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@davetroy @merc248 @pauliehedron Dave, I'm a fan of your writing and thoughts. Nazis will host their own mastadon forked instances (e.g. truth social) regardless of whether we use the tool, and us doing so does not help them, provided their servers are defederated. So far, this is a better forum to me than one owned and influenced by Musk.
Anyway, glad to have you here at least until shit hits the fan!
With so many #histodons and #wonks joining mastodon, I wonder if there is appetite for instances that are governed by #democratic processes, maybe using some of the tools in this post from @boud
https://framapiaf.org/@boud/104337099048548739
Is anyone aware of such instances?
@[email protected] I mostly agree, with one significant disagreement: 's/create/use and further develop/ ' #DemocracySoftware / #ParticipatoryDemocracy software already exists and is being used: * lists: ** https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects/ ** https://alternativeto.net/software/democracyos/?license=opensource - another list of projects * well-known projects: ** Loomio - https://github.com/loomio/loomio ** Decidim - https://github.com/decidim/decidim ** LiquidFeedback - https://www.public-software-group.org/liquid_feedback ** Consul - https://consulproject.org/en/ - claims to be used by 135 Institutions
Also consider: Elon Musk (and maybe the House of Saud?) now has access to the direct messages of every politician on the planet.
(And these aren’t necessarily the most technically-savvy or infosec-aware people we’re talking about here…)
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@theLUCASTDS @harshv @briannawu better a random admin than a fascistic megalomaniac like Musk, whose first action as owner was to promote a conspiracy theory to deflect about political violence.
And, if you don't trust your admin and want to take moderation into your own hands, it's possible to run your own instance
@flyingyogini @stux As far as I understand, the decentralized design makes it so that no one can ensure a unique username across instances. Someone can always spin up a new instance to create, e.g., [email protected]
"It's like email" 🤷
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