"Another way to say that is: among people or communities who trust each other in these decisions, an act of self-defense becomes, seamlessly and invisibly, an act of collective defense. [...] shields-up means shields-up for everyone. Effective, practical defensive solidarity; it’s the most important new idea I’ve seen in social software in years."
I wrote this in 2020, and all the time I've spent since watching admins burn out and shutter instances saddens me.
It doesn't need to be like this.
@BeAware I don't think it's about any sort of "private information" ... it's about a fucking commercial service profitting from content generated by me.
It's about the basic Embrace, Extend and Extiguish strategy we all can safely assume to be the reason behind "adopting activitypub" by such companies in the first place....
@gregeganSF
I watch foreign-language content with foreign-language subtitles. An example is the below-mentioned Shogun. Japanese audio + English subtitles for me.
It is also interesting to compare dubbing "cultures." Over here in Czechia the most famous faces of cinema go with famous local voices and everybody knows that, e.g. Robert Redford is dubbed exclusively by this or that guy. Started with the icons of the French cinema after WW2.
But you know what?
My goal was to finish the race at all, and I -did-, while never walking. And I’m down 45 pounds from January and no longer prediabetic.
I’m an abysmal runner, and probably always will be; my favorite exercise is weight lifting, not so much cardio.
So despite the race turning out to be way more physically challenging for me than I expected, what I’m focusing on is that I’m doing way better than old me.
It helps that people were so encouraging and nice, even as I was dying.
@lns it definitely can do better than I. I can barely draw stick figures.😬😅So I write out long complicated prompts to express my emotions and how I want them shown and it does it for me.
It has emotion. They're my emotions and they're very real.
If you would, take a look at this image below. I have a history of addiction to many substances over my life and have been thankful to overcome most besides nicotine. On a particularly rough day, I was listening to "Would" by Alice in Chains which references those struggles and decided to generate this.
I wrote "A man with a blue shirt and black hair laying in a swirling flood of drugs, his eyes are closed and he seems at peace while the flood is roaring around him, in the style of comic book art, cel-shading, somber but chaotic, depiction of addiction, depression, anxiety, and loss"
And sure, there's stuff in there that I didn't specifically ask for and it didn't take me nearly as much time to write that as it would for an able artist to draw something as good, but it doesn't make it less meaningful.
My emotions are just as important as anyone else's emotions and just because I can't draw them out, doesn't make it less valid and I felt like your post was attacking that.😔
@BeAware One of the 2 instances unblocked me.
The other partially unblocked me. I'm now "limited" by this instance (Mamot).
I can see the people I follow. And my followers can see me. But other users of the Mamot instance can't see me.
It was a message from 1 Mamot user, in an exchange where we were both mentioned, that tipped me off. He wasn't seeing my messages.
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