Notices by Miloš Jovanović (loshmi@social.coop)

What in God's name am I watching.

Military parade in one corner, peaceful protesters shot at by police in #LosAngeles #NoKings

Like send this to everybody you know, this isn't right.

All kinds of Malthusian nonsense on the internet about how California is incompatible with this level of human settlement etc. This is fascist ideology masking itself in environmentalist terms.

We can build buildings out of less flammable material. We can build in higher density, rewilding suburban areas. We can severely restrict fossil fuel use in LA County.

We have the resources, they are just not distributed fairly.

#Wildfires #California #LosAngeles #BackdoorEugenics

Talking to my parents and friends in Serbia about the evac and fire.. and they are asking all these post-socialist questions that I think will give folks in #LosAngeles a nice chuckle.

1) Are the civilian response teams distributing air filters?

2) When does the team come for you to clear your building for the evacuation?

3) Oh, boy, the state is probably gonna have to work hard to rebuild all that housing.

4) Did they sequester all the public buses for evac yet?

#Wildfires

The culture conflict in Mastodon has a bit to do with Americans being gobsmacked by the idea that it is socially good to correct others, and Germans being bumbledoozed by the possibility of minding your own business.

As a Balkaner, I obviously think everyone is wrong (me included).

Mozilla’s downfall into shittiness is a lesson as to why public needs cannot be fulfilled by for-profit entities. We need a public internet infrastructure. No CEO and no corporate board will ever work for it.

Cooperatives and socially-owned institutions. Only way to go.

From: @jwz
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113246768350299784

Open letter from #UCLA Jewish Faculty and Staff with regards to the clearing of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment on campus.

#Palestine #Israel #antisemitism #StudentSpring #Encampments

https://sites.google.com/view/ucla-jewish-faculty-staff/

New joint statement by members of #UCLA’s history department, compiled from testimony of faculty present at encampment during various periods and in response to last night’s police violence against students. We make 6 explicit calls of the university administration. Read at link below.

https://history.ucla.edu/2024/05/02/statement-of-members-of-the-department-of-history-in-response-to-clearing-the-encampment-2-may-2024/

#Palestine #StudentSpring #Encampments #Universities #Gaza #Education #PoliceViolence #AcademicFreedom

@micahflee these are some higher order puns.

@ajroach42 @djsundog will your main instance be a coop?

@ajroach42 @djsundog I love the idea, hope you’re in touch with @bandcampunited And cooperatively-owned is the way to go. Otherwise it seems like the same extractive model with extra steps. Best of luck! I’ll be following!

I love that Mastodon is very 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 friendly. I support @FediPact because it will help keep things that way.

If you feel it wouldn’t be a big deal, you haven’t been following the anti-trans and drag queen panic, orchestrated by fascists and facilitated by social media.

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#Trans #LGBTQ #fascism

@gubi and, tellingly, not in the field of user-facing systems until it was EEE’d by Google into android & chromeOS.

So the purpose of the #fedipact virtual picket is to stake a claim and build a common consciousness. It could grow - we could build a cross-#fediverse infrastructure to negotiate and make collective decisions. We could develop a standard for all those who want to join - a viral thing. @dk
wrote of this a long while ago.

The point of the #fediblockMeta is not to stop them, it ultimately cannot do that. The point of it is to realize what we can do together.

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A #strike / #FediPact doesn't let them do this. It prevents #Meta from entering the existing conversation with interesting content and dynamic developments. It makes it harder and more expensive for them to develop their own ActivityPub software, makes #EEE slightly more expensive.

Whoever thinks that we have somehow "won" by having them adopt #ActivityPub is deeply ignoring reality and history. We have opposing interests. They are capitalists, we are a commons. They want to eat us.

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Ultimately, Meta would kill what Mastodon has become, as everyone will mostly be using their app. They will have saved their business empire from the threat of #communization.

This is why they are doing this. It's a business move, and if you think that you somehow outsmart 500 billion $ company you're deeply misguided. In capitalist societies, smarter people are not more successful at doing what they want to do, richer people are.

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People will be divided between interoperability with #Meta and alternative clients. They will like the no ads stuff on #Masto, but at first the ads on #P92 will be promoted posts and will actually be useful. It will be reliable. Small servers on #Mastodon will collapse because of rapid growth, difficulty in moderation, attacks by right-wing trolls. People will want reliability and move to the meta thing, because it's just easier.

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Meta will data collect not just public content, but also statistics like how long your eyes stay on certain text. What you hover over, what you toot and erase, what you search for. None of this is available to them now.

Regular people won't care because they have busy lives and just want something that works. Geeks won't care because we can use alternative clients (for now). After a few years, #meta's #p92 will introduce features unavailable on alternative clients.

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All this conversation about #Meta on #Fedi feels like the worst parts of geek culture. So technical, without understanding context or what strikes can actually do. My thoughts:

Meta will make a great app for Fedi because it has more money to throw at the task. People will start using that because it's better. It will have QTs and an algorithm. People they want to follow will be there.

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