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   Let The Right Hon In (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 07:14:31 JST Let The Right Hon In

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   Erin: We need a social internet that isn't trying to kill us. And we can't cede everything aboveground to the poisonous platforms.

   Erin: WE HAVE TO FIX THE FUCKING NETWORKS.

   (Me: FUCK YES)

   https://donotreply.cards/en/do-post-about-how-we-take-back-the-internet-together

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     Let The Right Hon In (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 07:14:32 JST Let The Right Hon In

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     Erin: When those of us found our friends and retreat into private spaces, we're *slamming the doors* on people who haven't got there yet. We definitely need 1:1 and few:few relationships and places to build trust. And that's hard to do in public, but we *also still have to find each other*.

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     Let The Right Hon In (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 07:14:33 JST Let The Right Hon In

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     Erin: Our networks are *worse* now in 2024 than they were back when we created the covid tracking project. We wouldn't be able to do that now. The network is hostile to sociability, it's going underground to private discords, private slacks, partly because platforms have poisoned so much.

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     Let The Right Hon In (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 07:14:34 JST Let The Right Hon In

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     (Me: The dirty secret of a volunteer organization with SO MUCH MORE LATITUDE and ability and capacity to build infrastructure, because the institutional belief that the U.S. shouldn't even *have* functional government in the first place and hollowed it out. It's a fucking disgrace.

     Erin's point: without the social internet, volunteers *wouldn't have been able* to organize to build the tracking site. It's the people. Always has been.gif

     https://donotreply.cards/en/do-remember-what-makes-the-internet-great

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     Let The Right Hon In (danhon@dan.mastohon.com)'s status on Sunday, 25-Aug-2024 07:14:35 JST Let The Right Hon In

     Erin's talking about the Covid Tracking Project and how every day the team would wake up wanting to see the CDC finally get their data together...

     Oh boy let me tell you How Hard It is To Build Government Technology and infrastructure like “knowing how many people have covid" and “where are vaccines”:

     https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/17/1020811/better-tech-government-pandemic-united-states/

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     Matthew Lyon repeated this.