Minority opinion and vulnerable minority population aren't the same thing.
Just because your opinion is in the minority doesn't mean it's bigoted or unreasonable to dismiss it, only when your opinion is rooted in your status as a vulnerable population.
Me voicing about how things affect me as a trans-woman is speaking from my minority status and bears listening to because we want to be a fair and equitable society.
That doesn't mean we should take seriously the minority of people who are convinced that 1+1=3. Their minority position stems from simply being wrong about fundamental truths.
Copying myself because I'm irritated yet again by people with their head up their ass assuming that their tiny view of the fediverse represents the whole and it's history...
This was set off by another person, yet again, complaining about bridgy-fed and thinking Snarfed is some untrustworthy asshole because he was following the actual norms and standards of the fediverse because the Twitter expats thought Mastodon was some bastion of personal control and ownership....
For context, opt-out (via just blocking the bridge) has been the norm since pretty much the beginning of federation... which the people complaining about the nature of the bridge don't realize how old federation and the community is.
For context (of the ones I'm aware of):
* The first federated protocol was introduced in 1980
* The first federated chat protocol was introduced in 1999
* The first federated social networking platforms that I know of started coming out about 2010. The platform I'm on (Friendica) came out that year.
* the second major federated chat protocol was introduced in 2014 and quickly bridges were built between it and the first (all only opt-out via blocking)
* Mastodon wasn't released until 2016, originally on the ostatus network (Friendica supported and still supports ostatus)
* Snarfed starts working on bridgy-fed around 2018
* Activitypub came out in 2018, mastodon and friendica both transitioned to Activitypub as their central protocol with Mastodon eventually dropping ostatus.
* Bridges were established between Activitypub and previous social networks, all opt-out bridges (and again via blocking)
* 2022 Elon Musk buys Twitter and do to good PR Mastodon becomes the instance platform of choice for most of them to the point that most of them think Mastodon is the network
* 2023, Snarfed has been writing bridgy fed for 7 years now, about as long as the activitypub network has existed, long predating Bluesky (because that's not the only bridge in the project), and all of a sudden people specifically overwhelmingly on Mastodon or younger projects think it's a deep offense to build something under the same social standards that have been the norm for decades. Even then long before the bluesky portion of the bridge was fully functional they relented and switched to an approach that drastically hampered has caused countless bugs and technical difficulties just because a minority of people decided to dogpile him... and of course he's judged because other people essentially crashed a party he'd been at peacefully for years and decided to scream that he was being inappropriate when everyone who was hear already supported it...
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Nous ne devons pas nous concentrer uniquement sur le rejet négatif de la guerre, mais surtout sur l'affirmation positive de la paix.
Citation extraite de la conférence de Martin Luther King Jr. pour le prix Nobel de la paix à Oslo, le 11 décembre 1964.
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Extrait de la conférence de Martin Luther King Jr. pour le prix Nobel de la paix à Oslo, le 11 décembre 1964:
Nous ne construirons pas un monde pacifique en suivant une voie négative. Il ne suffit pas de dire «Nous ne devons pas faire la guerre». Il faut aimer la paix et se sacrifier pour elle. Nous devons nous concentrer non seulement sur l'expulsion négative de la guerre, mais aussi sur l'affirmation positive de la paix. Il existe une petite histoire fascinante qui nous est conservée dans la littérature grecque sur Ulysse et les sirènes. Les sirènes avaient la capacité de chanter si doucement que les marins ne pouvaient s'empêcher de se diriger vers leur île. De nombreux navires ont été attirés sur les rochers, et les hommes ont oublié leur foyer, leur devoir et leur honneur en se jetant à la mer pour être embrassés par des bras qui les ont entraînés vers la mort. Ulysse, déterminé à ne pas se laisser attirer par les sirènes, décide d'abord de s'attacher étroitement au mât de son bateau, et son équipage se bouche les oreilles avec de la cire. Mais finalement, lui et son équipage ont appris un meilleur moyen de se sauver: ils ont embarqué le beau chanteur Orphée dont les mélodies étaient plus douces que la musique des sirènes. Quand Orphée chantait, qui prenait la peine d'écouter les sirènes?
|Nous ne devons pas nous concentrer uniquement sur le rejet négatif de la guerre, mais surtout sur l'affirmation positive de la paix.|
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Looking to use Friendica a bit more
Lately I've been trying to convince myself to use social media more, so I can actually socialize and not just spend all my time watching YT.
I actually used to use reddit chronically, but at this point I haven't posted anything in months and that's been a plus in my opinion.
I started by using Discord more (I know, ABSOLUTELY PROPRIETARY(TM), but I joined a really good server that isn't anywhere else like Matrix).
Then I started using Mastodon more, and to my surprise I got my first follower in the form of Patrick Volkerding, the creator of Slackware, my all-time favorite Linux distro. Pretty poggers if you ask me.
Mastodon's been doing pretty good for me, and now I'm taking things further by trying to use Friendica more often. Soon enough, I'll also try to get back in the habit of using Lemmy instead of reddit.
If it's federated/foss, I'll think about trying it (except Bluesky, I predict that platform is gonna get real spooky like Twitter in a matter of time).
Overall, look forward to seeing more of me on Friendica, and if you want you can check out my Mastodon at tronnerd82@mastodon.social
@Shiri Bailem I see. Well, hopefully things'll get better as far as running the server goes. If all goes to shit, there's other Friendica instances I can try. Hoping for the best for you.
Much love from South Carolina, where things aren't much better for LGBT people like us.
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La différence entre la stupidité et le génie est que le génie a ses limites.
Citation apocryphe.
Quote Investigator pense qu'Alexandre Dumas, fils, peut être crédité de l'expression donnée dans la citation de 1865. De même, Elbert Hubbard peut être crédité d'avoir popularisé la version donnée dans la citation de 1906. Il n'existe aucune preuve substantielle qu'Albert Einstein ait dit ou écrit une quelconque occurrence de l'expression.
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|La différence entre la stupidité et le génie est que le génie a ses limites.|
Aimez votre voisin mais ne supprimez pas votre clôture.
"Proverbe" associé à la Chine depuis le début du XXIe siècle en France alors qu'il est évident qu'il s'agit d'une boutade en rapport avec le commandement de Dieu d'aimer son prochain comme soi-même. On la doit à Carl Sandburg, écrivain américain né en 1878 et décédé en 1967.
«Aime ton prochain comme toi-même, mais n'enlève pas ta clôture.» Carl Sandburg, "The people, yes" (1936)
|Aimez votre voisin mais ne supprimez pas votre clôture.|
Downtime
Sorry for the downtime, server crashed and I wasn't able to address it quickly or smoothly in my current mental state.
I took advantage of the downtime, and probably exacerbated it a little, and finally did the migration back to local hardware... so it *should* be more reliable.
What honestly stretched it out a lot is that I also applied the most recent stable Friendica version and that took forever to update the database.
It's with a heavy heart that I'm letting y'all know that I'm disabling open-registrations and *encouraging* all users to find a new home.
I'm not kicking anyone off my server, but unfortunately due to the political situation here in the US the chance for things to go *very bad very quickly* I can not vouch for this server as reliable.
I live in Texas and need to figure out plans to evacuate at this point. I was holding out hope that we'd at least have status quo (as monstrously awful as it is) for longer.
And to make things worse, I'm a trans-woman, they actively want to make my very existence (let alone presence online) illegal and have been building the machinery to make that a very fast process once Trump assumes office.
So I do not recommend this server any longer for those reasons, if you choose to stay I'll continue to run it and support y'all.
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in reply to Shiri Bailem • •And this is in fact related to my previous... the minority who think this is Mastodon shouldn't be the leading voice on things going on in the fediverse.
If you think this is the place for privacy or control of your data... you shouldn't be leading the discussion.
Especially compared to the people who know what ostatus and gnu.social are, let alone people who know what diaspora* is.
We're going to get a wave of outrage as Mastodon rolls out quote posts and people realize that those posts don't follow delete requests of the original let alone the block settings of the original user and server. And they're going to scream and shout that this should be removed from the whole fediverse... nevermind the fact that it's only new to Mastodon.