 X wasn't banned in Brazil because of censorship. It was because Musk refused to abide by a court order to block accounts linked to the invasion of the Brazilian Parliament, Supreme Court and Presidential Palace in 2023. Musk preferred to close his Brazilian offices instead of helping to catch those who tried to overthrow a democratic elected government. If someone tells you otherwise, they're either dishonest or misinformed. This is a real result in Google. The term #googling is going to take on new connotations, and they donโt care.
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 Welcome #Brazilians. Thanks for giving Mastodon and the Fediverse a look. Here is a #Portuguese language overview post from @cadusilva >>> https://bolha.one/@cadusilva/113053773710271938 For lots more information on getting started on Mastodon check out @FediTips >>> https://fedi.tips/ For help with whom to follow @FediFollows Again welcome, we are glad you are here!  People ask what is so great about Mastodon? The answer is very simple. Mastodon is not owned by anybody. No billionaire is going to use this network to control public opinion or otherwise force their will down your throat. Mastodon is just the sum of everyone that uses the network, plus a host of others from all across other ActivityPub applications called the Fediverse. Mastodon is truly people powered. Welcome to the post billionaire Open Social Media future. Hive mind: looking for examples where a public benefit corporation has produced โgreatโ (for some value of โgreatโ) returns for its financial investors. @j12t did you see this: https://www.bdc.ca/en/articles-tools/blog/shocker-investors-get-purpose-now-want-b-corps First I was reminded that Danone is a B Corp, and I am pretty sure they deliver to investors. Second, the whole Wall Street guide to investors made me feel like "this will not go week for B Corps." And @bart is bravely going where few in the #fediverse have gone before: talking about raising for-profit money for a fediverse project. https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/29/sub-club-aims-to-fund-the-fediverse-via-premium-feeds/ A flurry of #fediverse #press coverage in recent days. Probably had to do the #Threads #ActivityPub milestone and with the Waveform Podcast. We collect it here right on Lemmy: https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse_press (Well, mostly me in recent months. My crowdsourcing helpers seem to have mostly fallen by the wayside. Help wanted!!) The good news is itโs not COVID. But for as long as I can remember, if thereโs a flu-like thing anywhere in the same sector of the galaxy as me, I will get it.  @j12t you and me both. Glad it's not covid but hope that, whatever you've picked up, it moves on asap. Very best wishes. At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens. Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :) https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/
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 @eieio I am getting a tad too old and brain weary to fully follow this but from what I did understand this is fucking amazing. I feel less worried about the world. Thanks.  "The most interesting thing about #Threads is Meta's commitment to support the ActivityPub protocol." ... in the view of this podcaster.  @j12t it's a super good episode! I love that this place is finally seeming to gain some traction.๐ Hi European #Fediverse people! Did you know #FediForum starts and ends at times that work for your time zone(s) as well? We start at 8am California time, which is quite early for Californians :-) so that we can end by 22:00 central European time -- which is late for you, but not impossibly so. This way, we can bring a truly international, intercontinental community together. And this time, you can even attend on a Saturday not just work week days. Join us Sep 12-14? https://fediforum.org @Sarahp But do people understand "open social web" without definition? Correctly? ๐ Pondering the "open social web" as a phrase as opposed to "#fediverse" (as just used by @Sarahp in her latest piece on Techcrunch.) I think it works. Merely "the social web" doesn't work IMHO because that would include the walled Facebook garden, if you use it with a web browser, and that's not what we want to say. I've been playing with "the social web of peers" but that is rather complicated. "#Open #social #web" also plays on the "open web" which is a term with a long history. Thoughts?  @j12t When I first started crowing about the "fediverse" to my teenage kids, they both were utterly nonplussed because they thought I was talking about the U.S. government. I wish we could come up with a one-word moniker. I love naming things and could spend way too many hours brainstorming ideas, ha! I'm clearly completely clueless about the latest #css features. https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-css/2024 The open web is amazing. So we keep saying in our little subculture, e.g. at #xoxo on the weekend or all over the #fediverse and #indieweb. And generally are met with incomprehension outside of our little subculture. IMHO that's because we are not saying **why** the open web is amazing. I think it all boils down to: "on the open web, I can be much more creative, with minimum expense, than elsewhere, and so easily share my creations with the world." Some random examples for comparison: 1. Apps. They permit exactly what the app developer (usually a corporation) lets us do in the straitjacket they set up for us and no more. 2. Oil paintings. I can do lots of things there (no animations though) but sharing with the world is difficult and expensive. 3.Mechatronic contraptions. Lots of possible creativity there, see Burning Man. But hard to do, expensive, and even harder to share. The Open Web? Trivially easy in comparison, and multi-medial.  @j12t I wrote something recently along these lines, but didn't put it as well as your examples do. https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/14/i-love-the-web/  @j12t @andypiper โWhat happened to the platform cooperative movement?โ As organizer of an event, one sometimes forgets a main reason to organize the event in the first place was to will the event into existence because I needed it! In other news, I actually just finished some slides for a session at #FediForum with my @dazzle hat on. I think it will be an interesting session. @j12t paywalled. But I donโt think weโll end extraction by ending demand, I think weโll have to ban extraction, import, and export, with penalties that selling oil canโt pay for. And I dread finding out what it takes to convince legislators to do that |
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@nande Censoring bad people is still censorying. You can argue it is justified and moral to do, but you cant say it "isnt censorship".
@nande ooph, and there come the muskboii/russian bot reply guys
@nande the NYT article about it walked a fine line that rubbed me wrong.