Amy Rodman

@AmyRodman@toot.community
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Founder and creator of NadaMoo. Chef. Mom. Beekeeper.
Amy RodmanFeb 4
elleFeb 3
see this is what happens when you pretend to be religious but don't actually know how the story ends
Amy RodmanJan 27
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Jan 27

My best shot at a stock photo for the #Fediverse, showing its most popular projects.

Please show some mercy, I am not a hand model (obvi) and my masking skills are a little rusty.

If some photographers would like to improve it, I could share my original photo and screenshot.

Hilariously, when I opened the tripod my bracelet got stuck in it and I semi-panicked for a few moments because I was home alone... with a tripod stuck to my wrist. Thankfully I managed to free myself 😂

#FediLove

Amy RodmanJan 26
Eric TopolJan 26
Have a sweet tooth?
The basis may be in your gut.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/how-our-gut-microbiome-can-drive
How Our Gut Microbiome Can Drive Sugar Cravings

More Evidence for Our Gut Taking Center Stage for What We Eat

Ground Truths
Amy RodmanJan 22
Eugen RochkoJan 22
Today is my birthday! I'm 32, but I feel so much older. I wonder why... 
Amy RodmanJan 21
pixelfedJan 21

We've received more offers to acquire our platform/assets.

We belong to the people.

Our Kickstarter is launching soon, help us prove that we, the people, can build healthy and vibrant communities, without being controlled by vested interests who don't share our values.

Recent events have proved how vital these open and federated platforms are, help us continue building for the people.

Spread the word ✨

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

Amy RodmanJan 19
Molly WhiteJan 19

The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.

Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.

#DigitalSovereignty

Amy RodmanJan 18
Show threadTaylor LorenzJan 18

TikTok is also my biggest platform, if you want to support my work please buy a yearly subscription to UserMag.co, if it's not something you can afford please subscribe for free and/or share links!! Every little bit helps when you're up against an entire massive right wing media structure.

https://www.usermag.co/

User Mag | Taylor Lorenz | Substack

A tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring exclusive reporting, interviews, and insights about the online world. Click to read User Mag, by Taylor Lorenz, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Amy RodmanJan 18
dansupJan 18

I've received 5 VC offers "to chat" regarding Pixelfed in the past few days.

Not for sale.

Pixelfed belongs to the people.

I'd rather be broke and true to my beliefs, than sell out.

That's why I'm organizing a Kickstarter to fund the ethical development of Pixelfed, Loops and more.

It's time that someone stood up to them, instead of joining them.

Are you with me?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

Amy RodmanJan 18
pixelfedJan 18
Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Amy RodmanJan 17
Steve HermanJan 17
"In keeping with my oath and duty to Constitution and country, I affirm what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex." - President Biden in a statement https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/17/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-equal-rights-amendment/
Statement from President Joe Biden on the Equal Rights Amendment | The White House

I have supported the Equal Rights Amendment for more than 50 years, and I have long been clear that no one should be discriminated against based on their

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pixelfedJan 18
Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Show threadBryan 🏳️‍🌈 PixelfedJan 18
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Show threadCuteroll, autistic transgender otterJan 18
@pixelfed wasnt facebook at first something to rate campus girls or sth
Show threadWilfried KlaebeJan 18

@ctrl https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/: »Facebook, a cancer of a company founded to nonconsenually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads (incredibly, that was Facebook’s least terrible moment. It actually got worse after that)«

@pixelfed

Fool Me Twice We Don’t Get Fooled Again – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Show threadStrange CulpritsJan 18
@wonka @ctrl @pixelfed We're pretty sure the people of Earth, as a whole, have rated Zuck the Cuck -1,000,000,000 for f***ability 🤭
Show thread:ulfr:Jan 18

@StrangeCulprits The saddest part is that despite all his material wealth he never managed to buy something remotely approaching a personality. Take his net worth and prepend a negative, that's about it. Net Worthlessness.

@wonka @ctrl @pixelfed

Show threadMark Corbett WilsonJan 18

@wonka @ctrl @pixelfed

Wise words from Cory Doctorow;
"From now on, I will put more weight on how easy it is to leave a service than on what I get from staying. A bad service that you can easily switch away from is incentivized to improve, and if the incentive fails, you can leave."

Show threadAdam PiggottJan 18
@ctrl To paraphrase: "They're giving us all this personal information for free. Fucking morons."
Show threadJordan (has moved)Jan 18

@proactiveservices @ctrl This. Right. Here.

I mean, I've said and done plenty of immature shit when I was young, too.

I DO think about the good things he's done, like integrating pgp support into fb, open sourcing llama.. But shit like this just means the overall company culture still needs to grow up and learn how to be better on a fundamental level.

Of course, when your corp is legally tied to maximizing profits FIRST, what can you do?

I wonder what his actual feelings are on the matter

Show threadCuteroll, autistic transgender otterJan 18
@lns @proactiveservices sure rating girls was immature shit




they kinda did a lot more later on, like enabling a fucking genocide, so regardless of the few lil good things they do, i am convinced they are evil to the core and than meta should be destroyed
Show threadCuteroll, autistic transgender otterJan 18
@lns @proactiveservices also they created react which is unforgivable
Show threadPanicz Maciej GodekJan 18

@ctrl
same thought exactly

(attributing any idealism to the origins of facebook is just wrong)

@pixelfed

Show threadFrank HeijkampJan 18
@pixelfed Well worded.
Show threadgergoJan 18
@pixelfed maybe he can carve out some time from his busy trump inauguration party organising schedule to read it 🤪
Show threadLeefeller GuyJan 18
@gergolippai @pixelfed Between fucking the ostrich and kissing the orange anus Zuckerberg is busy, probably will not read it.
Show threadmuž s klapkami na očíchJan 18
Did he reply yet?
Show threadendeavorance 🕊️Jan 18

@pixelfed it may help to shorten the letter

Dear Zuck,

Get bent, loser

Signed,
All of us

Show threadSpark Purcell (they/them)Jan 18
@endeavorance @pixelfed nice... would've been better to end it with "dumb fuck" but... cool...
Show threadJules 🍺Jan 18
@pixelfed
😎💖
Show threadPaul ShryockJan 18

@pixelfed "Remember when Facebook started? It was about rating women."

Fixed it for you.

Show threadgameRevoltJan 18
@pixelfed this is great but Zuck’s early “dumb fucks” comment highlighted his real attitude
Show threadHerr Voeglein🎗️Jan 18
@pixelfed 💪
Show threadxs4me2Jan 18
@pixelfed 🎯
Show threadSofasophiaJan 18
@pixelfed
Deutsche Übersetzung:

»Lieber Mark,
Ich hoffe, es geht Ihnen gut. Mir ist heute etwas Interessantes aufgefallen - es scheint, dass Instagram Links zu meinem kleinen Open-Source-Projekt blockiert. Sie wissen schon, die, die es Menschen ermöglicht, Fotos zu teilen, ohne ihre persönlichen Daten zu sammeln oder algorithmische Feeds auf sie zu erzwingen.

Ich muss zugeben, ich fühle mich geschmeichelt. Wer hätte gedacht, dass ein kleines Team von Freiwilligen etwas aufbauen könnte, das Ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf sich ziehen würde? Wir versuchen nur, den Menschen die Wahl zu geben, wie sie ihre Erinnerungen online teilen. Keine VCs, kein Überwachungskapitalismus, nur Code und Gemeinschaft.

Weißt du noch, wann Facebook gestartet wurde? Es ging darum, Menschen zu verbinden, nicht um die Interaktionsmetriken zu maximieren. Unser Projekt mag im Vergleich zu Instagram winzig sein, aber wir bleiben dem ursprünglichen Geist der sozialen Medien treu - Menschen die Kontrolle über ihre Online-Präsenz zu geben, ohne sie in Produkte zu verwandeln.

Du hättest uns ignorieren können. Stattdessen haben Sie uns durch das Blockieren unserer Links die beste Unterstützung gegeben, die wir uns wünschen konnten. Sie haben bestätigt, was wir die ganze Zeit gesagt haben - dass Big Tech mehr daran interessiert ist, ihre ummauerten Gärten zu schützen, als echte Innovationen zu fördern.

Jedes Mal, wenn Sie einen Link zu unserer Plattform blockieren, erinnern Sie die Leute daran, warum wir ihn überhaupt erstellt haben. Ihr Handeln sagt ihnen, dass es Alternativen gibt, die es wert sind, untersucht zu werden, die ihre Privatsphäre und Handlungsfähigkeit respektieren. Also danke, Mark. Sie haben unser kleines Projekt in ein Symbol des Widerstands gegen digitale Monopole verwandelt.«

(Maschinell übersetzt)
Show threadNumeric CitizenJan 18
@pixelfed I like this a lot.
Show threadMudlarkJan 18

@pixelfed this reads like somebody with maturity issues wrote it. Also at least export the thing into a pdf first, the squiggly lines and text cursor are still visible  

More importantly, Zuckerberg didn’t build Facebook because he believed in anything, at least not anything good - initially the project was to rate college girls on their appearances

Show threadPaUwUleJan 18

@Mudlark @pixelfed

You a very true about your observations…

Just found out that people finally started to speak out about these issues.
https://dansup-open-letter.github.io/

An open letter to NLnet

Show threadSantoshJan 18
@pixelfed we are all with you!!
Show threadextraJan 18
@pixelfed
rage is young. 👊
Show threadAbazigalJan 18

@pixelfed This must be read in the same tone Kain used when addressing the elder god at the end of “Defiance”.

“Your words are heartening. For you would not fear us unless we could truly do you harm. False god. This is the end. The final turn of your wheel.”

Show threadSally StrangeJan 18
@pixelfed "it was about connecting people" Uh huh, specifically sexist, usually male people, so that they could more easily objectify women. Kissass
Show threadAmici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴Jan 18

@SallyStrange @pixelfed

True about the origin of the app, but I really don't think it's meant as an actual compliment.

"connecting people" is what Meta employees tell themselves. Daniel is speaking to the ego of the Meta bosses, the story they tell about themselves, to their lower ranks, and to the rest of the world.

The fact that Meta blocks opportunities to connect therefore goes in the face of the story they tell themselves and to others.

Show threadAmici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴Jan 18

@SallyStrange @pixelfed

It would've been cooler if he told the true story though, it would've been more devastating, and set Pixelfed apart much more.

Show threadSally StrangeJan 19
@amici @pixelfed Not telling the truth means the letter writer didn't know the truth, or thought that the difference between "connecting people" vs "objectifying women" isn't worth mentioning. Both possibilities mean the letter writer is sexist.
Show threadAmici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴Jan 19

@SallyStrange @pixelfed

I'd call that a very strong character accusation. It's a valid complaint that he missed the actual origins, but I would not venture so far in characterizing a person, if it's based off a single mocking letter.

Show threadSally StrangeJan 19
@amici @pixelfed nah man, you can't look at structural bigotry through the lens of personal character. If the letter writer is unaware of FB's sexist origins, that means they're not tuned into even the most basic of feminist information sources, which means they're marinating in the same background misogyny that we all are. It's easily remedied and it doesn't mean they, personally, hate women--but it's still sexism.
Show threadDaniel Django  (Akkoma)Jan 18
@pixelfed Supernault is a pretty cool name.
Show threadLazouJan 18
@pixelfed Dude very nice! Keep going.
Show threadTopKnotJan 18

@pixelfed

A professional business model doesn't rely on lies to make money, nor do they help their clients spread lies and dangerous conspiracies. So maybe we shouldn't look at Facebook as a model for professionalism. But that just my rant. You may see thing differently.

Show threadMieszko ŚlusarczykJan 18
@pixelfed It was never about connecting people, it was always about „engagement”.
Show threadAsta McCarthyJan 18
@pixelfed #MakeSocialsSocialAgain
https://makesocialssocialagain.nl/
Make Socials Social Again

Wij roepen publieke organisaties op om samen de eerste stap te zetten door alternatieven te gaan gebruiken voor Big Tech sociale media platformen.

Show threadScarlettJan 18
@pixelfed love it!
Show threadTopio e.V. - space for privacyJan 18

@pixelfed

Perhaps we can reach him on
@zuck

Show threadTeflonTrout  he/himJan 18

@pixelfed No surveillance capitalism*

*but it still owns everything that gets posted there in every way, shape, and form to use however Dan sees fit, forever.

Please work on that terms of service

Show threadThe Creative VoiceJan 18
@pixelfed loving the new web interface btw. (The dark mode 😍)
Show threadMia HawkinsJan 18
@pixelfed 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Show threadn x i zJan 18
@pixelfed Mark be like: What do you mean? want to compete with me?
Show threadLeonard SchiffJan 18
@pixelfed I don't think facebook was ever about "connecting people" though ^^
Show threadNagaramJan 18

@pixelfed @ghostrunner

Based. Fuck Meta

Show threadJohn MierauJan 18

@pixelfed @paul_e_cooley unfortunately, intentionally or accidentally. Dan is following Elon's 'move fast and break things' mentality.

He's doing great things for fediverse visibility... but being a one man show leads to getting your ego involved or missing things (like Loops' egregious rights over-reach in its TOS).

Dan's done a lot of good... I just hope he can avoid an Icarus-style crash and burn that could undo a lot of that good.
..

Show threadPaUwUleJan 18

@john
@paul_e_cooley

I’ve seen my fair share myself - tried to contribute to this project… But yeah quite impossible.

Just found out people finally started to speak out about these wider problem(s)

https://dansup-open-letter.github.io/

An open letter to NLnet

Show threadЮ ⁂Jan 18
@pixelfed I believe texts get better when we step aside for a few cycles and not let ourselves be driven by the highness of attention. Zuckerberg has never been what you describe. There is no grassroots moral origin we could jumpstart in the back of his memory. It is historically evident that Facebook, later meta has frequently chosen the unethical paths when they had choice to. There is no ancient ideal to appeal to. No renaissance can happen.
Show threadSusan VilleJan 18
@pixelfed Dreamers.
Show threadAmy RodmanJan 18
@pixelfed great letter! Rooting for you all the way!! A couple of years after I started NadaMoo, I got a cold call from the retired director of sales for Ben and Jerry’s. “Your product has ‘legs’” he said, “and I want to help.” No threats from lawyers followed. Because Ben and Jerry got it right: equity, sustainability and community can be the pillars of successful businesses. They were not in my niche market, but they still cared about the people in my niche market.
Show threadWaitwutJan 18
@pixelfed brilliant!
Show threadCairo Braga [toot]Jan 18

@pixelfed this "open letter" is embarassing... to Pixelfed.

"connecting people"? Facebook was created to predate on women and use their data without their consent!!! it was NEVER about connecting people, it was always about misogyny, ego and money.

Show threadLarsJan 18
@pixelfed great 😊
Show threadTranscedentalJan 18
@pixelfed
👍👏
Show threadKate Nyhan is changing serversJan 18
@pixelfed
"without harvesting their personal data"?
Maybe someone should tell the lawyers who drafted the Loops TOS that :)
https://bajsicki.com/blog/loops-video-terms/
loops.video - phil@bajsicki:~$

Been a while. I’ve mostly been posting on the Fedi, but I feel like this is a rather important topic that requires attention. Recently @dansup has been posting a bunch about loops.video, a federated alternative to Instagram/ TikTok. While I agree that an open, free and federated alternative to these platforms is necessary, I am consistently finding myself questioning the intentions encoded in their Terms of Service. Before going further, I’ll clarify: loops.video is not currently federating, but federation is planned using the ActivityPub protocol. If it does happen, and the ToS isn’t properly adjusted, it will cause problems.