Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 72

Commémorations de la tuerie de Polytechnique… Les drapeaux sont en berne, jeudi matin, à l'Assemblée nationale, afin de souligner le 29e anniversaire de la tuerie de Polytechnique.… — https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201812/06/01-5206980-commemorations-de-la-tuerie-de-polytechnique.php

Hey new people on Mastodon!

For privacy reasons there's no automated "people to follow" suggestions on here.

However, there is an unofficial community site called #Trunk which is an opt-in list of people who are looking for followers, organised by topic:

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/

Scroll down to find people to follow, or read the instructions at the top if you want to be added to a list.

For example, here's the list for "Science Fiction":

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#Introductions #NewHere

@mpjgregoire Sounds like they are using org-mode in Emacs too ("combination to-do list and notebook"). :-)

Death is pleading his case to Azrael the Death of the Universe that, as one of the Deaths, he has to care, or they don't exist and there's only Oblivion.

Tʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ɴᴏ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ʙᴜᴛ ᴜs. Tʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ɴᴏ ᴍᴇʀᴄʏ ʙᴜᴛ ᴜs. Tʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ. Tʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴜs.

[...]

Lᴏʀᴅ, ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴄᴀɴ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴀʀᴠᴇsᴛ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ꜰᴏʀ, ɪꜰ ɴᴏᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀʀᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ᴍᴀɴ?

#reaperman #discworld #terrypratchett

Here's the direct link to the findings from those documents:

https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf

It is really quite damning.

* Facebook deliberately obscured from users what information they were collecting about them & how to opt out

* Facebook used its monopoly to cripple competing applications and services

* Facebook signed agreements to acquire data other app developers collected in exchange for some of its own

* Companies could circumvent user permissions by signing an agreement with Facebook

Who here remembers the malicious and acrimonious wars in the early 90's over asking people to use the Subject line in emails?

OH WAIT

The lack of an account migration idiom on Mastodon really is fatal, it is sincerely a thing that keeps me from recommending Mastodon to people. The http://witches.town evaporation to me was kind of like a disproof of the fediverse and I feel like maybe the fediverse dev community should have treated it as such. There needs to be a way to recover your account, "toots", and follower network if one instance goes away.

Okay so tumblr is banning rotating cubes saying it's porn and facebook banned saying "i'm gay" saying it's sexual solicitation and Twitter always seemed like it could disappear at any moment

I feel like we need to be getting ready for Mass Migration to Mastodon, which means we need to fix anything that keeps Mastodon from being usable, and there is in fact something that keeps Mastodon from being usable, there's one specific thing, it's this:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177

Pas de débat sur le serment prêté par les députés à la reine Élisabeth II… La motion sans préavis déposée par le Parti québécois pour abolir le serment d'allégeance prêté par les députés à la reine Élisabeth II est finalement demeurée lettre morte à l'Assemblée nationale. … — http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1139886/serment-allegeance-reine-elisabeth-pq-abolition-deputes

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