mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

If some rich dude can buy the public square, then it wasn't the public square.

Good article from the @eff -

"The fediverse is an evolving project, and it won’t solve all of the challenges that we’ve seen with big social media platforms. Like other distributed systems, it does have some drawbacks and complications. But a federated social media ecosystem represents some possible escape hatches from some of the more serious problems we have been experiencing in the centralized, platform social media world."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/fediverse-could-be-awesome-if-we-dont-screw-it

#Inclusion #culturechange #govtech #DEI

A few days ago I was on a panel in DC for government employees, talking about how to increase diversity in their organizations. During Q&A I was asked about how to shift leadership minds at government agencies and suppliers towards being more open to inclusion initiatives. I told them that in my observations two things are key:

1) It depends on what the existing culture values
2) Working against the existing cultural value system won't work. Work with it

God *creates a worm* hello little buddy!

Worm: thanks for the "worm" welcome haha

God *creates birds*

@marcan I think it's simpler if you look at politics as the art of getting people with possibly big differences to work together in a project or a society or country or the world. more people means more politics, but it's never zero when your past the tribal cohesion limit

"no politics" is just "my politics" since that's the only way to avoid talking about the implied politics. which means "people like me, and not people unlike me" which simply is fascism

there is no quiet part here

RT @a2na@twitter.com

We are hiring!

Wikimedia is looking for an EU policy expert to join our team in Brussels. If you are passionate about digital policies and want to make a difference supporting free knowledge and access to information, please apply!
#brusselsjobs
https://jobs.euractiv.com/job/senior-eu-public-policy-specialist-242651

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/a2na/status/1593182282386665478

RT @MattGertz@twitter.com

The U.S. Senate has the votes to pass a bill that will secure marriage equality. It's hard to describe how unfathomable this was two decades ago, or how much work so many people put into this achievement. What a beautiful day.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1592985172110364673

Why bring this up now? Because it feels like the pendulum is swinging back toward open standards much like after the first dotcom bust. People (some for the first time) are getting a taste of the benefits of open standards. I think we will see a similar era of open standards and tech on the Internet, at least for awhile. But there will be similar attempts to find ways to embrace and extend these standards and lock people back into portals.

I see that @threadunroller@mastodon.social has made it to Mastodon. I have suspended it from religion.masto.host, and will suspend any other content scraping bots I become aware of.

Thread readers scrape content without the consent of the creator, move it to a website outside of the creator's control, and sometimes monetise it, as discussed here:

https://twitter.com/erynnbrook/status/1099086911463800832

We're asking Congress to pass a law to stop the judicial branch from charging exorbitant fees to read public court dockets, and to stop the courts from illegally using the fees to pay for unrelated court expenses. Public records should be free for everyone to access in bulk. https://fixthecourt.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Group-letter-on-OCA-11.16.22.pdf

Where are all my

#BIPOC
#Diaspora
#Decolonial
#Queer
#Trans
#Nonbinay
#Disabled
#Neurospicy
#FirstGen
#Leftist
#CriticalRaceStudies
#CriticalEthnicStudies
#CriticalMediaStudies
#IndigenousStudies
#DecolonialStudies
and/or
#AmericanStudies

#academicsofmastodon #comrades at?

Hello, Fediverse! We’re the Endless OS Foundation, a non-profit bridging the digital divide with technology designed to make computing and learning accessible, fun, and safe for all.

We make the Linux-based Endless OS as well as the open source Endless Key app.

You may know us from the GNOME community, from running into us at education-focused events, or just from being around the Linux community for years. :)

#introduction

if I were interviewing (I’m not), I might be tempted to casually ask about elon musk and use the reply as a litmus test to glean some insight into how much toxicity a company tolerates behind closed doors

just an idea

I'm converting my mastodon critiques into a word document that I will likely use to post mastodon local versions of those large threads about mastodon that I've made on twitter.

Having said that, I'm not really "anti-mastodon," as much as I am trying to point out that the fediverse does not have the tools to support the ways that marginalized groups built community on the bird site.

And it really comes down to affordances of the platforms.

I’m looking to follow more #blacktwitter #blackmastodon #blackvoices peeps here. I’m wanting to fully migrate from the bird app and I’m looking forward to curating a good feed over here.

Criteria:
- must be a native app
- must be good
- must be able to pay for it

Now I can see how we got here from a UX perspective: the founding principle of the internet (decentralization) was/is a nice idea, but in practice, we couldn't expect the general public to code and maintain their own websites. CLI, HTML, and CSS were confusing and evolving, and we couldn’t expect normal people to follow along.