Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 28

Yet despite clearly getting *and agreeing with* what Fisher is really saying (see quote in previous post), Flood happily slaughters this hapless strawman, paragraphs beforehand:
"You don't have to read his piece all that carefully to realise that what Fisher is really aiming to do is shut up people with legitimate criticisms of the left as it is, as it has been and as he wants to reconstruct it."

"I’d even go so far as to say that sometimes ‘call out’ culture has become too much of a first stop with problematic behaviour among peers and this does create problems in movement building, in particular when its used to exclude people."
... says Flood, which is *precisely* what Fisher and others criticizing "callout culture" are saying!

I wonder if #AndrewFlood felt bad, in hindsight, when he realized that adding his hit piece full of obvious strawmen to the dogpile on #MarkFisher, may have contributed to his suicide?
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/andrewnflood/intersectionality-vampire-castle-reply

#Disroot.org gets a pretty good result on this calculator for website carbon emissions:
https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/disroot-org-en/

#ClimateChange

Then there are the guys being released from prison with $300 in their pocket, no benefit, no bank account, no ID. It's like we've build a machine for making people break the law to survive. It's not only mean-spirited, it's self-sabotaging. With proper support, those people could be contributing back to the community and would be happier doing so.
@lightweight @alcinnz

@lightweight hey sorry if that came across more ranty than intended :{ I just think it's important to make it visible. A single unemployed person in Ak lives on $250-$300 a week:
https://www.workandincome.govt.nz/products/benefit-rates/benefit-rates-at-1-april-2019.html

Median rent for a room in a board house in Ak is $215:
https://www.tenancy.govt.nz/rent-bond-and-bills/market-rent/

People are really hurting out there and it's not getting better, despite the new government talking a good game about being "transformative".
@alcinnz

@stevenroose I want to say "have you actually used #Diaspora?" then caught myself and realized that could sound more aggressive than intended ;) But that's something people are always saying, and it really isn't true. Diaspora is pretty similar to Friendica, a federated blogging platform with a few options for posting to public/ private/ select subset of friends. It doesn't have any of the feature that make FB distinct; live chat, events invites/ RSVPs, etc.

@self if you ever find an ethical ad platform to use with LinuxLusers.com, please let me know. I'd love to have something like that for disintermedia.net.nz. Especially once I start self-hosting and it starts regularly costing me money.

@0 love the Rules of Engagement! Can I pinch those ;)

@nicksellen you might enjoy this:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-abolition-of-work

It's a fairly quick and fun read.

@dilgreen @wu_lee @bhaugen @richdecibels @mike_hales @protean

@bhaugen
> Some people here think [Titter decentralization noise is] a head-fake.

I suspect the #DWeb and #blockchains in particular have finally reached the critical mass of public awareness where decentralwashing becomes an attractive PR tactic. It's like FB's pivot to "privacy", which is really just a tactic to get people to trust them again and give them more data due to being lulled into a false sense of security.

@dilgreen @wu_lee @richdecibels @nicksellen @mike_hales @protean

@GidiKroon
> This is an anti-harassment feature.

Which is ludicrous, given that, as you say, the instructions for getting around it are:
1) don't use Mastodon.

So it's 0% effective at stopping harassment. But really effective at stopping non-geek Mastodon users searching the federation for vegan recipes or photos of cats or whatnot. The only reason the text search feature got rolled back was Gargron getting dogpiled by an army of overly sensitive, narcissistic control freaks.

@fitheach

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo sorry, forget I mentioned it ;) Just imagine we're characters on #Dollhouse ...

@greatjoe best of three? ;)

@Blort the only thing that worries me about NextCloud Talk is it uses #WebRTC and works in-browser, so it might suffer from the same issues as #JitsiMeet, #PalavaTV etc. On the WebRTC stacks I've tried, you need a fairly late model computer and a pretty fast internet connection to get them to do anything beyond text chat.

@zatnosk as such, inflammatory demands that we burn down the fediverse because it doesn't offer the privacy tools people want *right now* is ... well ... a bit like buying a second hand analog TV and throwing a tantrum because it's not digital.

@zatnosk
> group chats is in no way a replacement for actual privacy in microblogging.

I don't understand what you're arguing here. Can you clarify?

Here's the situation. The fediverse - at it's current stage of development - does not do private content (even Mastodon DMs are not reliably private). At some future time, hopefully it will, but for now, it doesn't. Anyone who wants private discussion needs to choose a different tool or be disappointed. That's just the technical reality.

@alfred but... I'm already on my profile page. I'm adding my jabber address. Then I try to edit the profile pic. One of the links does nothing, the other just reloads the page. Either way, no option to change the profile pic.
@hypolite

@noorul AFAIK #SSB doesn't use a #blockchain. It uses a #DHT. There is a long list of social media apps that use blockchains (#Twister being the oldest I know if):
https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/wikis/blockchain-social-apps

I don't think #Scuttlebutt is one of them.

@mariusor I think the difference you're glossing over here is important. In AP, by default, any post is sent to the server of the remote users who are following and/or addressed, for permanent storage on that server. In Zot, private posts are only sent to the browser of the user who has received permission to view them. Now, I grant you this doesn't stop the user's browser taking a copy (screenshot if all else fails). But it means delete operations don't have to propagated to multiple servers.