mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

Today America took a step forward in recognizing and protecting the rights of the LGBT community. We still have a long way to go as a country to recognize everyone's basic rights but this is a positive step forward. It was only 7 years ago that SCOTUS ruled in Obergefell v Hodges in a 5-4 decision.

#USPol #MarriageEqulity
Senate passes same-sex marriage protections - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/29/senate-same-sex-marriage-protections-00071141

Going forward I think I'll be trying to limit myself to favoriting the types of posts that I agree with instead of boosting them. That's an acknowledgement that doesn't spread them further which feels appropriate to me. My goal here is to be more conscious about what I am promoting here in the #mastosphere.

One exception that I expect to make for this: support for marginalized communities. Human dignity should not be negotiable and neither should our support.

I saw a post from the other day that I can't get out of my head. It was a request to stop boosting vague platitudes into their feed (you know the type, "boost if X", "billionaires are policy failures" etc). Originally I thought this was a silly attitude, but lately I've been thinking about the way in which the posts are often a form of digital grandstanding and often a way of racking up interactions on algorithmic social media. This action is a vestige of other environs we've been trained on.

As a part of disconnecting from Twitter I deleted the app from my phone (something I honestly should have done ages ago). But now I realize that apparently every Twitter link I get seems to be creating cyclical links back to the play store to download Twitter to see the tweet! Interestingly enough though this only seems to happen on Firefox because one time I pasted the link into Chrome and it worked fine. Maybe I have some settings in FF that are causing this?

Ok so if I understand Final Fantasy 9 Zidane is basically part Kwisatz Haderach part Reaper?

By virtue of our choice to be here we know just enough to be dangerous with our decisions. I think almost everyone can relate to knowing enough about how a system works to make changes even if we don't fully understand the impact of our changes.

Before making grand investments we should probably stop and take a thorough inventory of how we got to this location, what's been done before, and the impact our actions will have.

Second now that so many of us are here we're gonna start building and iterating on what exists today. It would be beneficial to look at previous efforts and see what we can learn from them.

What constraints produced the Fediverse we've inherited?

What can we do to make it better?

What business approaches were tried before to monetize social networking built on open protocols?

How have communities shaped technical choices and how have they directed development efforts?

First I just think it's really important to acknowledge the hard work that has already been done by people for years, often with little recognition on shoestring budgets. While most of us were using and working on closed, centralized, alternatives these folks kept working on keeping the original dream of the internet alive. Personally I think we owe them a debt of gratitude, the least we can do is remember their work. The #fediverse literally wouldn't be here today without their contributions.

I'm probably always going to boost posts about the history of the #Fediverse if only because it's the intersection of several of my interests but I also think it's important to acknowledge the earlier efforts of decentralization.

https://kind.social/@f00fc7c8/109407989829565640