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CWs aren't some sort of Badge of Shame among the Mastodon instances. They're a part of the local culture. We use them to be good neighbors, to make godawful puns, to give each other little surprises.

That's in large part because Mastodon was built up by a pile of tired, disabled, traumatized, queer folk, and we built a space where we could engage with the world around us more easily. And then we used the same tools to be goofballs. Because that is how a human do.
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Meta, defederation as direct action 

This week, MastodonART defederating c.im pushed them to expand their mod team, clarify hate speech policies, & unsuspend the account of a Black user who had taken issue with CWs for lived experience.

Now toot.community has suspended a transphobic journalist after pressure from several instances.

I wish those instances had made better proactive choices but I’m impressed to see how powerful this type of direct action from instances (& individuals) can be here.

what's The Light Side Of The Fediverse?

broadly speaking, instances that have active moderation against bigotry

it's the opposite of The Dark Side Of The Fediverse

where nazis and TERF's and cryptobros and such are banished to

The Dark Side is the instances none of the good ones federate with

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Fascism friendly platforms 

For context, "Mr. Bond" is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence for "Glorification of Nazism". His music was played during a livestreamed mass shooting at a synagogue.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bond

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@bexzex first 4 words of this scared me for a second, but yeah, you're definitely not wrong.

Fascism friendly platforms 

I've been reporting this Neo-Nazi podcast for the past 4 months, and Spotify keeps telling me to "be patient" while they "look into this", and now they're complaining that I keep reaching back out since I "already opened a ticket".

They're dead to me.

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Fascism friendly platforms 

Forget your outrage about the Joe Rogan Podcast and type "1488", "SS Waffen", or "White Pride" into Spotify search.

They're not even pretending to moderate their platform. Not talking about the JPEGMafia song, that one slaps. Just take a scroll through all the fashy podcasts and playlists.

Terminating my account in favor of Deezer, which appears to proactively find and delete hateful and violent content from their service.

How I'm beginning to feel about Twitter and Meta:

“You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.” — Doris Lessing

Mastodon is now at 1 million users … same as Twitter was in 2008 when I joined (as @james_slezak@twitter.com )

Just a reminder that "self-hosted" doesn't *necessarily* have to mean literally hosting on a computer in your house. It just means you're in control over it.

@kevin nice! Thanks!

I've migrated to S3 for simplicity. Might give Spaces another go sometime in the future if the flat pricing ends up more attractive than AWS pricing.

Glad to understand how to Alias. Plan to use my own domain eventually, so I'll need it.

Took a fun photo of the Bellevue skyline reflecting sunset from the Leschi neighborhood in Seattle.

what kind of mint is linux mint

#LinuxMint #Linux #FOSS

Some of you are likely already aware of this, but I organize a group called PhilTel aiming to install free-to-use payphones in Philadelphia. We are having an install party at @iffybooks on December 17th where we will install our first phone (more info here, iffybooks.net/event/philtel-fr)!

We will also be distributing a zine that explains the project and some of the interesting things you can do with the phone.

Hope to see you there! philtel.org

@kevin Yeah, I migrated all my files to the root the way the docs said to, and after changing my config and restarting the service, all the images were broken because they contained the bucket name as the parent folder.

Doing a right-click, Open Image, and removing the bucket name from the directory tree took me to the appropriate files.

My next worry is that new files are going to end up in the root and further break things when I try again.

@kevin Weird... I wonder why I had different results?

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Mastodon (Vran.as)

This is the Vranas instance.