mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

All,

The moment has finally arrived! 🥳

@McCullohMD
@stevendavis , and I have been hard at work for the past week putting together a Mastodon instance so that we can create a backup disability and chronic illness community.

It can be found here:

https://disabled.social

For now, we have set up a terms of service, privacy policy, rules and best practices.

I have plans to set up a Twitter space to go through each of these with the disability community directly to add/subtract/reword things.

a section 230 fever dream

RT @rafaelshimunov@twitter.com

Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions?

Yes.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1591133819918114816

Is there a good list somewhere of #BlPoC to follow in #infosec or adjacent fields on Mastodon?

Tidbit about the #Kherson, as we celebrate liberation:

At the turn of the 20th century, #Yiddish was the second most spoken language there, with 30%! of the city speaking Yiddish as their first language!

Yiddish only started to decline a bit during the Soviet-Russian occupation in 1920 (Yiddish was one of the 3 official languages of the short lived independent #Ukrainian Republic, as seen in this Ukrainian hryvnia bill from 1917), and was fully decimated during the Holocaust.

#Херсо́н

Also, shout out to @pluralistic and @mmasnick — I link to and lean on two important pieces of theirs:

"Moneylike", by Cory Doctorow:
https://doctorow.medium.com/moneylike-d20f8279a72e

"Protocols, not Platforms", by MIke Masnick
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

Seriously, go read them.

Very excited to be able to @-bother them both on fedi!

@demandprogress @GovTrack @eff @pogowatchdog @team @CREW @weareoversight @epicprivacy

Also, if you personally work on (federal) #opengov or #accountability issues, let me know, because I want to follow your account.

I don't dislike Eugen. You have to give him credit for building Mastodon, which has turned out to be a catalyst for introducing decentralized to the masses.

If I had to name a feeling, it would be disappointment. Mastodon represents a massive opportunity to make different decisions about engaging and building community.

Unfortunately, he has chosen time and time again to stick to a myopic view of the fediverse that makes people unsafe and replicates the issue of significant platforms because of his juvenile sense of fairness.

Where is the centralized database of bad actors that instances can integrate into their platforms to check and warn people at the server level? Where is the support for instances that prioritize safety over engagement? Where is the input from targeted communities that could diversify the experience?

Time and time again, he has shown he does not want Mastodon to be an example of what social media could be because he is captivated by his vision of what he feels should be.

And as any non-white man will tell you, his decision-making has left every community that does not look like him vulnerable.

He is simply replicating an open-source version of the social media platforms we are trying to escape.

🇺🇳 💰 #UN #Democracy Fund #grants are open. $100k - $250k for 2-year projects improving peoples' lives in various areas:

youth engagement, law & human rights, media & freedom of information, strengthening civil society, gender equality, and electoral process

Deadline to apply is 30 November.

https://www.un.org/democracyfund/apply-for-funding

I wish I could attach a CW to someone else's post when boosting. I often find interesting Ukraine content without a CW and end up favouriting instead, which limits a post's reach. #Mastodon #CW

An intro to designing accessible data visualizations https://fossheim.io/writing/posts/accessible-dataviz-design/ #a11y #design #dataviz

Morning in New York City.

We use alt-text here folks. I’m on @pixelfed, too. #nyc #photo #sunrise #empirestatebuilding

*PLEASE BOOST*

Hey phone #photography and #iOS #app folks:
I’m trying to de-Google my life as much as practically possible. While I like the UI and end results of Snapseed, it’s owned by Google and therefore has to go as well.

Any suggestions for apps that could fit the bill instead?

CSS :where() :is() the difference?

🔗 https://helloanselm.com/writings/css-where-is-the-difference

—
":where() ignores specificity;
:is() respects and increases specificity"

#CSS

@aurynn

Hello. How can I find and follow more BIPOC conversations here?

#MastodonNewbie