Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

A few folks have said, "Marketing can never work on the Fediverse."

Actually, it already does.

For example, @Raspberry_Pi

Not only are people happy to see them, they're thrilled that that @Raspberry_Pi is using a Raspberry Pi to host their own instance.

That is exceptional marketing.

It's the sort of thing that people on the Fediverse embrace with open arms.

Why? Because @Raspberry_Pi knows they're not selling a product -- they're supporting a cause.

That's why their marketing works.

Finally time to reveal the good news:

@wikimediaDE has joined the Fediverse on their own server social.wikimedia.de. And I got a job moderating for them.

There will also be another server for all the Wikimedia projects, communities, groups and so on... so stay tuned.

Btw the clues were the many custom emojis I "hid" on climatejustice.social. Here are just a few: ...

elon’s life is just a series of humiliating events but this might make the top 5 most mortifying https://t.co/MZxdOugzww

🦀 ChatGPT has some great ideas for new #rustlang features:

*shuts down laptop*
I think that's enough internet for today

*picks up phone*
Let's see what the pocket sized internet is doing

Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid-19 misinformation policy, per this message on its transparency site https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html

Proud to introduce my new activitypub project: https://bird.makeup . Do you wish to follow on mastodon some people that are still on the bird site? Now you can! You can even follow the muskrat if you want @elonmusk (but why would you?)

Them: "But I heard that on Mastodon, the mods can read your DMs!" 😲

Me: "I've got news for you about Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc..."

It’s about time we showed up here.

We’re The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that’s skeptical about Big Tech. And there’s a lot to be skeptical about right now.

#introduction

Hello! 👋

We are a non-profit international community where since 1994 our Members, staff and the public design and develop standards for the underlying protocols of the web.

Our focus: interoperability, security, privacy, web accessibility, internationalization.

With your help and our proven standards process based on fairness, openness, royalty-free, we make the Web work, for everyone.

We regularly publish highlights from our many work groups.

https://www.w3.org/Consortium/highlights/

Lesser known Apple Watch Workouts:
Black Friday Shopping

The new #GNOME console's chrome turns red when you run commands as root. Neat.

Economics: Humans only value things monetarily.
Sociology: Uh, I don't ...
Economics: Humans are always rational and value is calculated by a complex inner calculus.
Sociology: Uh, Psy, can you help?
Psychology: That's not how humans ...
Economics: ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!
Physics: *drops teacup*

For #FollowFriday I picked my colleagues whose work is related to #Linux #desktop:
@hughsie - fwupd/LVFS
@adamw - Fedora QA
@jgrulich - KDE/Qt/WebRTC
@wtay - PipeWire/GStreamer
@airlied - Linux graphics
@karolherbst - Linux graphics
@felipeborges - GNOME/Boxes
@halfline - GNOME/GDM
@jimmac - GNOME design
@aruiz - #GNOME
@nielsdg - GPU/input/multimedia
@Cfkschaller - the boss
@fmuellner - GNOME Shell
@bilelmoussaoui - GNOME/Flatpak/Rust
@erAck - FF/LO
@garrett - UX design
@csoriano - GPU

Jumping off what @blaine is saying here:

https://mastodon.social/@blaine/109400462722746600

I work in professional fact-checking and content moderation for my day job at https://meedan.com and I have begun conversations about ways to do content moderation as a federated service that admins can pay to subscribe to (where moderators are paid a living wage, maybe in worker owned coops even, as opposed to big social media companies using basically sweatshop moderation labor)