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Hello Americans,
Today Meta has deactivated the Instagram accounts of the "No Kings" protests on the very day they are happening in the US. You can avoid Meta's fascist-defending shenanigans by following one of the main No Kings organisers on here instead:
This is a textbook example of why it's a bad idea to rely on billionaire-owned centralised social media.
(Thank you to @tchambers 🙏)
@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers I'm actually glad Meta did this. Meta is beyond evil but people just won't wake up to it and/or make up all kinds of excuses why they have to be on their platforms.
With actions such as these it becomes increasingly impossible to defend your presence there, just as it becomes increasingly impossible to find actual value on anything Meta.
Given how stubborn people are this kind of high profile bans and other shenanigans may be the only thing that does the trick.
The only problem is many smaller communities where social life practically runs over FB. Leaving the platform can mean literally being isolated in your own town and not having access to local information. This is a problem across the world and we need to find a solution (which likely will involve local politics and can be difficult depending on how they lean).
@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers
This is a slight tangent, but getting digital badges from the Linux Foundatio got me thinking we perhaps need something for the Fediverse, maybe a badge that says User, admin, developer, for each of the various services.
Not sure what the criteria could be, but if we could display those badges on profiles, it may make people take fedi seriously, we are at the point where we are a great community, lets celebrate it.
@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers Good evening from Gaza to those who care about our hopes. My daughter needs help.
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@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers Looks like MAGA ”freedom” ..
But really, Meta couldn’t have shot itself in the foot worse.
What are they gonna do next, ban the Fedi? Because they just gave people the perfect excuse to leave. 🤔
@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers
I agree with the central point about billionaire-owned social media but I find this whole business very strange.
A big feature of the US propaganda system is to allow protests like this. Peaceful protests which result in, at most, a little superficial change are helpful to the regime because they act as a safety valve, directing people's energy away from more effective strategies, while at the same time "proving" that the regime is open and democratic because it allows dissenting opinions.
Of course any real threats, like the Black Panthers, get eliminated with extreme violence at once, but the Noam Chomskys of the world are tolerated.
It's difficult to imagine that the latest No Kings protest has suddenly become so powerful a force that it needs to be suppressed in a heavy-handed way.
Are the billionaire oligarchs unaware of the strategy that keeps the guillotines away from their necks? Or do they think that with their ubiquitous surveillance and killer drones, no effective resistance is now possible?
@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers Looks like ”freedom” came 🤔
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Trump be like:
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usually I don't agree most 'if you blab blab blab, you're fascist' statement, but this one is right.
@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers Was Instagram getting too much traffic :-)? During the 1960s or early 1970s, everyone was up in arms about some incident and we heard that Noam Chomsky's answering service (the machines were not yet available) canceled him. It was restore within an hour - presumably because the FBI was wiretapping him and there was nothing to listen to if nobody could get through or leave a message. At least that was the story going around.
@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers Brazil was a test ground
p.s. The account is definitely official because they link to it from their website at https://indivisible.org (scroll to the bottom of the page).
@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers their site isn't verified 
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@FediFollows @indivisibleteam @tchambers This must be this freedom of speach-thing all the platform providers always talk about.