Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

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Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

I just learned of several more instances that have removed us from block lists.. Im glad to see so many instance admins are willing to listen to reason and have changed their decisions in light of the facts and evidence. From what I hear it wasnt just my emails but the efforts of so many in the community showing support for us. I really appreciate that from all of you.

#fediblock

Seems we are still in a minor surge right now.. just checked and current influx is about 2x the normal background rate...

The #Fediverse (#ActivityPub) has surpassed 7 million users!

For the first time, all #SocialMedia that are connected by ActivityPub are at 7,252,751 users (4.1m active six months, 2.7m monthly active). Thanks to #Mastodon 6.3m users, #PeerTube 389k, #Pixelfed 122k , #Pleroma 97k, #WriteFreely 62k #Lemmy 39k, #Plume 25k, #Friendica 19k, #Mobilizon 14k and many more.

https://the-federation.info/

#Fedigrowth #Misskey #Funkwhale #Hubzilla #hometown #Wordpress #bookwyrm #Socialhome

The English name of Snowdon for Wales’ highest peak will be replaced by the Welsh name of Yr Wyddfa, following a vote today
https://nation.cymru/news/yr-wyddfa-snowdon-to-be-known-by-welsh-name-from-now-on-after-national-park-vote/

I just dipped into Twitter to read the fantastic news that the Snowdonia National Park Authority has voted to use the original Welsh names Yr Wyddfa #YrWyddfa and #Eryri rather than the imposed English #Snowdon and #Snowdonia. It's a massive win for reclaiming our #Welsh cultural heritage. I honestly can't believe the amount of hatred, abuse and racism in the Twitter comments from English people. I've no idea why they are so angry that another country wants to use its own language. #Cymraeg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I've come on mastodon to share a piece about mastodon, which sounds like the kind of cannibalistic self-referentialism that started mad cow disease https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/16/could-this-be-twitter-without-the-toxic-slurry-my-week-on-mastodon

@freemo @alex

In many senses, I find #qoto sets high standards for communication in #fediverse. You have enabled connected services, allowed 65K characters, you have robust policy, we can use markdown in posts, and you are also very welcoming, responsive, and open community!

With the Artemis rocket heading to the #moon, here’s my piece on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo landing. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/08/15/moon-fever-apollo-11/

As Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Stripe, Shopify, Lyft, Netflix, and Microsoft lay off workers, let it serve as a reminder that free snacks, beer kegs, and ping pong tables are not real perks.

Do you know what is? Being part of a union that will defend you.

Interesting fact of the day: The first archaeological evidence of instruments, a flute, was **not** made by humans, in fact, it was made by a neanderthal and is 60,000 years old.

#history #archaeology #music

I didn't take this photo but I was with my husband when he did. It was breathtaking up on Stenbury Down on the Isle of Wight, watching the mist roll in at sunset. The sheep were surprised to see us and for once the weather did what we'd hoped it would do! #SheepofMastodon

Worst fall in #UK #LivingStandards since records began, says #OBR | #Economics | The Guardian

I will concede that international conditions and events have a large bearing on economic conditions but the #Tories are solely responsible for this situation through 12 years in power and driving through the worst possible form of #Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/17/obr-confirms-uk-enters-year-long-recession-with-half-a-million-job-losses-likely

#UK #Politics

In my time working on decentralized social networks, here's a strange paradox:

1. The people with no money have something usable now, along with people who actually use it
2. The people with money have nothing usable now, and no one likely to use it

This is one of the few times that VCs and billionaires have been caught with their pants down.

And I'm here for it!

'I have never been as worried or angry as I am about what's about to hit the UK' https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/i-never-been-worried-angry-28519300?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar Me, in The Mirror tonight

"I look down on him because he ousted me."
"I look down on her because she ousted me."
"I'm a little teapot."
#GeneralElectionNow

I've seen some chatter suggesting that Mastodon uses "algorithms" and "AI" for different functions. This is false.

1) There are no special "algorithms" for generating feeds; your home feed is stuff you follow, your local feed is stuff from your server, the federated feed has stuff from other servers, hashtag feeds show hashtags.

2) No AI is used to do image detection or content warnings. There is no AI or ML code in the default stack; any feature like that would have to be added.

#debunk