#kolektiva — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kolektiva, aggregated by home.social.
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Okay, the latest technical problem I'm seeing on Mastodon in the last few days is issues with boosting.
I'll click to boost something, and nothing happens. Click again, still nothing. In order to actually boost a post I have to go into it and boost from there. But when I do, it shows as no longer being favorited. I can't be sure if it has or hasn't, because it will show us unfavored in the post but favored from the main feed.
I'm using Pachli on Kolektiva.
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Okay, the latest technical problem I'm seeing on Mastodon in the last few days is issues with boosting.
I'll click to boost something, and nothing happens. Click again, still nothing. In order to actually boost a post I have to go into it and boost from there. But when I do, it shows as no longer being favorited. I can't be sure if it has or hasn't, because it will show us unfavored in the post but favored from the main feed.
I'm using Pachli on Kolektiva.
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Okay, the latest technical problem I'm seeing on Mastodon in the last few days is issues with boosting.
I'll click to boost something, and nothing happens. Click again, still nothing. In order to actually boost a post I have to go into it and boost from there. But when I do, it shows as no longer being favorited. I can't be sure if it has or hasn't, because it will show us unfavored in the post but favored from the main feed.
I'm using Pachli on Kolektiva.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116286540925560722
Heads up! Especially folks who use #AutoDelete! (I noticed that a couple of #Kolektiva users are following @[email protected] ) Block if you don't want your posts mined!
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116286540925560722
Heads up! Especially folks who use #AutoDelete! (I noticed that a couple of #Kolektiva users are following @[email protected] ) Block if you don't want your posts mined!
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116286540925560722
Heads up! Especially folks who use #AutoDelete! (I noticed that a couple of #Kolektiva users are following @[email protected] ) Block if you don't want your posts mined!
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116286540925560722
Heads up! Especially folks who use #AutoDelete! (I noticed that a couple of #Kolektiva users are following @[email protected] ) Block if you don't want your posts mined!
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116286540925560722
Heads up! Especially folks who use #AutoDelete! (I noticed that a couple of #Kolektiva users are following @[email protected] ) Block if you don't want your posts mined!
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Another proud member of #Kolektiva is #FreedomNewsUK!
"An independent, radical co-op controlled by its volunteers, Freedom runs Britain’s oldest #anarchist press and its largest bookshop. Freedom is the oldest continuous collective of its kind in the world and more on our history can be found in the book #ABeautifulIdea.
The Press is made up of three arms, which comprises:
Freedom News and Journal
Freedom Publishing
Freedom BookshopMedia
What is currently the #FreedomJournal was first published by #Kropotkin and others in 1886 and remained in print for most of the next 125 years (minus a gap in 1932-1945), before being stopped as a regular production in March 2014 — though papers have been produced every year since.
The daily production of anarchist news and views has now moved to this website, and the Press brings out a 20-page free Journal twice yearly. We also maintain an email digest, (see web page), flag articles on social media pages for the bookshop and run a group for people who want to stay in touch."
#IndependentMedia #IndependentJournalism
#AnarchistMedia #UKPol #ReaderSupportedNews #Resistance -
"@subMedia is a digital media collective with members spread across the stolen lands of the so-called Americas. First established in 1994 as Subversive Media, over the decades we’ve grown from a humble video projection outfit into one of the most prolific producers of #anarchist, #AntiCapitalist and #AntiColonial propaganda in the world. During that time we’ve produced hundreds of videos on everything from urban #insurrectionary tactics to land-based #MutualAid projects. Our films have been screened in squatted social centres, university lecture halls, on the sides of barricades, and in movie theatres around the world. They’ve
also been watched by millions for free on the Internet."subMedia is a proud member of #Kolektiva and the #ChannelZeroNetwork. This website is a collection and living archive of our videos
produced from 2003 onwards."#IndependentMedia #IndependentJournalism #AnarchistMedia #ReaderSupportedNews #Resistance #USPol #WorldPol
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Imagine t'as des serveurs #mastodon soit disant #anarchistes #queer #antifa et tout qui laissent passer des rouge brun antisémites pro russes dans leur TL, et qui excluent des SDF, fol's, queer, anar Imagine c #kolektiva Nan mais imagine quand meme [1/3]
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The NFS 4 Freezer Spacer In Science Fiction Sets
https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/114600567753999701
#HackerNews #NFS4FreezerSpacer #ScienceFiction #TechInnovation #FutureTrends #Kolektiva
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Hi Kolektiva! #introduction
I'm Isaflora🌸 :sparkles_panafrican:
I grow stuff :ecoanarchism_heart:
I make things :commie: 🛠️
I love deeply :heart_nb: :anarchoheart2: :heart_pansexual:My heart is in the mountains, hands in the soil, with my comrades, fighting for a future we have yet to see :solidarity:
I love to read, cook, and make herbal remedies for mutual aid! ✨ 🌱
I'm here to divest from big tech corps, learn more about FOSS, and connect with folks who dream & move towards our collective resilience.
Black agrarians to the front!🤎👨🌾
We need a black farmer emoji 👀#blacklandjustice #queerart #herbalist #birdwatching #disabled #accessibility #healing #justice #ClimateCrisis #appalachia #space #trains #nerd #kolektiva #mutualaid
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Hi #Kolektiva! Thanks for having me 😀
I found my way here seeking a more empathetic and ethically aligned town square. At some point a "recovering technologist" needs to leave the industry entirely in order to do any good- tech communities are much less likely to care about actual genocide being enabled by their peers than they are to care about their own entitlements to innocence and virtue.
I'll be talking intermittently about #FarRight recruitment in #Beatnik commmunities, #internet futures, #decolonial praxis in #Tech and #HarmReduction in these spheres and those beyond.
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"Рабочие VS Коммерсы": новое видео Antijob и No Future
Американские рабочие в прошлом веке доказали, что если у вас есть солидарность и бесстрашие, то кольт действительно может уравнять вас в правах с начальством. А возможно ли такое в #России? #Antijob и #NoFuture рассказывают об этом в новом видео. Помимо #YouTube, видео можно посмотреть на #Kolektiva.media.
https://avtonom.org/news/rabochie-vs-kommersy-novoe-video-antijob-i-no-future
#анархизм #АвтономноеДействие -
For this week's #FollowFriday, here are some of my favorites from my home server, #Kolektiva
@igd_news It's Going Down News
@subMedia Anarchist media collective
@ARG A Radical Guid - a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering a global network of informed, engaged activists and radicals
@cldc Civil Liberties Defense Center - Nonprofit dedicated to protecting #CivilLiberties and defending activists' rights to dissent!
@decolonialatlas Maps for the people and planet
@ChannelZeroNet Channel Zero Network - English-based anarchist radio/podcast network
@northshore Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarian News for Southern Ontario
@AberdeenLocal1312 Your Friendly Local Anarchist Memer's Union Ⓐ
@franklinlopez Founder and former video slave of @subMedia
@shrugdealer She/her, "Not" a cult leader, Neurodivergent
@EricLawton Natural philosopher (STEM background), retired IT Architect
@TobiWanKenobi Fantasy nut + old lefty
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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)
In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.
It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600
This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.
The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:
"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer#KolektivaSocial #Kolektiva #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #CyberRights #FBI #OnlineRights #JacksonGames
Edit: This is a 2023 story.
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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)
In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.
It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600
This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.
The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:
"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer#KolektivaSocial #Kolektiva #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #CyberRights #FBI #OnlineRights #JacksonGames
Edit: This is a 2023 story.
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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)
In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.
It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600
This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.
The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:
"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer#KolektivaSocial #Kolektiva #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #CyberRights #FBI #OnlineRights #JacksonGames
Edit: This is a 2023 story.
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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)
In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.
It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600
This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.
The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:
"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer#KolektivaSocial #Kolektiva #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #CyberRights #FBI #OnlineRights #JacksonGames
Edit: This is a 2023 story.
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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)
In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.
It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600
This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.
The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:
"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer#KolektivaSocial #Kolektiva #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #CyberRights #FBI #OnlineRights #JacksonGames
Edit: This is a 2023 story.
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Por tiempo limitado el programa también disponible en la plataforma #peertube de #kolektiva ❤️🖤
🟠 Sillas contra el hambre 1x06 | Teatro de la decadencia política.
https://kolektiva.media/w/2WJigNjXDKxA1wSjkqjxQU#política #noticias #justiciasocial #luchadeclases #tv #sanidad #capitalismo #comunismo #anarquismo #elda #massanassa #patraix #valencia #Alicante #españa #sceh #SillascontraelHambre #SCEH1X06
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Por tiempo limitado el programa también disponible en la plataforma #peertube de #kolektiva ❤️🖤
🟠 Sillas contra el hambre 1x06 | Teatro de la decadencia política.
https://kolektiva.media/w/2WJigNjXDKxA1wSjkqjxQU#política #noticias #justiciasocial #luchadeclases #tv #sanidad #capitalismo #comunismo #anarquismo #elda #massanassa #patraix #valencia #Alicante #españa #sceh #SillascontraelHambre #SCEH1X06
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What is your #digitalselfdefense plan going forward? How is it changing in light of #geopolitical affairs? Do you have working #backups
I'm still working on all of these projects, so please let me know what you're up to.
#infosec #activism #security #politics #kolektiva #preparedness #geprepared #thinkingahead #selfdefense #personalprotection #personalsecurity
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What is your #digitalselfdefense plan going forward? How is it changing in light of #geopolitical affairs? Do you have working #backups
I'm still working on all of these projects, so please let me know what you're up to.
#infosec #activism #security #politics #kolektiva #preparedness #geprepared #thinkingahead #selfdefense #personalprotection #personalsecurity
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What is your #digitalselfdefense plan going forward? How is it changing in light of #geopolitical affairs? Do you have working #backups
I'm still working on all of these projects, so please let me know what you're up to.
#infosec #activism #security #politics #kolektiva #preparedness #geprepared #thinkingahead #selfdefense #personalprotection #personalsecurity
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What is your #digitalselfdefense plan going forward? How is it changing in light of #geopolitical affairs? Do you have working #backups
I'm still working on all of these projects, so please let me know what you're up to.
#infosec #activism #security #politics #kolektiva #preparedness #geprepared #thinkingahead #selfdefense #personalprotection #personalsecurity
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What is your #digitalselfdefense plan going forward? How is it changing in light of #geopolitical affairs? Do you have working #backups
I'm still working on all of these projects, so please let me know what you're up to.
#infosec #activism #security #politics #kolektiva #preparedness #geprepared #thinkingahead #selfdefense #personalprotection #personalsecurity
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Oh hey, it's my #MastodonAnniversary! I'm so glad to be here amongst so many wonderful folks and a great server (#Kolektiva)! A shout out to a few of my favorite accounts -- @breadandcircuses, @NoelWauchope, @RadicalAnthro, @RadicalGraffiti, and @ai6yr. Thank you all for being here (and following me back)! #FollowFriday #FridayFollows
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#nosebleed I've been hit in the face with a brick had multiple concussions & never had a nose bleed in my life till tonight. Freaked me right the fuck out. I was afraid I was having a pulmonary embolism & was going to bleed out. It's what killed my mom. Its drying up but still..... New experience in my life. #Mastodon #fediverse #kolektiva
I was this many years old when my snozzer bled like WOW. -
#Mastodon #Kolektiva #CursedImage
"record scratches......I guess you're wondering how I got here" -
@MnemosyneSinger
Unrelated, but I just wanted to say, I'm so glad that I moved from #DotArt to #WritingExchange, just because I get to see and repost these #Anarchist / #AntiCapitalist #memes from #Kolektiva again. ❤️ -
Those who think #Kolektiva servers were raided for some other, unrelated, coincidental, oh-look-what-we-have-here reason don't understand the #USA's sordid history of #SilentWarfare and #repression.
In *many* ways it is worse than #China.
First rule of #fediverse — block #CloudFlare.
Always.
Block.
CloudGlare.#covertWar #followTheMoneyPrinter #bitcoinAttack #cointelpro #cia #fosstodon
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> "According to #Kolektiva, the seized database, now in the #FBI’s possession, includes personal information such as email addresses, hashed passwords, and IP addresses from 3 days prior to the date the backup was made. It also includes posts, #DMs, and interactions involving users on the server. As is the nature of the #fediverse, this also implicates messages and posts from *other* instances.
We had to block Kolektiva. They used #CloudFlare.
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CW: Long post - The Free Fediverse, Decentralization and Democracy - the mega-servers and the Kolektiva calamity - Part the Second
*Democracy*
Another worthy value to socially and technically encode in the ties that could consensually bind the Free Fediverse is direct democracy. Here too, smaller instances scale democracy better, and have proven themselves the trailblazers in giving their users a voice in the decision to protect themselves against Meta, while the mega-server admins have merely decreed unilateral pro-federate proclamations and gestured to the exits for those in their userbase who disagree.
But even for those who affirm it, the cards are stacked against them because there is little in the way of technical aid built in to the apps or the protocol to assist in a democratic process. This again, is a failure of imagination, not of technical capacity. Sure, there are polls; but this function only provides a drive-by snapshot.
A couple of baby steps in the right direction would be local-only posts, and the capacity for groups, including private groups. Both of these are available in certain of the forks or alternative microblogging services, but attempts to incorporate them into mainline Mastodon have been met with obstruction (although some movement toward group functionality was recently announced for the project).
But these capabilities wouldn't directly address the democracy problem in and of themselves. The suggestion offered here is to bake "democracy as a protocol" into whatever replaces ActivityPub in the Free Fediverse. What follows is a speculative scenario. Consider it only a random brainstorm, and one not informed by a developer's knowledge.
One day, a dismissible and retrievable pinned toot appears at the top of every user's feed, issued by that instance's admins. Attention, a proposal is offered to abolish Meta from the face of the Earth, launch Zuckerberg into the sun and turn all of humanity gay. There will be two general assemblies to discuss, one in the daytime on date A and one in the evening on date B. Click here to join the assembly group, or, to chime in as they occur, comment with local-hashtag xxx.
The final proposal will be available to read at this link. The vote will activate for one week, from this to that date. To vote, click on the dancing queercat icon which appears at the top of your feed during that period.
Perhaps this dashed-off exercise gets the gears turning? There would be many other good or better ideas on how to implement a prospect like this. In a Free Fediverse beyond the pathology of growth-at-all-costs, the only limit is the exercise of our collective imagination.
*Decentralized Direct Democracy*
So, decentralization and democracy can enable one another, and a deficit of one degrades the other's viability. As a final example for modeling these principles, let's turn again to the issue of Kolektiva.
As an anti-corporate, online space for anarchists to hang out and shoot the shit, Kolektiva has been a smash. That said, so far it remains an incomplete opportunity for real prefiguration. The centralization of our kind on a single instance is not only ideologically contradictory, it has proven to be an error for the community, as proven by the database compromise.
But there's still potential here, in response to the two crises, to reconstitute into a digital democratic-confederalism within the greater federation. A collective of instances, sharing knowledge and resources. A pooling of infrastructure, a common crowdfunding mechanism and open-source platform for administrative communication (which is not Discord).
And a common charter by which to organize the admin and mod teams horizontally and distribute agency across to users who are inclined to get involved. All of this configured informally and accessible to fellow-travelling servers of any size, to reduce the costs and technical burden of even very small communities firing up and planting their own (black) flag.
Now imagine further, a Free Fediverse comprised of numerous of these confederations, aligning efforts to render cooperation and mutual aid in the task of building and sustaining online community in safety and solidarity. We can nurture whatever kind of network we want to, by routing out of the dead-ends of "monetization" and the growth pathology.
The corporate recuperation of the mega-servers is perhaps a blessing in disguise. With them will go not only the defacto hierarchy of influence which resulted in a small handful of admins and protocol specialists dragging the rest of the network along behind them, but the hierarchical thinking they imposed upon the spectrum of possibilities for what the fediverse could or should be. Towards a decentralized and democratic Free Fediverse beyond capitalist enclosure!
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#FreeFediverse #FediPact #FediblockMeta #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #FacebookFediverse #Democracy #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Kolektiva
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CW: Long post - The Free Fediverse, Decentralization and Democracy - the mega-servers and the Kolektiva calamity - Part the First
*Decentralization*
Prominent voices advocating for collaboration with the Zuckerberg surveillance entity sure do talk up decentralization a lot, when they're not advocating the subjugation of the fediverse to a single vertical silo of 100 million users. The irony, of course, is that they tend to be admins of instances with tens or even hundreds of thousands. And two of the most prominent control *multiple* mega-servers, which means they're not just overseeing centralized instances, they're hoarding them.
In contrast, by default Pixelfed servers are limited to a maximum of 1000 users. Though a deep dive into the parameters can override this, its status as a default is an affirmation of the decentralizing ethos. "Thou shalt keep thy instance small."
The microblogging space of the fediverse hasn't been allowed to develop an equivalent consciousness, as the agenda has been set by mega-server admins who drove the conversation around topics like "smooth onboarding". But these aren't evil people; the problem is that they have no real vision.
A comment circulated recently - receipt unfortunately not saved - suggesting that the development of fediverse tools useful to organizing community would be an effective alternative to the "how to funnel in granny" mentality, because then there would be incentives for entire communities to migrate in together; surely a more holistic view of "onboarding" than fretting over how to pick up confused and wandering individuals one at a time. *That* is the kind of exercise of technical *and* social imagination we need.
To become viable, the Free Fediverse will need to define itself by not just what it stands against - corporate enclosure by the Meta monstrosity - but by what it stands for. Real and actual decentralization - not just shallow lip service towards it - can be one of those foundational values.
This value can then be encoded into the technology, as it was with Pixelfed; because, let there be no doubt, Zuckerberg is not just absorbing certain of the fediverse's communities, but also certain of its technologies. We'll need replacements, but that's an opportunity to break the current state of developmental stagnation in the predominant microblogging service and ActivityPub. And more important still than protocols and apps are those who create them. Essentially, the Facebook Fediverse gets the techbros, but the Free Fediverse gets the catgirls - which means we win!
Real decentralization - lots and lots and lots of quite small communities, distinct yet federated - has already proven itself to be a better facilitator of good moderation, and will enable another important value to be addressed shortly. But on the moderation issue, a timely real-world example of why decentralization matters is instructive.
There has recently been a calamity visited upon our instance, Kolektiva. Among all of the discussion following its disclosure, there was not a full analysis of its chain of causality. Let's take a flyover of the recent timeline.
April - A massive spambot wave first hits mastodon-dot-social, then spreads quickly through the entire fediverse. Kolektiva, and many other servers, temporarily limit dot-social until the invasion is under control.
Early May - Another spambot attack hits masto-dot-social, and of course, everyone else. This time, an error is made, and a Kolektiva admin defederates rather than limits dot-social. All Kolektiva users irrecoverably lose their follows and followers from dot-social. There is disquiet.
Mid-May - In an attempt to restore the lost follow-follower data, a Kolektiva admin recovers a snapshot backup of the database from before the defederation, an operation which occurs with what turns out to be "spectacularly bad timing".
Receipt: https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110641928258590367
Yes, there was a fuckup; in fact, a fuckup compounded by another fuckup. But - beyond noting that both mistakes were attempts to do right by the users of the instance - the wellspring of the disaster actually wasn't Kolektiva, but mastodon-dot-social, that mega-server with hundreds of thousands of silo'ed users, open registration and next-to-no-moderation; that irresistible honeypot for spammers and scammers, that 500-pound gorilla with a bullseye painted on its ass.
The mother of all instances has repeatedly proven itself to be a problem for the rest of the fediverse, as in the examples above, when the admins of literally every other server federated with it were put in the position of having to locally address a crisis not of their origination, each an opportunity to make mistakes they would not otherwise have needed to risk.
Smaller instances are easier to moderate, larger instances more difficult. And if masto-dot-social is any indication, a large enough instance becomes a lost cause - take a look at dot-social's local feed and see if you agree. Decentralization distributes moderation agency more effectively, both to admins and even to users. And by scattering targets, it creates network resiliency against threats like spambots and crypto scams. Decentralization isn't just a foss-nerd buzzword, it yields tangible benefits for those seeking safer community online.
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#FreeFediverse #FediPact #FediblockMeta #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #FacebookFediverse #Democracy #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Kolektiva
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Security alert for #Raphus users:
An unencrypted copy of the #Kolektiva server's database was taken into the custody of law enforcement.
We have several shared relationships between our server and theirs, so we thought you should know.
Your public profile and posts, and any DMs with Kolektiva users, could be included. Your login info would not be included.
As always, keep sensitive data off the Fediverse and take your organizing OpSec seriously.
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CW: A message to those defending Eightpoint (CW: SA, queerphobia, LONG read)
I get it. I get that having your corner of the internet break away from the rest is a MASSIVE pain in the ass. It feels even worse when, as far as you can tell, the issue has been handled. "Laurelai/Slaanesh isn't in charge anymore. She can't do more harm, and she deserves a chance to be part of this community."
What I think you all need to understand is that this isn't just someone who said shitty things or did a racism and has since apologized. From what we can gather, she's been accused of using a platform much like this one as a means of collecting SA victims. Coming around to a newly-popular social media platform — one used largely by queer people, mind you — and forming a community of her own under a pseudonym is, to put it bluntly, a REALLY suspicious thing for someone with that kind of history to do.
I can't say for certain if Kolektiva's original "crusade" against 8pt was based in transphobia. But I do know that once the true identity of #Slaanesh was uncovered, it became a matter of keeping OTHER QUEER PEOPLE safe from one queer person who happened to be problematic. If you need any further indication that this isn't fueled by transphobia, just look at tech.lgbt's response! Their MAJORITY-TRANS modmin team decided to defederate because they wanted to keep their people from interacting with a known predator.
The LGBTQIA+ community is one that values consent and safety. After all, we've been repeatedly violated in BOTH of those regards on a systemic scale. We're assaulted, verbally and physically abused, and generally treated as second-class citizens for loving and living authentically. It's extremely important for us to work AGAINST this sort of abuse, and it's even MORE vital to do so when it happens within our own community.
As a minority group with these values, not to mention one that has been consistently held down with accusations of being sexual predators, I would expect that we would be more harshly and vehemently opposed to giving such people a second chance. The fact that we have people trying to welcome an ACTUAL offender back into the community is the crux of the issue.
There is no "restorative justice" to be had here. Someone who was poised to abuse a position of power was ousted from that position, and from the community in which she held that position. For said community to then say "actually, come on back in, but you can't be an admin anymore" is absolutely absurd. It totally disregards the safety of those who don't know who LB is, who don't know her history.
I know I'm going to be accused of spreading #FUD about a trans woman, which is fucking ridiculous because I AM one. But it's important to acknowledge that there are bad actors in ANY group of people. The vast majority of queer people aren't abusers, but there can be and are exceptions, and LB is likely one of them. We can't come to her defense just because she's one of us.
I say this as someone who has been assaulted by another transfem before.
So to summarize:
⋄ Kolektiva's unmasking of Slaanesh, even if not INITIALLY well-intentioned, was not ultimately based in transphobia. I don't doubt there were SOME people involved with that goal in mind, but that doesn't make the situation they uncovered any less serious.
⋄ tech.lgbt's decision to defederate after #eightpoint modmins refused to oust LB entirely is ALSO not based in transphobia, obviously. Said decision was made by a panel of mostly trans people.
⋄ I am questioning the judgment and intentions of anyone who thinks LB should be forgiven and kept around. Trans or not, she is a known danger to those with whom she tries to interact, and I do not believe that knowingly allowing her to do so is the right decision here.
⋄ I recognize that banning her allows her to just make another pseudonym and rejoin the Fediverse elsewhere…but she would be able to do this ANYWAY. At least by publicly disallowing her return, 8pt would be taking a stance. Instead they insist that she deserves a second chance if she wants one, and that's not okay with me.
⋄ I do not blame anyone who was already on eightpoint.app and who wishes to stay there for their own subset of the community, but I would STRONGLY discourage Mastodon/Fediverse newcomers from joining that instance.
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Yep. This has worked for the right before with #NAS, #Poast, #Gleasonator and #Spinster. And on the left I believe #Kolektiva experienced similar success.
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Esta é nossa oportunidade de #reimaginar as redes sociais, e nossa #relação com elas. E redescobrir a promessa perdida da Internet. Para construir novos mundos #digitais sobre as ruínas do antigo. E para fazermos isso juntas.
Vê mais no video:
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If you are into #kolektiva stuff or #union work or against the fascisti and looking around the web, #tailsos is good option.Runing off a USB, malicious sites can't harm your hard drive.
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Not everyone
can be an expert but everyone should master the #infosec #infosecbasics Read all about itWe are proudly amatuers so this is not really a #Mastodon #protip
Long live amatuerism.
Please at least understand the concept of #tails #securebrowser here:https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=tails
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If you are into #kolektiva stuff or #union work or against the fascisti and looking around the web, #tailsos is good option.Runing off a USB, malicious sites can't harm your hard drive.
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Not everyone
can be an expert but everyone should master the #infosec #infosecbasics Read all about itWe are proudly amatuers so this is not really a #Mastodon #protip
Long live amatuerism.
Please at least understand the concept of #tails #securebrowser here:https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=tails
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If you are into #kolektiva stuff or #union work or against the fascisti and looking around the web, #tailsos is good option.Runing off a USB, malicious sites can't harm your hard drive.
.
Not everyone
can be an expert but everyone should master the #infosec #infosecbasics Read all about itWe are proudly amatuers so this is not really a #Mastodon #protip
Long live amatuerism.
Please at least understand the concept of #tails #securebrowser here:https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=tails
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If you are into #kolektiva stuff or #union work or against the fascisti and looking around the web, #tailsos is good option.Runing off a USB, malicious sites can't harm your hard drive.
.
Not everyone
can be an expert but everyone should master the #infosec #infosecbasics Read all about itWe are proudly amatuers so this is not really a #Mastodon #protip
Long live amatuerism.
Please at least understand the concept of #tails #securebrowser here:https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=tails
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If you are into #kolektiva stuff or #union work or against the fascisti and looking around the web, #tailsos is good option.Runing off a USB, malicious sites can't harm your hard drive.
.
Not everyone
can be an expert but everyone should master the #infosec #infosecbasics Read all about itWe are proudly amatuers so this is not really a #Mastodon #protip
Long live amatuerism.
Please at least understand the concept of #tails #securebrowser here:https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=tails
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Kolektiva Medios sociales por y para los anarquistas - https://kolektiva.media/w/phBb1yCdxM52pqj6371Nk3 #federacion #horizontalidad #mastodon #peertube #kolektiva
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I've never threatened or doxxed or abused anyone but people including fellow #transfems call me "dangerous".
Meanwhile people who literally post #stochasticterrorism calling for the #murder of a #transwoman still gets to remain harmless precious little smol beans.
Make it make sense.
#transmisogyny #socialmedia #mastodon #eightpoint #kolektiva
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The #predatorjacketing and #deaththreats launched at #Eightpoint by members of #Kolektiva are a perfect demonstration of why I'm an anarcha-transfeminist first and anarcho-communist second (along with most of EP btw, #anarchists and #transfeminine people have never been separate groups!)
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Individuals on the #Kolektiva #Mastodon instance have escalated to directly and brazenly threatening the life of the #Eightpoint instance administrator.
https://kolektiva.social/@flowers/109446255568589280
https://kolektiva.social/@flowers/109445526050702254
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#eightpoint and #kolektiva users: I am attempting to document what the fuck is going on. Please let me know what you think should be in this document, by contacting me by one of the means on my contact page, linked in the document. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ck9myWJTiZACmci5F-uluujFhDxi3voxPKqo8y-ZPuc/edit