Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

It's pretty staggering the amount of election disinformation plaguing the Birdsite right now. Just straight up lies about how elections work. Republicans are ramping up for another complete election-denial shitshow.

We need to start acknowledging this as an existential threat to democracy, and treat it like election fraud in and of itself when politicians start repeating these lies in an attempt to overturn legitimate results.

With all these new followers, it's time for a proper reintroduction.

My name is Alex, I live in Seattle, and I am Product Support Specialist in the NetSec sector.

On Mastodon you'll generally find me talking about music, retrocomputing, demoscene, and leftist politics.

I've been on Mastodon for a couple of years now, but it hasn't been my main home until now.

Looking forward to a new chapter here on the Fediverse with all of you!

@vantablack You are a hero for preserving this piece of history!

@slothrop Decentralization definitely doesn't work if the underlying software stack is unmaintained, so you should still consider helping finance that if you support it.

Reminder that Mastodon costs time and money to develop, and the flagship instances do too.

You can donate to the project via Patreon, starting a $1/month: https://patreon.com/mastodon

@allen099 @mollyjongfast Posting a link will not embed the content of the post, so it makes it harder to turn it into a performative narrative.

@Thegreenman @Gargron I think an even more elegant solution is to resist putting other users on blast in any way.

@LouisIngenthron@qoto.org @mollyjongfast @Gargron

Ironically, this would have been a great opportunity to use a "Quote Toot" to show you what Eugen said, but I think the toxicity outweighs the benefit.

Here's a link: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99662106175542726