Posts by ariehkovler@journa.host
 (DIR) Post #APJ6ZIHiLZrPDl1Cz2 by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-05T21:50:39Z
       
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       There are tradeoffs with a decentralised platform like Mastodon. Right now, white nationalists are joining the network to post horrendous videos of black people being murdered. Several have appeared in my Federated tab already. But reporting them means the admins of my server have to see the same material in order to ban it. I felt so guilty clicking 'report'
       
 (DIR) Post #APJBDC1FSeqZBkb6WG by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-05T21:54:08Z
       
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       @maxeddy In this case they're on my server. One volunteer admin can't do it all, especially on the first day.
       
 (DIR) Post #APJqOP3PR04SvC4XnU by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-06T06:51:50Z
       
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       @CapitalB the mods there are paid, trained and spend all day doing this. It's the difference between calling a sewer cleaner to clean my sewer and asking my kid to do it.
       
 (DIR) Post #APK4RISrmyJoiCFnMW by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-06T09:24:10Z
       
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       I'm not going to call them toots. You can't make me call them toots.
       
 (DIR) Post #APKBiu3Tyr7jtnitAe by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-06T07:54:36Z
       
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       Mastodon will only work as an alternative to Twitter if news orgs, institutions etc launch their own Mastodon servers for their team members, employees, representatives etc. Like email addresses.
       
 (DIR) Post #APKBiuYg6s4rSYJnnM by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-06T07:56:01Z
       
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       So MPs can be NAME@parliament.uk, Guardian journos can be NAME@guardian.co.uk, etc. That works as institutional verification of identity.
       
 (DIR) Post #APKBiv26LTc4vo5Iem by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-06T07:57:50Z
       
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       There are managed Mastodon offerings like managed email. Orgs don't *need* to run actual software themselves.
       
 (DIR) Post #APKBivQurDSkAlh7Kq by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-06T08:01:33Z
       
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       Any organisation which benefits from having its employees, leaders, team members, talent etc verified on Twitter should consider setting up a Mastodon server for them. Like, right now. Not very expensive, worth hedging your bets.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ7iFJaEnRTDopCxFY by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-30T07:55:17Z
       
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       There's been loads of academic work on liberal-left antisemitism in the last two decades, much of it good. But the lens it created mostly isn't suitable for analysing the contemporary alt-Right antisemitism in the US and its intersection with black antisemitism.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ7iFLK0KlfpD3d1E0 by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-30T07:55:42Z
       
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       This partly explains the failure of the 'mainstream' right to really deal with its antisemitic flank over the last couple of years. A whole generation of activists don't understand contemporary antisemitism outside of Left and Islamist frameworks.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQ7iFNBZP67CzThJM8 by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-30T08:08:50Z
       
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       Christian Identity, the Daily Stormer phenomenon, /pol/ culture... serious Jewish community orgs like ADL and CST monitored them, but international conferences on antisemitism focused almost exclusively on the Left, Islamists and Israel stuff.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQmHfhoqa1dPERl3mS by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-21T07:38:51Z
       
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       I never did an #introduction, so here goes: I'm a writer, political analyst, occasional campaigner and communications bod who fell into journalism via social media. Born in London, moved to Jerusalem in 2011. My areas of interest are politics, (especially Israel, UK and US), technology and extremism. I've followed online bad actors from nanae and anti-spammers, to tracking al-Qaeda use of the Internet in the early 2000s, to Iranian fronts through to far-right extremism today.
       
 (DIR) Post #AQmHfjpz4ljTUYIzpY by ariehkovler@journa.host
       2022-11-21T07:41:31Z
       
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       Professionally, for a long time I was the Head of Policy and Research for the UK's Jewish Leadership Council, advising on a range of domestic and international policy and connecting with government, Parliament and NGOs. I also advise tech startups on comms strategy. I also try to write at the Hat Tip, my Substack, on arieh.substack.com, but it's been a while. Subscribe anyway; at least you won't be overloaded.