If you have ever been in an online group, you are well aware that its convenience comes with many limitations, including admins who have definitive control over everybody else.
These aren’t just annoyances — @ntnsndr 's newest piece discusses the “implicit feudalism” of digital groups and why we need more democratic communities online.
"Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Monday."
Another big milestone for Fediverse Threads! Hoping that the next phase will allow cross-platform follows 👀🤞🏼
If social media existed when I was a teenager, of course I would have used it -- and not because it's "addictive" but because I was desperately lonely and fending off family abuse, societal hatred, indifferent peers, and being broke. You mean I could talk to people who might give a shit about me? Sold!
I used IRC and ICQ for the same reasons in college and you know what? It made me feel better having people who weren't threatening to kill me on a regular basis.
It's his "But her emails!" which people seemed embarrassed about afterward, but it's obvious in real-time, and no one is really embarrassed, or not enough.
I’ve just released v7.1.0 of FediFetcher. This is an important release that will significantly improve resource usage and running time of FediFetcher, as well as help our users be good citizens of the fediverse.
I encourage you all to update to the latest version asap.
For full details including update instructions visit the release page:
If anybody wants to #contribute to a small #opensource utility using #ratatui and #iroh we've got an open issue for making a Terminal UI for a graph database explorer on the Weird project:
I am convinced one of the most radically positive things you can do as a middle class/wealthy person is provide a little seed capital to start a worker-owned cooperative. Groceries, community pharmacy, medical office, gym, local newspaper, co-housing, whathaveyou - a lot of the folks who could benefit most from a co-op don't have the $ to start one even if they can contribute sweat equity.
Start something that frees us all from the rapacious corps & plutocrats.
It’s come to my attention that #fedifetcher can put a lot of load on mastodon instances. (Yes, I should’ve foreseen this)
Here are my thoughts on ways to address this. I’d be keen on thoughts by people impacted by this (be it as users of Fedifetcher or as #mastoadmin ) - preferably as comments to that issue.