Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 118

My theory is that the #fediverse has become a victim of its own success. It's taken a huge, highly focused effort by a large number of people to get a network of apps and instances to successfully interoperate. Now we've achieved that, we have no idea what to do with it, so we imitate YT and birdsite drama, and waste time and energy in border squabbles.
@href @feld @kaniini

#Itch.io is a game library app, available for GNU/Linux, MacOS, and Windows, allowing users to download gratis #IndieGame, buy commercial ones, and manage their collections, even while offline. The Itch.io app is #FreeCode:
https://github.com/itchio

@boilingsteam it would be interesting to see an "ItchOS" put together by removing the #Steam client from #SteamOS and replacing it with the #Itch.io client.
@LibertyPaulM

Just been rewatching the last couple of seasons of #GoT in preparation for new episodes coming this year. Surprised to find I'm enjoying season 7 more than I did on the first watch. But watching condensed versions of two pivotal battles shoe-horned into ep 3, and the unnamed #RedShirts die in ep. 6 having not even appeared in most of the group shots, let alone been established as characters, I'm reminded of why I felt the quality of the story-telling has dropped off since the first few seasons.

@Gaynebula don't let the door smack you in the ass on your way out ...

@Gaynebula
> I'm not here for aggressive reactions to microaggressions being framed as equivalent to reactionary praxis.

BTW thanks for the excellent example of #CulturalLeninism. I don't know you from a bar of soap, and I have no obligation to make sure the opinions I express here (or anywhere) fit with what you're "here for". The sense of entitlement implied in this comment is a good example of the creeping authoritarianism I'm pointing out.

@lynnesbian

@Gaynebula
> That's... verifiably not true

Which bit?
@lynnesbian

@Blort
> I actually did go vegan in the (early) 90's

I became vegetarian in the mid-90s. Gradually transitioned to vegan over the late 90s/ early 2000s. There's definitely a point where all one's family and friends know one wants to eat a vegan diet, and one has to start absolutely refusing to each dairy and eggs, or face being constantly expected to "cheat" to fit in. Still grappling with that one ;-)
@freedomboxfndn

@Blort of course, it's silly, and it happens much less often as veganism becomes more familiar in a society. It comes down to how a vegan diet is conceptualized, either as a arbitrary lifestyle choice, like eating a paleo diet, or an ethical choice, like choosing not to eat human flesh. Nobody would be called selfish for refusing to accept a gift that had human flesh in it. But inconveniencing other people with faddish food preferences OTOH, it's easier to see that as selfish.
@freedomboxfndn

The third part is also notable for its framing of the internet's role in disinformation. Basically the net = the major #DataFarms (FB etc), and "regulation" of Silicon Valley = increased government control over internet speech (not #AntiTrust action). It's a framing I first noticed in the otherwise excellent Adam Curtis series '... Machines of Loving Grace ...', in #FredTurner's 'counterculture to cyberculture' discourse, and in a hit piece on the #EFF by #YashaLevine, published in the #Baffler.

The third part of the Operation Injektion doco series is just mind-boggling. Ronald Reagan was a great exposer of lies? The man famous for claiming that trees cause more air pollution than automobiles do? The man who lies through his teeth about missiles being sold to Iran via Israel to fund anti-government rebels in Nicaragua (#IranContra)? I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why Doug Rushkoff would endorse these heavily slanted films at all, let alone compare them to Adam Curtis' work.

Having watched 2 out of 3 parts of Operation Injektion, I'm pretty disappointed. Nowhere near the level of detailed research or insight that Curtis achieves in his films. It's mostly just a summary of the Hillarati talking points we've been hearing ever since the result was announced in 2016. Plus a few highly questionable definitions ("disinformation" isn't the same as "propaganda" because it aims to convince people deceptively. Really? #WTF).

@albin I was in this situation for years. I recently got my family using Wire. It's #FreeCode (both clients and server) and has clients for all the major platforms, including a web client. I wouldn't use it for anything too sensitive (wouldn't use the net at all most likely), but as a way of wrapping casual chat with friends and family in user-friendly #DigitalEnvelopes, it's pretty good.
@BartG95

@Blort I've been accused of being selfish for being #vegan. For example ultra-leftists have accused me of "lifestyle activism" that's alienating to "the masses". People have said it's selfish to refuse to eat animals products if they are a gift, or someone cooked me a meal without realizing they put animals products in it etc. Going vegan is much easier now than in the 1990s because it's become more common and more socially accepted. Refusing to use FB will get there eventually.
@freedomboxfndn

@policeinchains this is leninist rubbish. Have you got any references for this from credible historians?
@lynnesbian

@policeinchains
> Elders have authority.

Sure, like parents do. But I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Elders do not constitute a state. They do not maintain authority by maintaining a monopoly of force, and using that to enforce laws, property regimes, fiat money etc.

@Meachamus_Prime @lynnesbian

@policeinchains
> Those communities where they haven't contacted with outside, did not really wim a struggle did they?

I suggest reading Survival International's work on "uncontact peoples", as it has a special meaning in this context. The states who claim their territory wanted to bring them under their control, including their property regime. They resisted this via contact with their direct neighbours, who made contact with the state and lobbied on their behalf
@Meachamus_Prime @lynnesbian

@policeinchains also ...
> Some of them left alone for cultural purposes by states, like as if in a museum.

That's an incredibly patronizing way to describe indigenous people's hard-won achievements in defending or regaining autonomy and self-determination. The point was just that they like Graeber's examples, they debunk your claim that every community on earth is under the full control of a state capable of enforcing capitalist property rights.
@Meachamus_Prime @lynnesbian

@policeinchains
> They have different forms of authority and property.

Some of them do, yes. Others, as in Graeber's work, have neither (in the sense of hierarchical authority or centralized control over the means of production).

@Meachamus_Prime @lynnesbian