Posts by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
(DIR) Post #AZHVatzbSyV1rQdSXA by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-08-28T17:13:05Z
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So what can we do about links that can track us?When you're sharing a link: strip the trackers out or use an archival site like archive dot ph and share that link instead—especially if it's a link to a government site or other sensitive website, e.g. far right news sites or tabloids like New York PostWhen you're opening a link: check the link for trackers, expand the shortened URL to see where it really goes (wheregoes dot com), archive it and view it as a PDF, and maybe even open it on a browser or device that isn't your daily-driver or one that you can't afford to be compromisedHere is a tool I built to expand and clean up links before opening or sharing, in case you're on an iPhone or a Mac: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2065466498754c6d8cd5d9d977fc3931
(DIR) Post #AZHVav1lcPpB4QehXs by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-08-28T18:06:32Z
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cc: @igd_news @thefinalstrawradio @ARG @arstechnica @CrimethInc @fight @cldcFlagging a short thread with some best practices and tools that could be helpful for your audiences. Feel free to share here or elsewhere without crediting or linking back to me, or even claim it as your own—the goal is to just get the word out to change our habits!
(DIR) Post #AZKtzgVViqZJeNn1WK by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-09-01T21:45:17Z
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@mjg59 I think @sarahljaffee summed it up neatly in Work Won’t Love You Back: “The problems of today’s nonprofit sector are outgrowths of this necessary inequality: nonprofits exist to try to mitigate the worst effects of an unequal distribution of wealth and power, yet they are funded with the leftovers of the very exploitation the nonprofits may be trying to combat. Nonprofit work then is also caring work, also service work, privatized, on the one hand, unlike public school teaching, but supposedly not in service of the profit motive. Nonprofits are not, despite their supposed lack of interest in profit, exceptions to the capitalist system but embedded in it, necessary to its continued existence.“Kelly Hayes references it in the latest episode of Movement Memos: https://truthout.org/audio/our-movements-need-infrastructure-for-care-recovery-and-belonging/
(DIR) Post #AZhrJb3tc8HVSlgTbs by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-09-12T23:21:57Z
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"Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms ["covid" and "long covid"] and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,” “vaccines” and “vaccination” are also among blocked words."@washingtonpost coverage by @taylorlorenzhttps://archive.ph/9NNHd
(DIR) Post #AZhrJdVyUhvj4Qpvea by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-09-12T23:23:56Z
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fr tho, how do we get people to jump ship and commit to deleting their twitter and meta accounts? we need to explore new angles, i think
(DIR) Post #AZjHfqsOHyLwqcXFC4 by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-09-13T15:20:04Z
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@wjmaggos search would be huge, no doubt. it hampers the experience more than it seems like it should. it’s always the little things that turn people away or get them hooked
(DIR) Post #AZuZ3N3MLtM2nq1iJU by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-09-18T21:09:10Z
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🔔 Friendly PSA for people on @kolektiva & adjacent instances and those following or supporting the #StopCopCity movement:A group known as Refuse Fascism (@/refusefascism/@mastodon.world) is on Mastodon and they seem to have a sizeable reach.This group is associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party a.k.a. RevCom as well as Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, none of which are to be trusted and I would suggest considering adding them to block lists.These groups are known among organizers to:• collaborate with police• stifle dissent• perpetuate harmful ideas & myths• perpetuate racism & transphobia• swoop demonstrations or co-opt movement engagement for their own ends (like funneling green protesters into their cult-like patterns of behavior or their fundraising efforts—including merch—that diverting funds away from longtime and legitimate outfits)The last point is critical because prior to the Supreme Court decision to overturn protections, they had no established presence or platform in this movement space then spun up Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights to capture newly generated interest among new or young activists. They appear to be using the same playbook for the #StopCopCity movement.
(DIR) Post #AZuZ3ODg11CYQ7rT28 by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-09-18T21:26:20Z
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If you’d like to read more about RevCom / Refuse Fascism / Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, their patterns, history, and criticism have been covered in @Vice and @theintercept by @annamerlan and @robertmackey https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axx7q/the-abortion-rights-group-other-activists-want-nothing-to-do-withhttps://theintercept.com/2022/07/14/rise-up-4-abortion-rights-protests-revcom
(DIR) Post #AZuZ3OTH51g7CV9vLU by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-09-18T23:27:40Z
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(DIR) Post #AZuZ3PgmYI4qygUE2S by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-09-18T21:29:26Z
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This isn't meant to be an alarm-ringing post, of course—they've been on that fediverse instance since Nov 2022. It just came as a surprise since they cropped up in my #StopCopCity hashtag feed and it's the first I've seen them since ditching twitter, so I thought I'd flag it for anyone that wasn't in the know.
(DIR) Post #AbJ8FIYeSwfaZFFtAW by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-10-30T21:02:16Z
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@stux @rolle yearning for the days when brooklyn looked like every few blocks 😩
(DIR) Post #Abo7BRrTdkDbF55ZA0 by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-11-14T19:42:31Z
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@bart @wjmaggos @tchambers @rolle @mammothone thing that made twitter so successful was the idea that you could just hack it to make it work the way you needed it to and the dev & design team would adopt the user-created features along the way. when we wanted to comment on something someone tweeted, we just put the commentary before “RT”. even hashtags were born from a user solving a problem themselves and then a twitter dev adding a few lines of code to make it permanent. so the way i see it, the “onboarding problem” can be solved by guiding users through the existing environment—the currently-imperfect-yet steered-by-users one, instead of the idealized, white paper version—and not forcing an experience upon the user. this means embracing the ‘bird.makeup’ bots through features like pointing out that one can still get the latest updates from the X accounts they need to follow with these bots and perhaps mastodon can send the X user an update every time another user follows to encourage them to make the leap. this means talking to the organizers & journalists using the platform about what would make publishing news better and showing new users the #mosstdon ’s / #fungifriday ‘s of this space—allowing them to dream about what’s possible and comprehend how vibrant it is here. it means zooming out and watching how we all use this and how you as the developer can help us do that better.i think it comes down to paradigms of computing—is this an extension to the “bicycle for our minds” or is it a treadmill in a maze of strangers? the platforms that have survived over the last two decades did so because of the people and the culture those people cultivated, not because of software features. the apps that were coercive or prescriptive about how a user should use the app were niche and cutesy and maybe had their fleeting moment of fame, but inevitably died. software should be seen as gardening hand tools over landscape equipment, imo—it should facilitate and amplify our ability to nurture and create; not carve rigid paths and engineer manicured, homogenous experiences.
(DIR) Post #AboD42BZItBtJ8KmhM by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-11-14T19:48:50Z
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@bart @wjmaggos @tchambers @rolle @mammoth i think people will *say* they need certain features from a platform or thing like “mastodon is just too confusing and bluesky isn’t” but what they mean yet can’t articulate is that they want easy access to culture and their friends. if bluesky is any example, people are willing to sacrifice features for friends (and i can’t blame them). mastodon has features ppl on bluesky and X are itching for but they won’t budge because their favorite podcast hosts aren’t here and their friends are over there.
(DIR) Post #Aceunsvvs2ECDMt63c by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T17:37:40Z
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@schmaker @tinker @stooovie @halva 🎯there’re some methodologies on internet content but the gist of most of them is that the goal is to ditch the ‘accounts’ paradigm and shift to one of ‘broadcasting’. this is adjacent. it’s not just “cool”—it makes the walled gardens we’re all familiar with transparent & permeable.on the fediverse, you can get your youtube subscriptions and your twitter feed and instagram posts all in your app (or not!) of choice.we’re just hitting a critical point of usage and content where we can see the cross-pollination benefits. i think in a year’s time, we’ll see apps that have dedicated sections for video feeds, ‘stories’, photos, and short & long text like the sections of a magazine or newspaper.
(DIR) Post #AcsjZYpEZO2O0ETecq by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-12-16T17:20:33Z
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do people really not know that you can use signal to make audio and video calls?i’m always so confused when someone wants to call me but gets caught up in the ‘okay so how do you wanna do this’ dance by suggesting a different platform or asking what phone i use to see if FaceTime is an option.it’s happened too often for me to count, so i wonder if it’s an angle their marketing team should explore.cc: @signalapp @Mer__edith #signal #facetime #infosec #privacy
(DIR) Post #AcvIrdqAY1pdTtBwUS by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-12-17T18:44:28Z
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‼️🚨 hey so libraries across NYC are rapidly unspooling.because of recent budget cuts, they’ve been forced to reduce:• their stock of digital books• the number of materials you can put on hold or have out on loan• their hours of operation• scheduled repairs & maintenance• staffit’s only a matter of time before these cutbacks cascade into elimination of physical materials and closures, leading to the undoing of the library system in NYC.i implore you to start discussing how to preserve the institutions you have near you and their materials and take steps to make it happen.https://www.bklynlibrary.org/service-changes#libraries #brooklyn #nyc #FTP #ForThePeople #community #communitysupport #mutualaid
(DIR) Post #AcvIrf2y3vfDDsBg4u by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-12-17T18:48:43Z
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i think we can all agree that this is waaaay more important than the debate over #federation with #meta’s #threads
(DIR) Post #AdHTqqOBX6Lo3SwoNM by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-12-27T22:26:09Z
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lowkey obsessed with this alvin and the chipmunks soundcloud project where every track is slowed to 16bpm. it’s dark and drippy and haunting and sorta fkd up—extremely my shithttps://on.soundcloud.com/Lf1iLX5KxLwTSNX88(h/t @clive)#music #darkwave #nuwave #shoegaze #1980s #80smusic #soundcloud #spotify
(DIR) Post #AdHTqsjWoibzKEwsvA by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-12-28T00:15:39Z
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@ciggysmokebringer @clive yessss. makes me wanna go antiquing / thrifting / junk diving for old tapes.
(DIR) Post #AdIGtmPVg3OIL1b44m by tothedaring@kolektiva.social
2023-12-29T06:48:00Z
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@clive @ciggysmokebringer 💥 queuing this up