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This is how missiles rain down on us… Moments of terror that can end an entire family’s life. This is how we live in Gaza, surrounded by fear and bombardment, simply trying to survive and stay alive. 💔🇵🇸
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Yes, this MIGHT be needed, but there is a very big and blinded BUT.

It could also walk us directly down the #dotcons path, where most middel of the road instances subscribes to the biggest, best-funded and best-marketed organisation list. Then centralisation happens by gravity.

So we need eyes open and ears open, and a conversation that isn't blocked or controled before we start.

This isn't abstract either. We've been having versions of this conversation around #Fediverse governance for years.

Maybe the first step is much simpler: Who has the resources to organise a #4opens event - online, or better, in person?

Let's get the different people in the room, show our working, disagree openly, and see what actually emerges.

#OMN #openweb #4opens #Fediverse #ActivityPub #mainstreaming #dotcons #KISS

This MIGHT be needed but its also walking directly into the #dotcons path as people will likly subscribe to the biggist best funded list. so we need a eyes open and ears not block conversation on this path. Who has the resorces to organise a #4opens online or better in persion event?

If you have a snac follower, and they like your posts, take a moment to appreciate them.

#snac @grunfink@comam.es #fediverse

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mastomindset: click star, star turns yellow, scroll; value of masto favorite: 'seen' | snac: click like, webpage reloads, scrolling progress lost, never see post again; value of snac like: ive been to hell and back for you

When _YOU_ look at _YOUR_ profile picture on the screen, it [FACES] (looks)...

EDIT: you guys are going to give me a stroke - if there is a face in your profile picture, is it facing right or left.. dont think too much about it. dont worry about the eyes. just generally... my profile picture looks to the right, for example. OK COOL

EDIT7: OK, how about this - where does the NOSE / BEAK / SNOUT / ? point to.

EDIT8: I wish I never made this poll.

EDIT9: If you have an ANIMATED avatar, then judge it on the 1st frame.

EDIT10: If there are both a MIRROR REFLECTION as well as a FACE, decide on the direction the FACE is facing, not the reflection.

EDIT11/12: By STRAIGHT AHEAD I mean looking DIRECTLY at you!

EDIT13: im going to sleep now... please consult the comment section if youre unsure what to click. maybe dont click anything? that is allowed.

EDIT14: if your avatar is looking directly AWAY from the camera, that's also straight away.

EDIT15: If there is NO face in your profile picture, then don't click ANYTHING. this applies to hands, flowers, buildings, bikes, feet. If there is, for example, A FACE drawn on a wall, then judge it by the direction that picture of a face is facing.

(stop boosting this, i beg you - i want this to be over.)

#poll #unix_surrealism #fediverse

💔 My children are hungry. Please don’t scroll away.

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💔 Please don’t scroll past my family…

Every day, I carry the fear of not being able to provide my children with the basic things they need. We are living through incredibly difficult circumstances, and sometimes all we have left is hope and the kindness of others.

I’m asking from my heart: if you can donate, even a small amount can help us. If you can’t, please share our fundraiser

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A positive, non-“common sense” path for the #openweb is to democratise governance itself.

We have inherited centuries of governance models based around monarchy, aristocracy and feudalism. One person at the top, a small group of trusted people underneath, everyone else becomes the audience.

We keep reproducing this structure in technology while pretending we have invented something new. The #Fediverse has a chance to do something genuinely different.

So the question isn't “Who runs the Fediverse?” The more interesting question is: What would a democratic governance body for the #Fediverse work?

Because now much of the discussion still defaults to the people who build the technology, developers, infrastructure people, protocol experts.

The people who understand the machinery become the people who define the future of the machinery. The #geekproblem aristocracy with a better keyboard.

What used to happen on #SocialHub is an example of this problem: a space largely shaped around the developer and technical community. That community matters, but it isn't the whole social world that the technology operates inside.

This is the #geekproblem again, technical competence becomes confused with social legitimacy. Being able to write the code doesn't mean you govern the society that grows around the code.

💔 Please don’t scroll past my family…

Every day, I carry the fear of not being able to provide my children with the basic things they need. We are living through incredibly difficult circumstances, and sometimes all we have left is hope and the kindness of others.

I’m asking from my heart: if you can donate, even a small amount can help us. If you can’t, please share our fundraiser

🔗 https://chuffed.org/project/178829

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Gaza #Palestine #FediForGaza
#fadiforgaza
#fediverse

An old post on a subject we still need to work on - News culture on the #Fediverse https://hamishcampbell.com/news-culture-on-the-fediverse/

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#fediverse🙏🍉

Boost if you agree. Let them know we know they don't really care about us!

#eu #europe #evropa #sad #fediverse #fediart #mastoart #comic

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panel from "Zimmer Saves the Union"; brank is cutting up a flag and glues stars to his collage

https://qum.cz/snac_achievements/

#snac2 #fediverse @grunfink@comam.es

@SnowCrash77 Ich kenne mich mit #Daggerfall nicht aus, aber wenn Du den Hashtag #pnpde nutzt, kannst Du einen Großteil der deutschsprachigen Pen & Paper Bubble im #Fediverse erreichen.

Viele von uns P&P Nerds folgen nämlich diesem Hashtag. 😊

The Centre for European Policy Studies "a leading think tank and forum for debate on EU affairs, ranking among the top think tanks in Europe" has a report about the #fediverse called "Unpacking the fediverse: What it is, why it matters – and how it could cause a major headache for the DSA"
https://www.ceps.eu/ceps-publications/unpacking-the-fediverse

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a corprete looking pdf that says: Unpacking the fediverse What it is, why it matters – and how it could cause a major headache for the DSA Paula Gürtler 2025-02

#mainstreaming is a killer problem on the #openweb and the #Fediverse.

It is also a killer problem in itself.

So the obvious hashtag is #deathcult - defined by #neoliberalism, but covering much of what we call mainstreaming today.

The answer?

Shovels and compost.

We need to dig up the old habits, compost the dead ideas, and make room for something that can actually grow.

It occurs to me: wouldn't it be nice to have something like a shared sort of lecture environment on the fedi, where people interested in a topic just hang out and watch a lecture and then discuss it?

Yeah... I've been looking at courses online to see if I could learn something new, and I'm missing the interactivity a bit. The hanging out and talking about the topic at hand.

#fediverse

Apathy and bad behaviour are a bigger problem than disagreement. People saying “I don't understand” is not necessarily the problem. We can explain things better. The problem starts when people don't care enough to engage, dismiss ideas without trying to understand them, and turn a discussion into personal attacks.

Apathy creates the space for bad systems to continue. If we don't care, the #dotcons keep doing what they do. If we don't participate, other people make the decisions. If we don't challenge bad behaviour, it becomes normal.

So yes, we should make our language clearer. We should avoid unnecessary jargon and explain the ideas better. But there also has to be some willingness to engage.

You can't build an #openweb, healthy communities or meaningful governance from people who simply don't care - or who respond to disagreement with abuse.

The #openweb needs participation, curiosity, patience and accountability. The opposite of that isn't just ignorance, it's apathy + bad behaviour.

And that is something we need to talk about. #OMN #4opens #openweb #commons #governance #Fediverse #OGB

A radical joining an #openweb project like #Mastodon can be problematic if they join one of the big #mainstreaming instances.

The people controlling the biggest spaces aren't particularly radical, when push comes to shove - and it will - a genuinely radical community can find itself pushed out, just as happened with the #dotcons.

So if you're an activist, don't join the biggest server because it's convenient. Look harder for a sustainable activist instance, one where the community, values and governance actually fit the politics you want to build.

The #openweb is about more than escaping the #dotcons. It's about building spaces where radical communities can actually stay, organise and thrive. #Fediverse #FOSS #OMN #4opens #activism #OGB #indymediaback

So the mess we've made doesn't have to define us. We can learn from it, reuse it and turn it into fertile ground for something better.

A world where communities are connected and empowered, where the web is open, where technology serves people rather than extracting from them.

The mess is real, so is our capacity to compost it. Let's get the shovels out.

#OMN #openweb #4opens #MakingHistory #FOSS #Fediverse #commons #socialtechnology #decentralisation #OGB #indymediaback