Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

Epstein - like other conspirators - used legal threats and worse to attack people who threatened to expose him (think of Harvey Weinstein hiring ex-Mossad agents to harass women who publicly accused him).

So there was a period when Epstein was a "conspiracy theory" (because his crimes hadn't been brought to light and publicly acknowledged) and then they became a mere "conspiracy" - in public view.

10/

it's amazing the number of libre tools I have at my disposal these days

I can program
I can make programming languages
I can paint
I can make 2d and 3d animations
I can make music
I can make games

20y ago I mostly just dreamed I'd have this much cool FOSS stuff at my fingertips

Please consider boosting.

This is me screaming across the fediverse. I'm looking for people that used the original Seesmic before the service was shut down in 2009. I feel like if I were to reconnect with anyone from there, they'd be on the fediverse in 2020.

For context, Seesmic was a cross between YouTube and Twitter. Micro-video blogging with threaded conversations, no commenting, only videos.

I feel with a custom PeerTube instance we can maybe recreate what once was, what do you think?

Also: "I now think wearing masks is just common sense. Can I just keep on wearing them?"

https://i.insider.com/59289f0379474ce7238b499a?width=1200

What do each of these companies have in common? Expand, embrace, extinguish.

The leading corporations of our time take up a majority of their markets by snuffing out competitors however possible. This unhealthy genocide of independent competition has led to the inevitable dominance of the lives of many commonwealth.

Although singular usage of their products and services may not pose harm to associated markets, the collective assumed-impasse of all individuals carries the devastating impact. By tearing oneself away from such major corporations and choosing to side with the suppressed (often unheard of) competition, a small step towards justice and balance is being courageously taken.

"But there isn't a comparable product/service in the market? What then?"
-If absolutely no other alternative is available, then it is fair and logical to proceed with the only option capable. If however an inferior alternative is present, efforts(occasional at least) should be made to support the minority in hopes to influence a wider market horizon.

"But the leading competitor has all of my information, making it easier to to x,y,z. Why would I want to give up that convenience?"
-Every time you volunteer your personal information, you're locking yourself inside a cage of luxurious captivity. That 'ease of use' you speak of only makes your grow more lame and incapable of freely doing as you please outside of their ToS(Terms of Service[a contract you agree to]) which is also provided with a license(their permission to use X for Y time, under Z conditions) you had might have had to pay for just to use the single product/service you may have already initially paid for but has been intentionally made unusable to you by them.

Fighting for your rights, safeguarding your privacy may be more important than you might realize, but I hope that you might seriously consider the greater implications and impacts that inevitably follow when you stop caring about something as fundamentally simple as your identity.

No Net November. Just log off.

#introductions

Let's see... apparently, putting in a bunch of tags of things that interest me is going to make it easier for other people who share those interests to run across me.

Alright, then. Let's see...

#literature
#pratchett
#boardgames
#programming
#ai
#sciencefiction
#science
#machinelearning
#fantasy
#mathematics

...that should be enough for the moment, I guess.

@vim

Cool source of really nice VIM plugins!

https://vimawesome.com/

#VIM

Polite reminder: Earth is a tree planet with some bacteria. Everything else is just the extra stuff that lives here too.

## Moderated Groups Walk-through

The following is a breakdown of how the new Moderated Group server works. If you want to start a group (becoming the owner and moderator for that group) **you can sign up here**: https://groups.qoto.org

This server is not intended for, nor does it support, regular user accounts. Its intended purpose is to host managed groups similar to https://gup.pe but adding the ability for a group to be owned and managed by an owner giving them the ability to mute, block, or silence misbehaving users as well as to make the group private so that only approved members can join.

The way it works is rather simple, similar to guppe anyone who makes a top-level post and tags the group's account name will have their post added to the group automatically presuming they have permission to post to the group. By default groups are open and anyone would have permission to post to a group. These posts can be done as either public or unlisted, however DMs will not work as they lack the permission for other users to see it. If you wish to get group posts in your home timeline you simply follow the group, that's all there is to it.

Keep in mind while all servers support groups, since it uses standard mechanisms to operate, not all servers will render groups in the same way. You will get the best group expiernce with an account on QOTO which has a unique feature whereby Groups are rendered and handled in a special way. There is a "Group directory" on QOTO, for example, that lists all groups discovered around the fediverse and lists them, ordered by how active they are. Also when you pull up the timeline for a group it renders in a way that makes group posts seem seamless. However if you are on vanilla Mastodon or some other server like Pleroma there isn't any special handling for groups; that means posts made to a group will still show up in your home timeline but it will appear as a boost made by the group account itself. So functionally it still works. This is no different than how guppe works so the expiernce with guppe based groups is no different.

After signing up please consider going to the new accounts profile setting and selecting "List this account on the directory". This will ensure that your group is discoverable and that other users around the fediverse can search for, find, and ultimately join, your group. Without this checked it will not show up in the Group Directory on other servers as well.

Moderation of the group by the account owner is not much different than a normal user account. You can mute, block, or silence users to limit their ability to see or post to the group as you see fit. Similarly a group can be made follower-only if you wish to restrict who can follow a group.

One important note, due to the special nature of a server devoted to groups a few features have been explicitly turned off to prevent abuse. A group account can not follow other user or groups, though it can be followed. As such there is also no home timeline. This prevents users from spam following to get followers to a group.

#Mastoadmin #fediverse #mastodon