Listen up Mastodonians, because this is important:
Right now we have a unique chance to rise up and hit back against Zuckerberg and Musk. Because italian filmmaker @_elena and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING short film, which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and come join us in the fediverse.
Hit the fascists where it hurts — make this go viral by watching it and liking it on YouTube, then hit the share button and share it everywhere!
@randahl wait, so you’re telling me that we anti-algorithm folks should use algorithm magic to help spread non-algorithmhood?
My brain hurts
@randahl @Crovanian one observation, if it helps resolve this cognitive dissonance for y'all, is that isn't algorithms per se that you should be against. Instead, demand algorithms that you control and understand, rather than ones that make Facebook money.
https://www.techdirt.com/2019/08/28/protocols-not-platforms-technological-approach-to-free-speech/ <-- this is the way. not sure where this aversion to algorithms came from in the first place.
worth noting: https://mastodon.social/explore has an algorithm. just sayin'
@randahl
Here it is in the fediverse...I guess we need to include YouTube to the fascist networks.
love the video and fedi.
but I don't think the algos will boost something against their owners' interests just cause we share it. they are smarter than that. being against algos and the way they force people to see stuff they don't want to, I also don't want to participate in that.
and I want fascists here (with mods to keep them from bothering people). I want everybody here. like the web and unlike places with algos, we can all coexist and not see stuff we don't want to.
Got news for you. The moderators of your own instance censor anti-fascists who express opposition to Israel’s apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Anyone who is smug about Mastodon’s superiority to other platforms has a false sense of security. The fact that the LLC nonprofit is based in Germany — which does not protect free speech — alone should put all of us here on guard.
Granted, I did not have 16,000 followers and I am not a big fish like you are, but mastodondotsocial took down 8 of my posts (all after Oct 7 2023) before kicking me off and barring me from downloading my content even though they said I could have it. For every person who has told me they haven’t been censored by moderators for political expression ten have told me they or people they know have been censored. Allow me to suggest that the more one is social influencer here, the less likely one is to be censored or suspended. But for many this is not a safe space, and I am not shocked at all that Palestinian and Palestinian-American accounts proliferate on #Bluesky (even with its censorship problems) but not on #Mastodon. I’ve never so much as had a post taken down at either Bluesky (in thousands of posts) or #Twitter (in a hundred thousand posts). My considered experience tells me that any sense of security here is false.
@micchiato I think what you are doing here is not helpful.
I am posting about a completely different topic, and then suddenly you want to involve me in a discussion about a dispute you have had with Mastodon years ago.
I have no insight into your dispute with Mastodon, I am not involved in this dispute, and I have no way of knowing who is right or wrong.
If you do not like Mastodon that is perfectly alright, but it does not change the fact that Mastodon has been extremely useful for me.
IMO, Mastodon is one tool among many. Wherever I find traction and support: that is the tool I use at any given moment.
There are benefits here, but also risks that romanization of the Fediverse doesn’t often acknowledge. Bluesky has its own benefits and risks too. Even those I follow on the dreaded bird app deploy important content that I might miss if I embedded myself strictly on one platform.
Obviously, I did join another instance. But the fact that one cannot transfer previous instance content to new instances makes switching instances an untenable nuclear option. I spend a lot of effort on my content and it should have moved with me. The moderators barring me from downloading my content is Musk-level misbehavior.
Switching instances should be simpler than switching to a new platform. But it’s not. It’s taken me a long time to get a fraction of the network of follows I had on my mastodondotsocial. Over the same length of time my Bluesky network expanded exponentially while I was skeeting exactly the same way I had tooted. When I tell people on Bluesky about these problems they are astounded.
What I find fascinating is that for months while Twitter was hemorrhaging accounts, Mastodonians discussed how to attract those looking for a new social media home to the Fediverse over Threads and Bluesky.
Barking “Love it or leave it!” at people was not one of the strategies they discussed.
Dear @_elena ,
I just watched the video. It is fantastic and I thank you for it. It was a time capsule for me, it reminded me at once all the hopes and expectations I placed in the internet when I started to use it in 1998. God it drifted.
@randahl @_elena It took like 5 minutes out of my day for me to watch the video, like all the comments, leave one of my own and subscribe to Elena's channel.
If you can't be bothered to do this then you might as well throw in the towel and give up.
Come on people! Let's manipulate that YouTube algorithm and push her video into everyone's feed.
Change starts with planting seeds and there are many potential allies that are ignorant of the Fediverse.
Let's do this!
But watch it on a fediverse platform instead of YouTube. Please.
https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN
After all, that’s the whole point.
Ah, yes. Valid argument.
But I’d counter by saying folks here on the fediverse would do best to watch it on PeerTube, because it amplifies a better platform. And Mastodonians are already fediverse enabled. But for sharing with friends/family who aren’t yet convinced, who remain on big social, the YT link is probably best.
@sb
We are already here, and besides you can see it on peertube where it was first uploaded by Elena.
However, to reach PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ON FEDI, it needs to be placed somewhere OUTSIDE FEDI.
The primary object of the video as I understand it is to promote Fedi to new users. Not just to sit in our bubble pleased with how good we have it.
Do I understand that correctly? I'm supposed to make sure that youtube earns money with advertising? Two: I don't need to compare current figures to know that Mastodon and Bluesky have user numbers that are only visible under a microscope. Even if we manage to get another hundred people to move, you won't notice it on Intagram and X. It is certainly advisable not to post on X or Meta,…
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