Notices by nix (nix@social.stlouist.com)

Sometimes when right wing violence happens, I see comments from left wing people that seem to think it's the beginning of an "inevitable" civil war.

I worry these comments come from a place of fantasizing about being a violent hero in a conflict someone else started.

If you do feel like a civil war is coming, I hope you're either doing something to prevent it, or doing something to protect those who will be hit hardest and first.

I hope it's not an excuse to step back and indulge despair.

I have migrated back to social.stlouist.com. Social.coop is wonderful, and I respect its goals a lot. I just ultimately decided that being somewhere where the local timeline is literally local is important to me.

So, hello again #stl neighbors, and I'll see you around #socialcoop friends!

@normplum @alternativeto

Funnily enough, the 2023 version of the webpage did exactly that! I removed it this year because that site doesn't mention exclusively FOSS stuff, and I thought that could be confusing. But I might reconsider, because it is a great resource.

Interested in #FOSS but haven't taken the time to explore it? Or familiar but wanting to dive deeper? Have no idea what that is, but are interested in decreasing your reliance on evil corporations?

If any of the above, check out the #30DayFOSSChallenge. In April I will be posting all about it, and encouraging others to join me. Hope you come along for the journey.

https://nullarch.com/30DayFOSSChallenge.html

#FLOSS #opensource #openculture #freeculture #FreeSoftware #degoogle #firefox #permaculture #matrix #linux

Is there a way to see if you moved mastodon instances which (if any) of your followers/people you follow have that instance blocked? #mastodon

@forteller

Just started listening to If Books Could Kill! Might have to check these others out.

Lemmy feels like a better software than mastodon, design-wise. It's *super* easy to find content from different instances, subscribe, see it all in one place, without having to open up the original page. It just needs more content now. #lemmy #mastodon

@bot Yes, I've worked in black communities most of my professional career. Why do you ask?

Recently been thinking about the importance of literally building community. The best way to combat -isms is by simply knowing more different people, and the best way to make that happen is to create physical and digital spaces that put us in more casual and friendly interactions with more people.

Public transit/walkable cities build this; highways and stroads literally divide neighborhoods.

Geographically based federated social networks are another excellent opportunity for this.

How else?