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Some communities are used to having to fight very hard to be heard and have their voices respected. Some people are carrying trauma with them and the new loss of a beloved space can compound that trauma and sense of being not only displaced but unplaced. We all need to feel we belong somewhere, that there's a place for us that not only tolerates our existence and expression of self but welcomes and rejoices in it. People are messy, myself included, the best we can do is be kind to each other.

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Some communities are used to having to fight very hard to be heard and have their voices respected. Some people are carrying trauma with them and the new loss of a beloved space can compound that trauma and sense of being not only displaced but unplaced. We all need to feel we belong somewhere, that there's a place for us that not only tolerates our existence and expression of self but welcomes and rejoices in it. People are messy, myself included, the best we can do is be kind to each other.

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For groups that are often misunderstood, ignored, censored and oppressed by the state and dominant/mainstream culture, shared safe spaces take on additional meaning (even public spaces). They're where people can breathe more easily, talk without being guarded, can expect to be understood and heard, to not have to constantly tailor to avoid offense that may lead to being harmed. They're also spaces for unbridled joy and play. People lose a lot when spaces change, we see this play out in many ways

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For groups that are often misunderstood, ignored, censored and oppressed by the state and dominant/mainstream culture, shared safe spaces take on additional meaning (even public spaces). They're where people can breathe more easily, talk without being guarded, can expect to be understood and heard, to not have to constantly tailor to avoid offense that may lead to being harmed. They're also spaces for unbridled joy and play. People lose a lot when spaces change, we see this play out in many ways

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Humans build community, it's what we do as a social species. (Other social species build community too, we're not different in that way, we just have more sophisticated technologies, for better and worse.) When any meeting space collapses, be it physical or virtual, there is the potential for community to splinter and dissolve. Even if a new space is found and all the same people find it, the community will still be changed because spaces also shape interactions and how we live within them.

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Humans build community, it's what we do as a social species. (Other social species build community too, we're not different in that way, we just have more sophisticated technologies, for better and worse.) When any meeting space collapses, be it physical or virtual, there is the potential for community to splinter and dissolve. Even if a new space is found and all the same people find it, the community will still be changed because spaces also shape interactions and how we live within them.

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I'm starting to wonder how much of the toxicity on Twitter (and that's leaked out into the real world) was because Twitter was the platform of choice for mainstream new media who now almost exclusively use a tabloid clickbait style journalism approach and appear to have adopted it's very exploitative ethos as well. Rupert Murdoch had a lot to do with importing this to the US via the NYPost and FoxNews, after he and Robert Maxwell (yes, Ghislaine's dad) pretty much cornered the UK media market.

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I'm starting to wonder how much of the toxicity on Twitter (and that's leaked out into the real world) was because Twitter was the platform of choice for mainstream new media who now almost exclusively use a tabloid clickbait style journalism approach and appear to have adopted it's very exploitative ethos as well. Rupert Murdoch had a lot to do with importing this to the US via the NYPost and FoxNews, after he and Robert Maxwell (yes, Ghislaine's dad) pretty much cornered the UK media market.

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@fheinderyckx Yes, ever since the Australian government brought in legislation about FB paying for news (that basically just benefited Murdoch), which is blindly being copied by other governments, it was clear that FB was going to pivot away from having a "newsfeed." We're in a weird place right now where it's just rich people/corporations fighting each other over us plebes sharing information with each other. I miss cafes with shared copies of newspapers.

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@fheinderyckx Yes, ever since the Australian government brought in legislation about FB paying for news (that basically just benefited Murdoch), which is blindly being copied by other governments, it was clear that FB was going to pivot away from having a "newsfeed." We're in a weird place right now where it's just rich people/corporations fighting each other over us plebes sharing information with each other. I miss cafes with shared copies of newspapers.

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#AaronSwartzDay I may just log into my Diaspora account today as a symbolic act of memory.

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#AaronSwartzDay I may just log into my Diaspora account today as a symbolic act of memory.

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Basically I have no interest at being broadcast at or attempts to manipulate me via journalistic hot takes and sensationalism. Twitter was good for citizen journalism and independent journalists, I'm not sure it was for MSM reporting. Lots of the MSM reporters there were busy taking more than they gave (using Twitter to find stories, taking people's posts and using them in news stories without consent instead of actually doing any reporting, etc).

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Basically I have no interest at being broadcast at or attempts to manipulate me via journalistic hot takes and sensationalism. Twitter was good for citizen journalism and independent journalists, I'm not sure it was for MSM reporting. Lots of the MSM reporters there were busy taking more than they gave (using Twitter to find stories, taking people's posts and using them in news stories without consent instead of actually doing any reporting, etc).

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Most of the news I went to Twitter for was first person accounts and direct reports from journalists/citizens on the ground. I'd follow specific journalists doing good work or covering specific interests of mine. It wasn't to read push notifications from MSM journalists or to watch their drama. I get my regular news from news sites I trust—public broadcasters like CBC/ABC-Australia and specific publications. I'd follow a publication's server. I like my news cold.

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Most of the news I went to Twitter for was first person accounts and direct reports from journalists/citizens on the ground. I'd follow specific journalists doing good work or covering specific interests of mine. It wasn't to read push notifications from MSM journalists or to watch their drama. I get my regular news from news sites I trust—public broadcasters like CBC/ABC-Australia and specific publications. I'd follow a publication's server. I like my news cold.

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A thought about the fediverse, Mastodon and Modern Heroes. In hyper-individualist Modern societies we look for a hero because we're trained to believe in lone geniuses to justify wealth/power accumulation. We want to be heroes too but wanting to be the main character all the time is a very narcissistic way to approach life and it's not actually how anything works. Particularly not the fediverse, which was built by many people working collectively and is run by many people working collectively.

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A thought about the fediverse, Mastodon and Modern Heroes. In hyper-individualist Modern societies we look for a hero because we're trained to believe in lone geniuses to justify wealth/power accumulation. We want to be heroes too but wanting to be the main character all the time is a very narcissistic way to approach life and it's not actually how anything works. Particularly not the fediverse, which was built by many people working collectively and is run by many people working collectively.

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You know, life doesn't have to be a competition, that's a lie capitalism sells us to make sure we don't start cooperating because it needs our loneliness to sell us stuff we don't need. Sure, some competition can be fun but being ruthlessly hyper-competitive is extremely antisocial and ultimately depressing, especially for a social species like us humans. While people can still be antisocial and competitive on open source networks, they're not rewarded by the system for it like on Twitter.

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You know, life doesn't have to be a competition, that's a lie capitalism sells us to make sure we don't start cooperating because it needs our loneliness to sell us stuff we don't need. Sure, some competition can be fun but being ruthlessly hyper-competitive is extremely antisocial and ultimately depressing, especially for a social species like us humans. While people can still be antisocial and competitive on open source networks, they're not rewarded by the system for it like on Twitter.

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@1loafofmeat https://insideevs.com/news/592878/nhts a-adas-crash-data-tesla-first/

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@1loafofmeat https://insideevs.com/news/592878/nhts a-adas-crash-data-tesla-first/

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@Suzyanalyst1 @AlexKarabanow I'm open to it being both. I think Musk thought he could just be Rupert Murdoch but with Twitter (a bumbling belief) and use it to control the narrative for his own benefit (it would be too important a platform for key people/corporations to leave). I also think he believes himself too big to fail Trump-style. I'm not sure the Saudis care if he destroys/degrades Twitter, that also works for them and for Musk's mentors like Peter Thiel.

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@Suzyanalyst1 @AlexKarabanow I'm open to it being both. I think Musk thought he could just be Rupert Murdoch but with Twitter (a bumbling belief) and use it to control the narrative for his own benefit (it would be too important a platform for key people/corporations to leave). I also think he believes himself too big to fail Trump-style. I'm not sure the Saudis care if he destroys/degrades Twitter, that also works for them and for Musk's mentors like Peter Thiel.

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@anildash This and the inability to not think about the site in capitalist and "ownership" terms. Because of who I follow, I am particularly seeing a lot of this coming out of the cishet male White news journalism space where there seems to be an expectation of privileging of their voice and thought, and where they're not used to having this challenged. (Not all cishet male White journalists, of course, but you can really see why mainstream US news is so seriously borked!)

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@anildash This and the inability to not think about the site in capitalist and "ownership" terms. Because of who I follow, I am particularly seeing a lot of this coming out of the cishet male White news journalism space where there seems to be an expectation of privileging of their voice and thought, and where they're not used to having this challenged. (Not all cishet male White journalists, of course, but you can really see why mainstream US news is so seriously borked!)

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And I know plenty of cishet anarchist dudes who are awesome people, good listeners and caring people who build good things in the world. None of what I'm talking about is specific to anarchists, narcissistic people who want to take up all the oxygen in the room or position themselves as leaders exist everywhere and in all social movements. As always, beware the person who claims to speak for everyone (including me, of course if I start to do it). We are known not by our words but by our actions.

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And I know plenty of cishet anarchist dudes who are awesome people, good listeners and caring people who build good things in the world. None of what I'm talking about is specific to anarchists, narcissistic people who want to take up all the oxygen in the room or position themselves as leaders exist everywhere and in all social movements. As always, beware the person who claims to speak for everyone (including me, of course if I start to do it). We are known not by our words but by our actions.

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Also...
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin

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Also...
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin

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It's interesting watching people who only think of things in capitalist terms (how can I own, control and profit off of this) trying to figure out how to do so on an open source system. "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" for some people apparently!

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It's interesting watching people who only think of things in capitalist terms (how can I own, control and profit off of this) trying to figure out how to do so on an open source system. "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" for some people apparently!

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@jeff Maybe "ownership" isn't really the most productive way to think about all this? Even when proposing a cooperative model of ownership. Also, would you require people contribute financially if they are to belong? Are you creating a closed subscription model of ownership on an open source system?

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@jeff Maybe "ownership" isn't really the most productive way to think about all this? Even when proposing a cooperative model of ownership. Also, would you require people contribute financially if they are to belong? Are you creating a closed subscription model of ownership on an open source system?

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@Leecookson @Blackgirlinmaine Yes, I"m also using desktop before I try out one of the apps (there's more than one, they're different, one thing about open source systems is you end up with lots of variety because anyone can build something that interacts in the fediverse using open source tools). It's useful to think about it like democracy, clunk and imperfect, requires some effort but gives us all more freedom and equality ideally, but obviously also humans involved so human things will occur.

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@Leecookson @Blackgirlinmaine Yes, I"m also using desktop before I try out one of the apps (there's more than one, they're different, one thing about open source systems is you end up with lots of variety because anyone can build something that interacts in the fediverse using open source tools). It's useful to think about it like democracy, clunk and imperfect, requires some effort but gives us all more freedom and equality ideally, but obviously also humans involved so human things will occur.

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@joshsternberg Trump was never more than a useful idiot and way to increase profits for Murdoch. It just means he'll promote another equally or more terrible far right political player, pretty sure that's Desantos right now. If we get really lucky, the far right will go to war with itself but I doubt Murdoch and the other ruthlessly fascist billionaires/oligarchies will facilitate that.

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@joshsternberg Trump was never more than a useful idiot and way to increase profits for Murdoch. It just means he'll promote another equally or more terrible far right political player, pretty sure that's Desantos right now. If we get really lucky, the far right will go to war with itself but I doubt Murdoch and the other ruthlessly fascist billionaires/oligarchies will facilitate that.

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Ugh, far right covid denier QAnoner wins in Alberta by-election.
https://www. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/dan ielle-smith-byelection-brooks-medicine-hat-alberta-1.6643590

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Ugh, far right covid denier QAnoner wins in Alberta by-election.
https://www. cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/dan ielle-smith-byelection-brooks-medicine-hat-alberta-1.6643590