Notices by Total Sonic Media (totalsonic@mastodon.social)

Slava Ukraini! Слава Україні!
Statement from the Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs:

#ukraine #trump #putin #estonia #politics #maga #zelenskiy #peace

@GottaLaff - every African, Pacific Island, and Latin American nation is now going to start looking way more towards China (if they haven't already) as the more stable authoritarian major power to trade with, now that it is apparent that the USA is no longer stable, nor a proponent of any kind of "free" or "fair" trade.

@gleick - the grandparents already witnessed this in their time - in the 1930's in the USA there was a movement with significant numbers and some celebrity members (such as Charles Lindbergh) sympathetic to fascists, white supremacists and Nazis, as well as a movement of foreign policy isolationists. There was even a sold out rally of US Nazi sympathizers that occurred at Madison Square Garden in 1939. Luckily these people were in the minority rather than the majority at the time.

Was curious and just checked out Nostr, lol, what a cesspool. With some very careful curating you might be able to get an ok feed there, but I certainly didn't in my quick dive in. Yet another example how Mastodon really is "best in class" as far micro-blogging platforms go these day. #nostr #cryptobros #socialmedia #mastodon

@dansup @pixelfed - also shout out to PixelDroid as a great client up on F-droid - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.pixeldroid.app/

@dansup @pixelfed - I'm thinking Android over all has more users, but there are a few third party Pixelfed clients up on F-droid, a couple of which have seen recent development and pre-date the official app, so thinking maybe the official app on iOS unintuititively might have more downloads. Of course I might be wrong in this!

This story will get buried among all the other ones going on - but didn't take long for the "peace" President to order some air strikes - https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-ordered-airstrikes-islamic-state-somalia-2025-02-01/

#war #maga #trump #politics

@dansup @PixelFed - Matrix and XMPP support in this would be great to see as well.

@_elena - screen shot of my "social" apps - also a shout out to the NeoLauncher's category based app drawer for making apps better organized.

@_elena -my suggestion is to add a Friendica web app, Fedilab or Insporious* app icon for that sixth spot to make it more symmetrical.

@tek - well, obviously you know your kids better than I do, so do what you think is best. I just wanted to note that the advice in your original post might not be best for other parents to heed though.

@tek - that is an excellent attitude and more power to you. What I am trying to say is that we can make the decisions to oppose evils ourselves, and as adults more likely have a better level of experience to judge how best to effect that in a particular situation - but we still shouldn't encourage our kiddos to endanger themselves, given they might not be able to reliably navigate the situation in a safe way.

@tek - given the record of people arrested sometimes getting delayed in release or even "lost" for months in the system, as well as noting the abuses done by CPS in some places, while I sympathize with the spirit of this post, I don't really think it is necessarily good advice for parents to impart to their kids. Better to tell them to observe and report immediately what they saw, rather than endanger themselves - adults are the ones that can better choose whether to place themselves in between.

@dansup - yes please! Friendica is great, but the gui is too cluttered and confusing for most people. Diaspora is great but it lacks features (e.g. editing after posting) and needs to use ActivityPub.

@dansup @cedric - the Diaspora protocol can link up with ActivityPub, e.g. my Friendica account has no problem communicating with my Diaspora account.

@dansup - also Diaspora is still a good option for this too, with a simpler to navigate ui and a smoother sign up process than Friendica, in my experience - https://diasporafoundation.org/

@QasimRashid I am a Jewish-American, so I do not say this lightly - but the ADL have been absolute piece of shits for a while now, working to conflate criticism of IDF atrocities with anti-semitism, while ignoring real neo-nazism creeping in from the MAGA-right. I regret ever sending the ADL donations in the distant past.

@dansup @pixelfed - have you considered being cloned? ;)

Sweet - Pixelfed is number 1 trending app in the Google Play Store chart currently :)
#pixelfed #trending #fediverse #socialmedia

@dansup - thanks for all your work and efforts in this! And congrats on getting some of the Meta-exit headed your very well deserved way.