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My favourite Band for example. They only use Instagram and Facebook. It’s infuriating. I just log in via browser every few months.

How many others feel the same way? At the next concert you say, they’ve got another page, on an open source network, come check it out. You say you’re a big fan, so why support them? Never failed, never tried.

All networks start small. What happens upon seeding is we often find, increasingly interesting overlaps, someone, somewhere different, or someone different finds it. Because it’s an open network, not a gate kept network, or at least more open. Over the long run, the fediverse will increase in population, and popularity, overtaking networks whose primary purpose is advertising and data collection. So yes, start small, try and see what happens. This is his we build sustainable networks, for the people, by the people.

modern reality where only governments and massive corporations control the hardware, and hardware itself is today’s weaponry, replacing tanks and guns?

Is their one app, for pixelfed, Lemmy and mastadon, that respects your privacy? Or is 3 separate apps better?

Make a page for them, auto paste their content, then tell them they have a following on pixelfed, and hand them the account.

Finally discussion of propaganda techniques. Good fellow

Several of good free peer to peer options. We need to completely move away from centralized servers. This list is dated, as there’s many new excellent options out there. It would be cool to see a multi client protocol.

https://convos.org/

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

Health, finance, social, journalism, literally anything. Even having accurate accounts of events or history. China is trying to rewrite history, Iran is shutting down the internet. Mesh networks is another form of resistance. All forms of self sovereign application data storage and the ability to share that without controls by 3rd parties are becoming more and more valuable. I would posit it is already a life saving tool. The less data aggregation on you, the less likely you could be targeted. You can’t target something or someone if you can’t see them, or control their systems.

Why you no host? Yunohost

I was wondering if we are barreling head first into a future where the ratio of self hosted machines running sovereign software equates, per machine, or instance to 100, 500 or 1000 plus lives saved.

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You sure about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre#Death_toll

Good job overweight middle manager that could have just been an index fund. They love them fee structures.

Fastest way to destroy American democracy, eliminate the middle class. The poor are easily manipulated, the upper middle strives for the top 10 percent and everyone else is too busy getting fucked (kinda like everyone else), while Trillion Truck Elun fucks more teens, because we need more psychopaths to lead us. Good time to peace the fuck out of that miserable hellhole.

Discovering new paths and education is good. We should not look down at this, but encourage reschooling at 30, 40, 50 or any age. Most skills are out of date within 5 years of leaving school. Having said that, you can reup or relearn stuff in a year or two, or even six months.

It sounds like a joke, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility, with advances in data storage, that we are easily self hosting the multi hundred TB libraries or distributed torrents on our cell phones in the near future. A combination of cryptography plus hardware advances could quickly redistribute the internet as we know it today, therefore redistributing power. If we are self hosting services locally, there’s no ads, less propaganda etc. Anybody that self hosts any services can attest to lower costs, lower exposure to propaganda and advertising, increased self sovereignty, and an increase in insanity (a pun at self hosted 😅🫢)

Corporate propaganda pushes 10,000 ads on the typical american per day.

This leads to the most psychologically optimized persuasion (see propaganda) on the Earth- except it’s not just commerical but includes privately funded algorithmic political, but overt and subtle.

Much of American culture is advertising, branding and political posturing.

He’s managed so far to have a pretty damning pile of evidence against him, to openly use the presidential office for personal financial gain (like billions, openly) to no avail. Even going as far as openly discussing no elections in 28’. It is playbook Russian propaganda tactics.

Which agency will physically remove the guy from the White House in 28’? If he captures that agency it’s game over for democracy in the USA?

There’s links?! WHERE

Isn’t that high or drunk Boston accent

These are witness statements with evidence?

They used Russian propaganda techniques to deal with this, polarization, gas lighting, every trick in the book. Now the lines are so blurred, nobody knows what to believe, which is the true stated goal and accomplishment.

If you’re American- realize that you live in the most heavily propagandized nation on the planet earth. Yes, worse than Russia, China and North Korea.

It’s just the end results, achievements, goals are not aligned with what we might traditionally perceive as the end goals of propaganda. This includes corporate and government sponsored forms.