Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber@octodon.social

So I have an announcement. I sent an email to my work saying that I wanted to be able to focus on my work on taking advancing the federated social web to the next level. Read: better security / abuse resistance, richer interactions, virtual worlds.

How will I be funded to do this? I don't know. I do know that the state of the political world scares me enough that I feel I have to do this. If you want to support me: https://www.patreon.com/cwebber

Wish me luck. More updates soon.

privacy is your local scope where you perform your local reasoning

maybe people who don't think privacy is important are okay with programming by only mutating global variables

the safest way to use computers is still abstinence

#introductions

Hi! You may most likely know me as co-editor of ActivityPub, the decentralized social network message which is more-than-likely how you're actually receiving this message! https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Other things you may want to know:

- I'm a user freedom activist (free software, free culture)
- I post a lot of leftie politics stuff
- Expect lots of tech posts around lisp, decentralized network stuff, obscure-ish programming history

Time to listen to the Metropolis (2001) soundtrack again

Hey, in case you haven't noticed: society now nearly completely operates in a super networked way; COVID-19 accelerated that.

So working on user freedom issues (software, network, etc rights) has never mattered more. And there is much good we can do.

I said in the parent post I wasn't going to be spending my mental energy on the 2020 election, to the best I can, and this is true.

But that doesn't mean I'm going to let me feel defeated.

There's important work to be done. User and computing freedom have *never* mattered more... especially now that the way we interact with each other has been accelerated in its network'edness by this pandemic.

Energy is still there, just allocating it more productively.

I'm going to vote against Trump in the general election, but I'm pretty much certain he's already won 2020, so that's not where I'm going to spend my mental energy to the best I can anymore.

It's been a while since I used "sed".

Sauteed dandelion greens: turns out I like them, and they come "for free", right on our lawn. Made them in olive oil, salt, and a bit of maple syrup.

But the bitterness turns out to not be for everyone ;P

New blogpost by MediaGoblin co-maintainer Ben Sturmfels: We're still here! https://mediagoblin.org/news/still-here-in-2020.html

@sl007 More: https://www.ushahidi.com/blog/2020/04/02/redaktor-showing-solidarity-in-times-of-covid-19