maryjane @maryjane@coletivos.org

@Gargron @pbandkate

Some people I have spoken to think that there are 300k on the whole of Mastodon because mastodon.social says it has 300k.

With smaller instances this is an even bigger problem, people may think e.g. an instance with 25 people only has 25 people to talk to. It is not clear at all to newbies what the true reach of Mastodon is.

It could at least be an option for instance admins that they could switch on or off?

I'm struck by how similar the Russian influence ops were to traditional Internet direct marketing campaigns. Make organic ad copy masked as legit content (guides, etc), buy targeted GOOG/FB/etc ads pointing to content. Main diff is payload: manipulating your vote, not your purse.

Tumblr's porn filter blocked Tumblr's images illustrating what Tumblr's porn filter won't block
https://boingboing.net/2018/12/18/shitty-bot-inception.html

Ex Edge developer blames Google tricks in part for move to Chromium https://www.onmsft.com/news/ex-edge-developer-blames-google-tricks-in-part-for-move-to-chromium

@maryjane because its decentralized federated.... but, why then theres mastodon.social?

What if mastodon.social server goes down?

#felakuti #afrobeat
https://www.mixcloud.com/mukambo/80-times-fela-celebrating-the-legacy-of-the-black-president/

donate to help save wikipedia

so on the eve of the #tumblr shutdown, Tumblr IP-blocked the Internet Archive.

Just to be EXTRA dicks.

Our Plume instance has just went live! A big thank you to Tech AS member @f0x for setting it up! 🎊 🎉

https://cafe.sunbeam.city/

On thing in Mastodon that is kinda annoying is that if someone posts say just an image, or a text with mostly hashtags its very hard to "click on the post" so you can see the comments on it.
You need to click the little dots which isn't really all that intuitive.

Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox.

Sudhamsh Kandukuri and I presented yesterday at XConf India 2018.

An inspiring story of a grassroots movement where people rejected Facebook's Free Basics and installed low-cost community Wi-Fi networks instead.
A FreedomBox on the network provides most of the essential digital services required, offline.

Slides:
https://njoseph.me/~joseph/Digital%20Empowerment%20in%20Rural%20India.pdf

Video recording: coming soon!

#FreedomBox #Swecha #FSMI #XConfIndia #ThoughtWorks

Another #Arch meme. I steal the best ones.

they should call it slapitalism because it slaps you in the face with Bad Feelings

#ND NGO High Plains Housing Council finds that #transgender persons are commonly discriminated against in housing https://thedickinsonpress.com/news/government-and-politics/4543857-north-dakota-fair-housing-study-finds-discrimination-against

snowy #amsterdam

Dragon at the #adm festival