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Testimony opposing Washington HB 1951, weak algorithmic discrimination legislation

Despite good intentions, the bill looks like it was written by tech lobbyists.

Instances in the free fediverses should consider "transitive defederation" from instances that federate with Meta

Part 7 of Strategies for the free fediverses. As the first post in the series discusses, the "free fediverses" are regions of the fediverse that reject Meta and surveillance capitalism, and these strategies position the free fediverses as an alternative to Threads and "Meta's fediverses&

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The free fediverses should work together with people and instances in Meta's fediverses and on Bluesky whose goals and values align

Part 6 of "Strategies for a free fediverse"

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The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances

Part 5 of Strategies for the free fediverses

Concentric circles, each made up of multiple circles, in multiple bright colors

The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances

Part 4 of Strategies for the free fediverses

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The free fediverses should emphasize networked communities

Part 3 of Strategies for the free fediverses

A highway sign, in the shape of an arrow, with the word Consent.

The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety

Part 2 of Strategies for the free fediverses

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Strategies for the free fediverses (WORK IN PROGRESS)

How to leverage the free fediverses' many advantages?

2024, in mutliple colors

meta discussion

Happy 2024! A few updates, a few questions

2024 should be a very interesting year

ANTI-META FEDI PACT the following instance admins/mods have agreed to block the hell outta project92

Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! (UPDATED for 2024)

Block Meta or "trust but verify"?

Is bigger always better? The word "bigger" is all in caps and in a larger, heavier font than the other words

The (annotated) case for "Big Fedi"

As Johnny Rotten once said, "Two sides to every story"

Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the Fediverse

What's Meta up to?

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Compare and contrast: Fediseer, FIRES, and The Bad Space

Part 4 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

It's possible to talk about The Bad Space without being racist or anti-trans – but it's not as easy as it sounds

Part 3 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

the people's eva: If these blocklists didn't exist, my server wouldn't have lasted a month.

Blocklists in the ActivityPub fediverse

Part 2 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

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Mastodon and today's ActivityPub Fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default

Part 1 of "Golden opportunities for the fediverse – and whatever comes next"

July 20-28. Bad internet bills week of action. Take action. Badinternetbills.com. An orange background, with white text.

Can the Fediverse help stop Bad Internet Bills?

The July 20-28 Week of Action is a good time to experiment!

Privacy please - hands off my data!

Federal privacy legislation

The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act has a House Judiciary Committee markup tomorrow!

If all goes well, the committee will advance a (potentially-amended) version of the bill ... a huge step forward!

Alex Heath on Mastodon: Re: ActivityPub integration, it's still a priority for Threads but a "long" way out.

A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out"

The results so far are certainly encouraging!

What should your instance do, and what would you do? 44%: Pre-emptively Block - will move if not. See text for full results.

"A clear victory for our cause"? Opinions continue to differ about Meta and Threads in the fediverse!

Including a polling update!

Six posts, a presentation, and a preview on privacy and prototyping: Fediverse update, July 3

There's a lot to write about, and I've been doing a lot of writing about it.

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How to use filtering and muting to hear less discussion of odious people on Mastodon

It's not a perfect solution, but it's helpful.

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How to choose the right Mastodon instance?

A daunting choice -- but not irrevocable!