OH: "Hex Roleplay"

"FF D0 "

#discordleaks

re: #FuckDiscord #discordmigration #discordexodus #discordleaks #discordageverification

It is useless to build the perfect technological FOSS & private alternative if people aren't culturally and socially predisposed to use it. Think network externalities, peer pressure... but also the influence of capital on people, via marketing and brand associativity.

Don't get me wrong. I'm so very glad places like Mastodon exist. But they are just a foundation. The direct action needs its cultural counterparts. It's Gramscian:
* War of Maneuver is the things you do as a direct affront to the system, physical or otherwise (like licensing your projects under the CNPL or GPL, enacting strict anti -trust legislation, incentivizing cooperatives and decommodification).
* War of Position is how you reorient and predispose people towards more productive outcomes, especially culturally. This is what we LACK.

Get people on Stoat (former Revolt). Campaign for it if you must. Not because it's perfect, no, not at all. It's the onboarding. It's a temporary solution. It gives people breathing room from the failures of Discord and Telegram, and renews their sense of a better future being possible. The better ecosystem will bake in the oven, until we are ready to bring them over. Plant the seeds of a free Internet one step at a time.

This is the human side of the technological operation... like I said, the War of Position.

#FOSS #SelfHosted #Stoat #Privacy #Gramsci

OH: CryptoCuddles sind die über Matrix

#discordleaks