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MediaActivist

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Longtime guerrilla journalist & documentarian (ex-) whose camera shot fascists from Britain to Turtle Island.

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"Use a pen PIN, Sideshow Bob."

Building a radical mutual aid info network using the Fediverse (www.mediaactivist.com)

Some of you (especially in the UK) might have read a piece in Freedom News about using the French Reseau Mutu (Mutu Network) as a model for the possibility of a connected series of sites for radical information and mutual aid in different areas. Imagine it: instead of Facebook groups or Twitter profiles (eurgh) or disparate,...

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I was on kolektiva.social for a while (and still use their sibling instance on PeerTube, kolektiva.media), but found they became too unwieldy to effectively moderate, and unfortunately hit headlines with their compromised server data. I'm now on todon.eu.

I think Mastodon is a fantastic and important system of communication. However, I think a Mutu-style network would rely on something similar to Lemmy/Beehaw.

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That's an interesting point. If it doesn't make much of a difference, then why even ever enable it?

I find it best to really only embrace what contributes to a positive, productive experience rather than just replicating the Reddit culture through copycat features. But that's just a small detail. The main challenge ahead is to utilise these templates to create a radical info space similar to the Mutu Network. Hopefully we can do it!

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