william.maggos

On a decentralized network without corporate algorithms, you only need to blocklist abusive accounts. Basically spammers. We don't make it impossible to browse to any website, or deny people with horrible but legal ideas the right to put up a website, and yet we all never see the worst stuff out […]

@aaronrosspowell.com

in a world without corporate algorithms, there's no need for blocklists unless they're abusive accounts who are going to tag you. trolls etc.

@mariabustillos.com

it's unhealthy to be able to say things to a huge audience and never hear from your critics (when made in good faith of course). and for your fans to never see critical replies to your posts. we have a world of Dem pundits building their audience off of criticizing Trump and […]

why don't the Palestinians just give up and leave or accept domination by Israel?

because they believe in that great American principle: "Give me liberty or give me death!"

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel

New York Post headline: Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor - possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

Would anybody like to attend an #ActivityInThePub in the Chicagoland area sometime soon?

Good day all! Fireside Fedi Episode 53:

Thank you very much to our special guests @MediaRevolution & @Caspar

#Media #News #DisInformation #Mentacide

#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/41SCAYrXJfCSgqv2ix8B7S
#Castopod #Fedicast - […]

After watching the Chicago Bears defense surrender a 2 touchdown lead in the final minutes, then manage to pull a rabbit out their hat and win, my 4-year old grandson who lives elsewhere declares “The Bears are my team!”

I looked at his parents and apologized. #ChicagoBears #Chicago #NFL

@tom

sorry

That's one way to get DJ more involved in the passing game. #BearDown #ChicagoBears #NFL

#BearDown #ChicagoBears #NFL

@tom

you're welcome

How much more wealth concentration and how few corporations need to dominate our lives for you to see that as the problem instead of other less than rich people? Did you consider that their ownership of the media influences how you understand your situation? That if they are smart enough to use […]

So #bluesky is making changes to their replies. This might be great. I'd personally like replies here to work like reddit. More visibly threaded and ranked. Possibly not boostable or able to be directly linked to. Merge the social news feed (microblogging) with the threadiverse.

He knows the #shutdown is worse for Republicans than the Democrats. I hate that this is happening but maybe it will avert further fuckery. #uspol

@Jeremiah

is FedNow an equivalent to Pix and UPI? I kinda assume they are less "programmable" than interledger.

@quillmatiq.com @aaronrosspowell.com

I misread platform as problem. ugh.

@quillmatiq.com @aaronrosspowell.com

I completely agree but I haven't seen this elaborated upon much. my view is they can help us fix the "money buys attention" problem and can allow us to decentralize the middlemen who dominate our economy like Amazon.

#DemocracyOfReach

The mega corps can't figure out a deal for #YouTubeTV to carry #Disney programming. Billionaire middlemen keep fucking around while a new world struggles to be born.

#peertube #PublicPatron

@ryno

https://www.azuracast.com is server software to run your own radio station.

https://owncast.online is FOSS decentralized twitch AFAIK. It has chat and video. not sure if it can output an icecast/shoutcast stream etc.

https://obsproject.com was recommended by @musicman.

that's all I […]

Pros and Cons of Final-Five Voting Better understand the advantages of Final-Five Voting (Open Primaries with Ranked Choice Voting general elections) as well as critiques of the approach. Also known as Top-Five or Top-Four Voting.

Pros and Cons of Final-Five Voting https://www.rankedvote.co/guides/understanding-ranked-choice-voting/final-five-voting-top-five-voting-pros-and-cons

In December, @Cheesetruck and I will be recording our first episode of Netlabel Review for @friendsofccmusic

This is planned to be a quarterly show. If you have #music tracks, shows, albums, #netlabels, stories, etc you would like us to cover, send them our way.

Any #netnativemusic released by […]

@henryhenryhenry.com

social media, when it's truly only about the people deciding what goes viral, threatens the power of money to control attention. revolutionary. they can't have that.

#DemocracyOfReach

This is well done.

#TulsiGabbard is going to keep #Trump from trying to do regime change in Venezuela, right?

@radleybalko.bsky.social

these fuckers get attention because of the corporate algos that play to emotion. we need a collective effort towards decentralized social media. #DemocracyOfReach

people should talk to whoever they want, but it's up to us to weigh whether we give them attention for […]

What would an #economy look like without regulated banks? Pretty sure they'd fuck us worse that they already do and/or the market would then be a tiny fraction of what it is now because it would lack the trust necessary for large projects.

When is a #government shutdown not a #shutdown?

When federal workers are required to keep working, many with only a promise that they will be reimbursed later. So it goes on much longer but much more importantly, the normalcy that this allows lets libertarians mislead Americans that normal […]

@jik @davekarpf

the answer to our media problem is a #DemocracyOfReach. #SocialWeb all the things. their power comes from money giving them control over our attention, but it no longer needs to be that way. we could all use decentralized media systems that let's only people collectively […]