Notices by Torb (torb@octodon.social)

@forteller On some things (incl. the driving license) we kinda do? AFAIK over a certain age you have to anually prove your driving abilities.

@forteller Read the first two books before I discovered the author was extremely homophobic and bankrolled propaganda designed to encourage violence against queer people.

Halo in the game: hell yeah, earth’s super soldier defending humanity from genocidal aliens!

Halo in the books: you’re actually kidnapped by the government as a child for the purposes of creating a super soldier to oppress planets that don’t want to be under the yoke of earth

@aral Yeah. It’s really sad how things have been in Turkey. Really hope the electiob can swing things towards secularism, democracy and against misogony and oppression of the kurds.

Comic by @rosemarymosco & @ClimateAdam

@seldo @mattl People seem to over emphasize the instances and feel like it’s *SUPER IMPORTANT* to grt the right one.

I’ve also seen people outright reject trying Mastodon because “it’s server based”.

@thomasfuchs @maegul @emmah Agreed.

Frankly I find people make excuses for some of Mastodon’s defacto technica elitism by hiding behind lofty ideals.

Said ideals truly are great, but don’t seem to include concern for less technical users and I frankly find it to imply a mild disdain for non-technical users around here.

It’s the same reason I got really fed up with the Linux on desktop community a decade ago.

(I’m generalising here of course, not everyone in these communities are bad, and many truly are doing great work!)

@emmah @thomasfuchs I think both can be true.

Mastodon and fediverse seem to work great for a lot minorities as long as they’re also techies. Espescially white neurodivergent and/or queer people. Idk why. Less so from other minorities.

But not all marginalized people are techies! For a lot of them Twitter (despite it issues) provides them with a importabt support network that Mastodon just haven’t been able to provide them for a variety of reasons. We need to be sensetive to that too.

That’s where I maybe see some promise from Bluesky and the AT protocol. I want federated social for all, not only techies.

On the other hand: maybe we just need more userfriendly ActivityPub instances. Will be interesting to see happens Tumblr implements ActivityPub.

@maegul @emmah @thomasfuchs To be clear, it’s anecdotal based on my personal experience, so I’m not claiming to have hard statistical data here!

I don’t think it’s not seeing the point as maybe not understand the basic concept. I think us techies sometimes underestimate how much less understanding of technical issues non-techies often have (for a variety of reasons). For example, to a lot of them Facebook Messenger is like email, but like, much easier to use, and that’s the extent of what they think of it. Federation is a fairly complex thing after all.

My hope is that a lot more of them is starting to care now, enough to put in the effort to get what federation is!

@forteller It’s one of the UIs that’s still simple, focused and not overloaded with a million columns. That’s a good thing.