Daryl Gibson @dgibson36@librem.one

Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ

These days so many people want to be 'verified' on the internet

I grew up in a time when we where told 'not to use your real name on the internet'

tihi

Told the kids we were going on a trip. Then took them to Aldi. Teaching them life is full of disappointment

Some thoughts on engagement on this site:

1) If you like something, like it—click that star. Just do it!

2) If you think others would like what you like, find interesting what you find interesting, etc., boost it—click that little two arrow thing. Just do it!

3) If you have a comment then add your comment—click that bent arrow thing (or thought bubble thing?) and write something. Just do it!

4) Share a lot of your own stuff: Ideas, observations, experiences, media, art, etc. Just do it!

Rainy nights in New York City. #Photography #photo #nyc #nikon

We’ve been living in the Twilight Zone for a few years now, let’s face it.

Self promote. Show everyone your cool stuff. This isn’t Reddit. Don’t tell people not to show their cool shit.

#Introduction - I'm Congress member Ritchie Torres from #NewYork , The past few days here have been great, I want to keep building our platform here on #Mastodon to make sure we can continue our conversations on a public social media platform.

Can you please BOOST this post and FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same? Thank you.

Doing my part to manifest more cozy #scifi aesthetics

#AIart #AI #scifiart #Midjourney

@tinker
The Terminator: "John Mastodon?"
Harry Potter: "You're a Mastodon, John!"
The Matrix: "Mr Mastodon!"
The Princess Bride: "My name is John Mastodon, you killed my profile links, prepare to die."
Start Wars: "Help me, John Mastodon, you're my only hope."
Ken M: "We are all John Mastodon on this blessed day."

y'all, my notifications have never been so full.

the fact that my tiny solo instance that blocks the two "flagship" instances still sees so much interaction is a pretty amazing demonstration of the power of decentralization.

if you had told me three months ago that I would be seeing toots garner hundreds of boosts and thousands of favstars I'd have cheered on your optimism.

good morning. welcome to the future.

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Hey Mastodon, can we boost this to prove that this platform is just as great for building your small family-owned business as the bird site used to be? @darkcarnivaleric used to build the audience for his shop on Twitter. https://darkcarnivalboutique.com/ Maybe we could share his shop here to make up for lost revenue from the bird site. I mean it’s got some pretty cool stuff, like this:

How not to get people to join the fediverse:
"OK so it's actually very simple. First you need to choose an instance..."

How to get people to join the fediverse:
"Linking to Mastodon is banned. You must never go there. It is cool and secret"

What?! No garlic?!

I've been reading more about Buen Vivir, and I really should break it into a longer form article, because a lot of the ideas intersect so much with #degrowth and #solarpunk in a lot of ways.

Looping back around Buen Vivir is really an end goal, of creating the good life, where people can live good lives both individually and collectively, but live good lives in harmony with mother earth. Not just meeting the basic needs of people (good food, clean water, stable housing, communications) but also the other needs, the needs for a sense of community, of belonging.

I have been reading: Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Ecuador. (A link to the ebook here:https://annas-archive.org/md5/ef11e7260768abaa07fdf81e72aa8322)

In it, there are some core concepts featured that directly line up with ideas from degrowth, solarpunk, #democraticconfederalism, #socialecology and #anarchism.

There is the social, spiritual, and material realms, broken down into Equity, Social Cohesion, Sustainability, Empowerment, Livelihood, and Capabilities.

All of this built on an anticapitalist framework, and instead of relying on capitalism and extraction - relying on solidarity economics that treats mother earth with respect and bases how well we are doing to how well we are living and how well the environment is.

These ideas sound radically new to a lot of people, but these ideas are both modern and ancient, as Sumak Kawsay (the Kichwa original term for Buen Vivir) is born from indigenous people in so called Ecuador and Bolivia.

I'll be talking more about this, and how we can take concrete, bottom up actions to make real change happen. But it's cool to see that political and social change - to create a world where we can live together as equals and with autonomy, where we can balance our lives with nature, help regenerate the environment and be truly sustainable, and balance that with our modern technology and amazing tools. All of this can be held in balance if we make changes anywhere and everywhere.

All power to the people.

thank you for your email. I am currently out of the office. I need a holiday—a very long holiday—and I don't expect I shall return. In fact, I mean not to!