Really though, why does mastodon have to be the "twitter killer"? Can't it just be a thing?
Capitalism makes it so natural for us to rhink in terms of scarcity that usually doesn't exist or doesn't *have* to exist.
a forbidden love, a cross-instance romance.. a scrappy, spirited young lad from .xyz determined to be with an heiress of .social royalty. their mods won't allow it. but they will do anything to be together.
So there are, like, video games that play with the fact that you're looking at a screen, or messing with a controller. There are movies or TV that do similar things. Not enough books play with the physical medium they're in (e.g. House of Leaves). It would be cool to have more books not just user paper and ink as an incidental delivery mechanism for ideas, but as a part of the art.
gnu found glory
can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace? never experienced the gnu wave? next wave? dream wave? OR cyberpunk?
every rogue state knows how to make a gnutron bomb
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a newly booted web server must be in want of a bot constantly attacking /wp-login.php
woods
a train's whistle
lit by a sickle moon
mastodon users be like
https://social.wxcafe.net/media/WUhZUzoRgQDiyqLD1cY
the best thing about being a marxist is you can blame capitalism for pretty much anything bad in your life and you're never wrong
websites are garbage
Alex Payne, (engineer who helped scale Twitter), way back in 2010: "Decentralization isnβt just a better architecture, itβs an architecture that resists censorship and the corrupting influences of capital and marketing.
"At the very least, decentralization would make tweeting as fundamental and irrevocable a part of the Internet as email. Now that would be a triumph of humanity."
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you wouldn't federate a car
Job thing! If you have a background in activism and understand tech, EFF has a couple of jobs you might be interested in (plz to boost)
Grassroots activist
You will support EFFβs grassroots advocacy efforts, support our security training team, and engage in outreach to grassroots groups, with a focus on technical communities and hacker spaces
Writer, Activism Team
This position will focus on net neutrality and a range of intellectual property issues
https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/jobs