#switter — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #switter, aggregated by home.social.
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@blenderdumbass @danie10 BAAAAAHHH hahahah, that would actually be hilarious! I can see #theOnion writing that sh!t
Okay I thought the idea was so funny i decided to waste a few hours of my life...
Australian Police freeze all $12 in child's bank account after caught operating a Mitra social server for himself and his friends.
The Freeless family thought it was a normal Friday morning in their little New Slave Wales farmhouse, but as Mike Freeless' 6am alarm went off for another day of horticultural schooling, the Australian Police came bursting into the home, raiding it for an old computer game system called a Wii. Police threatened to kidnap the young boy unless he gave them the passwords to his retrofitted Wii computer, which they allege is serving a "Mitra" social server.
What is a Mitra social server and why was it a problem? Mitra, Sanskrit for "Friend", is a type of free software that anyone with some skill can operate, which can turn the computer into its own little social media platform. Not only that Mitra is unique in that it is designed to federate with other servers over a permission-less internet called I2P (Invisible Internet Protocol).
This system of social federation is called Fediverse, and has been labelled as "dangerous" by governments, researchers and internet experts. In Australia operating a social platform without banning people under 16 is an offense punishable by up to $50million-gazzillion dollars. All recreational users of the internet in Australia need to confirm that they are at least 16 years old and they do this by having their face scanned, the area between their anus and genitals scanned, and must provide their phone number. At any moment they should be prepared to recite using their natural voice their Digital ID code or JPMorganSwisse CreditScore code.
Although there have been no major crimes stemming from the use of Fediverse, the vast community that has grown in Fediverse tend to reject Western values, such as life insurance, advertising, and posting selfies. In some extreme cases Fediverse has even been known to help people feel welcome. Cunstibble Spoonfeed calls Fediverse social network, "a highly moderated and self-sustaining autonomous zone where people do and say almost whatever they want and it never seems to stop."
"The anti-corporate propaganda catches on like wildfire on Fediverse, we tried setting up accounts for McGoneolds, Nitie and Cocaine-cola, but they were rejected. Fedi is just a place for people! What's worse, many of them are not telling each other who they really are. I know for a fact that one person on Fediverse refuses to get a driver's license. They just build trust without giving their phone number, or sharing their gory injuries. And when they do share a gory injury they warn people that its gory. You could call it a communist paradise, but they are not even all communists, I can't describe them. It should horrify us all that these creative people clearly enjoy themselves without a single billionaire telling them whats trending. It makes me want to die," Cunstibble lamented.
Authorities in Australia take online happiness very seriously. In 2020, #Switter, a fediverse server for sex workers. Was forced to shutdown due to Australian laws that would have potentially caused sensitive information about their sex work activities to be exposed to police.
So it is for this reason that police wanted to read all Mike's communications on the server. They wanted to know whether the 14 y.o. was pimping between classes. "It can be pretty lonely on the farm," said Orificer Infora Penny. "We had reason to believe he might be trafficking his teenage peers while tending to the tomatoes".
Mike refused to provide the passwords to his Wii, and was kidnapped into custody. Police have frozen $12 in his bank account. Despite the ordeal his parents remain proud of their son. "The Mitra fediverse server has always worked really well, there was a small problem with hashtags when they ended with a quotation mark but I think the lead developer, Silver Pill, knows about it. We enjoyed being able to talk to our son over the fediverse and over the i2p invisible internet", said his mother.
Mike's father spoke about how he used paid subscriptions to give pocket money to his son, "Mitra is a really special type of fedi server because it allows paid subscriptions a bit like Patreason, but better because it's not being spied on by Clownflare servers in the U.S., (...) I began giving him his pocket money in crypto directly."
"We opened a bank account for him to pay the phone carrier. If the police take that money Mike will just switch to using wifi hotspots. Our son hates the The Fed and central banks and the carriers that sell location data to data brokers anyway. He want's a future where farmers can not only save for the future, but enjoy more privacy in a more circular economy and he think that involves cryptocurrencies."
Because of their support for their son's offense of operating social media for under-16s. Child Protection Services have also taken Mike's sister into foster care, and is being deported to Ukraine, where a loving foster home is ready to accept her.
We spoke to one of Mike's friends, who described Mike as a person who would never human traffick. "I never even got a butt pic, let alone a dick pic" said Eddy.
Mike's friends refuse to cooperate with police because they believe the "uniformed thugs" were responsible for the Denial of Service (DoS) attack, prior to Mike's kidnapping.
(the names in this story have been changed to protect the children)
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For the new joiners to the fediverse, some related history. There used to be a large (>47k user) sex worker-focused server called #Switter, that was ultimately shut down by Cloudflare after SESTA/FOSTA passed in the US, despite being hosted in Australia. https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xk78x/switter-down-cloudflare-banned-sex-workers-sesta-fosta
You may also be interested in Switter's own statement on the shutdown: https://assemblyfour.com/switter-public-statement
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CW: Long thread/32
Fair enough! But of course, this butts up against one of the Fediverse's shortcomings: it isn't particularly useful for promoting illegal speech that *should* be lega, like the communications of #SexWorkers who were purged from the internet en masse following the passage of #SESTA/#FOSTA. When sex workers tried to establish a new home in the fediverse on a server called #Switter, it was effectively crushed.
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If you're wondering what I contributed to #mastodon, it's a lot of the #moderation tooling to help make moderation more manageable (I did this whilst a mod for #switter in 2018).
In my spare time I've been working on their streaming server, because I've a lot of experience with #websockets.
I'm currently working on many other contributions too!
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@geth
Well, said.The really funny thing is that you probably won't see us agree with you, Gethin. Because #ausSocial appear to have blocked us a couple years ago.
In all seriousness we can relate to not wanting #police around. They extort and #entrap people. In Australia we have no privacy thanks to #DataRetention Laws, and just look at what they did to #Switter.
In reality though, how can they enforce such a policy? Maybe they think by blocking #Tor? Its poor form.
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> Switter, an alternative social network that was a safe space for sex workers
> Switter went down because of Cloudflare’s refusal to host it. Cloudflare cited FOSTA as the reason for the denial of service.
Fuck @cloudflare
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb7vx/switter-the-twitter-for-sex-workers-is-shutting-down
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So, one thing that still seems to be basically only on twitter is sex work. Given that #switter is gone (due to australian law changes and cloudflare), when twitter implodes, where is the space for them?
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CW: Sex work talk
So…I’m assuming most of the #sexworkers left Mastodon is when #Switter shut down? This place is a little chaste for what I’m used to 😅 I don’t post explicit stuff on any of my public social media accounts but I still feel like…I’m not supposed to be here or something. I know technically SWers are welcome but it’s bizarre seeing so few on a social media platform. I’m not used to that.
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Was anyone else around during the #switter thing? Sad ending. I looked at SWitter at the time, but didn't realize it was a Mastodon server (if in fact it was?); I probably didn't really know what a Mastodon server / instance was at the time...
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Fun litmus test I just discovered for #mastodon servers. If you're not a horrible #swerf who hates #SexWorkers then do go to the About page for your server and see which servers they've blocked/restricted - a surprising number have blocked things like #switter (the defunct sex worker instance) just because they deem it to be morally inappropriate.
A lot of servers also copy their server block list from #fosstodon who are a prime example of this, so that's something to watch for too.
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You know how #Cloudflare harbors all kinds of criminals and fascists, under the pretense of not discriminating anyone? Well, apparently protecting sex workers is where they draw the line. But criminals or fascists, those they are fine with.
> This is a very good point. #Cloudflare booted #Switter, which did absolutely nothing wrong, but seems to be drawing a red line around this kiwifarms site, a toxic dump of doxxing pile-ons linked to at least three deaths.
https://twitter.com/andrewfordlyons/status/1561936558911066113
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@JuliTwister die instanz für sex-worker, #switter, ist vor 1,5 monaten zugemacht worden, weil die gesetze unwägbarer wurden :red_candle:
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@danie10
We can however thank fediverse instances for being accessible over Tor.Really though, the only way to secure a #NewInternet is to make it abundant with quality eppsites like fedi instances, every fedi instance 'worth their salt' ought to be accessible and most importantly, #federating over #I2P.
Even before the UkraineProblem, the #switter debarkle is proof that we must think about I2P #Accessibility and Federation.
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Switter.at is shutting down: https://assemblyfour.com/switter-statement-to-users
While this makes many spam-filters of mine obsolete, its definitively bad news for our freedom. #switter #sexwork #LGBTQIA+
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Brutta tegola per mastodon, sarà chiusa a breve una delle istanze più grandi con 430mila utenti iscritti, si tratta di switter, l'istanza per sex worker e simpatizzanti:
il problema sono le nuove leggi Australiane che mettono a rischio la sopravvivenza dell'istanza, qua il comunicato ufficiale:
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@humanetech
This is why we have spent the last few years moving people onto the new #goldStandards in communication and more, I2P and Tor.Australia is becoming an #autocracy, our sources say close to 1 million attended a #protest recently and the #establishmentMedia say only 10,000 people did.
All indications are #Australia is set to be the next #ConcentrationCamp… if we fail to do something we deserve it.
BTW we've never heard of #switter what is it, a #fediverseInstance?
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Damn, #switter closing is truly an era of the #fediverse ending. 🫡
I really hope y'all can find new homes on other instances or that someone from a more lenient jurisdiction opens up the successor you deserve.
FWIW I know sex work including prostitution and BDSM services are legal in Germany and Austria, so setting up a legally sound instance for sex workers should™ be doable over here.
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In short: switter.at is shutting down on the 14th of March, 2022.
"The recent anti-sex work and anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative changes not only in Australia, but in the UK, US and other jurisdictions have made it impossible for us to appropriately and ethically maintain compliance for over 430,000+ users on a social media platform." - #switter
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Switter, the Twitter for Sex Workers, Is Shutting Down
In a statement on Monday, Assembly Four—a collective of sex workers and technologists who run Switter, as well as advertising site Tryst—announced that Switter would shut down permanently on March 14.
“The recent anti-sex work and anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative changes not only in Australia, but in the UK, US and other jurisdictions have made it impossible for us to appropriately and ethically maintain compliance for over 430,000+ users on a social media platform,” the statement says.
Switter is built on Mastodon, an open-source social media platform that is considered a decentralized alternative to Twitter.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb7vx/switter-the-twitter-for-sex-workers-is-shutting-down
I'll note that I ended up personally blocking the instance as much of the related promotion ended up spamming search, especially anything related to specific locations, and I wasn't otherwise much interested in the offerings. Still, a complete shutdown, out of legal concerns, is problematic.
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In Germany and around the world, sex worker groups and organizations have built up Corona emergency funds over the past 7 months in order to secure support and help for the weakest members of the community, which ensures an existential survival. The pots are empty in times of the Second Wave, so action must be taken now!
#nobodyleftoutside #covid19 #swrights #together #switter
All Covid19 sexworker emergency funds: https://janeraider.nl/2020/03/15/covid-19/
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Hey #fosstodon. I'm new here. I hope everyone is having a great day. I'm also on #linuxrocks, #switter and a couple others. I'm a total #noob. kinda lost. What happened to #Humblr? any pointers would be great the kind of stuff that people don't tell you till like way later on after you've done everything wrong. Is there a file-sharing server? :apple:
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Any and all #SexWork.ers interested in meeting #AssemblyFour people - the people behind #switter and #tryst should also swing by Hydra Cafe, tomorrow, the 29th of November, 7 PM
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I thought I had a #greatidea, and it turned out #switter did it already!
#Thoughts? 🤔
