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I read something recently that gave me food for thought. An alternative has to be 10x better for people to switch; and the core experience is what convinces people, not cool extra features.
I don't know how universally applicable it is, but I wonder how Mastodon stacks up in that. Personally I think it's 10x better, but is it really? Or more importantly, are we communicating clearly that it is?
I'm working on an ActivityPub guide website for coders & non-coders! It's something I wish existed before I started pixelfed.
#Discord re-set this flag automatically during the last update. If you don't want it scanning your computer and uploading that info to their servers, check your privacy settings.
This is awful.
Just in: Supreme Court rules that government generally needs a warrant if it wants to track an individual’s location through cell records over an extended period
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/22/politics/supreme-court-ruling-cell-phone/index.html
My first #TheseAreTheChildren post is up. Read a bit about the story of a child who was raped and whose undocumented immigrant mother had to decide whether reporting the rape was good for the child in light of the possibility that the child would be taken from her.
These are the impossible choices we inflict on parents with current US policy requiring isolation of children.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/19/these-are-the-children-1/
Yesterday I said that US policy isolating immigrant children amounted to torture, backing it up with a reading of the UN Convention Against Torture. But the fun doesn't stop there.
Today we're examining the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, and it turns out that the US might be in breach of that treaty as well. (Spoiler: Yes, the US is in breach. Massively. Blatantly.)
Feel free to read my latest either before or after you call your Rep & Senators
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/19/us-violates-the-uncsr/
@judeswae absolutely. But the first step should be breaking out of the single walled garden the content is already in...
I mean, if Blender Foundation would host their own PeerTube instance, that would be amazing, obviously! ;)
And so #Youtube won't allow the #Blender Foundation to share its creative commons licensed videos on the platform if they don't monetize it? Really? https://www.blendernation.com/2018/06/19/blender-foundation-youtube-update/ #b3d
🎉 #Mastodon v2.4.2 is out: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.2
- Invite autofollow option
- Language filter opt-in
- Default posting language
- "Find friends" link
- dat, ipfs protocols autolinked
- Other fixes and improvements
Please use the hashtag #TheseAreTheChildren to share what you know about the families who face separation and the children who face isolation.
If you can't wait until tomorrow to read my post on the 4 year old raped by a sheriff's deputy who got away with it for months or years by threatening the child's undocumented mother with deportation, you can read one report here:
The family at the heart of my first These Are The Children post is one where a Sheriff's deputy repeatedly raped a 4 year old and kept the mother quiet by threatening deportation.
Eventually the mother had to report the rapes and the injury to her child. The sheriff's office wants her to avoid deportation until she can testify, but we don't know if she's being detained or not, nor do we know if this child rape victim is isolated in an ICE tent or cage.
Tomorrow I start a new series of posts, These Are The Children which will focus on the stories of children that come to the attention of ICE -and thus risk isolation in camps or cages.
Although I've already written the first post, it's scheduled to drop tomorrow to make sure readers have time to catch up with everything I've been writing on this topic today and yesterday.
Is the US treatment of refugee and migrant children torture not merely in the eyes of humanity and common sense, but also in the eyes of the law?
You bet'cha. Get wonky with me and examine how the UN Convention Against Torture defines torture and then look at how it might (spoiler: does) apply to the US today.
Then CALL YOUR FUCKING REP AND SENATORS: yes, wonketry is compatible with both outrage and action.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pervertjustice/2018/06/18/yes-this-is-torture/
And I have stated before, but it still applies, going through toots (via hashtags) and then dumping your negativity or opinion on someones toot...whilst not looking at their history or work, is a sure fire way to getting blocked or ignored.
Bc you're not engaging. I know you think you are but you're not. You're like a cat out in the garden marking something and then just walking away.
Giving money to your admin to keep things running or to the Mastodon project are great ways to give back and help your community.
Giving money to support individual users on Mastodon who need money and resources is just as if not more helpful and important.
Support the poor in your community. Pay the artists. Spread the resources around. Make this place as healthy and punk rock as possible.
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Hey #FreeSotfware lovers!
We need you to help us grow #PeerTube into the YouTube alternative it can become.
Spread the word about #JoinPeertube https://joinpeertube.org, and fund the development of important features on https://frama.link/joinpeertube
Peertube, an ActivityPub based alternative to YouTube, is running a crowdfunding campaign https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
Comes at an important time, with YouTube blocking legitimate videos on (incorrect) copyright grounds, such as MIT's OpenCourseWare videos and the Blender Foundation's videos https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/
if it tells me which movie it's from and a timestamp i'll let you scan some of my emails
