@neuralreckoning @StephenCurry I like that "doing two nazi salutes in front of a large crowd" did not even make the list

@_elena Thank you for the shoutout, and for writing this, I have the same view of the #Fediverse which gives us the opportunity to all be active contributors - at our own scale - rather than passive consumers, I really appreciate how you put it in words with a experienced example and even practical suggestions for contributions.. Bravo! 🙌❤️

@_elena Thanks for letting us know! I sent a message to the author asking to correct the typo (from his personal website), we'll see if it works..

@stux @matt @Dhmspector this is not the same account as above though. Is the first one the official "Potus" account, and the second one the personal account of Trump?
#UsPol #Facebook

@acs Maybe, but again, nobody here wants ads. The clearest advantage of this place over all the for-profit ones is that it has no ads and I hope it stays like that for ever.

Also, it's not that we need ads, there are have other ways to support our instances, like donations, contributing some time, funding by grants or other no-strings-attached sources.

The attention-sucking, consumerist, privacy-invading ad system that people are getting so used to is not the only way to go!

@Mikaleb
@pixelfed

Oh and if you had any doubts left.. Check this comparison video from @cerveauxnondisponibles:

https://mamot.fr/@cerveauxnondisponibles/113866157043252466

These days you wonder what would it take for non-nazi people to reject Elon Musk.
One would have thought that doing an enthousiastic Nazi salute twice in front of a large audience, on live TV, would be that thing.
Apparently not, so what can we do? We can denounce these collaborators when we see them.

Maybe you're not 100% sure that he did it? I found it hard to believe from just the photo. But there is no denying it:

• He was filmed doing it, again, very enthusiastically, very clearly, twice. The video is shocking.
• He was giving a speech in front of a crowd and the world. You rehearse that kind of speech. The salutes were non-hesitant and clearly rehearsed. Several people must have told him "are you reaaaally sure about these Nazi salutes in your speech? You know it will be on camera" and he decided to go for it. He cannot not be aware that it was a Nazi salute.
• experts of fascism say that it was a clear Nazi salute:

"L’historienne Claire Aubin, spécialiste du nazisme aux Etats-Unis, a estimé que le geste d’Elon Musk était bien un « sieg heil », le salut nazi. Autre historienne experte sur le fascisme, Ruth Ben-Ghiat a également affirmé sur X que « c’était bien un salut nazi, et un qui était bien agressif en plus de cela"

(source: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/01/21/elon-musk-seme-le-trouble-avec-un-salut-a-la-tribune-au-cours-d-un-meeting-de-donald-trump_6508053_3210.html, see also the times below for an English version)

• If a non-Nazi person had done a gesture which might have been misinterpreted even from far away to be a Nazi salute, they would immediately 1) deny 2) apologize 3) reassure people that they will never, ever do it again. Musk did not do * any * of these corrective actions
• Instead, Musk retwitted the video where he did the salute
• Musk did not mention the salutes for several hours after making them
• Later on, he tweeted "thanks guys 😂" to the ADL which denied he did a Nazi salute. Because the first reaction of people being accused of that is obviously to.. find it funny?
• Quoting some other post about it, again he did not deny but deflected:

"Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."

Typical answer of the bad guy in a crime movie when directly asked "did you kill the victim": "I can't believe you would dare accuse me of that and I am shocked". When it just takes a few words to deny.

What more proof do you need?

Sources: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/elon-musk-speaks-out-nazi-34519434

https://time.com/7208614/elon-musk-nazi-salute-reactions-debate-controversy-adl-trump-inauguration/

#UsPol #Musk

@evan oh from your second post it seems you mean transfer of information during your lifetime ? I thought reincarnation was supposed to be after one's death...

@evan How would it work physically speaking? I mean what is the thing transferred and where does it go during the "transfer"?

If you are still on #Twitter, please spread the info about leaving Twitter ("X") and similar platforms on 20th Jan or earlier in all languages you know!
Quoting @Em0nM4stodon:
https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/113810809621186268

Specifically:

• @HelloQuitteX #HelloQuitX, their website has several languages including English or French: https://www.helloquitx.com/

• En Español: @vamonosjuntas #juntas, sitio web: https://vamonosjuntas.org/

• a petition to EU politicians by @everton137 : https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/an-open-letter-to-all-european-politicians-and-leaders-to-abandon-x-twitter? see also this post: https://social.vivaldi.net/@everton137/113814905737576179

Yes, I know, in an ideal world all decent people would have already left it but better late than never!
#SocialMedia #MastodonMigration #JoinMastodon #Facebook #Instagram

@kaia sounds awful.. Do you really have to go?

@jonny Yes! Incredible!!

Here's a video from the paper.. Ants rock!
#ProblemSolving #Ants

@evan Yes, it should be 0

@jwildeboer So ... they're basically telling us who's the bad guy of the year? Why not, I guess

@dansup why can't we just have public lists, why does it have to be a new thing?

@Alice
In French we say “filer à l’Anglaise” which translates to “leave like the English” 😂

@farooqkz @moshesipper
I also see ones from: @ngaylinn and @persagen, @caranha and @evopma

Not sooo many but it might help you find your people!
The problem with federation is you will only see hashtags from posts that your server is already aware of (I think) so you won't see them all.. It takes some time to build your community.

That's why having #PublicLists would be really helpful!!

@SarraceniaWilds
@stefan has a cool blog post about #AltText and what's good to put in it with lots of examples:
https://alttexthalloffame.org/en/

@RustyRing You haven't witnessed the racist and abusive behaviour because, currently, Mastodon users cannot see all the replies of any given post, due to the way Mastodon works.

A solution has been implemented on our instance, and I can now see all replies to a post if I want and it makes a huge difference! I can see the spam, the nasty posts, and the well-intentioned users just repeating the same thing over and over again because they can't see that someone else already said it.

We hope that it will be incorporated to the main mastodon code asap (https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113492013112472961 by @jonny).
#FetchAllReplies

@mekkaokereke @mastodonmigration @james

@rysiek Yes. They could start by making sure the president cannot influence the Justice system..