Elle of the Past 

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Artist who barely does art.
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Somewhat disappointed in the people who are so quick to say that we need to reform Section 230 because "big tech companies are bad," without considering whether or not it would even fix the problem. Too many of my mentions are people who seem to not care about the consequences (and whether or not such reforms would help fix any perceived problem). It's just "company bad, therefore, 230 must be bad."

Think through the details, people.

@notjustbikes I see you've already gotten several "this isn't actually a problem, just..." responses.

Personally, I don't want an algorithmic timeline - I only ever used the chronological timeline on Twitter and hated whenever it switched on me.

However, Twitter did some things much better, like auto-collapsing threads.

Mastodon folks would be better off working to understand this than simply frame all problems as personal and thus the duty to solve them is entirely your own.

@dxciBel @video_manager @notjustbikes The best feature of Ivory is that you can choose to filter out individuals from your main timeline if you have them on a list. This should be standard for Mastodon and all its clients IMO.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases next week that could dramatically affect users’ speech rights online. Here’s what you need to know about Gonzalez v. Google, Twitter v. Taamneh, and how Section 230 protects us all. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/section-230-trial-heres-what-you-need-know
Section 230 is On Trial. Here's What You Need to Know.

The Supreme Court will hear two cases — Gonzalez v. Google on Tuesday, Feb. 21, and Twitter v. Taamneh on Wednesday, Feb. 22 — that could dramatically affect users’ speech rights online.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Just a reminder that using "the children" and their need for "protection" has been the basis of every horrific moral panic targeting a marginalized group.

Status update for #E2EE #Mastodon DMs:

✨ Holy crap it actually works!! ✨

Like, even across different instances. It federates and everything!

I still need to sand down some rough edges, and make sure the edits federate too, but I might actually be almost done with this.  

Oh, and I need to rebase against the new 4.1 release of Mastodon. But I'm trying not to think about that yet.

"I've been running for so long..."

My shadow sorcerer Kalixti 💖

#dnd #OC #MastoArt #CharacterDesign

Samus fan art from last night. Tried playing around with some different ideas and rendering. Different for me anyways.
Sister of Battle, Warhammer 40k
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