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shoq

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I'm @shoq from ExTwitter. Self-appointed evangelist for the #fediverse, working on open source projects that can help it become the communications backbone for the planet that Twitter might have been.

#fedi22 #opensource #sidetoolz #USpolitics #liberal #invention

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Twitter.com/shoq, @shoq; @shoq:sidetalk.net

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shoq, to random
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Former AG Eric Holder is on @msnbc right now, discussing the legal efforts to push back on the Republican assault on democracy.

shoq, to fediverse
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I had my new gauge blocks for exactly 2 hours before I needed them. I lost a set after design school and never replaced them. I just borrowed them when needed. If and when available. Which was rare. I love tools. Which is why I love .

arossp, to random

I really want Mastodon to be the next big thing, but it frankly has a culture problem that is going to kill its broader adoption. After quite a long time here, and a few days at Bluesky, the comparative experience looks like this:

Bluesky: "Everyone's posting about the latest weird inside joke, and I'm excited to post my weird twist on it!"

Mastodon: "Jokes offend me because I was born without a sense of humor. I demand that you wrap all levity in a content warning or I will FediBlock you."

shoq,
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@arossp Weird. I never see such posts. And I'm here all day long. How am I missing all this content warning action I literally never see. Which explains why I have trouble understanding these claims that it's some negatively charged cultural plasma. Not saying it never happens. Just saying that it must be limited to instances I never see. And I see many.

kevin, to internet

I’m guessing this journalist isn’t paid by to promote oligarch-owned .

“I, for one, didn't have a hard time navigating, and neither was it confusing when it came to "tooting" a post instead of "tweeting" it. The options for the desired action that appear for posts on your feed are pretty much replicated from ”

The Twitter alternative - | Express Tribune

@fediversenews

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2414707/the-twitter-alternative-mastodon

shoq,
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@kevin @fediversenews

This is just incompetent tech journalism. It was more like 700,000, not 70,000.

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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Over the last few hours Mastodon treasure @Teri_Kanefield has been the victim of very vulgar harassment on her server law-and-politics.online.

Mastodon lets users create their own instances, but you need to block bad instances.

Fortunately, Mastodon provides support for this:

New MastoAdmin Guide To Banning Servers >>> https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/new-mastoadmin-ban-list-fediblock

Oliphant.Social Mastodon Blocklists >>> https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/the-oliphant-social-blocklist

Other recommendations, specific instructions?

shoq,
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@Teri_Kanefield, I am sure you're getting tech assistance on this, but if you need more, DM me and I can suggest other contacts that might help.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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Just made the really hard decision to close registrations to https://calckey.social.

Talk about persistence!

It was getting continuously hammered by new registration requests. And 20 people managed to register during an hour when most people weren't even able to log in.

So now @kainoa will do some additional work to enable more scale, and we'll re-open registrations in the future.

https://calckey.social/notes/9ebo0g31jq

@fediversenews

shoq,
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@atomicpoet @kainoa @fediversenews

The kinds of problems I/we welcome. The Calckey monster is building up muscle mass. Once editing is released, we can start to flex some of it. :)

shoq, to random
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ICYMI, the Bluesky public firehose. (Twitter had one, back in the day, pre-algo).

https://firesky.tv/

cc @mmasnick @jeffjarvis @tchambers

shoq,
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@stevesplace @mmasnick @jeffjarvis @tchambers

I don't remember now, exactly when the Twitter firehose went subscription only, but it was fairly fast.

shoq, to random
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Twitter knows my long standing position on ; oligarchs only care about losing money or influence. We need to stop thinking elections are our only leverage.

Imagine the cost if activists were to encourage false alarms across America. In weeks, it could shut down the schools until Congress bans assault weapons, high cap magazines, and other serious gun reforms.

Or we could sit on our asses and wait for more people to die.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/2023/05/02/south-florida-police-race-to-college-campuses-amid-swatting-prank-calls/70174776007/

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@LouisIngenthron I strongly disagree. Civil disobedience always carries an element of risk. The whole idea is to swamp the system and shut it down. When schools are too unsafe for education to happen, parents will force Congress to either act, or nod at the chaos and await voter wrath. It's time stop this limp resistance to fascism that has kept us in this inert and ineffectual stasis for 40 years. Only action begats action.

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@LouisIngenthron Must disagree again,. I've been studying CD fo 3 decades and that is simply incorrect, Neither Gene Sharp or Erica Chenoweth would agree with you. The mission is not to hurt anyone. The mission is to disrupt the status quo and raise the cost of enabling inaction. When an outgunned society has no leverage, it has to create some. Name me an alternative action plan. "Voting" doesn't count. If it worked. we wouldn't need disruption.

shoq,
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@LouisIngenthron A simple airport or freeway "Slow-down" puts innocent people at risk. Almost every other Greenpeace action potentially put innocent people are risk. When a society is already on life support, some risks just have to be taken. You don't get reforms with politeness or risk free gestures. You're simply saying that doing nothing is better than risking something. The enemy counts on that inertness. And they have for decades.

shoq,
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@LouisIngenthron You're missing the point. They would be known to be false almost from day one, They can be done cleverly without risking anyone. But once they are in play, schools have no choice but to shut down because of that minimal risk. THat's the whole point. Once they have, the national conversation and battle is joined by multiple stakeholders. Name me one single alternative. I've pondered them for years.

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@LouisIngenthron I have heard this sort of cowering defense of inaction since I was in high school. America liberals keep bringing sporks to a gunfight. And they keep losing more ground to a determined enemy,. Mario Savio called for bodies upon the gears in 1964. We've never tried that. If not this one example, find others. But you will see that anything meaningful has risks. It's never too late for a society to actually do something., I favor not one, but dozens of these.

shoq,
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@LouisIngenthron The minute the tactic is known, cops will NOT respond with force, without hard evidence of real incident. They can even be told in advance of the tactic. Most cops already take those precautions. But school systems will fear liability and simply close up, There will be public backlash for that, but that's why it becomes a national conversation: Instantly..

shoq, to random
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G'noon Versians. Now that @CNN has revealed its new outright fealty to fascism, I once again return to reading , for @kbandersen's insight and wisdom. If you've never read it, fix that fast. It's a concise and precise explanation for America's (and the entire democratic world's) plunge into ever darkening waters.

https://www.amazon.com/Evil-Geniuses-Unmaking-America-History-ebook/dp/B0852NXWR5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=evil+geniuses&qid=1683131307&sr=8-1

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shoq, to random
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Well. enshittification strikes streaming services, and as I warned the Discovery deal that seized HBO and CNN now threatens to kill the whole fucking TV industry.

archive.ph/hNz3q

atomicpoet, to random
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The re-brand of the Fediverse as "Mastodon" has created big problems -- problems that were both predictable and preventable.

For one thing, the honeymoon period for Mastodon is over.

People aren't willing to ignore its flaws anymore because it's the one alternative to Twitter that has traction.

Now people want creature comforts.

But guess what? Because the entirety of the Fediverse is branded as "Mastodon", people are more likely to migrate to Bluesky than elsewhere on the Fediverse.

shoq,
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@atomicpoet I think the entire fediverse project needs to be reframed to get people out of this mindset that we're trying to build another Twitter. I don't much care if the masses ever care for the Fediverse. In fact, I'd be thrilled if they stayed away. I think we need social media that serves the people who care. About anything. If that sounds a bit elitist, well, perhaps it is. But so what? Is there some law that says we have to pretend everyone's voice has similar value? Spoiler. They don't.

shoq, to random
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"Not dime's worth of difference between the parties." - Nader, Greenwald, Moore, Hedges, etc, etc.

Clearly⏵

"This week I am proposing a national framework to rebuild social connection and community in America. Loneliness is more than just a bad feeling. When people are socially disconnected, their risk of anxiety and depression increases. " - U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek H. Murthy .
cc @hrheingold

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/opinion/loneliness-epidemic-america.html

PoliticalIQ, to politics

: Do you support or oppose Govs. Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott busing immigrants to Democrat-run cities?
https://politicaliq.com/2023/05/02/texas-governor-rejects-chicago-mayors-urging-to-stop-busing-immigrants/

shoq,
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I think Governor DeathSantis has a messaging problem:

shoq, to random
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I've said for years. I'm not a huge fan of her music (but do like a lot of it), but when it comes to having a conscience and a civil soul, well, if you come for Taylor Swift, you''ll have to get by me first.

It's so shameful she has so few peers willing to stand-up.

https://twitter.com/lance_cotten/status/1653218789910016003?s=20

shoq,
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If you know her, suggest that @taylorswift13 might write a song about this video going viral.

Let's watch her best barbed verses melodically gut the odious @MarshaBlackburn like a hollow trout.

Because that would close a loop, And be epic.

shoq,
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I'm told this was an older clip (hate it when that happens) and she did write a song about it (I've not confirmed this, though. Just getting out ahead of being wrong. Again.)

seth, to random

My temp crown in the back of my mouth comes out at the silliest times. Seriously, almost never because of something hard. LOL

shoq,
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@seth my crowns used to come out so often, I asked my dentist for a cot in the waiting room. Then I found a new dentist and it stopped happening. Weird.

shoq, to random
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"I regret to inform you but Bluesky is fun..and Mastodon will remain as a niche product."

Well there it is folks, Wired has spoken. Let's go home. Nothing to see here. It's all over but the IPO. Nice try, though. A plethora of venture capitalists and a cabal of fascist plutocrats think you're a swell buncha peeps. Sincerely.

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-is-fun/

shoq,
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@joeo10 I assume the web interface is coming. Most twitter traffic still used the web site.

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