Darnell Clayton :verified:
@darnell@one.darnell.one  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Mass shooting news in America 🇺🇸

I check my iPhone to see what the numerous alerts are about, & this pops up. 😕

Mass shootings are a daily occurrence now that they rarely make headlines in #America 🇺🇸.

This one, however, is being highlighted by the #Trump administration on #Instagram & other social networks.

👉🏾 Minneapolis Catholic school shooter ID'd as trans woman Robin Westman— while possible manifesto shows psychotic obsession with mass shooters https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/us-news/minneapolis-catholic-school-gunman-idd-as-robin-westman-while-possible-manifesto-shows-psychotic-obsession-with-mass-shooters/
Darnell Clayton :verified:
@darnell@one.darnell.one  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Mass shooting news in America 🇺🇸

I check my iPhone to see what the numerous alerts are about, & this pops up. 😕

Mass shootings are a daily occurrence now that they rarely make headlines in #America 🇺🇸.

This one, however, is being highlighted by the #Trump administration on #Instagram & other social networks.

👉🏾 Minneapolis Catholic school shooter ID'd as trans woman Robin Westman— while possible manifesto shows psychotic obsession with mass shooters https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/us-news/minneapolis-catholic-school-gunman-idd-as-robin-westman-while-possible-manifesto-shows-psychotic-obsession-with-mass-shooters/

Cassidy James :gg: :fh:
Richard MacManus
Matt ⁂ 🇳🇴 🇺🇦
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izzy :: izjustpixels ✨
@izjustpixels@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

aaaand it's official: as of today, I am #fediverse exclusive!! 🎉💜

the last account to go was #instagram. I am so done with #meta.

so if you enjoy artisanal, hand-made, free-range, AI- and NFT-free #pixelArt - maybe give this account a follow and share it with all your fedi friends 💜

here, have this remaster of a #demake from years ago as a treat:
"Plumber Kart 8 Demake" (2025)

#pixelartist #retroart #retrogames#yegArts #demake #demaster

A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
izzy :: izjustpixels ✨
@izjustpixels@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

aaaand it's official: as of today, I am #fediverse exclusive!! 🎉💜

the last account to go was #instagram. I am so done with #meta.

so if you enjoy artisanal, hand-made, free-range, AI- and NFT-free #pixelArt - maybe give this account a follow and share it with all your fedi friends 💜

here, have this remaster of a #demake from years ago as a treat:
"Plumber Kart 8 Demake" (2025)

#pixelartist #retroart #retrogames#yegArts #demake #demaster

A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
dansup
@dansup@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I finished building the Story Composer for @PixelFed ✨

We're not quite ready to deploy this yet, with these new interactive elements I need to:

- Store them with hitSlop dimensions
- Render the links in both webUI and mobile
- Update federation to handle the interactive layer

And eventually publish a FEP for this, we already have Stories on web, and I can't wait to bring them to our mobile app!

#pixelfed #stories
MAD7 :vegan: :it:
@AbdelMadjid_Meziane@mastodon.uno replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@dansup@PixelFed you are great! Now it's a real ethic alternative of #instagram 🤗🙏🍀
ophiocephalic 🐍
@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

In his recent FediCon talk, Evan Prodromou implicitly rationalized his collaboration with Meta by proclaiming, "you don't negotiate with friends". Maybe not, but you don't hand enemies the keys to your kingdom either, which is exactly what he has done by giving Meta seats at the table of the ActivityPub working group. And for that matter, accepting a relatively significant sum of money from those enemies to fund your foundation goes rather beyond the negotiation phase as well, does it not?

As it stands, we have a hostile element enmeshed in the development process which undergirds the entire network, all the while systematically violating every last consent boundary the fedi has defined and defended over the course of its history. This is a power imbalance so egregious and amoral that it negates the raison d'etre of the fediverse altogether. Meta must be removed from SWICG

🧵 3/3 end

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG
ophiocephalic 🐍
@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The development process of the protocol is poisoned by the presence of Meta. Any significant revision the organization proposes will be perceived as an aspect of the Meta incursion, suspected and resisted, whatever its actual origin. The backlash to any perceived attempt by Meta to manipulate the backbone of the fedi could lead to an existential crisis.

Under these circumstances the only way to avoid such a backlash is to refrain from advancing protocol development at all, which is also unsustainable. The way out of this is the ejection of the Meta intruders from SWICG and any other working group which has an influence on the future of ActivityPub.

🧵 2/3

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG

Michael Downey 🧢
D. Olifant
Michael Downey 🧢 and 1 other boosted
ophiocephalic 🐍
@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

We already know that the Social Web Foundation and SWICG leadership will ignore the latest news of Meta's mass datacrime against the fediverse and continue enabling the parasitic Zuckerberg entity to influence the future of ActivityPub development by facilitating its presence on the W3C working group overseeing AP. This is not a sustainable arrangement.

There is absolutely no basis of trust whatsoever between the fediverse network of communities and Meta. The idea that representatives of this slimy fascist operation are insinuated into the organization shaping the next generation of the protocol underlying our network, while they simultaneously inflict nonconsenual predatory "AI" extractivism against us, is ludicrous and intolerable. This right here is the destruction of every single value the fediverse claims to stand for in one fell swoop.

🧵 1/3

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG
ophiocephalic 🐍
@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The development process of the protocol is poisoned by the presence of Meta. Any significant revision the organization proposes will be perceived as an aspect of the Meta incursion, suspected and resisted, whatever its actual origin. The backlash to any perceived attempt by Meta to manipulate the backbone of the fedi could lead to an existential crisis.

Under these circumstances the only way to avoid such a backlash is to refrain from advancing protocol development at all, which is also unsustainable. The way out of this is the ejection of the Meta intruders from SWICG and any other working group which has an influence on the future of ActivityPub.

🧵 2/3

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG
ophiocephalic 🐍
@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

In his recent FediCon talk, Evan Prodromou implicitly rationalized his collaboration with Meta by proclaiming, "you don't negotiate with friends". Maybe not, but you don't hand enemies the keys to your kingdom either, which is exactly what he has done by giving Meta seats at the table of the ActivityPub working group. And for that matter, accepting a relatively significant sum of money from those enemies to fund your foundation goes rather beyond the negotiation phase as well, does it not?

As it stands, we have a hostile element enmeshed in the development process which undergirds the entire network, all the while systematically violating every last consent boundary the fedi has defined and defended over the course of its history. This is a power imbalance so egregious and amoral that it negates the raison d'etre of the fediverse altogether. Meta must be removed from SWICG

🧵 3/3 end

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG
ophiocephalic 🐍
@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The development process of the protocol is poisoned by the presence of Meta. Any significant revision the organization proposes will be perceived as an aspect of the Meta incursion, suspected and resisted, whatever its actual origin. The backlash to any perceived attempt by Meta to manipulate the backbone of the fedi could lead to an existential crisis.

Under these circumstances the only way to avoid such a backlash is to refrain from advancing protocol development at all, which is also unsustainable. The way out of this is the ejection of the Meta intruders from SWICG and any other working group which has an influence on the future of ActivityPub.

🧵 2/3

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG
ophiocephalic 🐍
@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

We already know that the Social Web Foundation and SWICG leadership will ignore the latest news of Meta's mass datacrime against the fediverse and continue enabling the parasitic Zuckerberg entity to influence the future of ActivityPub development by facilitating its presence on the W3C working group overseeing AP. This is not a sustainable arrangement.

There is absolutely no basis of trust whatsoever between the fediverse network of communities and Meta. The idea that representatives of this slimy fascist operation are insinuated into the organization shaping the next generation of the protocol underlying our network, while they simultaneously inflict nonconsenual predatory "AI" extractivism against us, is ludicrous and intolerable. This right here is the destruction of every single value the fediverse claims to stand for in one fell swoop.

🧵 1/3

#DefederateMeta#FediPact#Meta#Zuckerberg#Threads#Facebook#Instagram#SocialWebFoundation#SWICG
Matt ⁂ 🇳🇴 🇺🇦
@matt@oslo.town  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I know PixelFed exists but it's all just text and video and images at the end of the day - so what if the Mastodon interface just looked like Instagram and then you could sign in using your existing Mastodon account... a concept:

https://coxy.co/instadon/v3

This is just hacked together real quick, but should I work on this to make it a real thing?

#PixelFed#Mastodon#Instagram#PhotoSharing#MastoDev#Instadon