GetThatGeorge

@Tasty
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Shameless Lib Dem and a software developer
@ZachWeinersmith but what if he used one version that'd be awful! Must have backups

I think defederating Threads is a huge missed opportunity for Mastodon to grow.

Imagine interacting with their users and letting them know that: you scroll posts without ads, your timeline is in chronological order, your client doesn’t spy on you, you only see what you want and no other content is pushed to your timeline, etc…

if I was a Threads users, I would move to Mastodon as soon as I find out 🙂

@[email protected] @Tasty I would rank github higher on ethics than microsoft.
@[email protected] you should as we'll all be forced onto their cloud
@labelngongo any study to back this up?
@Jarlo
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We must demand strict Constitutional safeguards against the misuse of electronic monitors, an expanding form of digital incarceration which can gather unprecedented amounts of information https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/new-frontier-e-carceration-trading-physical-virtual-prisons source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/976970425451266048
The New Frontier of E-Carceration: Trading Physical for Virtual Prisons

Criminal justice advocates have been working hard to abolish cash bail schemes and dismantle the prison industrial complex. And one of the many tools touted as an alternative to incarceration is electronic monitoring or “EM”: a form of digital incarceration, often using a wrist bracelet or ankle “...