Thanks! That’s very useful advise. By “lock the community” you mean setting “Only moderators can post to this community” with this checkbox, or something else?

Thank you! Everyone on our side agrees to move to europe.pub. So it’s decided!

Do I understand correctly that there is no automated way to migrate a community in Lemme? I just have to create a new one on your instance and make an announcement here for everyone to know? And maybe cross-post everything from here too? Any advise?

We are leaning towards europe.pub, because it’s a smaller instance (so moving there increases distribution of Fediverse), it has awesome name and good values. One concern I had is that there is only one admin (@[email protected]), but after having a wholesome conversation with them I’m confident it’s going to be a good new home for us. At Esc Co. we have a collective meeting later today and will make a final decision about the move.

Yes, thank you! It’s fixed now.

Thanks to @[email protected] for sharing the link in another thread

Yes! The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal

Advertising predates tracking by millennia. We can have online advertising without tracking, and certainly without this orgy of sharing data between 4353 partners. But market alone won’t get us there, because whoever offers advertising without tracking and selling data will be at a huge disadvantage compared to the crooks who sell. Only regulatory action can help. So this small step should be celebrated.

Then what are you talking about? I didn’t downvote your post, but probably like people who did, I have trouble understanding your point. Everyone online - privileged and underprivileged alike - is under omnipresent surveillance of countless actors. Until very recently this was completely unregulated. Information about our behavior, interests, opinions, relations, health, anxieties and dumb shit we post in moments of confusion, is gathered, sold, recombined and resold. The rich and powerful are doing it in hope of gaining ability to predict and change our behavior - i.e. gain more power over us. So just because you are more privileged then some, you should not care? Or not appreciate that something good, even if small and insufficient, happened about this awful situation?

You’re welcome 🤗

It’s not about advertising. It’s about spying on our online lives. Not the same thing.

Sure. It’s in our nature to surround ourselves with like-minded people. Back in the old days, people would subscribe to a newspaper, watch TV and listen to radio stations, or go to pubs with folks they felt comfortable with, and that would often lead to gruopthink. There is only so much we can do about it with different platforms. The rest is up to us, individually and collectively. Being polite, open minded, thoughtful and critical takes effort. But it’s also in our nature.

What you wrote is probably true, but it’s not the end of the story. Ownership model of corporate social media creates incentives to polarize and divide people. It drives engagement and creates moats. Also, billionaire owners of those media have their own political goals, and are happy to use the platforms they own to advance them.

Fuck incels! Not literally, of course.

Why not? It would cure them 😉

It’s probably the same for politicians. They are looking for widest reach. It’s not only about posting. To be effective, they need to moderate and engage with comments, which is harder to automate. Also, they might just not know about fediverse platforms (lack of marketing). In that case the solution would be to promote fediverse among users, European business, organizations and politicians.

Then it’s important to identify the reason it doesn’t take off. Is it inherent to fediverse (in which case we would indeed need a new platform) or is it external. For example proprietary platforms have marketing and lobbying.

Fediverse?

Another interesting quote from the article. Microsoft President Brad Smith adds:

In the unlikely event we are ever ordered by any government anywhere in the world to suspend or cease cloud operations in Europe, we are committing that Microsoft will promptly and vigorously contest such a measure using all legal avenues available […]

So they are seriously considering a possibility of an export ban for digital services 😯

Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud, told us in March, “The Cloud Act grants US authorities access to cloud data hosted by US companies. It does not matter if that data is located in the US, Europe, or anywhere else.”

Don’t listen to the person. Listen to the argument.

The article is interesting, but the panic-button music suggestions at the bottom are just brilliant:

I started last month with some suggestions for panic-button music, including Miles Davis’ So What?, the second movement of Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp, Josquin Desprez’s Missa Pange Lingua, or The Sea by Morcheeba. Perhaps a few more are in order. After dealing with the Greek letters, maybe listen to To Gelasto Pedi by Mikis Theodorakis; and as we’re in the presence of a market Black Swan, try Orlando Gibbons’ madrigal The Silver Swan. And as time rushes by, there’s Who Knows Where the Time Goes by Fairport Convention.

Technically? Not very much, but I’m handy with NixOS. The hardest part was the configuration of a mail server. I should probably blog about the setup process. But of course the real work is attracting people and keeping them engaged.