Notices by Richard Grant (richardgrant@mastodon.social)

#NoKings rally in wee Belfast #Maine was the largest gathering I’ve seen in ~30 years here — and difficult to capture in pics because the crowd filled the central square and spread onto adjoining streets. Positive vibe, clever signs, lots of fams w/kids, minimal good-natured police presence chiefly dealing w traffic. No speeches, little evidence of planning — I think it all kind of fell together and people showed up. Heartening!

@renewedresistance

Of the names on that #FreeOurFeeds list, it is Eli Pariser’s (which many of us recall from MoveOn.org and the progressive “netroots” movement) that most gives me hope.

Cc: @mastodonmigration

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/17/1110063/we-need-to-protect-the-protocol-that-runs-bluesky/

#KamalaUnitesUS !!

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/our-plan-to-beat-pro-trump-debate

The Vibe Has Shifted Downballot Too

H/t @DemocracyMattersALot for the link

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/the-vibe-has-shifted-downballot-too/

Boosting this ever-timely reminder to @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

https://masto.ai/@rbreich/112995780698417923

@CloudyMrs Easy on the eyes, though!

Tim Walz’s courageous stand for LGBT youth

(thanks to @atrupar for the link)

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/tim-walz-gay-straight-alliance-mankato

Josh Marshall on Harris‘s unusual relationship with the political press: “They treated her as something between a punchline and a nonentity and now she’s the odds-on favorite, if only by a small margin, to the next President. Why should she care?”

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/kamala-a-riddle-wrapped-in-a-mystery-inside-an-enigma-many-people-are-saying

@werawelt

There is this from today's rally in Wisconsin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAFQVAcSbQ

@GottaLaff I hail the introduction of “creepy” into the discourse. Maybe even more on-point than “weird”

@ClimateJenny @drdrowland Cc: @tchambers

Please don’t give up on the group! This is a moderation issue. There is only a tiny number of people playing this “both sides are evil” game, and they can be dealt with.

@ErikvanStraten @spiegelmama @johnaldis @Thad @mastodonmigration @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

Perhaps you could take this somewhere other than this group, which has a specific focus.

@johnaldis

I'm sorry, John, I didn't mean to include you in that cris de coeur — this thread has been posted to a Friendica group, (at)kamalaharrisforpresidentnews, so it's automatically reposted to everyone who subscribes — roughly 1500 of us right now — and this Erik fellow has more or less commandeered the entire discussion. There are moderators who *ought* to be responding but, as you likely know, the fediverse is a work-in-progress. Please join in as you please!

cc: @tchambers

@MissingThePt and, if racist: anti-Black or anti-Asian?

@dansup all I’ve really wanted for a long time now is a native iOS app

@dansup @PixelFed That's great news. Thank you!

@PixelFed And the iOS app will be in the App Store? Someday?

I've had a #Pixelfed account for a good while now, and it would be cool to actually join in with what's happening there.

#photography

@dansup Henceforth @stux shall be known as Man From The Netherlands. Arise, ye fair knight, and sally forth

@feditips If you *are* going to push people toward smaller servers, at least acknowledge some of the problems that may arise.

The admin may get overwhelmed, depressed, or fed up — and just quit, with minimal notice. The server then ceases to exist. This happens all the time.

The admins of small servers often feud with one another, and with larger servers, which leads to impulsive defederation, which messes up the user experience. There's no easy way to foresee which servers will be affected.

@feditips I question whether you should be editorializing from the Fedi.tips account. Many people have come to rely on you for understanding how to use mastodon (and the fediverse generally), and will assume you're speaking in some official capacity.

But what you're doing is advocating for a particular view of the fediverse — which I consider alarmist and, at the very least, open to debate. There's no objective standard by which a server can be declared "too large." Why stoke this conflict?