ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

Why would anyone watch the world cup when MST3K is doing a Marathon, free, on YouTube?

So many people grumbling about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.

If nothing else, it appears he's well on the way to making it an ad-free social network.

A spectacular Democratic failure. For anyone who cares about #NewYork or #politics or both, this is essential reading. By @JosephONeillx.

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/11/24/new-york-rusty-political-machine/?utm_source=nybooks&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share

@simon ActivityPub is much, much more interesting to me than Mastadon on its own.

Major Twitter influencers are pushing a supposed replacement called Post. It may be great (I'm not allowed to use it so far) but it's yet another proprietary, closed (in terms of interoperability), centralized social network.

Great for the A list and vCs. Not great for me.

I've seen a few folks join Mastodon and complain that it's too difficult to follow people on other servers, with the cutting and pasting and whatnot. But @bramus has now created a neat Chrome extension (or bookmarklet, if you prefer to go that route) that let's you avoid all that hassle.

I just tested it out... by following @bramus with it!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-view-profile-on/limifnkopacddgpihodacjeckfkpbfoe

I'm blocked so I cantt correct Rich... but who is going to tell him that he is lieing (or misinformed).

We have clear rules about child porn as is shown below. I was asked but someone about it and at the time we had never had to address it so I mentioned tthe moderators would need to vote to get it added to our rules.. moments later we voted and added it... Naturally the person lied and posted out of context about the vote and never bothered to let people know we updated our rules moments later.

As to his comment about kiwifarms.. lets be clear. I saw a list on a website whose domain name was not associated with kiwifarms as far as I knew.. it just so happened that list was generated using a tool that happened to be written by kiwifarms... obviously I didnt know this.

This shit is getting absurd...

https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/109365635195777852

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him

Many Greens were ambivalent about the resolution to declare Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. It's purely symbolic: the EU has no such legal instrument, unlike the US.
But the DDOS attack elevated the significance of the vote and hardened MEPs, I'm told
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2022/11/23/europe-letter-its-going-to-unite-us-further-hackers-harden-european-parliament/

When I get to 100,000 followers on Mastodon I will officially bring Mastodons back from extinction.

Boost and favorite this post to help make this happen ASAP.

Elon's take over of Twitter has set a lot of things into motion in the digital world

Tumblr and now also Flickr are thinking about intergrating ActivityPub so it will be able to connect to the Fediverse!

A lot of lay offs in the mainstream social media but the Fediverse is only growing!

The world is waking up Social media can be fun but also privacy friendly at the same time, you got the proof now!❤️

No billioaires needed ✅

I hate to tell a lot of these quick trigger finger Fediblock people this, but it's true:

Fediblock should only be used as the nuclear option.

If you use it for things like, "Someone might do a bad thing," then you are diminishing its power.

@freemo

The far-future is a transhumanist transition to something other these frail, ephemeral biological shells.

@antares

Not a surprise, but still disappointing. Canada makes copyright term extension official. Term extended to life + 70 years as of December 30th.
New works entering the public domain lost for a generation.
https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=42842&lang=en

"Bad ideas tend to be solutions to problems no one really has". This is the case for the Sending Party Network Pays model that is currently debated in the EU & S. Korea & could kill the Internet as we know it. My latest with @unbeatenpath@twitter.com.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/22/the-global-trend-that-could-kill-the-internet-sender-party-network-pays/ #netneutrality