Sign-in with Mastodon for @pixelfed is now available, here are a few screenshots!

Oblig blog post about it: https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/introducing-sign-in-with-mastodon-streamlining-sign-up-and-login-on-pixelfed

The #Bluesky community is on strike, in protest of “free speech” moderation policies and refusal to prevent or remove #racism.

The inciting incident this time: users signing up with the n-word in their usernames. Using the word “cracker”, however, was a bannable offense.

Bluesky has not responded for over 36 hours as of writing. Devs are blocking protestors. Timelines are filled with variations of:

“No more normal posting until my Black friends and family are safe.”

#social #tech

bluesky is fun, threads is fun, but I don't think I'll ever forget the lesson of Twitter:

if you don't control your own social graph, someone else controls an increasingly important part of your life