Notices by Jürgen Hubert (juergen_hubert@thefolklore.cafe)

@tom @BeAware

...huh. I had not heard of #postmarks before, but I _had_ been looking for a #Fediverse alternative to Linktree. Maybe this will do.

Well, it looks like #Bookwyrm works with #bridgyfed just fine!

Does anyone have any experiences with successfully connecting #Fediverse apps with Brid.gy _other_ than #Mastodon and Bookwyrm? I tried but failed to connect my #Pixelfed account earlier, so I am curious about any other possibilities.

I am all for using this possibility, if only to show the fine folks at #Bluesky that we have a rich ecosystem of different apps over here. 😉

@mekkaokereke I think part of this is frustration:

"How much more obvious do they need to get before you acknowledge that these guys are fucking fascists?"

But any "news organizations" which have failed to call out these fascists clearly don't want to do so.

@Ooze

When I did my PhD, back in the day, I was given a "half position". The official explanation was that we would work 20 hours per week for the university (teaching, writing papers, project proposals, and so forth) - that was the half that was getting paid - and 20 hours per week on our PhD, which was the unpaid part.

In actual practice, the ratio was more like 40-10.

It seems that treating PhD students like crap is universal in the "developed world". #IchBinHanna

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/17/phd-student-jesse-gardner-russell-earns-20-an-hour-experts-say-low-pay-is-turning-australias-best-and-brightest-away

#ProTip for new #Pixelfed users:

If you _really_ want some attention, post #mushroom pictures. 😅

https://pixelfed.de/p/juergen_hubert/785752181743031091

Let's remember:

If a company fires the "lowest performers" according to some dodgy metrics, then the second-best strategy for employees is to sabotage their co-workers so that they drop beneath them in the rankings.

The _best_ strategy is, of course, to find a place of work that isn't a complete and utter shithole.

#Meta #Facebook #Capitalism
https://www.barrons.com/news/meta-to-lay-off-3-600-employees-in-performance-based-cuts-00820558

@nocontexttrek @jyrgenn Yeah, it needs a few episodes to find its pace (the Mariner-Boimler dynamic in the first few episodes wasn't great), but then it becomes good and just keeps getting better.

And it's true Star Trek at its heart.

@mekkaokereke As always, my take is:

"Everyone has the right to free speech, but no one has the right to a captive audience."

I see the right to leave spaces you are not comfortable in to be pretty fundamental. And people who _insist_ that their voices should be heard by everyone are deeply suspect to me. Especially since they usually want to drown others out.

I've had a #Pixelfed account for some time, but I admittedly didn't do much with it.

But now that it is getting some positive buzz as an alternative to #Instagram and the scummy new policies of Meta, I decided to install the new app and do more with it.

Remember, the #Fediverse is more than just #Mastodon - and we can help it grow by celebrating its diversity!

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/14/24343614/instagram-alternative-pixelfed-app-launch-ios-android

Oh, and here is my #Pixelfed account:

https://pixelfed.de/i/web/profile/520233052321900107

...and apparently #Facebook is still blocking #Pixelfed .

Some thoughts:

If we want to grow the #Fediverse - and as I have stated repeatedly, I believe we do need to grow the Fediverse in order to overcome the hellscape that is late-stage Capitalist corporate social media - then there are two main things we need to do:

1) Make sure that the #Fediverse is a place where people want to stay. I can't really speak for the developers and admins who put in all the hard work to make all this possible, but for us users this means be active here and be excellent to each other. This is the "easy" part.

2) Do #outreach. Here is where things gets tricky - in order to encourage people to migrate to the Fediverse, we need to reach them while they are. Which means "elsewhere" - and in most cases, this includes the very corporate social media we are trying to escape from.

Thus, I think there is a case to be made for some courageous souls to maintain a presence on #TikTok , #Facebook, #YouTube et. al. - if only to encourage people to move here. Yet if _all_ they do there is flog the Fediverse, they will be swiftly ignored and flogged. Nobody likes a spammer, after all.

So the best idea I have come up with was to have a two-tiered approach. For example, someone could produce video content on #Peertube and the like - and then post a _portion_ of that content on YouTube or TikTok (perhaps with a delay of a few weeks) while linking back to their Fediverse account where they can access everything, the same way Patreon allows creators to share some of their material with everyone while keeping some for exclusive subscribers. This way, users might be encouraged to join the Fediverse just so that they can be notified and comment on everything those creators do.

What are _your_ ideas and thoughts for Fediverse outreach?
#FediHelp

Question: Now that #Meta is leaning even more into #fascism than they used to, are there any good #Fediverse equivalents of #Facebook groups?

I know of #lemmy (which strives to emulate the Reddit experience), but what others are out there?

#FediHelp

I've shared this article yesterday, but I want to highlight this part:

'Meta has more than 3 billion users globally. In a wide-ranging statement, Zuckerberg said Meta would also “get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse” and “work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more”.

He cited Europe as a place with “an ever increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative”'

This is an explicit threat to the #EuropeanUnion . Zuckerberg has fallen in line behind #ElonMusk and the incoming #Trump administration in order to promote #fascism around the world to a degree we haven't seen before. If you think that the situation is already bad - and it is - then you will nevertheless see that it _will_ get much worse.

#X #Facebook #Meta
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content

Remember: It's not just X - _no_ corporate social media can be trusted!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/meta-facebook-instagram-threads-mark-zuckerberg-remove-fact-checkers-recommend-political-content

@slothrop Mein Vater schleppt mich gleich zu OBI...

Whenever the Devil tries to rearrange the landscape, he is inevitably thwarted by some cockerel crowing before he can finish.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #Devil @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devils-waters-66130527

@FiveEyeTea @Sheril So why do so many more people in the USA "choose" to be homeless than in developed countries?

If you work in the German countryside, you will end up seeing some strange stuff.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #cow @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/out-on-pasture-33668952