Notices by ar.al🌻 (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 19

Most Mastodon servers are operated by people like you, out of their pocket. Check if your server has a Patreon! It's usually on the "About this instance" link, where the rules are. Support your admins, especially if they're not me!

- Are you a leftist? https://anticapitalist.party
- Love gameing, but hate GG? https://elekk.xyz
- Into technology? https://mastodon.technology
- Generalistic, but want a less noisy public timeline? https://octodon.social
- Cyberpunk? https://cybre.space
- Artist? https://mastodon.art
- Photographer? https://photog.social
- Mathematician? https://mathstodon.xyz

Feel free to tell me your interests for more suggestions!

Making a list of instances run by women. If that's you, @ me with it. So far I know:

🌟 http://kitty.town
🌟 http://occult.camp
🌟 http://elekk.xyz
🌟 http://mastodon.starrevolution.org
🌟 http://glitch.social
🌟 http://octodon.social

@Ronflaix there are plans for multi device, and in fact multi writer DAT should be merged soon! @aral has a great post about it here https://ar.al/2018/08/04/multiwriter-dat-could-power-the-next-web/

Yes, DAT archives are mutable, so you can update files on the same DAT link (if you hold the key). It's more than decentralised, it's p2p. Anybody that wants can also host your archive. The link is a reference to an archive, rather than specific machine as in the case of HTTP

🕰️ DAY 2 OF MASTODON🕰️

🚫no talk of 2016 election
🚫no "NICE TRY, IVAN-BOT!"
🚫no 12 follower Nazi trolls
🚫no PROMOTED TOOTs
🚫no DSA slapfights
🚫no rolling hellthread drama
🚫no whims of The Algorithm

✅all your banned faves!
✅pleasant *b'bloop* sound!
✅toot puns!
✅i say again: TOOT PUNS!
✅gentle sandalwood aroma!
✅your old jokes? new again!
✅you look thinner here!
✅have you been working out?

RT @itsjamesherring@twitter.com
A street artist has been improving Facebook billboards across London.

h/t @protestencil@twitter.com

@aral Two weeks earlier...
https://twitter.com/b9AcE/status/1025842577776566272 ;-)
Not same stated rationale, but yours as well as their active support of especially a certain dictator were strong factors for my spending my last sufficient eyesight at Mastodon rather than supporting… that.

Hello new folks moving to Mastodon: If you can, look at hosting your own instance (either just for yourself or maybe for you and your family).

@mastohost is awesome

(@indie and @laura are both hosted there and I will move my own self-hosted instance there when I get a moment)

Remember: the more instances there are, the stronger the fediverse is. And wouldn’t it be nice for you to be the one making the rules, exactly as you want them, instead of Jack or some mini-Jack (an instance admin?) ;)

Folks: yes, venture capitalists and Silicon Valley gave us surveillance capitalism but now they say they’re sorry and want to give us the cure. Shouldn’t we just let them?

Me: “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” – Narcotics Anonymous, 1981.

For any problem that exists, there is always someone who will solve it somehow by piping something through sed.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire

https://ar.al/2018/07/30/out-of-the-frying-pan-and-into-the-fire/

My response to Mariana Mazzucato’s article in MIT Technology Review titled “Let’s make private data into a public good”

Let’s not.

You cannot base a public good on a normalised systemic violation of human rights.

How about we take the billions that Google and other surveillance capitalists have been fined in the EU and invest them in organisations making ethical (free and open, decentralised, and interoperable) alternatives to surveillance capitalism.

#ethicaltechnology #ethicaldesign