Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

@habichthorn Mit einer Instanz auf den Macroblogging-Plattformen #Friendica und #Hubzilla hält man Kontakt ins gesamte #Fediverse, auch zu dem Urgestein #Diaspora.

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.

People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.

These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.

This one, again, I don't have "products" for (yet). I'm going to work on that later today a bit. But I kinda love it. I've been a huge fan of the symbolism of dandelions for a long time and my primary business uses dandelions in its branding.

If you follow @PleaseCaption then, when you forget to add alt-text to your image, the bot will politely dm you and give you a nudge.
#photography

The Government is engaged in what is - quite nakedly - voter suppression

Read this and weep from the #ElectoralReformSociety on one of the ways that Government is deliberately making it harder for young people to vote

#VoterID #UKPolitics #VoterSuppression #ElectoralReform

https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voter-id-list-gives-few-options-for-younger-voters/

Good morning! Buen día!
Something to keep in mind.
#riptwitter
#tardigrade
#embroidery
#crossstitch

People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration

Through the burning of fossil fuels, humans have released more carbon into the atmosphere than is contained in all of the plants currently living on Earth.

More than half of this has occurred since 1990.

We are transforming the Earth and the atmosphere on a truly massive scale.

Reforestation, and other natural solutions, will never match the scale of the problem without substantial emissions reductions.

#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #Carbon #CarbonDioxide

This Twitter fiasco is a reminder of who is *actually* critical to the survival of our economy & society.

Twitter worked before the billionaire got here. Now that workers are gone, Twitter is collapsing. Workers made Twitter work—a billionaire broke it.

Workers > Billionaires

My heart goes out to all those system admins who were thinking "wow this is kinda neat" and are suddenly holding a piece of communication infrastructure other people are intent on depending on.

A lightbulb moment for me on @aral recent stream is that Musk now has access to *everyone's* DMs. Like every politician. Or CEO. Or activist. Now what's that worth to some other countries?

$44bn suddenly seems like good value...

If some rich dude can buy the public square, then it wasn't the public square.