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The Greek government is accused of spying on journalists and politicians using Predator software.

But it's a EU-wide scandal: @irpinvestigates look at the companies involved and the role of Italy's surveillance industry.

Are existing regulations enough? nitter.net/irpinvestigates/sta

@atomicpoet FOSS and adjacent cultures often have a weird blind spot where they are unable to distinguish between people making a modest living and rapacious corporations.

The fediverse needs to allow and encourage individuals and small businesses to discuss and promote, and sell their activities therein.

The alternative is the all too common model of well paid people doing evil all day in a day job and building something lovely at night for free. Which results in a net win for evil.

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.

A series of my favourite artworks of mine. These were painted digitally and inspired by shots from:

- the Art of Eliza;
- The gorgeous freely available shots from Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park's Flickr pages.

Credits for each park and photographer in the alt text of each shot.

#Illustration #MastoArt #art #nature

#introduction Hello! I'm @chrisjrn, based in Petaluma, California. I'm a fan of Python, run Open Source conferences including northbaypython.org and I'm on social.coop because I like the idea of collective ownership of internet resources. Excited to toot more!

U.S. Politics 

Really important thing you need to know about Mastodon: You don't need to use the official app!

There are some good third party apps listed on Mastodon's own site:

➡️ joinmastodon.org/apps

The third party apps have more features and had way more development time.

:android: Android users might want to start with Tusky and Fedilab

:apple_inc: iPhone/iPad users might want to read this: transponderings.blog/2022/05/2

Mastodon is an open platform, so third party apps can use its features fully.

@kyle

I was in my school's engineering library this morning and found a familiar author. I thought you'd be interested!

How old are you guys here on #Mastodon? I'm just curious because over on the bird app I always feel surrounded by 18 to 22 year olds (with all the drama at that age). Full disclosure: I'm in my late forties = one foot in the grave.

Please join me in sharing a big “thank you” on behalf of us newer #Mastodon users to all the folks at @Mastodon including @Gargron and the team, as well as the Instance admins and existing user base, and everyone else in the #fediverse. You all created an amazing, innovative platform that is finally getting the recognition it deserves and provides a better alternative to legacy #socialmedia platforms that are currently imploding. My sincere thanks!

#TwitterMigration #Mastodon #TwitterTakeover

Like so many people on here, I'm an unpaid volunteer.

If you appreciate this account, or my site fedi.tips, or my other sites fedi.directory and growyourown.services, or my accounts at @FediFollows and @FediVideos and @homegrown ...

You can buy me a coffee at:

➡️ ko-fi.com/fedithing

You don't need to register, all currencies work.

Alternatively you can become a patron at:

➡️ liberapay.com/fedithing

Thank you! :blobheartcat:

PSA: Don't forget to enable multi-factor authentication on your shiny new #mastodon accounts, folks.

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