kudra @ kudra @sh.itjust.works

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Or we could just make these child killers illegal in metropolitan areas.

To be fair, AUKUS wasn't his fault.

Thanks for this comment! It really explains exactly why Friendica is struggling.

Is a real shame as IMO events (and groups) are really important to get a critical mass of adoption in Fedi. I look at sites like Allevents.in which allow people to submit but most of their event data is scraped from FB. We need Fedi instances which make searching events easy. So many groups and individuals and organisations feel unable to leave FB because they can't see anywhere else to tell people about events, at the moment that is pretty true. But it needs to be an allrounder site, not an event specialist site.

But not being able to connect to busy Lemmy communities would mean Friendica isn't an ideal allrounder, and even if the Friendica instance got big and has very busy groups, it would have issues.

I hope that these issues get solved!

Oh, it's dangerous and harmful all right : to their business model.

I think the big G is probably starting to get pretty nervous about self hosting. It absolutely is a threat to their existence. They are nothing without users.

There's a lot of us fed up with enshittification and every video that helps people break free of their capture is extremely dangerous to them. Seriously.

High five! We both done great!

I'm hoping to start a Friendica instance, it's been around for a long time and actually has events, which is something NO other social network has managed to add and one of the main reasons people I know who don't like Facebook will feel compelled to use it, there's no other easy way to create and invite people to events.

I also tried to get people to try G+, before that Diaspora, and neither got many people interested: but I think Fedi has now proved its not going away. There needs to be sustained local push to relocalise communities, this is happening in a few places, and enough nontechy people are starting to really understand the danger of FB and the silo mentality.

Never a bad time for a DieHard quote 😎

Gooooooo

All I can say is I hope this gives the RWNJs pause about voting for the potato, if they think stocks will go down even further unless we distance ourselves from the US, then we might not be doomed to 3 years of similar stupidity.

Okay, firstly GOOD ON YOU for recognising that #LibLab are both corrupt and don't represent average Australians. It's great to see demographics have been shifting ever away from the Two Party System.

It is confusing. As noted by previous comment, voting below the line ensures that your absolute preferences are counted.

Where a flowchart would be helpful is with GVTs (that have been abolished almost everywhere see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_voting_ticket) but unfortunately with the lack of knowing for sure in advance the levels of support for each candidate, especially minor & Indies, there's no real way of knowing for sure who will end up winning from preferences exactly. Best you can do is read up on all the candidates, put #LibLab last (but honestly possibly openly Nazi Nazis dead last, then Libs, then Lab) and everyone else in order of how much you agree with their policy platform.

And talk to people about it. Point out that both major parties only benefit billionaires, in the end.

Lol. The trade deficit is massive on our side, so they are shooting themselves in the foot.

We sure as fuck don't need American wines. We used to bend over backwards to pay American film companies to film in Australia.

And there's guides everywhere now on how to de-American your tech.

Fuck off, you nutjobs.

I do concede that there has been a trend towards xenophobia that has been exacerbated by filter bubbles and even more by algorithms. But the balance is that people who once had no choice but to suffer ostracism and extreme isolation have been able find community online and have improved mental health and outcomes in many ways.

I certainly found this myself in the early days of the internet before the iron fist of corporatism grabbed this fledgling space, determined to extract value from it, and creating the nightmares of isolation and hate that are now Farcebork and its ilk. Fedi has been a welcome return to smaller communities that have to do the necessary work of self management, which reduces the hate and isolation that is promoted by antisocial media, even if it doesn't stop it altogether.

My point is, the internet isn't worse. Humans can be good or bad, but certain environments make them behave in worse ways, and these environments can exist both online and off.

Honestly? I live in a small town, and face to face isn't much better. People are incredibly bigoted, and might be polite to your face but incredibly judgemental and small minded, especially to anyone perceived as different. Empathy is a skill that needs to be practised, like meditation. And many people lack it both online and off.

I've seen people say that Farcebork was like being in a small town, actively making that kind of everyone-knowing-everyone's-business a reality again for communities fractured by urban anonymity.

But that was there in spades in the early internet, it's just that normies hadn't been beaten over the head by social conditioning by the corporate overlords yet to join in.

It's human nature to think and behave tribally. So we should expect it to continue in the Fediverse, we just can't shove the problem over to someone else to manage and take their tithe in eyeballs, and thus fracture our communities all over again: we have to do it ourselves. Drama fucking sucks, wherever is found, but we have to accept it's our job to manage if we don't want to trade our freedom for a padded cell.

You do realise they are planning on not having elections again, right?

OMG how did I miss seeing this before now

Interesting article, and it did change my view slightly of what ATProto is, but not by a huge amount.

Given the current political climate, a few days ago I randomly started wondering... what if some governments around the world acknowledged that communicating through Farcebok or Xitter is no longer tenable, and committed to providing social media infrastructure hosted in their own countries as a public good: "your tax dollars at work!"

Would ATProto make sense in these cases? They have the resources, and ATProto might seem more attractive/robust for that kind of scale compared to ActivityPub?

Saw it once decades ago. It's very rare to see here. Avoid, but you really don't have to try.

Holy fucking shit. That will now be the NUMBER ONE TALKING POINT I will be leading with when doorknocking this election:

"Hey, do you or any friends have young kids? Yeah? Did you know if the Libs get in they have just suggested to change ratios to as little as 1 educator to 50 kids? No? Well that is what you risk if you don't put Libs last. Terrifying, huh? Thanks for your time!"

Well at least they won't have to go into the office.

Awww this reminds me of the early days of Flickr.