resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
The reddit #censorship problem is so chronic they actually have robots that detect whether an oppressed user reposts a #censored post in their own sub. #Reddit then suppresses that speech everywhere.
So e.g. you post something political in a sub with a "no politics" rule, it gets silently blocked, then you post in a sub where politics are welcome and #reddit silently removes the post even though it's rule-abiding.
*silent* non-tranparent censorship is maliciously insideous.
gotfreefax.com has been down for months. Anyone know of a good replacement #fax service?
@Gina @sphinxc0re @strypey in fact a good approach would be to xmit the #Mastodon/#GNUsocial post 1st, and then populate the TWTR buffer with just a pointer to the mastodon post - & in cases where the character limit is not exceeded the twtr post could be populated w/the msg as well.
@strypey @sphinxc0re @Gina Presumably crossposter tools limit all posts to the TWTR character limit. A tool designed to address the TWTR exclusivity problem would ideally compose the two posts side-by-side & make it practical to write more information in the #Mastodon post. TWTR users should see a shortened abstract & fewer posts as well, so the Mastodon data value is relatively higher.
@strypey @sphinxc0re @Gina if you truly condemn Twtr then I suggest this RMS article on how an org can use #Facebook w/minimal societal harm: https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html Some of that advice can be adapted to #Twitter.
@strypey @Gina @sphinxc0re
I'm not sure ppl fully realize the fallout. E.g. I cannot microblog to my government or local school board b/c they use TWTR exclusively, w/the assumption everyone is on TWTR. And TWTR disallows me access, so a denial of #freespeech has manifested to some extent. Getting a phone# and giving it to Twitter, Inc. should not be a precondition to government comms.
> There are much betters to migrate from T to the fediverse than 'to be able to read Strypey's stuff'
This is like saying "my vote is too small to matter so I why vote at all?". Large numbers of ppl w/that same mentality is why #Trump is in power. Collectively this rationale is harmful.
@strypey
When you post to twtr, you add value to that repressive #centralized monopoly. It's socially irresponsible to feed & empower that #walledgarden. Twtr has the power & marketshare that it has b/c of ppl making the same decision as you.
@Gina @strypey @sphinxc0re
I suggest creating an idle twtr account with the sole purpose of telling ppl where your Mastodon page is. If you must reply to a twtr post, then reply in your #mastodon acct & make the twtr response strictly a link to the mastodon reply so they must leave twtr to read it.
@Gina @strypey @sphinxc0re
Note as well that twtr is #tor-hostile & often forces users to supply their private ph# to Twitter. By putting content on twtr, you become an enabler by which ppl are pushed into mass surveillance & needless over-sharing of data.
@Gina @strypey @sphinxc0re
Using #Twitter gives TWTR power. Some of us cannot or will not use Twitter. If you mirror all your posts on Twitter, you become part of the problem by failing to give ppl a reason to step outside of twitter.
@animeirl
The cryptic irony here is that #Marlboro is an #ALEC member, which fights public #healthcare & fights environmental protections.
resist1984
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@eff I'm actually glad to have yet another reason to criticize pushers/users of #centralized social media sites who think it's acceptible to pressure others to share their sensitive ph# w/ #twtr #facebook #linkedin, etc.
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Twitter needs to come clean about exactly what happened, when, and to how many people. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/twitter-uninentionally-uses-your-2fa-number-targeted-advertising
@skynebula @kensanata and note that Amazon was also listed as supporting anti-environmental agendas, so among hundreds of other reasons, #boycott #Amazon.
@kensanata @skynebula it's typical for large corps to fund anything that could push in the unregulated direction, so it's not inconsistent w/google's pro-environment actions. But in the end, deregulation fucks over human beings so fuck google indeed. Google also paid $200k to fight the GDPR-like privacy bill in CA. #boycott #google
Joined Mar 2019
