Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

Twitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.

New: The U.S. government confirmed that it buys huge amounts of Americans’ personal data for intelligence purposes.

According to a newly declassified report, the commercially available information the government purchases "clearly provides intelligence value," but also "raises significant issues related to privacy and civil liberties."

More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/13/us-intelligence-report-purchase-americans-personal-data

So over on Twitter, “anti-hate” activist Chris Bouzy has been viciously harassing me again for days, and tonight he mocked me for having an acute PTSD incident in 2019, following my initial PTSD diagnosis after a violent attack in which my eyelid was sliced open with a boxcutter and I was dragged across a parking lot. He also said I’m “dangerous” and might get someone killed because I called 911 for an ambulance. For myself.

This is honestly the depraved abuse I’ve ever experienced.

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People often ask us why they cannot sign up with their preferred username, even when it belongs to a deleted account.

However, this is an important security measure. Deleted usernames remain blocked to prevent:
🎭 Impersonation. A bad actor can use your old address to impersonate you in your network.
👎Misdirected email correspondence. Someone you know could reveal their contact information, or information meant for you, to a complete stranger by sending an email to your old address.

Have you recently changed your primary email account, or are you planning to?

Here are some guidelines on how to do it: https://proton.me/blog/change-email-address. When you reach step #5, make sure to use aliases rather than the new address itself. 😏

Learn more: https://t.co/HrWIXJQlsu.

Science

There’s a #RedditMigration to the #Fediverse happening. And many of those former #Reddit users are creating accounts on #Lemmy and #kbin.

Funny enough, last December, I predicted there would be another Big Social migration to the Fediverse. I even predicted it would happen in June.

I just did think that Reddit, of all platforms, would be the one to cause the migration.

Big Social has a habit of creating shitty user experiences, and attempting to squeeze every bit of ARPU possible.

Until recently, if you didn’t like it, your only option was to kick rocks.

Reddit doesn’t give a damn. There have been plenty of Reddit alternatives in the past, and almost all of them have crashed an burned.

Except this time, when people join #Lemmy and #kbin, they are interacting with a network of 10 million Fediverse accounts – possibly more. No Reddit alternative has ever had 10 million accounts.

Understand this. Even if Lemmy and /kbin make up and insignificant chunk of the Fediverse right now, everyone who uses those services can talk to 10+ million Fediverse accounts.

Which means that this time Reddit detractors have serious options.

And believe me, there will be another Big Social platform is going to cause another migration to the Fediverse. Each time this happens, that detraction will compound more and more.

Reddit probably doesn’t think this is a big deal. They probably think this is like the other times users expressed dissent.

But this time, these Redditors are discovering the Fediverse.

This is not normal.

Apparently Reddit has now banned a subreddit dedicated to the Fediverse Reddit-alternative Kbin:

https://sakurajima.moe/@chikorita157/110517156242412322

If you're on a centralised platform like Reddit, this is what they can do. Centralised platforms have all-powerful leaders who can do whatever they want, and you have no alternatives if you disagree.

The point of the Fediverse being on lots of servers is that each server's power is limited. If you disagree with one server's actions, you can move.

#Fediverse #Reddit #Kbin

Science keeps turning, and just one week after Blue Machine came out, one footnote is already out of date. I wrote about the “Mohole” project - the attempt in the 1960s to drill into Earth’s mantle through the ocean floor (it failed) and added a note that even today, no-one had succeeded. But it looks as though drilling from the Joides Resolution might just have done it in the last month: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/06/drill-earth-mantle-rocks/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1nhRGSG9Mkhz6TEY5WaoaovjfD1r16YeOSMl9x2Laq1mOMez-rm3zc8iw_aem_th_AZJjFs5IEFI8Y8niKBlipWyDOxixkLxdcNlEg-PNPcqJCGZ4JO7hFLRiqeallbt2eto
#ocean #DeepSea #science

Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment
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As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Environment

https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-crisis-niche-migration-environment-population?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

So, the inner loop of “What the Heck is happening with Reddit?” is this:

They appear to be getting all their ducks in a row to prepare for an IPO, which means shutting down all the 3rd parties that have (in Reddit’s view) been siphoning away advertisement eyeballs.

But

Reddit’s official app has been so garbage for so long for moderating, that many moderators relied on third party apps. For years.

The changes also rugpulled many other community developed anti-abuse efforts.

So, a boycott.

BLAME FOSSIL FUELS!