(I don't have the time to commit to "daily" right now, nor do I feel like there's a really good software platform for it yet... but if anyone is interested in pursuing this, I do have some (limited) resources.)
I've figured out what I would call an anti-authoritarian newsfeed (newspaper but online):
The idea is that everyone -- readers, management, critics, and supporters -- needs to be reminded:
(...and probably a few other things I haven't thought of yet.)
@il Why OnlyOffice, when it's apparently proprietary? We've been using @libreoffice for many years now, with great satisfaction (...aside from Base, but that's a whole other discussion).
Advice welcomed!
Day 1 of figuring out what we're taking with us to Ecuador:
We've picked our apartment, and moving option.
We've chosen a couple of lift vans, since I don't think our place would support a giant crate. We're going to have to empty our house, but well, exile/refuge tends to require such things.
The rules we know:
2 Lift Vans= 80 medium moving boxes
Combined weight limit of clothes = 200 kg.
I want a goal of 75 in order to be safe. I split this into three parts:
25 personal boxes for each of us for personal items, books, clothes.
Equivalencies:
10 small moving boxes= 6 medium size boxes
1 moving bag of clothes= 1 medium size box
Advantage: our place is fully furnished, and has enough bedding/cookware for us to start, though we're gonna need some things.
My issues: figuring out which clothes to take mostly
The joint boxes: I'm kinda rationing them out as follows
5 boxes: Computer stuff
2 boxes: Warhammer stuff
2 boxes: posters/framed pictures
1 box: documents
7 boxes: appliances+kitchenware
1 box or bag: hangers
2 boxes/bags: plushies
5 boxes: bedding (pillowcases, 2 pillows, weighted blanket, spare bedsheets.
A crate would have been simpler, but we don't have enough for that, it's more complicated to deal with, and the empty space means a risk of breakage.
This is not going to be easy, but we can do it. Got 6 weeks before the movers come (not counting the trip south to see friends in 2 weeks)
@nazokiyoubinbou This, of course, is the elephant in the room.
I can't think of any way to prevent this other than getting these assholes out of power, which is what we urgently want anyway -- so I focus on that.
@gildilinie I mean, the problem people were* having with the idea of quote-boosts, which resulted in it only being implented years after other fedi software had it and with the option to opt-out enabled by default (thus resulting in awkwardness when other fedi software which never had a problem with it doesn't check those permissions and lets you quoost stuff regardless).
(* are they still? I've heard remarkably little protest since it was implemented...)
@gildilinie I never understood what the problem was, but I didn't want to be one of those "I don't see it therefore it doesn't exist" people. :-P
@nottern @FediThing @andrewstroehlein
We should probably be teaching kids better ways of thinking about these issues. [makes mental note for after the revolution]
@FediThing @nottern @andrewstroehlein Another characteristic seems to be that they don't really care much about consistency... a lot of it seems to come down to just "follow the leader", and the group-identity thing is only one tool that fash leaders use to start their base all rowing in the same direction.
@jwz A lot of people do seem to think that the goal of all business should be profit.
This is an understandable mistake, given the degree of propaganda designed to make us think of "profit" as the raison d'être of all existence, but of course it overlooks the fact that profit itself was supposed to serve a larger end.
(...of, you know, inducing selfish people to be of service to society, despite of the handicap of being selfish.)
@plexus Yeah, it's not where I would have expected either. I mean, I guess it kind of makes sense if you're thinking in terms of "there's a new kind of boost now -- so let's make the boost-icon a menu", but I would have expected to see it as a separate icon. In the absence of a new icon being visible, I'd then expect it to be hidden in the dots menu.
(I still think it should be a separate icon, but maybe that causes problems on small screens?)
@nottern @FediThing @andrewstroehlein
Could it be a deeply racial/ingroup mindset? Like, "justice" means "our group (aryans. whitepeople, Christians, whatever) gets to rule like we deserve, without interference from other groups who aren't really people anyway"? I mean, if they simply cannot imagine people outside their group as being people, then maybe it makes an ugly kind of sense?
@plexus Try quote-posting this one? It should be an option when you press the "boost" :boost_ok: icon. ^.^
@dodo1095zd @WillyECoyote69 @Strandjunker
Vivaldi/Lingvanex translation of that:
it does the way of informing the public - an excess of free misinformation, (it's hard to figure out what's a lie, what's embellished, and what's grains of truth), quality information is paid, so most don't read it... ⁇ ️😉So what are we wondering then?
Are we talking about disinfo in the US, or about the US?
Either way -- I've never had trouble finding out what's going on via fedi, but I gather that doesn't work for a lot of people for one reason or other.
@mekkaokereke Even I, sheltered white suburbanite, can see it: racism is a key element of the rot.
@StillIRise1963 Same. Just the word "homeland" reeked of facism, and I was shocked at the level of acceptance.
We were so innocent then... >.<
On further thought: I would also suggest that the rot extends beyond the US. Look, for example, at "conservative" victories in Canada and the UK. The US is where it is most intensely visible, but it's a worldwide problem.
