Caroline Alderson

32 Followers
95 Following
45 Posts
I'm a mum of 5, and have 2 grandchildren. 2 staffie crosses called Lola and Mia. I live in Ashford Middlesex near to Heathrow with my husband and 4 of the kids. I've been a SAHM for 21 years and an Avon rep for 5.5 years. Former Labour member and corbynite. Hate the tories with a passion. I've had an allotment since June 21 and took on a second plot Nov 21 and just starting to find my feet with things, haha. #EnoughIsEnough #socialist
@RDHale We need a socialist Sunday campaign.
Itโ€™s #FollowFriday so boost this post and help God get more followers! The more people that follow Me here the more comedy people on Twitter will realize they should move to Mastodon!

Seeing some posts talking about fediblocking turning Mastodon into a "filter bubble." No. We absolutely do not need abusive or fascist views to have a high level of intellectual diversity. Full stop. That hate can fester somewhere else.

After 20 years of social media, the experiment has been run. Hateful people are unconvinced by rational argument, so there's no point engaging with them.

This is a rotten, disingenuous, meritless argument, from A to Z.

Fascism is to be defeated, not debated.

Well I wondered what day we shared dogs after seeing #caturday and now I know it's #Mondog ๐Ÿถ

Here's Mia and Lola snuggled up together โค๏ธ

A little bit of weaving for the light show @rhswisley #gardening #horticulture #willow #surrey #gardens #englan

Updated #Introduction #Introduction2
Hello! 35 year old, life-long geek, father of a 20 month old boy, currently working as a level 3 tech support engineer for a global cyber security company. I live in Texas, USA ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿค˜I would greatly appreciate a boost to help find new people and get my intro out there.

Some things I enjoy: #SelfHosting #CyberSecurity #Technology #Linux #DoctorWho #TheWalkingDead #StarTrek #StarWars #MCU #MCUMovies #History #Comedy #Horror #Music #DadLife #Dogs #Fediverse #Bluey

What will you use the #Fediverse for the majority of the time?

Please boost. Thank you.

Having fun / entertainment
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Political talks / opinion making
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Visited the #allotment today and did a few jobs around our 2 plots. Cut down the #dahlias on our flowerbed on our second plot we were offered last November. The flowerbed was just four foot nettles this time last year and they're still popping up here and there, but I pop them in a dustbin that's slowly filling with rain water for a lovely feed next year. We pulled the comfrey leaves up from the bed we have at the front of the original plot we took on last June and added them to the mix.

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for ๐Ÿ’ฏ of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.