m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@santiago
On one hand Americans get outraged easily — before truly repressive stuff comes into force, and they are capable of organising, coordinating their efforts, unlike in well-established non-free regimes, where people trust no one and often hate each other. On the other — the polarisation and atomisation of society we see in the US nowadays indeed looks alarming. But I remain hopeful: if this doesn't kill their democracy, it'll make it stronger. But yeah… time of turbulence.

@1eye@bsd.cafe @ozzelot
Isn't this precisely what microblogging social networks are for? 😜
We just hijacked these tools and are using them wrong — to post weird pictures and discuss ancient tech.

@1eye@bsd.cafe @ozzelot
It's not about printing things, it's about telling people online that I did 😬

@santiago
> clearly one looks like a government thing and the other one like a personal page
True — it's does not prove anything, but knowing a thing or two about "charismatic leaders" with autocratic tendencies 😏, I'd say: when it looks personal like that — it's a marker of certain political technologies being involved, better keep the eyes peeled!
At least US isn't Russia, it's a mature democracy with proper system of checks and balances and established democratic institutions.

@santiago
> No need for many to be exposed to many Russian disinformation
I'm the last person on Earth to believe Russian state media, but in this particular case — indeed, I don't think they had anything to do with it, maybe only indirectly, but their attempt to give the story a spin for me is a sure sign that something isn't right here 😁

@santiago
It all coincided with "technical issues" (no way to confirm whether they indeed are, but this is what Facebook claims) when people couldn't search for certain hash tags (republican, democrat) which gave further rise to conspiracy theories.
What can I say, this sure doesn't make the likes of Facebook any more trustworthy, but falling for conspiracies is even worse 🤷

@santiago
The way I discovered this is also quite interesting: Russian state media uses every opportunity to spread chaos and misinformation, they also almost always lie and they have picked up the "automatically followed JD Vance/Trump/Melania" story, this in turn piqued the interest of fact checkers working for the media covering Russia which I trust and… Here it is!

Wow, looks like someone picked up the ball with #SimpleMobileTools — a decent suite of Android apps:
https://www.fossify.org/about/
(And they are using fscking WebPee images on their website! 🤬 Well, what did I expect, they are Android app developers, once you dabble in cancer, you might as well go all the way)

@santiago
As bad as Facebook is, turns out, there is a much simpler explanation for this: these people have been following the official government accounts and not private accounts of former, in this case vice president. As Trump's team is taking over, the accounts got transfered to them, some even got "automatically subscribed" to Trump himself 🤣
https://apnews.com/article/facebook-instagram-follows-trump-jd-vance-potus-flotus-60e61a65b7d37a9b8b30c3b3b58768a7

@kaia
They should indeed make it a rotary dial already and be done with it 😆
https://mastodon.social/@selmins/113876500263690680

@millihertz @lily
Ha-ha-ha-ha! True — gives away my habit of rebuilding Firefox with my own set of patches, package maintainer mentality 😅

@lucy
Is this what they call "The Internet"? 🤭

@millihertz @lily
> nobody can switch in a broken or malicious shared library under your software
True, but neither can you and if a vulnerability gets discovered in one of the libraries, you'd have to rebuild everything that depends on it — or at least re-link if you keep the object files which no one does, but which would make sense in case with such a distro.

@infernusgoatus
Your cat is doing dishes? What a treasure! 😻

@nyanide @Ghislaine
Offline physical girls aren't real, but they CAN hurt you… Or was it the other way around? 🤔
Anyway! The second part of your reply sounds like a novel idea 🧐

@tk @kaia
Doesn't find have a "-delete" option or something like that?