Recall the arguments against instance blocklists: the dogmatic free speech argument, the open federation argument, the grudgelist argument, and the admin responsibility argument. As far as Ro and Oliphant are concerned, the dogmatic free speech argument is just about repressive tolerance: it is code for white supremacist and transmisic entitlement....
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The devices people use to infinitely scroll are also material. Smartphones and many computers run on batteries, which rely on lithium, cobalt, and nickel mined out of the ground. The plastics used in their construction come from fossil fuels....
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Unlike corporate social media and the infinite scroll, the fediverse is open for experimentation. There are innovations possible with fediverse technologies that are not possible on corporate social media. This is a strong counterargument against those who look at federated, non-centralized, democratically controlled social media and say, “it’s too complicated....
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Durruti had learned endless things during the months of civil war, but the main lesson that he received was a full confirmation of the working class's capacity to govern itself and the damage done by the committees' bureaucratic leaderism.
-- Abel Paz
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One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.
But “losing Twitter was a massive thing for people, for a lot of us [performers],” she said....
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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
-- Errico Malatesta
Chapter 1: Critical Reverse Engineering: How Mastodon Became a Twitter Alternative...
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