ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

The Washington Post's @cristianolima has an excellent story about (some) Members of Congress moving to Mastodon, why they're doing so, and what that means for decentralized and centralized social media.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/28/democrats-join-twitter-alternative-mastodon-protest-musk/

#USPOL #congress #mastodon

I am amused that SignalApp joined mastodon.

The fediverse is everything they stand against.

- federation instead of centralization
- open, community driven protocol
- using pseudonyms
- multiple implementations of client and server software

Not sure what I mean, check out their blog post on these topics: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

As for the multiple implementations, Signal denied a request to have a 100% open source fork of their app in F-droid. See for yourself:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9966#issuecomment-681943985

PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet. As you look around for a new social media platform, I implore you, only use one that is a part of the World Wide Web. tl;dr avoid Hive and Post. If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can...
https://jwz.org/b/yj62

The founder of Post said today that the company is explicitly *not* focused on accessibility. Disappointing to read something like this in 2022
#tech #technology #Disability #twitter #postnews #twittermigration

Who owns your tweets? I think you do, even if Elon Musk has possession. The question of archiving Twitter’s past has some urgency. https://activehistory.ca/2022/11/archiving-twitter-during-the-upheaval/

I'm proud and excited to announce that Mastodon Canada has partnered with @cira to help develop our community!

Thank you to @spencer for all of your help in securing this incredible opportunity.

Read more: https://news.mstdn.ca/cira-teams-up-with-mastodon-canada-to-support-canadian-digital-communities/

#cira #mstdnca #partnership

The Cochise County Board of Supervisors is meeting at 10 am MT/12 pm ET to vote on certifying the county's election results.

AZ Sec. of State Katie Hobbs (D) and others have threatened legal action if the county doesn't certify by today's deadline.

Watch this space for updates.

People of #ontario should be up in arms about this massive #taxpayer subsidy to already lucrative residential developments and extremely wealthy #developers. The #greenbelt sell-off is such obvious #corruption that this developer fee hand out is not getting much attention, but Guelph and Hamilton both already projected big property tax hikes in response to #Bill23 #onpoli

https://tinyurl.com/3upd978a

Reminder that American tech companies put profits over democracy, every single time:

From Quartz: “Anti-government protests flared in several Chinese cities and on college campuses over the weekend. But the country’s most widespread show of public dissent in decades will have to manage without a crucial communication tool, because Apple restricted its use in China earlier this month.”

https://qz.com/apple-airdrop-china-protest-tool-1849824435

When I turned 70, I thought, “Well, that’s it. I’ve had a great career, but it’s winding down.”
Boy, was I wrong. I found social media, and then a second wind at my sails in my 70s! I made my Broadway debut at 78, and I’ll make my London debut at 85.
Life is truly wonderful and magical.

If you’re in London, come see me in Allegiance starting in January. Tix here: https://allegiancemusical.com

People in China challenging XJP are risking it all for everything.

If you're planning to leave Twitter because a sociopath CEO makes you sick to your stomach and is wrecking the place, please think twice before heading to another centralized service where you risk the same problem at some point.

Decentralized is the best way forward.

OK, so this is interesting. Some major organizations have now set up their own Mastodon instances:

European Union: EU Voice >>> https://social.network.europa.eu/explore
German gov: Explore social.bund.de >>> https://social.bund.de/explore
Internet Archive: Explore Internet Archive >>> https://mastodon.archive.org/explore

#twittermigration #mastodon #fediverse #governmentInstance

as sad as i am about the rapid destruction of twitter, the (re)surge in blogs and newsletters has been lovely

back to the #indieweb!

Heads up everybody! Those of us that are a part of this #Fediverse that don't use #Mastodon don't fucking matter apparently! At least according to @vespertilio.

One of the great things about the Fediverse is its fucking diversity.

aus.social/@vespertilio/109418795730910789

Hey, if you're a tankie who supports Putin's invasion, please let me know so I can block you.

Ok, thanks, bye!

#politics #tankies

Having run my own test mastodon server, I can tell you that boosting is REALLY important. That's how posts propagate between servers that are not federated together.

I may get a bit technical, and it can be hard to describe but it's something like this:

Let's say that you have 2 servers, A and B that are not connected. They have their own federated timelines that is vastly different.

let's assume they have their users @a@A and @b@B that are mutuals. If user @a@A sees something interesting on theirs federated timeline and boosts it, user @b@B will see that on their own home page. But more importantly server B will now know about and download that post, and everyone else on B server will be able to see that post on their own federated timeline!

And that's why you boost, guys! It helps posts to spread.

#FediTips

@marcelias I recommend movetodon.org to see who among your Twitter flock exhibits mastodon addresses. Here are lists of academics hereabouts; journalists also in there. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

Hopefully someone else can fill in the details but if I remember correctly, 20 or 25 years back there was a short-lived plan to create a federally-funded citation database along the lines of the Web of Science.

Under fierce lobbying pressure from ISI and other informatics providers, the project was scrapped. We are still presuming for that short-sightedness today.