Notices tagged with mastodon, page 7

I'm working on a new project to add "groups" functionality to the #fediverse. It will work entirely via federation protocols, so you'll keep using your existing #Mastodon or other #ActivityPub app account and join groups by following them.

20 - 21 septembre, Marche pour le climat... une exclu #Facebook? - https://blogs.mediapart.fr/groucho-vert/blog/170919/20-21-septembre-marche-pour-le-climat-une-exclu-facebook

> Très bien la convergence de nombreuses associations et organisations pour la Grève et la Marche pour le climat à venir les 20 et 21 septembre. Mais cornegidouille, pourquoi imposent-ils (quasiment) tous d'aller voir sur un évènement Facebook pour trouver les informations pratiques (lieu, horaire...)?

Avec #Mastodon dedans. Vivement l'arrivée de @mobilizon pour limiter l'usage de Facebook.

Severed Heads show from last night here in Seattle will be streamed on https://aNONradio.net #tonight during #openmic - This is a #mastodon #exclusive .. no where else will this be posted!

For a sneak peak, here is a video from last night:

https://toobnix.org/videos/watch/4030e224-b51d-4593-b40f-41c4fe79d9f3

Moved over my growing collection of #Mastodon + #Fediverse tools, tips, videos, etc. bookmarks to Raindrop too: https://raindrop.io/collection/8245323

Please share any good'uns you think should be in here. I definitely want to grow this.

Mastodon & SeizeMeans.com

Since the middle of last year I've had a Mastodon instance at SeizeMeans.com. I didn't feel I should make it open to anyone else until I put together a Code of Conduct, but today I finally pieced one together. SeizeMeans.com is a Mastodon instance open to communists, socialists, anarchists and fellow travelers.

https://apollolemmon.com/2019/09/12/mastodon-seizemeans-com/

#anarchism #Communism #fediverse #Mastodon #socialism

How the Liberal Left created the Conservative Right and extremism in the fediverse:

As someone who cares greatly about equality, and recognizes minorities and underprivileged groups deal with some unique and difficult struggles I realize the title to this post would seem a bit inflammatory. But that is not my intention, my intention is to address a very real problem.

As anyone on the fediverse knows there are generally two major groups of instances. Those that wont ban anything of any kind, no rules it's the wild west (red instances). Then there are those that ban anyone who shares any opinion that disagrees with their politics, even if you criticise both the left and the right in the same breath you will likely quickly find the instance or yourself banned.

However the unfortunate consequence of this pattern of behavior is to promote ever increasing support for red instances and to drive grey instances (instances that take a middle ground) into being red instances. Should be obvious why...

You basically have a spectrum of behavior with red on one side and blue on the other. With everyone crammed into the 0.1% of either end of this spectrum that means most new instances will start off, most likely, somewhere in the grey area, even if their just marginally shy of being red or blue in its full extreme.

The experience for an admin of such an instance is to quickly be overwhelmed with people from blue instances blocking and banning for things like criticising a democratic politician or something rather minor. By the end of the first few months a blue/left leaning instance will quickly find itself on dozens of suspend or ban instances as a result and find they only have a voice among the 99% red instances and the 1% grey instances out there.

Since this means they naturally wont have a voice among blue instances, and most people are on social media because they want to be social, this means their only incentive is to appeal to red instances (since that's where all their boosts and likes come from). Along with building animosity for how blue instances treat them and with the acceptance of red instances you will find all the incentive for the instances to move to be an extremist red instance with extremist no-rule policies quickly develop.

As such we see exactly what we are seeing now on the fediverse, an ever increasing number of red instances very quickly overwhelming and overtaking the blue instances.

Of course this is made worse by the fact that those ont he blue instances can only see other blue instances. so they will be under the mistaken impression that the red instances don't exist and that the blue instances are thriving and growing and dominating over the red instances. This ignorance just ensures the red instances grow unchecked and unchallenged.

As someone who's personal policy is anti-extremism, and with this pattern being one that generates extremism it is very VERY concerning to me.

#mastodon #fediverse #uspol #extremism #mastoadmin

a #systemd adventure and we’re back. did you miss us? #hive #mastodon

#Mastodon 2.9.3 and work on 3.0 - #Patreon update

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mastodon-2-9-3-3-29558693

If you're looking for people to follow on Mastodon or the rest of the Fediverse, or you want others to follow you, try Trunk:

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/

It's a community-run opt-in member directory organised by topic. All the people listed are looking for follows.

To follow someone, just click on a topic and click "follow" next to a person's name.

(If you want to be added to lists, instructions are on the site.)

#Trunk #Fediverse #Mastodon

#QOTO is back up safely post-upgrade. Going to cleanup some CSS that ooks a bit off since the upgrade but otherwise everything seems to be working.

QOTO is now on the QOTO variant of v2.9.3 of Mastodon. Enjoy!

#fediverse #mastodon