Today is a good day to remind people that truly distributed open Public Social Media is the only defensible online space.
Even if you use other platforms, please create a Mastodon/Fediverse account.
Not only will you protect yourself, you will be reinforcing freedom of expression.
Excellent point. The Fedi needs money. Big time donors need to step up and create a foundation to strengthen public social media.
Users need to be regularly reminded that giving to the Fedi is an investment in democracy.
So much needs to happen to fortify public social media.
Instead, Bluesky is attracting their attention with its nonsense claims of maybe sorta distributed someday.
We are missing the opportunity.
And JA Westenberg @Daojoan crushes it yet again! Public Social Media sets you free.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/big-tech-wants-you-trapped-the-open-web-sets-you-free-2/
"When you build on the open web, you're participating in an alternative system. When you join federated networks, you're playing a vital part in constructing alternatives to digital monopolies.
The major platforms are convenient.
But the open web offers something better: genuine ownership, community governance, and independence."
Discussion: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/114102109328400826
Big Tech designed their platforms to keep you trapped. YouTube, X, Instagram, and TikTok aren't neutral spaces. They're businesses built on capturing your attention and data. Their algorithms, notification systems, and content policies all serve one purpose: keeping you engaged on their terms. And their terms alone. There's no freedom
Open invitation to all public servants and public organizations. Public Social Media is here for you. Create a Mastodon Fediverse account and communicate directly with the public, free of corporate tech gatekeepers. These times are too important to trust public information to corporate overlords. https://joinmastodon.org/ #PublicSocialMedia
Like how #Bluesky is lumped in with the other Meta corporate sites.
Sounds like a good time to join Public Social Media.
Sounds like a good time to join not-for-profit Mastodon on the public Fediverse.
Open invitation to all public servants and public organizations.
Public Social Media is here for you.
Create a Mastodon Fediverse account and communicate directly with the public, free of corporate tech gatekeepers.
These times are too important to trust public information to corporate overlords.
If you are aware of other elected federal or state government representatives or other public service employee accounts on Mastodon, please mention them below.
Let's make Public Social Media the home of public information.
Ohio 11th District US House Representative Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown is on Mastodon and today used her platform here to call out the illegal take over of government systems.
https://mastodon.social/@RepShontelBrown/113941036738272968
Follow courageous public servant Hon. Brown and let her know she is welcome here on Public Social Media.
Global Switch Day - February 1st 2025
Madness has descended upon the nation. What can you do?
By no means the only thing, but one simple thing you can do today is switch from corporate disinformation platforms to Public Social Media.
Break the oligarch's hold on your mind.
Global Switch Day - February 1st, 2025
Switch to Public Social Media
Join Mastodon >>> https://joinmastodon.org/
Join Pixelfed >>> https://pixelfed.org/
Get Signal >>> https://signal.org/
Join Lemmy >>> https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Join Peertube >>> https://peertube.tv/
Join Friendica >>> https://friendi.ca/
Join Loops >>> https://loops.video/
Pass it on!
Mastodon Migration
Claudine C 
