Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 12
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Maiyannah Bishop (maiyannah@plateia.org)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 06:10:35 UTC 
Maiyannah Bishop
@munin I've my sanitized with salt and fire Windows 7 partition and when it goes proper EOIS/EOL/whatever I'm just going to be a Linux gal I guess, you could not pay me enough to deal with Win 10's problems. -
02. 瀼䰍㻣羊薭賯ꝩ訡뽷 (u2764@icosahedron.website)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 22:32:46 UTC 
02. 瀼䰍㻣羊薭賯ꝩ訡뽷
Hey all. In case you somehow missed it, yesterday I wrote an article about Mastodon and I think it may have stirred up some capital-D DRAMA. You can read the thread which introduced it here: [1/2]
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 22:33:29 UTC 
Bob Mottram
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 22:20:31 UTC
Bob Mottram
Qvitter notifications now also expire and are subject to blocking rules on !Freedombone -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 21:55:07 UTC
Bob Mottram
"The idea of soviets, that is to say, of councils of workers and peasants, conceived first at the time of the revolutionary attempt in 1905, and immediately realized by the revolution of February, 1917, as soon as Czarism was overthrown, – the idea of such councils controlling the economic and political life of the country is a great idea. All the more so, since it necessarily follows that these councils should be composed of all who take a real part in the production of national wealth by their own efforts."
-- Kropotkin -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 21:42:00 UTC
Bob Mottram
"The influx and taking over of the people by the party, that is, predominantly the newcomers, has already destroyed the influence and constructive energy of this promising institution – the soviets. At present, it is the party committees, not the soviets, who rule in Russia. And their organization suffers from the defects of bureaucratic organization"
-- Kropotkin, writing to Lenin in 1920 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 21:13:09 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah @moonman that would be good -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 21:09:04 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah only censored speech allowed. The political officer will be taking notes. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 21:01:30 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah strange. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 21:00:13 UTC
Bob Mottram
@awilfox @creatrixtiara @irick maybe government just isn't all that useful. I don't see them building many roads or hospitals these days. -
robek world (rw@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 20:27:41 UTC 
robek world
Wrapping up the Mastodon Arc for Tech Journalism because Money or something who knows. See y'all next year when you guys rediscover it again! -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 20:34:31 UTC
Bob Mottram
Will the Tories really win? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYeX5mRc18g -
hobbsc (hobbsc@gs.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 20:16:00 UTC 
hobbsc
I've been listening to a broadcast station rattling on in Portuguese about Fidel Castro. it's been nearly an hour and they haven't ID'ed yet. They should like paulistas but I can't tell if the station is Brazilian. Does Radio Havana do Portuguese language broadcasts? I only ever hear it in Spanish. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 20:15:05 UTC
Bob Mottram
Fierce felines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aVrR4DYRH0 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 20:09:23 UTC
Bob Mottram
@takeshitakenji https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/20416 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 19:57:01 UTC
Bob Mottram
@unaspenser yes I agree. It is always possible to run a private instance, like a closed club, but isolating yourself entirely is usually no fun and its at the intersections between narratives where new things usually happen and new ideas come into being. At the level of server admins you might federate with some other servers and not with others, depending on user feedback. Over time the network structure and the social structure align. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 19:42:42 UTC
Bob Mottram
@unaspenser The containment and ejection of disruptive elements certainly does happen. In one memorable case from a few years ago a terror group showed up on one server and once the admin became aware of it their accounts were shut down. Different admins can have different policies though and so there isn't any universal standard for outgroup identification.
The extent to which there is mutual aid depends upon what instance you're on and how much affinity there is between users. In a small group with strong bonds deflecting troublemakers is easier than on an instance with a large user to admin ratio. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 19:22:50 UTC
Bob Mottram
@unaspenser if you mean bullying, then that's a problem which technology alone doesn't resolve. People have to work out their differences, and that's not always easy. At the mundane level, bullying is the tip of the spear which is the dialectical forces of society.
Freedom is always constant struggle.
I know that in siloland there is sometimes the belief that Facebook or Twitter - the archetypal benevolent leadership - will defend you from the bad people of the internets, but seeing the various exoduses over the years I'm pretty sure that's not true. The leadership can also be bad. At least in the fediverse there is no single leader. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 19:02:10 UTC
Bob Mottram
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eubgWMwSD0k -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2017 18:43:48 UTC
Bob Mottram
@unaspenser there have been a few major exoduses so far and whether people return to the silos will typically depend upon how large their affinity group is here and how much they care about having freedom and independence. If there is a shortage of server capacity then people who are sufficiently motivated will usually find a way to get one running. One or my projects is related to that.
Tech barriers are always an issue, but are getting easier. Every year things improve a little. The software improves and the cheapest single board computers get more powerful.
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