Independence Day @iday@mastodonten.de

📣 Want to see #BernieOnMastodon? 🐘 🔥

➡️ We have a "work group" formed. Anyone is welcome to participate. ⬇️

✅ First of all, email info@berniesanders.com & ask him to create his own server here

✅ Tweet about #BernieOnMastodon on Twitter

✅ Migrate your friends from Twitter to Mastodon. Use your own signup link or ours: https://mastodon.social/invite/fBRpCSgZ We'll greet each user as they arrive.

✅ Have them create a 2nd browser tab to stay active, then join us in "all the above". ⬆️

Boosts appreciated! 🚀

Hallo #Mastodon! Wir sind jetzt auch hier.

Maybe its time to boycott Conservancy and #fosdem until such time as they're no longer promoting GAFAM. I understand that the history is complicated, but in 2020 we now have a very clear picture of how toxic those companies are in a multitude of ways.

The oldies like me need to remember why they originally resisted Microsoft, and not end up rationalizing away similar or worse abuses coming from Google and Facebook. In a lot of ways the problems created by those companies are much more existential than a sweating Ballmer hurling lawsuits and office furniture.

You can be funded by Google or Facebook or some other surveillance capitalist, or you can advocate for human rights and democracy. Pick one.

"The documentary “The Great Hack,” which was shortlisted for the Oscars, explores how the data firm #CambridgeAnalytica came to symbolize the dark side of #socialControlmedia " https://truthout.org/video/big-data-firms-helped-sway-the-2016-election-could-it-happen-again-in-2020/

Massive Cambridge Analytica leak reveals global election manipulation: Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/06/the-great-hack.html

#cambridgeAnalytica #democracy #privacy #malaysia #kenya #brazil #politik #politics #demokratie

This is a useful way to see how the different protocols of the #Fediverse and #Federation interact and which software uses which.

Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’ - Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-analytica-data-leak-global-election-manipulation

http://www.talkplus.org/blog/2020/fediverse-in-2019/

#fediverse in 2019

In 2019 the number of fediversed registered accounts increased from 2.500.000 users to roughly 4.300.000 – about 🎉 1.800.000 newcome

Five networks growing most rapidly in online server numbers in 2019 were:

#Pleroma +182
#Mastodon +159
#Writefreely +147
#Pixelfed +73
#Peertube +63

Following last years tradition we'll have a #fdroid meetup at #36C3 on the day 1 at 1400.
Last year we had a room with 12 seats and 60 minutes, this year we'll have a lot more space at #cbase and 90 minutes 🙂.

There will be lots of stickers. See you all there.

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Session:F-Droid_Meetup

#introductions

This account is inspired by the awesome @FuckOffGoogle initiative in Berlin.

Is there anybody interested to protest against Google in #Zurich too?

Thousand postcards like this are awaiting to be distributed around the Google campus...

#FuckOffGoogle

Oh, and the Facebook/Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Apple? Nein danke stickers are here too :) #36c3

One commonly mentioned danger of a large corporate player like Twitter coming into the decentralized social world is the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish tactic, wherein one entity adopts a common protocol, and once it acquires a large marketshare then makes itself incompatible through custom changes, locking its users in and leaving the common protocol for dead.

Facebook under fire as political ads vanish from archive https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-advertising/facebook-under-fire-as-political-ads-vanish-from-archive-ft-idUSKBN1YE2IH + see what disappeared here https://ad.watch