#aybabtu — Public Fediverse posts

Mein Hirn so: "Du hast dich lange nicht mehr alt gefühlt! Ich dudel dir jetzt mal die #AYBABTU-Melodie und dann gehst du mal nachsehen wie lange das her ist, okay?!"

…22+ Jahre, wenn es jemand wissen will.

#ZeroWing ist von 1989/1990, Lied und die meisten Bilder im Video von 2000-2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano

The Mrs. is going through some old boxes, and found the sticker that came with your Palm Pilot to teach you Graffiti -- which prompted me to remember my sole unique contribution to the All Your Base meme explosion.

#AYBABTU #AllYourBase #ZeroWing #PalmPilot

(Context for the uninitiated: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/get-ready-to-feel-old-the-all-your-base-music-video-turns-20-today/)

@onepict

> On any online space, you should consider who you give power to. Who has the control over who you choose to associate with?

I concur 100% with this assertion.

> All that the instances who sign the fedipact are doing is signalling to some of us that somewhere is safe for folk who don't want to engage with Facebook at all.

I don't think that's all, and actually, What those instances may (inadvertently) be signalling is that they will take it upon themselves to remove the Freedom of Association from the user themselves, without prior expectation or consultation.

I don't know where "Freedom of Speech" entered the conversation, but the notion of "Freedom of Association" has indeed been taken from those who have chosen to excercise those privileges belonging to the users themselves. Waking up and realizing that you can no longer communicate and share recipes with grandma, without evern having been consulted, is an affront to the Freedom of Association - it's inclusive of an even larger issue surrounding the reasons that *smolweb and single-user and self-hosted platforms are protective of such principles Freedom of Association.

Further, it serves to create an environment (especially when so many platforms now support migration ingress) where one's Fediverse accounts are considered ever more transient, as the realization that having an account on a silo based Fediverse instance is the antipathy of #Fediverse and #DeSoc philosophies.

It also erodes the trust between the average user and administrators that you thought you could entrust with respecting your freedom of association with.

> This is a Freedom of Association issue, ...

it is indeed, and a betrayal of trust for anyone who realizes that it is the overreach by someone else to decide that you should not have the Freedom of Association that likely brought most folks to the Fediverse in the first place.

I did a little non-scientific, anecdotal survey by contacting people I know on many of the instances that arbitrarily decided to remove those freedoms from their users overnight, and discovered that many have already migrated to other instances, or are contemplating it - the interesting thing? Many of my acquaintances had already decided to, or even configured their accounts to block #Threads; but to have someone else tell them what they're allowed, or not allowed to do, is a violation of someone's freedom to choose for themselves by despot personalities who dismiss the relevance of a right to choose for oneself.

It's a simple matter, to block instances, at the domain level, from one's own user account, and on most Fediverse platforms, there's actually an announcement utility (usually only used to beg for donations) whereby administrative staff can inform their user base of their own ability to control how they themselves choose to exercise their own preferences with respect to #Freedom_of_Association.

Ironically, when perusing the stats, it's the very largest (deprecated, monolithic silo oriented) Fediverse instances (in terms of the # of user accounts and MAU) that have chosen NOT to trample upon the individual user's Freedom to Associate with whom they themselves decide.

NOTE to Fediverse instance admins: Please take under consideration the trust that has been placed in you with respect to the freedoms all individuals are entitled to determine for themselves - reach out to your user base, deploy surveys, collect votes, whatever, but please don't just decide for someone else what you decide is good for people who are NOT YOU.

Subjugation and assimilation into the Borg Collective goes both ways folks.

#AYBABTU (All Your Base Are Belong To Us)

#tallship #despotism #dystopian #authoritarianism

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Really now, why do people stubbornly adhere to the belief that Government entities require warrants to determine anything about you - like, where you are at this particular moment or the GPS coordinates of your location last Tuesday at 17:42hrs UTC? ... And pretty much anything else you can dream up about yourself: The content of conversations with others, everything you've purchased at anytime, what you are likely to eat for dinner this coming Friday, your medical records; you name it!

All without a warrant, even for local law enforcement.

And why would they bother, when they can just buy it from the #privacy_mining companies that you already gave it to for free?

#tallship #industrial_surveillance #privacy_farming #AYBABTU #Subjugation

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RE: https://fosstodon.org/users/RTP/statuses/112018299149948961

@RTP

@alex Like..... Exactly 200?

Not, 186, or 217, or 2000?

Well, at least a kewl round number means it's obviously Scientism, lolz.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qItugh-fFgg

#tallship #scientism #nice_round_numbers_mean_it_is_for_realz #ROFLMAOPMP #AYBABTU

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@kravietz @mkljczk @rdarmila @xaphanpl Well I really don’t see what the big deal is.

There’s an old saying that goes something like this:

“Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke, and choke ‘em if they can’t take a fuck”

My tendencies over the past few decades, when receiving an organized flurry of complaints effectively dog piling some unwitting (and probably innocent) user, has been, as an admin, to summarily delete, deactivate or ban the accounts of all the offending, socalled “activists”.

I don’t need that shit in my life, and i don’t like punk assed sissy bitches… Add nobody likes a snitch! If s user has a problem with you, then the first thing they should do is block or mute you. Problem solved, they no longer have to see it hear from you anymore. If they see bring stalked and continue to be so after blocking someone, then that’s what admins and moderators are for.

But when they get in their little social warrior gang of pussies and try to take down people because they don’t like the way those other people think it speak, it becomes clear that they are there cancerous rot - so…

Boom Shakalaka BOOM 💥 Banhammer time 🔨

I don’t know why I derive such entertainment from that sort of action, but it’s really funny to know that those pussies just lost their ability to spread their bigotry and hatred towards anyone who doesn’t agree to think along their “approved” narrative, and the best part, is that they can’t even complain to anyone about it because they effectively no longer have an account.

Here’s basically the same ToS/AUP that I’ve been using since around 1999 or so…

1. ) Don’t be a Meany!
2. ) No doxing, trolling, stalking, harassment, defaming, threats, or unwanted advances of any kind.
3. ) No ad hominem (adhere to the principles of civil discourse).
4. ) No other behavior we consider inappropriate in a professional setting.
5. ) When in doubt, please kindly refer to rule # 1.

• If you don’t understand the 5 rules above, this may not be a good match for you, and you may wish to consider another project instead.
• We are “Bofh”: Enforcement of these rules are arbitrary, there is no appeal process, and we kick/ban without prior notice.
• This is THE warning.

Very simple. Just five little rules that anyone but a complete moron will understand lolz.

#tallship #Bofh #ToS #CoC #AUP #wokesters #punk_ass_sissy_bitches #cowards #banhammer #God_of_Thunder #AYBABTU

#You_can_haz_Cheezburgerz! 🍔

I hope that helps!

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