If you want to take your data when this instance closes down, "You can request an archive of your posts and uploaded media. The exported data will be in the ActivityPub format, readable by any compliant software. You can request an archive every 7 days." do this now #modteam#4opens
A wine reception after an Oxford seminar I come away with, "You are treating this as a personal issue, I am treating this as paranoid incompetence. Maybe mental health is a constructive way of mediating a better outcome." of meany people playing visible power plays I talked to.
At another #Oxford event "How can we build the sustainable economy?' with Dieter Helm & Dimitri Zenghelis" let's see if this steps out of the pointless #mainstreaming path of the last 3 events #oxfordmartinschool
My question led to a very reactionary answer on social actavisam, a complete dismissal of #mainstreaming politics and a clear democratic rejection of #dotcons billionaires.
The is no agency for the needed change challenge he argues for, a bureaucratic plan with no path to implement it. Very #Oxford
Yep this is a shame as the fluffy spiky debate is key to real rather social change and challenge, it's basic stuff.
If we can all build a community to sustain the instances then we can reboot activism as a different codebase than mastodon, the are a lot so the ida is still good, can we build a community of use rather than individuals "shouting into the void" as we unkindly like to say at the #OMN
@Hamishcampbell@nedhamson@michaelgraaf Nah, the silence is deafening, counting the anti-migration people there's only half a dozen active accounts on this instance, let it die.
One problem is I have not reinbust the activism instance before we shut it down so cant get the invoices for this so looks like am personally paying for the last 3-6 month of use for that instances, bit crap but there you are. Mess.
@Hamishcampbell@michaelgraaf@rooftopaxx So, it seems that I am the only one who is willing to put up some money to keep this instance going. I cannot do it by myself. So Will need to find out how I can find a new instnce and transfer my data to it. Hope there is a way to do it without losing all I follow and those who follow me. Can any one help me with that. Would prefer to keep this one going but cannot afford to do it on my own.
In the UK you can see socialism slowly creeping back after 40 years of worshiping the #deathcult of neoliberlism. The is now no choices but to move away, nice to see tiny steps at last.
You’re also drawing attention to the very hard idea of “diversity of tactics” – using different tools in different settings.
It’s a miracle when the two sides can hold this bridge in place, the effect of this miracle is more powerful outcome for both agenders BUT the longer this bridge is held in place the stronger the internal and outside forces push to demolish it – it falls, have never seen a bridge hold for the whole campaign.
You’re bringing in the idea of “fluffy” and “spiky”. And you think both have merit.
Have been working with bridging this often hostile divide for more than 30 years in hundreds of campaigns on the ground and online. The best outcome you can hope for is “diversity of tactics/strategy”