Notices by Nicol Wistreich (nicol@social.coop)

Impressed that #the_guardian has today not only ceased posting on X, letting go of 27 million collective followers – I just noticed in a live feed where they might once have written 'so and so posted on X' or embedded a Tweet, they wrote 'posted this on social media' then quote the tweet…

@nemobis imho, while tragic it’s still a fluid relationship, bigger than a vote, treaty or trade deficit. It’s defined ultimately by the people in both places, as it has for millennia.

FLOSS tho seems a model for stateless collaboration that both the UK and EU could learn something from.

@mekkaokereke @tarheel was about to mention Pix – 92% of Brazilian adults, ~220m transactions / day in September, no transaction fees (https://fintechmagazine.com/articles/pagbrasil-expands-pix-payments-beyond-brazilian-borders)

@nemobis ‘why bother’?
- when it comes to FOSS alternatives is there really so much choice to be exclusive?
- it’s cost the UK a fair bit to implement GDPR and there’s a lot of folks who’d like to ditch it. Recognising adequacy would help keep it?
- all my life I’ve know a spirit of cooperation between continental Europe & UK - that continues in FOSS work, literally today for me. Just coz 52% of Brit voters referendumed to leave the EU in one vote seems a sad reason to try to end that.

@nemobis FWIW ‘adequacy decision’ sounds like an odd kind of gatekeeping if the US is included in that list. The UK designed its GDPR implementation while still a member, which is unique amongst those other countries. In my experience it takes GDPR more seriously than some member states. For e.g. the CiviCRM GDPR extension was developed by a UK company, is maintained by another UK company, is used by many 100s of EU non profits and EU Civi agencies today: https://lab.civicrm.org/extensions/gdpr

@nemobis @european_alternatives I don't follow. The UK implemented GDPR before Brexit, and has no plans to change that (thankfully!): https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-and-the-eu/data-protection-and-the-eu-in-detail/the-uk-gdpr/

@european_alternatives I've been very exited to discover your list - there's some really good stuff on it.

I notice that you only include EEA, EFTA, or DCFTA countries, but not, say, Council of Europe members (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Europe) or the European Political Community (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Political_Community) which both cover Europe comprehensively by including the UK. I can't help but wonder why you'd keep British projects out of the list of 'European alternatives'?

@evan thanks! I know very little about how 501cs are administered - but is the 990 just for the IRS or is it published somewhere? In the UK there’s the Charity Register which makes public some financial info: https://www.gov.uk/find-charity-information

The #SocialWebFoundation launches into an ecosystem where transparent budgeting thru #OpenCollective has become normalised. Bringing together everyone from Meta and Automattic to Mastodon and Pixelfed in New Thing might gain more trust if there was similar transparency about who was paying in what, and what was being paid out (or to declare an intention to do that) because it shows the interests of partners.

For eg #socialcoop’s fully transparent budget & balance sheet: https://opencollective.com/socialcoop.

@pfefferle change to draft?

@pfefferle NB I noticed if I edit the post then it changed the content of the post to alert the reader a change is coming, and then changed it back when I saved – which was really slick!

Finally properly testing @pfefferle's #WordPress / Fediverse integration and genuinely impressed at how smoothly it works. Not only basic posting, from multiple users, each with their own @name@blog.example handle – but commenting from my masto client onto the blog, and replies from the blog back to the fediverse. It's so good I no longer know why every WordPress blog doesn't implement it beyond a) it took me this long; b) the blog seems a little slower? Am curious if there's new resource demands.

@pfefferle only issue I can see is that publishing/unpublishing/republishing a post seems to result in it appearing multiple times in my feed.

@hallvors @mmasnick @FantasticalEconomics you could also just pick a number?

The Digital Services Act for e.g. “classifies platforms or search engines that have more than 45 million users per month in the EU as very large online platforms (VLOPs) or very large online search engines (VLOSEs).” Perhaps the figure (obvs wd be lower for USA / UK laws) could be different depending if the platform offers Portability and Interoperability with other platforms.

Oswald Mosley was banned from the BBC in 1935 to deny a fascist a platform.

There’s a direct link between Elon #Musk’s decision to replatform #TommyRobinson and other neo-Nazis with the attempted murder of migrants we’re witnessing in real time today in #Rotheram.

Starmer needs to recall government, and throttle/fine Twitter hourly until they follow the law and restrict inflammatory disinfo and incitement to racial hatred, rather than actively encouraging it.

@mrbitterness it’s kind of depressing that improving this isn’t more of a priority after several years of people raising it. I guess there’s a separate governance question of which lists, who runs them, and how.. but the technical facilitation helping small instance admins not have to focus on fediverse policing and some manual process, and instead focus on what they signed up for: looking after their own instance.

Netanayahu said a new generation of Palestinians “must no longer be taught to hate Jews”.

Is the man mad?

Has he not seen what his country is doing to this generation’s home, futures & families? Has he missed the videos ‘teaching’ how his soldiers laugh as they destroy & loot & humiliate Gazans? You could change every school in Palestine to 24/7 hasbara but you can’t erase the rubble, the needless death, the mountain of social video, the grief.

#CeasefireNow & start the long road of repair.

Wait, so the guy who blames the Democrats for Trump's assassination attempt by a Republican because they said Trump could be an 'authoritarian fascist' – *himself said Trump could be an authoritarian fascist*. That's next level.

And no-one minds because he brings Peter Thiel's cash & data?

"Ireland and Norway intend to send a message today to the Palestinians and the whole world: terrorism pays," [Israel's Foreign Minister Israel] Katz said.

Anyone who knows about the Irgun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun):

"two-thirds of [UK] parents [excluding don't know] want sex education in schools where pupils are taught that it is possible to be transgender or non-binary" (and other attitudes on sex education) – https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49445-should-pupils-be-taught-about-gender-identity-in-schools