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Interview with @pluralistic at The Daily Show! 
With special mention for Mastodon! This was excellent! I highly recommend watching it!👇✨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE
#Enshittification #Facebook #Mastodon #Fediverse #Interoperability
Last year I wrote "Fediverse for Freedom" https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/15/fediverse-for-freedom/ a post about why governments should own their own social presences, rather than rely on bad actors like the owner of X. I followed up with an additional post about public institutions in the #fediverse https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/09/02/fediverse-for-government-organisations-a-follow-up/
If you care about digital sovereignty and want to see your government join the #fediverse, contact them to say that #ItsTimeToAbolishX.
Help us make a list of how to get in touch with a representative in your area under this post, and don’t forget to #hashtag so your neighbours can find it 👇🏽 we’ll start:
#EU: https://commission.europa.eu/about/contact/representations-member-states_en
#USA: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
🔴 Now live: 1st Brazilian #Fediverse Forum #WebSocialBR with @evan & @j12t
➡️ https://fediverse.tv/w/pMZr9K7RtyLLfa6JW2UVkP
➡️ works better: https://vdo.ninja/?scene&room=WebSocialBR2025
#ActivityPub #SaveSocial #SciComm #SocialMedia #digitalsovereignty
In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Tommi Marmo spoke about:
What is the Fediverse? Defining Values and Key Challenges.
Fediverse Report #145 - this week's #fediverse news:
- @holos is a project currently in development that allows you to run an #activitypub server on your phone
- More on Threads' user statistics, which do indicate the platform's popularity in Asia
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-145/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115689198997943088
I’m proud to share my first blog as @Mastodon’s Community Director. Well the first one posted under my name at least 😉
Digital social networking is one of the most important threads in the fabric of our societies. Right now, we’re letting that thread be controlled by social media platforms that let advertisements for scams stay up because they’re profitable, and that use their algorithms to run human research experiments on us without our consent. That’s not the society I want.
“By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter; the people and their public institutions. It is critical that those voices not be silenced forever. The promise of the #fediverse is the promise of a better way forward: free from ads and manipulative algorithms built by and for people like you, where #SocialSovereignty is a right and not a privilege.”
In this thread, we asked folks to crowdsource a list of resources so you can find your local representative. Find them, contact them, and tell them this: if you care about a free and just future, and if you care about #DigitalSovereignty, you must leave X and join the fediverse.
I've gone live!
Fireside Fedi - Episode 64 - Jo Blakely - Artist (Oil, Acrylic, Digital)
#owncast #streaming #interview #fediverse #fedi #people #show #firesidefedi #FsF
Fireside Fedi Livestream
⁂ Article
Normal is the mess of walking around in a toxic story and calling this common sense
Forty years of hard indoctrination doesn’t just fade away. It has to be dug up, held in our hands, recognised for what it is, and composted. If we don’t do this, we have no hope - none - of moving away from the accelerating mess that’s already killing millions and is on track to kill billions. Hobbes’ “nasty, brutish and short” isn’t a warning anymore; it’s a weather report.
Mainstream thinking feels normal because we’ve lived inside it for a generation and a half. But […]
Question for anyone out there on the #Fediverse .
Is there any kind of #FediverseBusinessAssociation ? A group of folks pulling to run businesses either on the fediverse or supporting the fediverse or anything?
Right now we're all separated and attempting to figure out how to fund the Fediverse and how to make money ON the Fediverse. But do we have a group where we can all discuss what does and doesn't work?
Gather the experiences of people that have run businesses in the past and all work together to figure this out?
#business #money #fedi #support #FBA
" #WebSocialBR is the first #fediverse event that will be held in #Brazil, on December 3rd in #Brasília. The event wants to “bring together community administrators, managers, parliamentarians, researchers, and communicators to exchange experiences and strengthen decentralized networks in the country”. The event draws backing from Brazil’s Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and FediForum — organisated by @alquimidia
https://websocial.org.br/
Friends, I will be speaking tomorrow at #WebSocialBR, the open social web event in Brasilia. I'm so honored to be part of this exciting movement in Brazil, a country that is leading the way in digital rights. My talk will be in English, with simultaneous translation into Portuguese. Please join! #fediverse #socialweb
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