nar @nar@social.privacytools.io

It is amusing how the Robinhood guys must have seen all those news articles about how SEC should investigate /r/wallstreetbets for market manipulation, then went and committed some actual market manipulation for SEC to investigate

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.

A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violen

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

#/etc/ #html5 #web #weeknotes #work

@angdraug @nar @isolategab you can follow this list of bad actor instances and if you happen to stumble over such an instance yourself you can report it there: https://fediblock.org/

#fediblock

RT: @BioDivLibrary@twitter.com

Guess what?! We've just surpassed a quarter of a million images in our Flickr! That's more than 250,000 nature images—free to download and reuse. Explore the collection today

https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums

#Science #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenSource #PublicData

Now that #Gab is fully defederated from ActivityPub and the Fediverse..and that this fight seems thoroughly won..I have.been thinking about the purpose of this account.

What do folks think? My first idea here is that the work is fully over, but in some ways can serve as a model for community organizing for when NAZI's or similarly bad come knocking on the Fediverse's door again. They are never gone for good.

So good to keep the account alive to document the pushback we helped, to denote best practices. To advocate that free speech and freedom of association can co-exist quite well.

And that distributed moderation of individual instances with clear Federation policies worked FAR better than any of the mainstream centralized goliath's handling of hate, abuse, threats of violence has done.

What do folks think?

The US plans to:

- reenter the Paris climate accord

- halt border wall construction

- reverse the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries

- re-engage with World Health Organization, will join global vaccine effort

What a difference a day makes.

Trumps last day ...

Credit to "Believe" from our Discord community, reminding me on this gif/video.

Sorry I could not resist...

Already approaching 500 followers... Thanks to everyone for the support and well wishes!

#fedilab #support #thanks #fediapps