to support Canadian digital communities >>> https://financialpost.com/globe-newswire/cira-teams-up-with-mastodon-canada-to-support-canadian-digital-communities

Landmark partnership to help support Mastodon’s fast-growing following. Best known for managing the .CA internet domain on behalf of all Canadians... Mastodon’s decentralized, open-source network and emergence of a Canadian server was an ideal fit for CIRA’s community-minded mission

#twittermigration #news
More news >>> https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#cfd1

.@mmasnick lays down the obvious truth: the “social media is bad for teens (and therefore we should regulate it (and also spy on everyone))” narrative is garbage that ignores how, for the vast majority of kids and teens, social media is a net positive in their lives.

RT Twitter/@techdirt

Contrary To Popular Opinion, Most Teens Get Real Value Out Of Social Media https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/28/contrary-to-popular-opinion-most-teens-get-real-value-out-of-social-media/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/techdirt/status/1597278464444223489

said this before, but the successful campaign over the last 20 years to make "free speech" mean "fascism" rather than "sex work" is a fine example of how abandoning a supposedly disreputable marginal group is a good way to make everyone much less safe.

It’s in the Post app mission statement that you can’t cyberbully the rich
#tech #technology #journalism #postnews #twitter #twittermigration #politics

We urgently need Congress to act to #ReinInBigTech, but #KOSA is not the bill. This legislation would make vulnerable kids less safe and could be weaponized against the #LGBTQ community. Congress should focus on #antitrust and #privacy instead. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/28/kids-online-safety-act-may-harm-minors-civil-society-groups-warn.html

A quick explainer about the Mastodon like. It is a personal message to the writer of the post that you liked it, and no one else will know that you clicked it.

If you want to spread the post, that's the boost button. The equivalent of a Twitter like is to do both a like and a boost.

If you think this post is useful to you click "like". If you think it would be useful for others too, click "boost" as well.

Great to hear that facial recognition will not be used at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in France: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202211/facial-recognition-ruled-out-for-2024-olympics-and-paralympics-by-french-ministry-of-sport

We need to make it unacceptable for politicians like Senator Blumenthal (D-CT) to continue using kids & grieving parents as pawns to advance legislation that does more harm than good. It's not okay to use harm to kids to justify legislation that does MORE harm to kids. Let's get this right.

Big Tech companies ARE doing real harm to kids. But #KOSA won't make things better. Congress needs to pass real laws like #AICOA, #OAMA, and #ADPPA (which needs to be improved but is a good start) to chip away at Big Tech abuses. And we need robust #FTC enforcement too.