Hey, here's a crazy idea: how about we start using new technologies to make life easier and more fulfilling for everybody instead of using them to exploit the biosphere faster and deepen inequalities?
Hi mastodon! In the last few days I've been talking w/some North American #sexworkers & folks in the adult industry whose safety has been deeply compromised by #SESTA#FOSTA. I mentioned mastodon as a possible social networking platform that could be shaped to help SWs protect themselves–do you agree? Do you have experience as an #admin or #mastodev who can support or advise? Help is urgently needed! Contact survivorsagainstsesta@protonmail.com Please boost! #letussurvive#helpneeded#infosec
Is the "crypto" part essentially arbitrary? Just a way to restrict the number of coins in existence and tie the value to some real-world work? People are like "back in the day it was folding proteins or SETI@home and now it's mining coins." Couldn't you make a currency where the "work" you put in isn't cryptography calculations, but cycles devoted to protein folding? Assuming you could record that stuff using a blockchain or whatever.
So much to teach... Friendly reminders: Content Warnings are there for a reason, it is not to censor you, but to allow people to engage with content they are comfortable with / ready to engage it.
Typical subjects can be: Food, Politics, Sex/Lewd, Selfies/Eye contact, or animals typical of phobia.
etc etc.
Just consider it, and consider that it doesn't hurt to use it. :)
@nolan well Fediverse actually means the federated universe, which includes Masrodon and GNUsocial and whatever other software that communicates with those, really (i.e. all forks of those). And it also is the federated universe of Diaspora + Friendica + Hubzilla & co.
I'm a doctoral candidate studying the emergent ethical properties of portfolios of drug development in the dept of Experimental Medicine at #McGill in Montreal
I also write R (and R markdown), evangelise Zotero, and love other FOSS research tools
I'm Altruest, a current student getting my PhD in Neuroscience. On Mastodon I have a wide variety of interests, and you can find me talking about books, music, science, podcasts, videogames, or just trying to bring the world some positivity! Mastodon has honestly changed the way I think about social media, I hope you get everything out of it that I have!