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Chris Trottier

I grew up in an uber-conservative environment, and one thing that was impressed upon me was that men are interested in women because of sex, women are interested in men because of love.

What a load of BS—teenage me learned lessons.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

Today, EFF and other civil society organizations issued a damning report about the prosecution of open source software developer and security expert Ola Bini, whose trial may come to an end next week. eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/eff-

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khaleesi

Wir müssen die #Chatkontrolle Stoppen!
„Die Chatkontrolle ist als fundamental fehlgeleitete Technologie grundsätzlich abzulehnen“ so der CCC
Mehr zu den Hintergründe findet ihr hier:
ccc.de/de/updates/2022/eu-komm

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m₂

To anyone else in the immersive web space who's gotten curious about the Fediverse after joining Mastodon, I'd encourage you to check out what the folks are doing over at Immers Space (web.immers.space/). @webxr

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Ru (Tech) :blobcatsadlife:

Seeing a lot of #Python folks lately on Fedi and idk what changed but I love to see it. 😊

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

A wild Thunderbird has appeared!

Hello #fediverse

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Louis R. Couture

A lot of people are saying LGBT people are taking away other people rights but we aren’t the ones taking away your freedom to do what you want with your uterus #roevwade

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Tim Chambers

OK who can help take Matt Mullenweg up on his offer to bring #Tumblr up to full #indieweb standards? cc: @humanetech

Not a joke: this is a very real opportunity... #openweb

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FediTips has moved!

The makers of @pixelfed, the Fediverse photo sharing platform, have just created a slick new guide to the Fediverse at:

fediverse.info

It's got a list of Fedi projects, a list of mobile apps for Fedi platforms and an opt-in directory of people to follow.

The directory is particularly interesting as it works very differently to FediFollows or Trunk. You add hashtags to your profile plus a special extra hashtag #Fedi22, then submit your profile to the site, and it will become searchable for the tags in your profile.

(And, yes, Mastodon is part of the Fediverse, see here for details: mstdn.social/@feditips/1082159)

#FediverseInfo #Fediverse #FediTips #MastoTips

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bikejourno

At first, the left-leaning government of #Spain seemed to be in serious danger of losing its majority in parliament when news came out about representatives from #Catalunya and the #BasqueCountry having been targeted by the #Pegasus #spyware.
Now it turns out that the current prime minister #PedroSanchez and his defense minister also had been targeted.
This needs to be investigated properly as Spain has never really purged the state from supporters of #Franco's #fascism. #alertafascista

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deutrino

Spain detects Pegasus spyware on PM, defence minister’s phones

Monday’s announcement followed intense pressure on the government to explain itself after digital rights group Citizen Lab said more than 60 people linked to the Catalan separatist movement had been targets of Pegasus.

The Israel-based NSO Group, which owns Pegasus, claims the software is only sold to governments to target criminals and terrorists, with the green light of Israeli authorities.

aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/2/sp

#Pegasus

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Electronic Frontier Foundation

The major ISPs have nothing to fear from a deadlocked FCC, which is why they are investing so much dark money in preventing the confirmation of a 5th commissioner seat. Call your Senators and ask them to vote for Gigi Sohn.
eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/what

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muesli

An actual Ukrainian stamp, featuring a drawing of a soldier presenting the middle finger to the Russian cruiser Moskva.

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seb - buttons are toys!

In case you are looking for a cleaner and faster mastodon interface on your computer: pinafore.social

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European Commission

18 years ago...

Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia joined the EU.

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A first generation of citizens now entering adulthood have only known their country being in the EU!

#EUArchives

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Kreyren :verified:

@peterdrake Why spaces when you can indent with `/* */` eh?

So readable~

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A debunk of a crappy Guardian article 

From my account the birdsite. Reposted here in one toot, and edited slightly for clarity and format.

[Here](t.co/LP3q4bjYvO) is a crappy Guardian article from 2021 on extremism and open source software. I'm debunking it here.

Problem 1: Weasel words about proprietary vs. open-source software. This paragraph is sandwiched between one on alt-right money and one on the Unabomber:

> Like Bachelier, Smith eschews so-called proprietary software – like MacOS or Microsoft Word – and communications tools like Facebook or Twitter, built and controlled by Silicon Valley firms. Instead, Smith is an advocate for so-called “open source software” – the kind that makes it possible to use, copy, redistribute and modify software legally. And recently, he has been promoting communications platforms that might help extremists to operate beyond the reach of censorship – and even the law.

There is some talk later about FOSS, but it is mostly about the culture and politics of the movement. I'm going to move onto the other basic factual errors in this article, as I am not well-read on this one issue myself.

Problem 2:

> Smith has lately been pushing users in the direction of decentralized, resilient social media platforms in the so-called “fediverse”, a network of independent social media sites that communicate with one another, and allow people to interact across different sites. This could allow far-right activists to operate in ways that make them very difficult to shut down.

A lot of far-right people who get involved with this seem to think that by simply implementing ActivityPub on their site, they are decentralizing it. This isn't true: the original site can still be taken down just as easily.
Far-right people are dumb, but unfortunately, so is the author of this article.

Problem 3:

> The technical details are perhaps less important than the practical effect: no one has authority over these platforms: no one owns them. While governments and users can place pressure on the big social media companies to ban problematic users or communities, for better or worse, no one can stop anyone creating their own servers or peer-to-peer networks.
> These technologies, then, are effectively uncensorable. According to a report by Emmi Bevensee, the co-founder of research consultancy Rebellious Data and the social media monitoring tool SMAT, extremists have been advocating, and even developing them, for years.

More misunderstandings here. Just as with sites on the Internet, no one person owns Fediverse, but any one instance is owned by someone. If governments want to go after someone for something illegal, they can go after that instance's owner.

Problem 4:

> This opens the way for extremists to propagandize and organize on platforms that are beyond the reach of legal authorities and tech giants alike. After the far right-friendly social media site Gab encountered hosting problems and app store bans, it rebuilt itself on Mastodon’s software, despite determined opposition from the platform’s creators and users.
> Beyond Gab’s ambiguous place in the fediverse...

The author wrote this in March 2021.
Gab defederated from the Fediverse in early 2020, after the majority of the Fediverse, servers and users alike, blocked them.
How on earth did the author miss this? Anyone on the Fediverse knows this, and there was some press as well. Did the author simply not talk to anyone on the Fediverse *and* forget to even search Google?

In conclusion, this is a sloppy article with severe factual errors that could have been avoided if the author had done enough research.
I'm honestly surprised it hasn't been retracted at this point.

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天空вℓσи∂ [Deprecated edition]

Just have a glance on mastodon.technology/about/more

It listed qoto.org in the suspended list because of "choosing to federate with fascist instances."

LOL

Technically speaking, each new instance could be fascist instances, unless you see and verify it, so I guess in this case, what you need/want is a whitelist, not a blacklist.

So in defense of qoto, I'd say no one can represent me, and my opinion (including Chinese governments and other companies, that's why I deleted Weibo in 2014 and now moved from Twitter to mastodon, after Musk purchased twitter). If there is a fascist instance, I have to see it in my eye and block it with my own hand. It's much different from admins "helping" me block it, especially without notifying me.

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John Bezark

WOW. Yeah I've been on mastadon for like only five days now but I'm already flabbergasted at the world that should have been... w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overvie

Like literally how did we all agree to just NOT have interoperable social networks??? Looking at the activity pub docs makes it clear how ridiculously easy that would have been. You want my content? Just GET my outbox. Want to send me something? Just POST to my inbox. The server can be anything you want, just format your messages in this (VERY INTUITIVE!) way. It's so simple it's STUPID.

I'm very new to all of this, so I'll admit that there's a lot I don't know, but what is painfully obvious right now is how, yet again, the tendrils of Capitalism have fundamentally altered the STRUCTURE of the Internet to make it less open, less empowering and generally WORSE for most users. However, what's also becoming clear is that it does not have to be that way, and being here is in some small way, bringing about that better possible future.

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PaulaToThePeople :VeryQueer:

More and more #ClimateJustice groups and activists are joining the #Fediverse and they have more instances available to join than ever before:

forfuture.social
climatejustice.global
climatejustice.rocks
climatejustice.social

Who is missing? Tell me in the replies!
And then let's invite them.

I'll start:
#FridaysForFuture US
#YACAP
#GretaThunberg
#CarolaRackete
#LuisaNeubauer
#Carla #Reemtsma
#VanessaNakate

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