Clifford ColbyJul 4, 2023
SFBA Announcements

We’d love to hear from you! If you’re open to being quoted in a piece like this please send us a testimonial about why you like #SFBA!

We can’t guarantee we’ll use it, but we want to share your opinion about what makes this such a cool place ✍️ let us know in the comments!

From: @cd24
https://sfba.social/@cd24/110651195413443270

John (he/him) :vbike: (@[email protected])

Does anyone on #SFBA have experience writing opinion pieces for local news papers? The admin team is about to attempt a draft explaining SFBA and the fediverse to a local paper audience. Ideally, in a way it could be customized to each area of the bay! I’d love to invite our neighbors to join us here 🎉 Also, I’d love to hear about your local paper so I can include them 📰 I would be super excited if you want to write it for your paper too! I’d greatly prefer to have a recommendation come from someone in the community than one of the admin team for the website 😅 #OpEd #Opinion #LocalNews #BayArea #SpreadMastodon #WelcomeTheCommunity

SFBA.social
Jul 3, 2023 at 6:23pmWeb
Show threadChris SimmonsJul 3, 2023
@announcements @cd24 I love the federated aspect! I love that I can interact with the wider network but also have a home base of people in my area talking about what’s going on locally (why I chose sfba over an interest-centric server). I also love what it’s not - Twitter et al always felt like a mall food court masquerading as the town square. Yes I could visit, but the intent was always to get me to buy something & it got more intrusive as profit margins demanded.
Show threadChris SimmonsJul 3, 2023
@announcements @cd24 Here I pay in, but it’s genuinely more of a community space because of that.
Show threadJohn (he/him) Jul 3, 2023
@paging_chris this is excellent! Thank you 🙏
Show threadMJ LeeJul 4, 2023

@announcements @cd24 This isn’t suitable for your request, but the thread below is a cogent discussion of how emergency disaster and response became dependent on twitter and now needs to move away from it. This is the kind of thoughtful discussion that Mastodon hopes to achieve regularly. But it’s the first I’ve seen since joining Mastodon, so I hope it keeps happening. A code of conduct works.

https://mstdn.social/@katestarbird/110642624971699943

Kate Starbird (@[email protected])

In ~2014, my colleague & I argued that social media (esp. Twitter) had become part of the critical infrastructure of disaster response. People were turning to Twitter during crises to share information about impacts and resources. Disaster responders were using the data shared there for situational awareness, and were communicating in real-time with their constituents. Today’s events underscore just how dangerous it is for society to come to rely on private platforms as critical infrastructure.

Mastodon 🐘