I just made my 361st loan on Kiva.
Microfinance changes lives. Lend $25 to someone who needs it. Get paid back. Lend it again.
Anyway anyway anyway, I'm glad I was born and raised Jewish, where we're told it's not just good but *necessary* to argue with god, and where, when I was 12 and told my Rabbi that I was an atheist, he said "good for you!" and then told me all about all the famous Jewish atheists.
Reading this..
How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/23506085/wordpress-twitter-tumblr-ceo-matt-mullenweg-elon-musk
There was once a dream of a decentralised web.
As recently as a decade ago we had a still very active blogosphere, connected via blogrolls and RSS. Specialised web forums were still mainstream and messenger apps could largely interoperate.
Centralised social media slowly ate that dream. It had plenty of positives, but it pulled more and more people away from the open web and into corporate walled gardens.
Some people kept the dream of decentralisation alive. And now you are here.
Run fedifinder on your 🐦 account: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/#
It now creates a json list of ALL of your followers, so you can continue to refer to that list even when tools / links / etc are disabled.
Mastodon News Sources
General News - US and World
BBC News (World) Bot - @BBCWorld
BBC News Bot - @BBC
CNN Bot - @CNN
CNN Breaking News - @cnnbrk
DW (Deutsche Welle) News Bot - @dwnews_bot
NPR US News Bot - @NPR_USNews
NYTimes Bot - @NYTimes
Reuters Bot - @reuters
Rolling Stone - @RollingStone
The Guardian US Bot - @TheGuardian_us
Wall Street Journal Bot - @wsj
Washington Post Bot - @WashingtonPost
Tech News
Ars Technica - @arstechnica
MacRumors.com - @macrumors
Well I just nuked my Twitter. My New Years resolution was to delete Facebook... Unreal that Twitter became so irredeemable so fast. When my friends and I started looking for ways to share moments in our lives on the internet 25 years ago, I did not forsee that the leaders of such efforts would be so unethical that I'd be unable to use their products.
Carter