Danny Ockilson - he/him @danny@justweb.dev

@evan @markallerton @ks

The analogy that several Black users have said, is "Mastodon is the digital equivalent of fleeing 'regular' racism in the deep South, just to experience 'racism doesn't happen here!' racism in Boston." 🙂🙃

Mastodon has more cultural norms around not talking about racist abuse, than around preventing it from happening. I don't know how to convince y'all that this is bad.

So yeah, this creates an opening for centralizers.

I've been told by somebody that they need fedi to have no search engines, because they could be imprisoned for 10 years for what they post here, in their country.

If this is the case for you, **YOU NEED TO ANONYMIZE YOURSELF, OR STOP POSTING TO A PUBLIC NETWORK**

You MUST assume that EVERY oppressive government has a copy of EVERY public post made on fedi. Period, end of story. Anybody telling you it's possible to have it any other way is lying to you.

Any "privacy" features on ActivityPub-based software, such as Mastodon, operate entirely on the honor system. Do not trust your freedom to the honor system.

Trans rights are human rights.

Black lives matter.

No human is illegal.

Love is love.

Their body, their choice.

Science is real.

Kindness is everything.

P.S. If you started following me due to this post, PLEASE look at my profile and decide if it's for you.

Make sure general nerdiness, tabletop roleplay, and other related pursuits are the kind of content you want to see in your timeline.

Our values obviously align, but our interests/hobbies might not. No hard feelings if you unfollow. 😉

Humanity can’t afford to have a bourgeoisie any longer.

Either these exploitative class systems go & the hoarding class loses power, our common wealth redistributed, or humanity goes extinct.

The bourgeoisie, the ruling class, the billionaires, the machiavellians, the elitists, and their courtiers and apologists will never get us off this extinction track of their own free will.

Timeline of a new Mastodon user:

Day 1: this sucks servers are confusing and why is my feed empty

Day 2: why is there no quote tweet this is dumb

Day 3: mastodon better make some changes if it wants to compete with tw_tter

Day 7: hm, people are really nice here

Day 10: loving the no ads and real conversations

Day 15: THE WORKERS MUST SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND EXECUTE CAPITALISTS

#TwitterMigration

1000%

"My personal style is best described as 'didn't expect to leave the house'."

#QOTD #Quote #Quotes

Seize the means of your social media production.

I'm going to say this again - my white friends who aren't racists do not mind me talking about racism. If you find yourself disturbed by or uncomfortable with topics on racism, you may want to tell yourself some hard truths. And then, work on your findings. You may be racist.

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans women are women, trans men are men, trans rights are human rights. Non-binary people are non-binary people. TERFs and other transphobic people who want to oppress or harm trans people, FOR JUST EXISTING, can fuck right off. 🏳️‍⚧️

Remember: Trans rights are human rights!

New #LossAndDamage fund is major win for #climatejustice movements 🎉But pitiful progress on emission cuts, & Global North hasn’t delivered urgently needed finance. Until agreement on keeping fossil fuels in ground, our foot remains on accelerator on road to climate hell #COP27

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1594261703231000578

I'm still battling with my old mindset that more followers are better. That I want "influence" and reach more people.

I don't. In the past years I arrived at the conclusion that people don't change their attitudes when they're yelled at by strangers on the internet. Science is with me here.

I was a happy camper here before November 2022. I enjoyed talking about things I love, the things that happen in my life, my struggles. I want to keep doing that. I don't seek an audience. I seek connection and compassion, as that's what I'm offering.

So no. I don't look for more followers or more influence. I want true human connections that need time and effort. I, like most of us, was trained to mistake the number of followers with people with whom I have a connection.
This is worth unlearning.

BREAKING from the CWU #StandByYourPost:

ROYAL MAIL TO WALK AWAY FROM TALKS TO SETTLE STRIKES FROM MONDAY

UPDATE: no need for further boosting. Thank you everyone!

My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,

"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."

https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1593726621340426241

Our "work with us" page: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr

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Hi everyone,

there are a number of people in this category who want to migrate to Mastodon and have questions about safety, security, etc. Are there any resources that you recommend?