Our politics are unhinged. He saw it coming 40 years ago.

Forty years before social media, before 'information silos,' before Trump, media critic Neil Postman predicted it all.

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#MissKittyRaw My #faith is four-wheel drive. And that means I can get really stuck. I'm out. Working the night shift to trying get that momentum again. Still not worrying about #followers. I know how to pump that gas, but there are goals. I think that when I show, y'all will go. You know,...

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Okay, so you're on Mastodon. You've sent a follow request to what you think is another Mastodon account.

Upon confirming your follow request, they've also sent you a follow request. They're obviously curious about what you toot and what you boost.

But:

They aren't on Mastodon. You think they are. But they aren't. They're on Friendica or Hubzilla.

They didn't decide to follow you back. It was their software, Friendica or Hubzilla, that absolutely has to follow you back in order to let you follow someone on it.

See, 𝕏 and Mastodon have "followers" and the concept of "following". Connections that always go one way. Even if there's a "mutual", it's two connections. One that goes one way, one that goes the other way.

Friendica and Hubzilla only have "mutuals", but not as two separate connections in one way each like Mastodon mutuals, but as one connection that goes both ways. Like "friends" on Facebook. They call them "contacts".

Friendica and Hubzilla don't understand one-way "following". They understand Mastodon follow requests as requests to create a two-way connection. And when the request is confirmed, they create a two-way connection.

Mastodon, on the other hand, doesn't understand two-way "contacts". When Friendica or Hubzilla approves a two-way connection, Mastodon understands it as confirming a one-way follow request plus, independently, deliberately, intentionally, sending a follow request back.

However, the follow request you get from a Friendica account or Hubzilla channel that you've just followed was not sent deliberately or intentionally. It was fully automated. It was to turn your follow request into the kind of two-way connection that Friendica and Hubzilla understand.

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How To Navigate Leadership In A Changing World

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Leadership is not easy. It is not for people who don’t know what they want for themselves.

Leadership is not for those who don’t believe that they have what it takes to make a difference in the world.

Leadership is for people who are not afraid to do what other people don’t want to do.

If you are comfortable with yourself, leadership is for you.

‘If you lead from your best self, you feel exellence and even elation within you.’

‘If you are not able to enact courage to have a conversation or take action, the effects are significant.’

‘If you practice self-awareness, you can more easily notice fear, pause for reflective sense-making, and act.’

Acknowledging when you don’t know something sets up conditions for receiving support.’

‘Inspiring vision requires you to be a continuous student, learning from various outlets.’

‘Remember that every individual retains areas where they are not strong.’

‘Being an inclusive leader means you don’t have to be the superhero. You don’t have to know everything and do everything.’

‘Conrageous conversation mean being fearless in having direct conversations but in a thoughtful and gracious manner.’

‘As an authentic leader, if you make a mistake, own it, and try to make things better.’

‘The willingness to share of yourself in contextually appropriate and honest ways is important for buidling followership and building the next generation of leaders.’

Source:

Susan MacKenty Brady, Janet Foutty, & Lynn Perry Wooten (2022). Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership

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Anyone here at 100 #followers yet? 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦

I make a #bicycle marketplace app for climate pollution mitigation called www.sprocket.bike/app 🚲

I also post about getting #Americans to register to vote.gov and to call their reps about orange nazis via 5calls.org + write open letters to my congressional reps once a month on https://medium.com/@sevenshurygin 🇺🇸🇺🇦

And I also post some random stuff about being a Californian immigrant in Portugal 🇪🇺

Maybe #follow me if these things interest you 💚

Wow, I never imagined so many folks would be interested in my boring life as a teacher.

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Thank you all so much!
It really is motivating...

#ArianSeidelman #Fediverse #Mastodon #CyberSix #RolePlay #Account #TYSM #ThankYou #Followers

Closed #platforms are the bane of my existence. What do you do when platforms like #Facebook become unbearable due to a rise of #hatespeech, #ragebait and #scammers but you can’t do much to move your #followers to another #platform, and you can’t seem to get followers at all on other platforms? Like Facebook is where most of my followers are, and I have no way to move them at all to another platform due to it being a closed platform. And seems most people on #BlueSky have quit because why do I never get any engagement despite having over 2K followers there?