During my journey through POSSE driven social media with a focus on open source/federated applications, I’ve picked up a few insights. As a homelabber, I was curious about running my own social media apps on my private NAS.
While I know it’s possible to expose my NAS/network to the internet, I feel that, from my perspective of being “smart enough to be dangerous,” it’s not the best idea for me. If I want to host something online, like Actual, PeerTube, or Mastodon, It’s more cost-effective (in terms of my time) and safer to use a fully managed DevOps platform like Elest.
MAGA is an emotional movement by @transworld@masto.ai
Trump officials have warned that transgender troops weaken the force, but a new review of open service tells a different story.https://www.advocate.com/military/the-power-of-trans-servicepeople#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
There’s no logic/reason behind what #MAGA does, it’s 100% feelings.
Third Party by @chrisgeidner@journa.host
Third country removals — deporting people to countries they have no connection to — are not new to the Trump admin, but they’ve used the practice in aggressive and arguably illegal ways. The class-action challenge fighting them is now at the First Circuit, with briefing over the next 5 weeks, then arguments. www.lawdork.com/p/first-c…
The last conservative government Rishi Sunak tries to do this in Rwanda.
An excerpt from “Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey” - James Hollis Ph.D
“We survive in this life by adaptation. We learn from our world — families of origin, popular culture, world events, religious training, and many other sources — who we are, what is acceptable, what is not, and how we have to behave, perform, in order to fit in, gain approval from others, and prosper in this world into which we were thrust.
Watching the TikTok from Victoria Derbyshire talk about puberty blockers and see the comments of cis people more worried about a child’s future ability to reproduce, while ignoring the mental health repercussions for #transgender children makes me ill.
So, I’ve moved from Mastodon, to Micro.blog. I was hosting my own Mastodon server, it just isn’t worth $20 a month (it was raised last month from $9 to $20) to have my own domain/instance. Micro.blog is limited in what it can do, but my old mastodon.social profile will do to fill in the gaps.
Ya know, it’s really fucking irritating to be right. I’ve known for a while what’s coming. Trans people told you, black people told you, marginalised people told you years ago this would happen. But it didn’t impact you, so you didn’t listen.
Donald Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom of the problem. If he had a heart attack and died today, the United States would find another fascist to take his place.
I like what Cory Doctorow posts on here a lot. I agree with his prescriptions to the problems a lot too. However, what’s lacking is context regarding why these solutions may not come to fruition.
It’s hard to call a government that allows participation from only two parties a democracy.
What we have now resembles what the French term “démocrature” describes. According to Wikipedia (translated), this term is a blend of seemingly contradictory concepts.
Post by @galacticstone@mastodon.social
Folks, if you have favorite TikTok or YouTube accounts that you follow, send a comment or DM to that account and tell them about PeerTube and Loops.Progressive voices are not welcome or safe on those broligarch venues and it’s going to get worse.It would be wise for these influencers and creators to not have all their eggs in one corporate basket. They should at least establish a presence and cross post.
I recently went over to my Alumni group for my high school and one of the moderators posted a topic starter “What’s the biggest” change in the world since graduation?”
This was an answer:
Honestly, it just reminds me of the trash heap of humanity that I grew up in, don’t miss, and how ignorant and small people can be.
A post on the Feminism Reddit proclaims: “Sex Work isn’t feminism”. A commenter on that thread said:
“The main reason I think prostitution is bad because
human trafficking/slavery
the great risk it puts women in
most woman who willingly are prostitutes only do it out of desperation/no other way to support themselves (or their children.)” “How do I know prostitution is bad? What woman who has millions (is very wealthy) prostitutes herself?
Iposted yesterday about Bluesky suspending #transgender authors. This type of nonsense will continue as long as people insist on algorithm based, centralized (no, Bluesky isn’t decentralised) social media. I feel like a grumpy old person (mostly because I am), but it’s pretty obvious where things are going. The government is shutting down every avenue of social media that doesn’t toe the line in terms of government policy (under the guise of “saving the children”).
I’m already tired of the revisionist (or just flat out ignoring the) history of #PopeFrancis. He wasn’t a social justice warrior. He wasn’t anti-capitalist. He wasn’t even anti-paedophilia. He was slightly better than the previous #papst That’s my eulogy of him. Rest in piss.
In the past year and a half, I’ve been trying to de-google or to extract myself from algorithmically based social media apps. I’ve had a revelation in doing that. You’ve probably heard it before, but, if you do not pay for an app, you are the product.. When you’re using an open-source software (OSS) for maps, YouTube, email, or calendars, you are never going to find a perfect replacement. Those “perfect apps” sell your data, have hundreds or even thousands of developers working on them, and millions of money in VC funding, whereas these open-source alternatives do not.
Currently reading: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang 📚 and straight off the bat, I’m giving this book the side eye.
“Despite its problems and limitations, I believe capitalism is the best economic system that humanity has invented. My criticism is of a particular version of capitalism that has dominated the world in the last three decades, that is free market capitalism. This is not the only way to run capitalism, and it is certainly not the best, as the record for the last three decades shows.
I was alerted to the passing of Jeri Hughes, by my friend Ethan St. Pierre. It comes a day after watching a video of a trans person referring to themselves as a trans elder when they transitioned in 2020. It’s made me reflect on how many of my fellow (actual) trans elders have died and how the community is less, because of it.
When I started the Transadvocate blog back in 2002, it was a response to the pain and loss I felt after coming out as transgender in 2001.
I’ve got the custom CSS fixed on my peertube instance the way I like it, at least for Desktop, but not yet for mobile. Work in progress, but I’m happy with it.
I just finished reading Gary Stevenson’s book The Trading Game 📚 and I wanted to offer some thoughts about the book.
I watched this interview with Gary on Novara Media:
and it’s what pushed me to buy the book. I thought that the book was going to be about economic theory. I expected it to explain how the economy works. It definitely was not that. Instead, it was a superb story about a young poor boy with a knack for numbers.
With the coming TikTok ban, I’ve realised that I’m doing something that I’ve done since 1997, which is leaving another social media site.
My online social media prepense since 1997: AOL community (1997), Livejournal (2001-2004), Friendster (2003-2004), Myspace (2004-2006), Tribe.net (2005), Facebook (2006-2019), Twitter (2008-2024), YouTube (2011), Mastodon (2018), TikTok (2020), PeerTube (2024).
This was never a linear event cycle, I just kind of floated from one app to the next with a lot of bleed over.
My mutual Abbey (OpenBookShelf), asked on TikTok what “POSSE” is. POSSE stands for “Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere”. You start with your website. For me, I start with my blog on Micro.blog, but you can use WordPress too. You can cross post or “syndicate” yourself automatically to most sites (you can find this post on Mastodon, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, Tumblr, and Nostr) You can spin up your own social media sites like Mastodon (think Twitter) or PeerTube (think YouTube/TikTok) yourself effortlessly.