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ophiocephalic

@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social

Do you like my selfie? Let's build the commune!

Towards a Free Fediverse beyond capitalist enclosure and the growth-at-all-costs pathology #FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta

Selfie alt-text: A friendly tree frog hangs out on a rock, while sporting a lovely hairdo comprised of two snails, one on each side of his head

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vantablack, to FediPact
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this interaction made me legiterally laugh out loud lmao πŸ˜‚

https://cosocial.ca/@evan/112135897664665899

ophiocephalic,
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@vantablack
Where were you on the day that Evan sold out the fediverse?

SallyStrange, to random
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Every time I get reminded of the time some boomer named Marty Fouts took it upon himself to defend capitalism, in reply to my post about how I enjoy arguing with capitalism defenders, then claimed he wasn't defending capitalism, then flounced and blocked me because he couldn't defend capitalism, I giggle.

ophiocephalic,
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@AdrianRiskin @SallyStrange
Starting a band called The Marty Fouts Experience

FediPact, to FediPact
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meta just showed off threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time

"during the fediforum conference, meta demonstrated what it might look like to toggle on fediverse sharing and post across multiple platforms"

https://www.theverge.com/24106231/threads-fediverse-demo-meta-fediforum

ophiocephalic,
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@FediPact
Generally, the FediForum organizers and most enthusiastic participants are pro-Meta so they won't be inclined to promote FediPact (or for that matter, the concerns of marginalized communities). But now is a good time for all of us to kick up dust again. We're still here and we're not changing our minds about Meta!

brian_gettler, to history
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Um, I'd love an explanation. Anyone know what exactly this early-20th-century postcard of New Brunswick was trying to communicate?

"The Hoppers Have Made a Donkey Out of Me, Edmunston" (Toronto: Canadian Post Card co: n.d.)

Source: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2483650

#asstodon #histodons #Canada #NewBrunswick

ophiocephalic,
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@inquiline @brian_gettler
Nothing but a wild guess here, but I was compelled to mull over the puzzle. Perhaps the donkey had a more pervasive popular association as "beast of burden" in this historical period, and this postcard was for farmers to communicate, "the locusts have increased my labor"

ophiocephalic,
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@inquiline @brian_gettler
Sounds like you've just founded another hashtag trend. Don your hazmat suit!

ophiocephalic,
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@inquiline @brian_gettler
You're brave souls

ophiocephalic,
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@inquiline @brian_gettler
One shudders to imagine exactly how this one could be hijacked by kinksters

ophiocephalic,
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@richpuchalsky @inquiline @brian_gettler
It seems rational, but @inquiline has uncovered a bunch of others with completely different contexts. It's fascinating to try and decipher some kind of popular understanding from another time which has been lost to us, even if it is relatively adjacent to us in the grand scheme of things

ophiocephalic,
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@brian_gettler @inquiline
This stuff could be ripe for rediscovery as ahead-of-its-time cult art

ophiocephalic,
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@richpuchalsky
Was going to make a comment about urbanization and industrialization alienating us from nature, but that's probably too far out on a limb

@inquiline @brian_gettler

andycarolan, to random
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I was just looking at the tag to see if there's any design/development collectives, doing important work in an ethically aligned direction.

It's something I've wanted to be a part of for a while. My work is 100% remote/distributed already and I strongly believe that I have the experience to make me valuable. If I had the confidence to do so, I would build my own collective.

I have reached out to some organisations, but that's basically as far as I've got.

ophiocephalic,
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@andycarolan
Here's an extensive list of tech co-ops: https://github.com/hng/tech-coops

julieofthespirits, to random Spanish
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The US rates low on government corruption indexes only because it systematically legalizes practices that would be considered clear cases of corruption in most countries

https://www.levernews.com/the-supreme-court-case-designed-to-legalize-bribery/

ophiocephalic,
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@HappyHeathen @julieofthespirits
Here's a paywall-free link:
https://archive.is/f3Ycn

Mordantivore, to mecfs
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@mecfs why the fuck are y'all boosting a post with hate speech and threats of violence what the fuck

ophiocephalic,
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@Mordantivore
These groups automatically boost whoever tags them. That fascist troll tagged dozens of groups. It's a problem with these group accounts

ophiocephalic,
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@anniegreens @Mordantivore
Sorry to hear of that traumatizing abuse. This is why we can't have anything nice. Clearly the functionality needs to evolve somehow

ophiocephalic,
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@Mordantivore
The entire issue of fedi groups is very up in the air right now. Supposedly Mastodon is incorporating group functionality in some way; and there are new services under development, like Bonfire, which is particularly oriented towards them. IOW there's a good chance of better ideas on groups emerging soon

@anniegreens

inquiline, to random
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    ophiocephalic,
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    @inquiline
    Because accusations of fascist accelerationism are an entirely normal and rational way to cap off a conversation on California emissions standards

    bishop, to TikTok
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    I have been so since posting about my experiences on . It brought up a lot of I thought I had dealt with. On top of that I discovered one of our clergy left our church, without telling us, to join one run by a known and drug addict. I thought they had morals but I guess not. As I work to build a church with morals, ethics and standards, it seems less and less people want that. Why have I wasted 25 years of my life trying?

    ophiocephalic,
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    @bishop
    We're in a moment in which people's brains are breaking en masse. What else is there to do but to carry on and live, work and build according to our values. Others will figure it out or not

    OldSquida2, to random
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    so i have a poop story that nobody on any platform appreciated. the fact that i wasn’t killed by the Stasi is a story i’d thought would be passed to my grandchildren but they won’t understand its importance as the history of this period isn’t even taught in US schools. so my πŸ’© story is rendered pointless cuz most users weren’t even born when this occurred.

    myπŸ’©story:

    β€˜76 w/usa passport was driving from Polish border to East Berlin via special transit hwy. i had terrible diarrhea w/i sight of Wall guard towers so πŸ’© in middle hwy illuminated by turrets. permission to enter the β€œtransit highway” from E. Berlin to Poland during Soviet occupation required replacement of car licenses with fluorescent ones, siphoning/adding gas (lest you want a snoop around thru dense forests), no shoulder & no exits. THE END

    ophiocephalic,
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    @OldSquida2
    How miserable! State repression = literally the shits

    dansup, to random
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    Right now Loops has a single feed in chronological order, it's not the ideal algorithm but will work for now.

    When testing on my friends, they mentioned this, they are used to an algo that is tailored to them and their behaviors (durationViewed, hasLiked, hasShared, hasOpenedCommentDrawer, hasCommented, hasFollowed)

    This is the most complicated aspect of Loops, no it isn't the AR filters or Camera, it's the algo and feed.

    Now the key question is: feed algorithm.

    Feedback + Boosts appreciated

    ophiocephalic,
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    @dansup
    Suggestion to frame the chronological timeline differently - it is, in fact, the fediverse's killer app. It's the reason most people land here, to escape the inscrutable manipulation of the capitalist services. You can't go anywhere else for a feed which is entirely of your own choosing, presented in an obvious and comprehensible way. Embrace the chronological feed

    julieofthespirits, to random Spanish
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    Heroin gave us Exile on Main Street, cocaine gave us Emotional Rescue

    ophiocephalic,
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    @julieofthespirits
    And Geritol gave us Hackney Diamonds

    TheWildHuntNews, to Louisville
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    A pediatrician allegedly abandons seeking death spells against her ex husband and hires an assassin who was an undercover FBI agent.

    https://wildhunt.org/2024/03/pediatrician-shops-around-for-death-spell.html

    ophiocephalic,
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    @TheWildHuntNews
    This is a disturbing story, right up until the end, where her lawyers try to use her belief in magic as evidence that she's mentally ill

    spencerbeswick, to socialism
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    Can't stop thinking about a project I've had on the backburner for a while: "Socialism in One City? Municipal Socialism in Burlington and Ithaca," on the rebirth of municipal socialist politics in the 1980s-1990s. Much to learn, both positive and negative, from the history.

    In Burlington, of course, you have Mayor Bernie Sanders in the 1980s. The story focuses on the tension between grassroots democratic forces (including Bookchin & the Greens) vs the official socialists in office, with the battle around setting the terms of socialist democracy.

    In Ithaca, you have the lesser known example of DSA member and red diaper baby Benjamin Nichols, who built a broad progressive coalition thru which he won 3 mayoral terms in the 1990s. He took on Cornell & transformed municipal politics, but ended up alienating his coalition.

    I think we desperately need to recover and learn from these kinds of histories of municipal radicalism, and compare them to contemporary projects like Cooperation Jackson and municipal DSA electoralism.

    I am convinced, following Murray Bookchin, that the city (especially the small, livable city that enables face-to-face human community) is the setting for radical democratic politics. Reclaiming the city is the basis for a truly democratic and eco-socialist society.

    #socialism #history

    ophiocephalic,
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    @spencerbeswick
    Sounds like a great project! Agree with your assessment, with the caveat that the electoralism problem is lodged uncomfortably in the middle of the prospect

    scott, to random
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    what if we had no mayor? what if we abolished the position and converted SF to a council-manager form of government?

    ophiocephalic,
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    @scott
    what if we had no government?

    bishop, to TikTok
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    I see a lot of people who likely never had a account talking out of their hind ends about the possible ban. I was on TikTok daily for nearly 4 years. Here is my story:

    The first week of August 2020 my daughter suggested I join TikTok. Her thought was that there were people in the community quarantining with family who mistreated them and they needed a place to vent and be themselves. I thought it was a great idea so I opened an account. 1/6

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    ophiocephalic,
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    @bishop
    What a nightmare. Glad to see you made it through

    inquiline, (edited ) to mastodon
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    Friends, strangers, haters: I have... made hay. Let no one say I haven't committed to the bit.

    (Wrote a paper about Asstodon, everyone be kind)

    https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

    ophiocephalic,
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    @inquiline @adamgreenfield
    Yes indeed. Also, no intention here to steal focus away from @inquiline 's piece with an only tangentially-related idea. The Rashomon reference was a riff on a theme in her paper, so it might make more sense in that context

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