Now in Brussels for #fosdem, #offdem, hijinks, etc 👋
Looking to nerdsnipe someone to build an #excalidraw plugin for #mediawiki 👀 to see how to leverage tech against fascism and general nerdiness.
Hit me up if you want to meet or have suggestions 📞
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Die #commons erweitern! Wenn möglich, geb einen Darlehen um das k21 zu kaufen. (Freiraum in Deutschland, der zur radikale Veränderung (die guten) gewidmet ist)
https://k20-projekthaus.de/k20-erweiterung/
(Obwohl ich nicht persönlich da war, kenne ich viele da waren, und dadurch habe ich große Vertrauen)
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Expand the #commons! Lend money to buy out k21 if you can. (Free space in Germany dedicated to radical change (the good kind))
https://k20-projekthaus.de/k20-erweiterung/
(Although I wasn't there, I have enough secondary connections to trust them sincerely.)
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it is good to sometimes be caffeinated
it is good to sometimes be high
it is good for sobriety to be the default
(YMMV)
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things were better
when we worked together
(mantra for invoking empathy in conservatives)
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We can do so much more than copying bad-examples, then hacking the bad bits out!
The platforms we need, we can't copy, because they don't exist yet.
We seem to be disproportionately "active" in the world, and if we can work together better, more effectively, efficiently and with more joy, we can all better combat fascism and create common good.
This is my Sunday appeal, thank you for reading.
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I don't want to even think about implementation right now, but I do think this is important, imaginary work to do.
Imagine if we could list the social centers that have been able to buy-out their buildings through fedi crowd-funding.
Imagine if there were studies to show that fedizens had significantly better mental health than silozens.
Imagine if you just checked in here, and didn't get lost.
Imagine if the fediverse could, quasi-collectively, express a political will on topical issues.
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On top of the Siloverse amplifying our "bad desires", they never really had any politics to speak of. None of them ever had the toolage of protest in mind, crowdfunding for the commons, therapy with caring-yet-unknown internet people. These things did still happen, with more or less hacking, anyway.
But what if we had these as first goals? What if we build in "random connections" between people, as a way to break through the self-reinforcing hierarchy of influencers, even here?
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The siloverse platforms have obviously bad stuff build in, like ads (including the really dangerous kind) and centralized data sale and other stuff, that we've managed to ameliorate.
But there is a part in which they catered for basic human desires: attention, recognition, etc. And in catering to these "consumer demands" ultimately created patterns (e.g. follower-feed) that we have inherited. (Lemmy/reddit suffers less from this, acknowledged)
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OK, so the fediverse is obviously better than the siloverse (i.e. twitter, facebook, etc) in that it's decentralized, and by that I mean can't be bent to the will of a coked-up billionaire (no drug shaming, you just shouldn't be operating heavy machinery when you do it.)
But here's the thing: we have copied all silo apps: mastodon for twitter, pixelfed for insta, lemmy for reddit
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🇵🇸 (fly it while it still exists)
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hahaha, I had a dream last night that I was going through this completely labyrinthine shack-like structure, and I kept thinking "how does this place pass fire regulations?"
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i have a sinking feeling that all this crap isn't going to end until people like us stop it
but i just want to sleep
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alle zusammen gegen den faschismus... aber die nicht
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like, I do think there is an imperial vs (neo-)indigenous aspect to this which could be very powerful, but I'm quite worried about appropriation. Could be told using european peoples? Peasants vs (land)lords? Or starwars: Empire vs a patchwork resistance?
in any case, the point I'm thinking about illustrating is that there is a choice between consistency + conformity and complexity + freedom
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how do we tell the story that the fediverse is complex web of instances, and that that is desirable?
(e.g.there is a direct link between the search not returning every result -- independent moderation -- isolating instances of abuse)
this is critical for helping people exit the hegemonies, because there are desires learned from being there that we can't & don't want to recreate
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are there any cool posters kicking around that could be printed and pasted re twitter/meta going fash + path to fedi?
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so all the good stuff is running on #activitypub
does that make all the different apps just different frontends/views/UIs ?
(wanting to test out #pixelfed to help out people coming to fedi from insta, not wanting to make a new account)
[#]eli5
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there are huge stretches of this planet with no mobile reception, no news, no people 🌍
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