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 "For the past week, a break in the sole cable that provides Sitka’s internet and phone service has wreaked havoc on residents and businesses — and, at the same time, effectively launched a massive social and economic experiment: What happens for 8,000 people who have deeply integrated the internet into their lives, when the switch gets flipped off?" https://www.northernjournal.com/in-internet-less-sitka-its-both-mayhem-and-a-golden-moment/ trending on bluesky: complex high stakes shenanigans between Elon musk and Brazilian govt potentially shutting Twitter off in worlds 7th most populous nation trending on mastodon: sperm whales sleep vertically, which we didn’t have proof of until recently @laurenshof https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof/113045916299524810  @seachanger both are interesting, but i think i would rather think about whales napping  @laurenshof bluesky has officially taken the “absolutely effing obsessed with twitter and musk” baton, godspeed comrades "we think it’s clear that the servers we studied offer real-world examples of governance that differ from centralized platforms not only in scale, but in kind—and that despite the network’s complexity and persistent opacity, many of the the structural possibilities the Fediverse offers allow for the flourishing of better and more humane ways of managing human interactions online." filing under #SocialTech ✨ once again subtooting a tweet I glanced at like 4 years ago that said something like everyday billions of us wake up and remake the world exactly how it was but we could be creating something else, none of this is mandatory @seachanger Israel is running concentration camps full of starving Palestinians and also deciding who gets to serve in the United States congress — this doesn’t end until we end it
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@seachanger as my main patron, The former president of the pontifical council of Justice and peace would say... It is worse than a concentration camp  @seachanger if you’ve ever tried to organize political change irl, you know that broad appeals on social media are a footnote to your real work of spreadsheets, phone calls, knocking on doors, and learning how to meet folks where they’re at & catalyze action. you know you don’t turn out your votes or actions by posting, and you definitely know that insulting people is not persuasive and gives your cause a bad name viciously blaming all current problems on hypothetical leftists or nonvoters is a big win for fascists: they really want you sitting at your keyboard enraged at your own base or an abstract left wing. because then you’re not out building community with vulnerable people, you’re not having nuanced and intelligent discussion with folk who have different life experiences, you’re not — to put it bluntly — practicing the kind of solidarity that defeats fascism my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI. what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes
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 @seachanger Agreed! Also, all those things that people actually want? Could be delivered without pouring gasoline on a planet-sized fire! @seachanger yesterday I used AI to transcribe 80 hours of audio. It's a tool that can be used for good or evil. The cat is out of the bag so there's no going back. @seachanger Nobody marched in favor of diesel engines. there is no such thing as free shipping. there is just amazon undercutting thousands of small businesses by creating that illusion
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i can ship gorgeous wild coho salmon that we've caught aboard our own fishing boat, smoked and preserved by a small independent business, but if i offer you free shipping, i make negative money! its the same for all the people out there selling stuff they've made or grown or harvested...  @seachanger alternately there's products with the cost of shipping already built in, but that's still not free  @seachanger The ability to get stuff the next day, at my door, and not pay a premium for the privilege is a miracle. Deal with it. I think mastodon and the fediverse could benefit from a more universal system of clearly classifying server communities by moderation activity and fediblock level. it’s ok for servers to have different priorities, but part of helping people pick the right one has to be helping people easily understand their differences at sign up. I know others have called for this, just add my name to the petition
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@seachanger I agree. It doesn't have to be complicated. Just a set of symbols to reflect moderation practices.Was just recommending a similar thing today..yesterday? whenever Monday was.  @seachanger @fediversereport Doesn’t https://instances.social/ basically do this already? It doesn’t show blocks, but the each server shows that once you pick one. @seachanger The descriptions under instances is piss poor, making it very hard to choose which to sign up to. bad reply guys are one of fedi/mastodon’s biggest problems. I’m realizing it’s not only a demographic issue but a structural one with the platform. if people cannot easily see one another’s replies, and if the original poster can’t easily QT replies, someone with a popular post has to field dozens of nearly identical replies. if these replies enforce white supremacy or patriarchy (spoiler: they often do), the structure of mastodon tends to center and amplify white supremacy &patriarchy
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 @seachanger if the problem is that those posts can't be seen, how can it also be a problem that those same posts are being amplified?  @seachanger i have linked & shamed the worst of replies and it was effective (it's not a full solution, but just saying that it has been effective for me to link & shame)  @seachanger One way I handle this sometimes is replying and boosting my reply. Then sometimes my followers will also reply to that person. I'm not sure of all the affordances at play but I think it can increase odds both the reply-er and maybe other would-be reply-ers will get the message. (Ironically I'm going to do this now, but not bc I think you need more replies!) beautiful to watch this online community evolve in real time as people make it their own  @seachanger for sure it's a good time for the fediverse, i truly hope to see healthy and much more huge community in days to come |
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“All over town, you see people walking around more, going to people’s homes, hanging out and talking,” said Jessica Ieremia, the director of Sitka’s library, which has a satellite unit that’s made it a hub for residents seeking internet. “We've been hearing that constantly from people, how nice it is. They're like, ‘If I could just figure out the finances part.’”