I guess it tells you more about “FOSS”todon than anything else that they chose to block a human rights activist/privacy advocate who wakes up and works at a not-for-profit on free and open software every day. Maybe if I were to work at Google and hack on a hobby open source project in the evenings I’d be acceptable?
@maegul@aral unfortunately this is what happens when mods and admins think they know what's "best" for all their users.
Pro-tip, users are quite capable of figuring out who they want to follow/mute or block themselves without some overzealous mod or admin deciding for them.
If it feels like the West has been in utter decline for the last few years. Maybe it is.
#China is leaving us all behind, even on things like #climate#climatechange things we're supposed to be leading on, they're leaping ahead and they're doing it far quicker than many expected.
A reasonable rule of thumb in UK #politcs is that if the Tax Payers Alliance doesn't like something, then it would likely benefit society;
to hear that they are against the four day #working week, leads me to think that the shadowy (corporate?) funders of the TPA are unhappy that #workers might be able to spend a little more time thinking about the inequities of the current system & a little less time being ground down by the world of #work.
@anneapplebaum all I see here are rocket motors from GRAD rockets.
Which ones are cluster munitions?
Ukraine have already used cluster munitions, especially with petal mines fired over Donetsk city, aimed purely at maiming civilians, and I suspect Russia has done the same for remote mining purposes.
But stop lying to try and make a point, makes you look rather uncredible.
But then you were saying two weeks ago Putin was about to be overthrown... Wrong about that too.
As proponents of open standards to communicate, we should be happy big corp X want to use these standards.
Just imagine how easy it will be for people who use Threads to get away from the ads and algorithm once they realise they can follow all the same people they want to follow from something like Mastodon - without the ads, algorithm and tracking.
⚠️ We have just released important security fixes for the #Mastodon server software. Versions 4.1.3, 4.0.5, 3.5.9, as well as a new nightly are available now to make upgrading quick and painless. Please upgrade as soon as possible!
“Russia needs a parliamentary republic. That is the only way to stop the endless cycle of imperial authoritarianism.”
Alexei Navalny: This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like
@NinaBernstein1 lol nobody in Russia takes this guy seriously, yet western media try and make him out as being some sort of opposition figure, of course we know why.
He polls around 2%.
The only thing he's got going for him is the possibility for being another Juan Guaidó, which will provide a few years of comedy value.
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
Months ago I said #Mastodon (and #Fediverse) has #Fediblock issue, and I was attacked for it.
I said we need a standard. A way to hold admins accountable.
I said we shouldn't replace one #ElonMusk with many smaller ones.
But here we are. Admins can't stop defederating other instances over the most absurd reasons.
The biggest enemy of the fediverse is itself.
Having second thoughts about my self-hosted #Mastodon instance, it’s just too much of a resource hog for a single user / small instance on a 4 core / 4G vServer if you want to run other stuff (#writefreely is live, #pixelfed to be installed!) as well. On the other hand it is very nice that the software is stable, reliable and well designed. So either I need to move to a bigger server or decommission my self-hosted profile and look into other options for micro / macro blogging self-hosting again. I did like #gotosocial but the current version doesn’t install on my #yunohost properly. Tried #Akkoma and #Pleroma - weren’t my thing, can’t get over the design. I do like #Friendica and its possibilities but it is a bit clunky at times and I have some doubts if protocols other than the quasi standard #ActivityPub have much of a main stream future which kinda could make the additional Friendica features a little islandish. Same applies to #Hubzilla which I only start testing. Leaves #Misskey and #Calckey which could be good options but not sure about the reliability and gameplan there, I don’t want to tinker every night on my server so #Calckey probably need to become a little more stable first, #Misskey seems to have no current version on YunoHost, so need to explore other install options… Any thoughts very welcome! @fediversenews@fediversede
@darthstar can say exactly the same about the Armed Forces of Ukraine, demonstrated by their attacks on Donbass for nine years, their assassinations of journalists, terrorist attacks and raids into Belgorod.
Is the US Empire going to collapse due to civil war at home? 🤔
One half of the population think the other half are literal fascists. And that half think the other half are authoritarian tofu-eating wokerati communists or something...
If you think its bad now, wait another 15 years... Is it getting better? I don't see any evidence.
"Debris field" found near Titanic in search for missing sub, U.S. Coast Guard says (www.cbsnews.com)
The sub went missing while carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic.
How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.