Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as
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#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.
I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.
Seattle, WA
Joined Feb 2021
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Mastodon is the most "web3" platform that I know of and there is ::looksaround:: no sign of blockchain or crypto anywhere.
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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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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It’s not boxed wine, it’s cardboardeaux.
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how do i get back to the federation timeline
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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
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Mastodon is now at 1 million users … same as Twitter was in 2008 when I joined (as @james_slezak@twitter.com )
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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.
Took a fun photo of the Bellevue skyline reflecting sunset from the Leschi neighborhood in Seattle.
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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, https://iffybooks.net/event/philtel-free-payphone/)!
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! https://philtel.org
All these new servers/users/followers are filling my poor little single-user instance up with data fast. There's so many of you!
Already knocked myself offline trying to move everything to S3, and failing at it.
I know what I did wrong, so I'll be trying again later today after sanity checking my process.
I can only imagine what it must be like to run a big instance. o7 to the community admins out there. Thank you for your service.
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#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.
I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.
Seattle, WA
Joined Feb 2021
