@link when i see things like this it's just funny, it's not 'oh god what an orwellian nightmare' it's 'what kind of chump would buy a smart toothbrush? what a sucker'
@apophis@astrid right, it's like the target audience for Sovereign Citizens is the most Dunning Kruger motherfucker you've ever seen, and their grievance are the most petty things you can imagine, no surprise these tend to be relatively affluent people
i mean, how are you gonna be a Sovereign Citizen? doesn't being a citizen imply an external Sovereignty which bestows or denies citizenship?
fedidrama@0x4d6165 i feel bad for laughing but yeah, one of the unanticipated consequences of fedi, on a big corporate platform, the platform itself at least appears to be neutral, it's like a nightclub you go to, maybe someone you meet at that club is an abuser, dealing with that is a matter of distancing, warning people about them, maybe getting them banned. When you're on fedi and the accusations are agaisnt the admin of the instance, well, you're already living in their house. The space itself is implicated and there's no neutral agent to appeal to.
ya know, it's like they get half way there and then screw it up with their right wing dingbat shit, like there is a court strategy of non-compliance exmployed, for example, by many Black Panthers that has been successful, but it only works if you come off as reasonable and just in the face of an unjust system, which sovereign citizens do not, if anything they somehow make the US government seem more legitamate
fedi politicsi think we consider the very real possibility that one day soon, the fediverse, a free and open source queer oasis on the internet, may become a target of right wingers and megacorps, we could have our servers raided, DNS blocked, removed from hosting providers in the US or Germany, the state could do many things to fuck our day up.
One thing we can do now is start implementing tor and i2p gateways in a gradual way, first as an alternative way of logging in and later, do federation thru the deep web itself. This also removes a lot of the costs asosciated with hosting, because a VPS and Domain name both cost money, costs that can be greatly reduced by running a home server over Tor or i2p.
We shouldn't take for granted the connections we've made here and build other ways of staying in touch, and moving forward establish longer lasting circles of trust, where people are invited thru friends of friends.
fedidramai don't know about any fedidrama lately, and it's great, i love it
remember being on instances where literally every day there was some new bullshit that was supposed to be important and everyone had a hot take on it, and even tho the shit happened like 5 hours ago everyone who knew talked about it as if it was common knowledge
It's just a kind of thing that only exists if you look at it, by engaging with drama, you're making it drama, every influencer understands this, controversy sells, no publicit is bad publicity etc. hate watchers gave Jake Paul a hundred million dollars, don't be a chump
i just don't even fuck with people who get into that -- and i will both sides here -- but people who go around stalking and collecting screenshots are not people you want to be friends with, if you want to gather information on people like that go after ICE agents, okay? go after corporate executives, don't do that to marginalized person with bad takes, wtf is wrong is you
if you don't like someone just block them it's really not that hard, and the fediverse is too big and fragmented for any one person or cluster of instances to really matter.
use rss for podcasts plzi can't really relate to people who use itunes or spotify or idk what people use for podcasts other than RSS with a local podcast/rss reader, there are a million available, i like gpodder, you could use any rss reader tho, i imagine Thunderbird even, this way you get every one for free, it's more difficult to have all your listening choices tracked ( you could even rout your podcast reader thru tor if you're that paranoid.
You don't need to log in anywhere and you can export your podcast list to an opml file, it's simple and easy and private and free, stop giving corporations your personal data unnecessarily
