I feel for this user - I’m a fellow ADHD sufferer and their distress is all too clear to me - and I tried to help them in the replies.

But on the other hand, I’m utterly enraged at the broader problem, and all the people who aren’t taking action today, choosing instead to wait until the water is past their neck.

This is the latest example of why we shouldn’t use #nonfree / #proprietary / #restricted and #centralized platforms like #Telegram, #Discord, #WhatsApp, #Signal, #Instagram, #Facebook, #Twitter, #LinkedIn, #Bluesky, #GitHub, and others.

There’s a whole-ass history of centralized platforms having the same class of issues. When are y’all gonna stop ignoring the problem and start exercising the power you have?

It’s as simple as quitting centralized platforms, switching to #FreedomRespecting #decentralized platforms like #ActivityPub and #XMPP, and telling others to do the same.

Create your communities there, and tell others about them. Move all your activity there. Onboard your friends and family. When there’s no other way to reach you, they will move.

Keep up the social pressure, and never relent.

Here’s a user’s guide to XMPP, for whoever needs it.

And developers? Get involved, improve the protocols, the clients, the servers…heck, I’m pretty sure a lot of features and fixes are popular/longstanding enough to make it feasible to crowdfund your patches!

#FreeSoftware #Libre #OpenSource

I feel for this user - I’m a fellow ADHD sufferer and their distress is all too clear to me - and I tried to help them in the replies.

But on the other hand, I’m utterly enraged at the broader problem, and all the people who aren’t taking action today, choosing instead to wait until the water is past their neck.

This is the latest example of why we shouldn’t use #nonfree / #proprietary / #restricted and #centralized platforms like #Telegram, #Discord, #WhatsApp, #Signal, #Instagram, #Facebook, #Twitter, #LinkedIn, #Bluesky, #GitHub, and others.

There’s a whole-ass history of centralized platforms having the same class of issues. When are y’all gonna stop ignoring the problem and start exercising the power you have?

It’s as simple as quitting centralized platforms, switching to #FreedomRespecting #decentralized platforms like #ActivityPub and #XMPP, and telling others to do the same.

Create your communities there, and tell others about them. Move all your activity there. Onboard your friends and family. When there’s no other way to reach you, they will move.

Keep up the social pressure, and never relent.

Here’s a user’s guide to XMPP, for whoever needs it.

And developers? Get involved, improve the protocols, the clients, the servers…heck, I’m pretty sure a lot of features and fixes are popular/longstanding enough to make it feasible to crowdfund your patches!

#FreeSoftware #Libre #OpenSource

@cmthiede @dianea

it's why we're both on #mastodon

we need to make of the #fediverse something that challenges #corporate #centralized #socialMedia in terms of influence and size

i'm not saying that's easy

i'm not pretending i know how

all i know is it is needed

otherwise, we're dealing with billions of people manipulated and signing on to #bigotry and #ignorance to serve the agendas of #plutocracy

and for those of you saying "i like the fediverse small and fringe"

i don't

@cmthiede @dianea

it's why we're both on #mastodon

we need to make of the #fediverse something that challenges #corporate #centralized #socialMedia in terms of influence and size

i'm not saying that's easy

i'm not pretending i know how

all i know is it is needed

otherwise, we're dealing with billions of people manipulated and signing on to #bigotry and #ignorance to serve the agendas of #plutocracy

and for those of you saying "i like the fediverse small and fringe"

i don't

@dnkboston @privateblack @FediThing @evedazzle

#fascism this time has something massively more destructive than the Volksempfänger (cheap mass produced radio that let the #Nazi's have a lock on #propaganda):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger

#socialMedia is worse than the nuclear bomb

(i understand the irony of posting this on social media, but #mastodon/ #fediverse is a direct reaction to #centralized #corporate social media: now the principal tool for spreading/ indoctrination into #bigotry)

A #blocklist is not going to be polite

It's a blocklist after all

So much for " #composableModeration" on #centralized #Bluesky

#moderation #AI

@ozzelot @FediThing @evedazzle

the whole " #bluesky is #decentralized" is straight #cryptobro cult sales speak

the way #crypto works is it gets devotion based on effusive glowing promises, then never delivers

it's a hack of human psychology

you get feverish praise and acclaim

based on promises that are always tomorrow

never reality today

bluesky is not decentralized

it's #centralized shit

but if you say this truth the most feverish cult nutcases come out of the woodwork to argue with you

@dnkboston @privateblack @FediThing @evedazzle

#fascism this time has something massively more destructive than the Volksempfänger (cheap mass produced radio that let the #Nazi's have a lock on #propaganda):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger

#socialMedia is worse than the nuclear bomb

(i understand the irony of posting this on social media, but #mastodon/ #fediverse is a direct reaction to #centralized #corporate social media: now the principal tool for spreading/ indoctrination into #bigotry)

@ozzelot @FediThing @evedazzle

the whole " #bluesky is #decentralized" is straight #cryptobro cult sales speak

the way #crypto works is it gets devotion based on effusive glowing promises, then never delivers

it's a hack of human psychology

you get feverish praise and acclaim

based on promises that are always tomorrow

never reality today

bluesky is not decentralized

it's #centralized shit

but if you say this truth the most feverish cult nutcases come out of the woodwork to argue with you

A #blocklist is not going to be polite

It's a blocklist after all

So much for " #composableModeration" on #centralized #Bluesky

#moderation #AI

@erikcats

#bluesky apparently *can* be #decentralized

someday

always someday, never today

miss me with that cult noise of endless hype promise and "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" reality

bluesky is #centralized #corporate bullshit

and someday the #cryptoBros who run it and the #crypto bros who fund it will turn it into another #twitter

in fact, it might be happening right now

fuck bluesky

@erikcats

#bluesky apparently *can* be #decentralized

someday

always someday, never today

miss me with that cult noise of endless hype promise and "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" reality

bluesky is #centralized #corporate bullshit

and someday the #cryptoBros who run it and the #crypto bros who fund it will turn it into another #twitter

in fact, it might be happening right now

fuck bluesky