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KEEPING TRACK OF RESPONSIBILITY / WHAT TO FIX

Fixing is a MAJOR LIFE RESPONSIBILITY... not easy but when one realises it's also a memory game or needing to order it properly then some progress can be made.
(remembering what and how is a big thing)

I think we can do anything once we mix the list of things and doing it *instantly* also (or like I do talking constantly around it to do it or massage it out).

I wanted to start the post about "HIDDEN RESPONSIBILITY" as in the meaning 'just because you don't see it doesn't mean you don't have to be responsible' but anyway can be both.

Naturally from being busy it's about making *THIS* part of your game more often but also not ignoring major things... because even if you don't see them they still exist and bad people didn't go away suddenly.

QUESTION FOR YOUR CONSCIOUS:

If it's being done behind your back, does it make it any better?

If you don't see it, does it not exist?

(I guess this covers how I felt about the distance and responsibility part- do best you can with it and ask anytime).

MASTODON HYPERLINKS that LINK TO THE BADDIES / google / youtube

Money is going to Google via YouTube via Mastodon... That's the main theme here.

FREEDOM IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONATE TO OTHER **CORPORATIONS** PROFIT...

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EXTENDED writing / NON-TL;DR

Google / YouTube inside Mastodon is an issue (for me and I believe for all of us, even if you're ok with it)- and while I don't want to erase links I think an alternative could be automatically added or somewhat a switch in preferences to allow users to mask links or use alternative wrap-around sites, (even open software filter sites) to do what they politically believe in.

I'd like to change habits to avoid these corporations basically and let people at least have 2 links to choose from (making it clearer and more conscious) helping the responsibility of user AND Mastodon designers...

Another idea is to make plaintext youtube links (to copy and past) and leave easier link as the safer / less-corporate links...

So ideally for me it's about convincing your Instance Admin or Designers to think different. And just using Your Code for something more healthy

WHY IS IT SO BAD
... it's the ma$$ive profit
... it's the data leak that promotes abu$e)....

FREEDOM is INVERSELY PROPORTIONATE TO OTHER PEOPLE'S PROFITEERING ON US...

I encourage filter sites LIKE
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=EEdvwJtkvG0&listen=false

So instead of offering our users as cash-cows as mass links (like the other feature designer consider politically and practically) thinking about this in teh same way just like Mastodon is not Twitter... means Mastodon and everything else can also be considered.

Sysadmins COULD disable hyperlinks showing their alignment about YouTube / Google links

but we might tolerate it and leave it and offer another link simply under (or before starting with https://yewtu.be/ ) if admins don't want to be ALL IN for non-google stuff... let me know what you think!

I think external $ite$ known to us all IS effectively and politically doing damage.

This also helps and shows yours own politics.

To have google / youtube here says we like to link to them and see them grow when measurably they are the enemy

Changing this means clicks will say to people "hey users it's not as easy for bad stuff, *think again*- you'll have to paste the youtube.com link or use invidious and we care about data tracking via embeds"

THAT'S A KIND OF ACTIVISM USING THE MASTODON SYSTEM.

Kinda why we're here is to use / express / use better freedoms to change code accordingly AND even if it's annoying the aim generally is to reduce these things.

"..BUT THE FILTERS / INVIDIOUS DOESN'T DO THMBNAILS"
Links now have Remote-embedded thumbnails!
So that excuse is not valid now! :)

I know personally of an activist that says *they are anti-google* but for visibility still go for google-youtube links--> slap my face
Ok before it was maybe less visually the same but now it's the same.

FOR ADMINS:
Your code is persuasion which works to question and educate people even this questionable activist who breaks their own code of conduct, principle and priority! It's coercion so it's not too tempting for lazy or forgetful people (system helps not need to manual put an alternative link)

We need help and ask our system for this!

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MORAL OF STORY ---> WE CASH IN FOR GOOGLE / YOUTUBE
THEY SPEND IT AGAINST US

END OF ANY ARGUMENT PEOPLE HAVE
(IT WINS DEBATE I HOPE!)

Help Google ??? LE$$?? much...LE$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I hope you get it already

(less 10,00 hits to them = Big lose for us

Mastodon Users become their u$er$!)

WHEN WAS IT EVER NEUTRAL?

Clicking links is not NEUTRAL and as host$ are more than ever not neutral... if it was to child porn of course that is bad (and also an extreme argument) but what is also Google to us if not extreme corporate aggressive harvesting of our data in profit models totally terrible?

Adults being raped in this way is not far extreme. It's being done even if you don't see it.

Technologically things are not 'innocent', they are pervasive habits and are also to be unlearned.

THANK YOU- Admins... thanks for helping - it's one more thing as code but MUCH MUCH le$$ money going to them (it's the massive profit that promotes abu$e)

Let people copy and paste and slow the addiction... or just tr the other types of filtering sites (invidious instances)

Thanks also on behalf of
#peertube
#BigBlueButton
#Nextcloud
#OWNCAST
#funkwhale
ETC

- IF YOU'RE REALLY SERIOUS CURB THE HABIT OF YOUR USERS AS YOU TECH TOO
***(LIKE NOT USING WINDOWS, MICROSHAFT, ETC THEN SAME WITH GOOGLE)***

- STOP SUPPORTING THE MONETIZING FROM YOUR SERVERS AND FROM YOUR USERS!

If this post could be better please say.

ENCOURAGE CHANGE AND BETTER ALTERNATIVES OTHERWISE it's almost like Federating with GOOGLE AND YouTube...

MORE PEOPLE to RIGHT choices:

#activitypub #Bookwym #BigBlueButton #diaspora #Discourse #friendica #funkwhale #gnusocial #GNUMediaGoblin #hubzilla #socialhome #lemmy #mastodon #misskey #mobilizon #Nextcloud #OWNCAST #pixelfed #peertube #plume #pleroma #writefreely

LOL

REPLACE / DISABLE / PLAINTEXT GOOGLE / YOTUBE

The clock is ticking on our FREEDOM... BOOST FREEDOM!!

FREEDOM IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONATE TO OTHER PEOPLE'S PROFIT...

@lolicon MISSKEY, PLEROMA, MASTODON ETC...

I like these things in passing and said by those more experienced tha me or seeing what people prefer.

I've seen Misskey in the way that it's quite a complex javascript webapplication. https://minidisc.tokyo/notes/8xnpg1k93q

And some older browser can't see Misskey
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/107932959030655964

Pleroma not so much experience or not heard so much so interested the differences there if you want to share...

For general stats, see some interesting facts here!
(Activitypub reaches 5m users)
https://bonn.social/@gerald_leppert/108743263174610913

METHODOLOGY - EASY WHEN YOU TRY OR ADAPT YOUR OWN WAY

Video says to me / sends the message :

"When one breaks free - The rest can follow"

The idea with this video is:

- something unlikely is possible
(once you know how or just try)

- others can follow good methodology

- people (and dogs!) can do it in a different way but can achieve the same result
( like the second dog who jumps on fence in different way, both get the result done according to their own speed and ability)

You get the idea - we can find good ways. And not just escaping but working together after escaping or after the first phase think about the next / pre-plan.

Decentralizing Distribution (F-Droid)

They plan to integrate IPFS in a hybrid approach.

OTHER NOTES:
- Filecoin is built on top of IPFS, which is “a distributed system for storing and accessing files”.
- IPFS is working now, and services are using it, including archive.org.
- F-Droid is not looking at NFTs, blockchain, DAOs, smart contracts or related aspects of “Web3”.

https://f-droid.org/en/2022/02/05/decentralizing-distribution.html

F-Droid is a free, open, and decentralized mobile app ecosystem.

Q. MONEY TRANSFER - BEST WAY?

What are the best ways APART FROM / EXCLUDING these?

- Cryptocurrency Monero/XMR ETC
- Bank transfer
- Cash in envelop and post

Mastodon Benefits #143546

Photos uploaded on Mastodon have had it's sensitive info (Metadata) removed... for example, none of this:
- camera name / model
- geo-location
- computer name / author name

VERY USEFUL - METADATA IS CALLED "EXIF" INFO & BETTER REMOVED
IF NOT ON MASTODON YOU NEED TO STRIP THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA *BEFORE* UPLOADING OR USE A CAMERA APP THAT MINIMIZES IT !!!

Example app = Scrambled Exif
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif/

(More here like ImagePipe)
https://search.f-droid.org/?q=Exif+&lang=en

ON DESKTOPS RE-SAVE IT USING BASIC "PAINTBRUSH" TYPE TOOL ALSO HELPS IGNORE THAT DATA
or just use Mastodon only!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exif#Background

I'M GLAD MASTODON SOCIAL DOES IT FOR ME... THANK YOU !

SYSTEMS OF OUR SOCIETY
(NOTES FROM AUDIO PODCAST)

System doesn't promote creativity, critical thinking...

Systems tend to create docile workforce or users as consumers lacking in true intellectual education and interaction for the future .

Change is also made much less possible structurally and that also helps why things are not inbuilt into changing or improving or exploring things.

NOTES FROM:
Systems of Our Society

https://ourfoundations.podbean.com/e/systems-of-our-society/

Any system without integral learning can in the end be dangerous.

or another way to say it in opposite spectrum is:

Allowing ignorance (just being consumer) is certain to be a risk as it is already to use something without knowing how to take care of it or the philosophy to continue (not just take benefits and run).

Not just taking but finding ways to give back while wondering why it's given free (why as corporation and why as 'free software').

Learning is always going to be the hard part, which is why incrementally is better than crisis and brain-crushing consideration years after using Google etc AND not using other ways (or not using them also until it's morally right).