Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@zleap
> "[Social media channels] do need to start listening to the reality of how they're impacting people's mental health and the damage that they're causing through their craving for the algorithm to be able to constantly generate content regardless of whether it's good for the users or not," Jack Constantine, chief digital officer and product inventor at Lush, told the BBC's Today programme.

the sad part is these platforms know exactly what they are doing

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/?sh=4af41a8f197c

@johnabs I cant speak to your wife and in no way claiming her diagnosis isnt real. But I am of the opinion that 99% of high functioning autism doesnt exist. These are just the few mentally healthy people out of the society who dont play into the toxic social bullshit of everyone else.. People considered "autistic" in america would be popular kids in any social circle in europe.

@stux Because it's entertaining to overthrow people's expectations! This is the fediverse, after all! It's not just Twitter 2 😜

We are planning to move our Mastodon account to another server: #Fosstodon You can follow it now: @funkwhale

Boosts are very welcome :)

I love @yunohost

#YunoHost is a hosting service that lets you host, among others, many #Fediverse #instances.

It's really easy, even I can do it and I wrote a guide:

https://write.wien.rocks/paula/how-to-host-your-own-fediverse-instance-for-beginners

You can host:

#Discourse
#Friendica
#Funkwhale
#GlitchSoc (Mastodon fork)
#Nextcloud
#Hubzilla
#lemmy
#Mobilizon
#Peertube
#Pixelfed
#Pleroma
#Plume
#WriteFreely
#Zap

They are also working on:

#Ecko (Mastodon fork)
#Mastodon
#Misskey

#BookWyrm, #GNUSocial, #Hometown & #SocialHome are on the wishlist.

Here is the full app catalogue:
https://yunohost.org/en/apps

And here is their forum:
https://forum.yunohost.org/

#SelfHosting #FediAdmin

Don't be fooled by the metaverse bling... "The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world." #BigTech

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait/

Hello Fediverse! I’ve had several people express interest in #Kiva after I posted about it recently. This inspired me to create a Fediverse Kiva team.

If you don’t know what Kiva is: it’s a philanthropic micro-lending organization that matches people who need small loans (typically a few hundred to a few thousand dollars) with people who are willing to lend. When a loan is repaid, those funds become available for you to lend again (or cash-out if you choose) thus multiplying your impact!

It’s a really neat program, I highly encourage people to check out (https://www.kiva.org), and if you do decide to sign up, join the Fediverse team to show solidarity with your fellow Fedi givers:

https://www.kiva.org/invitedto/fediverse/by/anonym00se

#GivingTuesday is coming up on December 1st. If 10 new people from the Fediverse join the Kiva Fediverse team by December 1st, I will fund 10 $25 loan credits for the people who signed up! If more than 10 people join the team, I will pick 10 team members at random to receive the $25 credits.

If you have questions about Kiva before signing up, I will do my best to answer them.

Shares and boosts appreciated.

@Laconicif @cjd @feld @christian_zerfass @TesserAches @icedquinn

Consumers' opinions should play a decisive role in determining project direction. You're lucky if you happen to belong to the group of consumers and engaged in building the thing at the same time but, it doesn't always happen.
The Ayn Rand philosophy runs the tech world, and produces products like Google, Facebook. We must free the Libre world out of that tunnel vision. User friendly configuration, complexity reduction, and modular design over magic and "I know this is the best way to do it"

OpenArchive does an amazing job preserving data from journalists and activists through building a secure mobile data preservation tool -- you could join 'em! https://open-archive.org/Fall21Hiring

Weekend plan. #Matrix