Notices by Tobi Okanlawon (sherlock_holmes@hachyderm.io)

@technomancy I have not heard of anything on this list before. I have found something to do for the next few days/weeks.

Don't nobody on the fedi disturb me, I will be knee deep.

@technomancy @skaeth what's broken earth?

@technomancy Recommend some literature. I wanna crawl into your head.

Sorry, I'm drunk 😂

@technomancy have you read "The Dispossessed" by Le Guin?

@technomancy that's very insightful, thanks.

I think I agree with you. The Omelas story is very open-ended, and I think that's why I like it so much. It definitely does expose the hypocrisy and myopia of the reader.

We can feel high-minded and claim that we'd leave, but it takes a certain foresight to question the story in the way that you have just done. To realise that leaving is much easier said than done. To even decide that leaving isn't worth it, because it does nothing for the child.

Okay. Most people seem to think they'd walk away from Omelas.

How about the Omelas in front of us? Why haven't we all walked away from this?

Not to call us hypocrites, but... We are hypocrites, and that's okay. Perhaps walking away asks so much of us that it's a losing strategy just because of how difficult it is. Perhaps reformation, with all its ability to be co-opted is still a better strategy because it's one people can get behind.

This is me playing devil's advocate, while slightly drunk

It has begun. Nationwide #protests in #nigeria against bad governance and economic hardship.

Hey everyone. I'm considering building a quick and dirty collaborative blocklist application to help split moderation effort.

I want to know if such a thing already exists (I won't do it if it already exists and is sufficient).

I want to hear everyone's thoughts on what they think is important to them concerning moderation (or point me to a resource, I know that not everyone wants to recount their abuse).

Any and all thoughts are welcome... Except the kind that'll get you blocked.

#fediverse

Seems like I'm getting a lot of traffic, so I want to take this opportunity to shamelessly plug Walkaway by @pluralistic

Shamelessly.

#books #book

Okay, this is part of my contribution to the idea of a monoculture on mastodon.

I'm Nigerian. Nigeria is about to go on a huge public strike, and I haven't heard anything about it here. Now, I don't blame anyone for that, obviously, but I think it shows the fact that perhaps there aren't as many Africans as I'd like.

I hope that we'll be able to discuss and investigate this problem (if we can even term it as that) and I'll love to be part of the discussion and the solution if there ever is one.

I don't know what the cause of this is, and I'm intentionally avoiding blaming anyone (for those that think it's a white problem) or anything (for those that think it's because of a lack of certain features) yet.

I really like the fediverse, even though mastodon is all I use. I like the spirit of the fedi, and I'll like to see it work.

There will always be a specter looming over mastodon in the form of an unanswered question: What is social media for? Or put better, What do we want social media to be?

If it's just a place to scream into the nether, then it really doesn't matter who's listening to you.

If it's more than that, if it's a place for communities to collaborate and communicate; and I vibe with this more, then we will need to build it to be that sort of place.

#mastodon