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RE: https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/117468134697550198
Yep. I don't agree with @tchambers on everything but when he's right he's right. Four good bullet points from Tim and @WillRobinson, important for any organizing that's fighting fascism and/or the surveillance-industrial complex:
Build the channels nobody can switch off. (Although, Substack's just as fascist-friendly as Meta, so I wouldn't count on them.)
Stand up accounts on open platforms. Damn right. (More thoughts about the #fediverse and the #ATmosphere in a reply)
Warn your people before it happens. "One message, now, while nothing is wrong: here is where to find us if we disappear. Bookmark this. Subscribe here. Follow us there. Nobody routes around an outage they were never told about, and a crisis is the worst time to teach a new habit."
Write the playbook before you need it.
And it's not just here in the US where it matters. Meta has intervened even more blatantly -- and repeatedly -- in the Brazilian election, and you can probably guess who they're favoring. (Hint: not Lula!). They also intervened against protestors in Albania, and I've heard reports of cockroaches (complimentary) in India getting censored as well. So it's good policy no matter where you are!
EDIT: Also keep an eye on France, via @JulianOliver. We haven't seen reports yet of Meta meddling here but I'll bet dollars to donuts they are.
Custom feeds in the ATmosphere -- Blacksky, Bluesky, etc -- provide some good options for routing around these problems. I've been looking at things from an election defense perspective, with a focus on disinfo-resistance, because we clearly can't rely on Meta et al to be giving us accurate information ... and there are definite possibilities. More about that soon,.
But what about the #fediverse?
Right now, it's not at all clear how to stay informed about the US midterm elections here.
The #uspol hashtag doesn't have a lot of news.
I haven't found any great Lemmy or Piefed communities.
And that's me speaking as a long-time fedi user, imagine how hard it is for a newcomer to find things! Over the weekend I posted asking if folks had suggestions on this front and ... crickets.
https://gotosocial.thenexus.today/@thenexusofprivacy/statuses/01M56VBN03EPS6HQ3Y2BR9KZNC
Which on the one hand makes sense: fedi's very international, and even in the US a lot of people are in fedi because they want a refuge where they're not constantly bombarded with news about politics. Which is completely valid, and some of the replies to the thread discuss how to keep midterm discussions from overwhelming everything else (as US-based stuff frequently does).
But on the other hand ... there's a real need here, in the US and other countries, and it's a real shame that right now the only good alternative is the ATmosphere. So, it's worth thinking about what if anything we can be doing here.
RE: https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/117468134697550198
Yep. I don't agree with @tchambers on everything but when he's right he's right. Four good bullet points from Tim and @WillRobinson, important for any organizing that's fighting fascism and/or the surveillance-industrial complex:
Build the channels nobody can switch off. (Although, Substack's just as fascist-friendly as Meta, so I wouldn't count on them.)
Stand up accounts on open platforms. Damn right. (More thoughts about the #fediverse and the #ATmosphere in a reply)
Warn your people before it happens. "One message, now, while nothing is wrong: here is where to find us if we disappear. Bookmark this. Subscribe here. Follow us there. Nobody routes around an outage they were never told about, and a crisis is the worst time to teach a new habit."
Write the playbook before you need it.
And it's not just here in the US where it matters. Meta has intervened even more blatantly -- and repeatedly -- in the Brazilian election, and you can probably guess who they're favoring. (Hint: not Lula!). They also intervened against protestors in Albania, and I've heard reports of cockroaches (complimentary) in India getting censored as well. So it's good policy no matter where you are!
EDIT: Also keep an eye on France, via @JulianOliver. We haven't seen reports yet of Meta meddling here but I'll bet dollars to donuts they are.
ICYMI: Learn how the Fediverse was built in the latest article from our series on public funding of open source
@nlnet @NGIZero @cwebber @Bonfire
#DigitalAutonomy #ActivityPub #Fediverse #OpenSource #community #FOSS
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