kudra

@kudra@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hoping to start a Friendica instance, it’s been around for a long time and actually has events, which is something NO other social network has managed to add and one of the main reasons people I know who don’t like Facebook will feel compelled to use it, there’s no other easy way to create and invite people to events.

  I also tried to get people to try G+, before that Diaspora, and neither got many people interested: but I think Fedi has now proved its not going away. There needs to be sustained local push to relocalise communities, this is happening in a few places, and enough nontechy people are starting to really understand the danger of FB and the silo mentality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASX 200: Australian share market sheds $160bn on opening as US trade war gloom spreads across globe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gooooooo

  All I can say is I hope this gives the RWNJs pause about voting for the potato, if they think stocks will go down even further unless we distance ourselves from the US, then we might not be doomed to 3 years of similar stupidity.

• No more fossil “gasplaining” – going electric is past the tipping point and guaranteed to slash cost of livingreneweconomy.com.au ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where will my vote go?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, firstly GOOD ON YOU for recognising that #LibLab are both corrupt and don’t represent average Australians. It’s great to see demographics have been shifting ever away from the Two Party System.

  It is confusing. As noted by previous comment, voting below the line ensures that your absolute preferences are counted.

  Where a flowchart would be helpful is with GVTs (that have been abolished almost everywhere see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_voting_ticket) but unfortunately with the lack of knowing for sure in advance the levels of support for each candidate, especially minor & Indies, there’s no real way of knowing for sure who will end up winning from preferences exactly. Best you can do is read up on all the candidates, put #LibLab last (but honestly possibly openly Nazi Nazis dead last, then Libs, then Lab) and everyone else in order of how much you agree with their policy platform.

  And talk to people about it. Point out that both major parties only benefit billionaires, in the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US tech companies joins winemakers, film studios and drug companies in urging Donald Trump to target Australia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. The trade deficit is massive on our side, so they are shooting themselves in the foot.

  We sure as fuck don’t need American wines. We used to bend over backwards to pay American film companies to film in Australia.

  And there’s guides everywhere now on how to de-American your tech.

  Fuck off, you nutjobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do concede that there has been a trend towards xenophobia that has been exacerbated by filter bubbles and even more by algorithms. But the balance is that people who once had no choice but to suffer ostracism and extreme isolation have been able find community online and have improved mental health and outcomes in many ways.

  I certainly found this myself in the early days of the internet before the iron fist of corporatism grabbed this fledgling space, determined to extract value from it, and creating the nightmares of isolation and hate that are now Farcebork and its ilk. Fedi has been a welcome return to smaller communities that have to do the necessary work of self management, which reduces the hate and isolation that is promoted by antisocial media, even if it doesn’t stop it altogether.

  My point is, the internet isn’t worse. Humans can be good or bad, but certain environments make them behave in worse ways, and these environments can exist both online and off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly? I live in a small town, and face to face isn’t much better. People are incredibly bigoted, and might be polite to your face but incredibly judgemental and small minded, especially to anyone perceived as different. Empathy is a skill that needs to be practised, like meditation. And many people lack it both online and off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen people say that Farcebork was like being in a small town, actively making that kind of everyone-knowing-everyone’s-business a reality again for communities fractured by urban anonymity.

  But that was there in spades in the early internet, it’s just that normies hadn’t been beaten over the head by social conditioning by the corporate overlords yet to join in.

  It’s human nature to think and behave tribally. So we should expect it to continue in the Fediverse, we just can’t shove the problem over to someone else to manage and take their tithe in eyeballs, and thus fracture our communities all over again: we have to do it ourselves. Drama fucking sucks, wherever is found, but we have to accept it’s our job to manage if we don’t want to trade our freedom for a padded cell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liberals Plan To Blow Current Educator-to-Child Ratios To 1:50⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy fucking shit. That will now be the NUMBER ONE TALKING POINT I will be leading with when doorknocking this election:

  “Hey, do you or any friends have young kids? Yeah? Did you know if the Libs get in they have just suggested to change ratios to as little as 1 educator to 50 kids? No? Well that is what you risk if you don’t put Libs last. Terrifying, huh? Thanks for your time!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutton slammed over threat to cut 36,000 public service jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well at least they won’t have to go into the office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What we really need (and have always needed) is an update to the legal frameworks that classify what networks are and what protections are in place for users to ensure interoperability. The Internet has been the wild west for too bloody long, and the extractors and their monopolies need to be put away. That’s why they have been so happy to jump in with Donny Diaper at this point, because he’s letting them not only continue with impunity, but bring back company scrip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d shut down large instances, pressure WordPress to remove support, in the US at least, it could be seen as too risky, if they wanted to they would find a way. I don’t think this would happen easily in the EU though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think, If we have any credible threat, it’s going to be from the Governmental gross anti-tampering laws, forced moderation, or backup regulations. They could make it legally difficulty for us to exist

  This. I have considerable concern that Fascists will straight up ban Fedi if enough people shift to it. They don’t like not being able to control everything, Fedi is far too much actual freedom of communication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Farmers reduce plastic waste in supermarkets with cardboard berry punnets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes please! More of this sort of thing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would buy the shit out of this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Musk's unpopularity in Australia impact the election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m encouraging every little one of us to stop sending money to US companies wherever possible. People here already are likely to be less dependent on US digital services, but pay attention. Support Fedi servers in AU or EU. Kick big tech to the curb. Think about where stuff comes from. There’s some things very hard to give up but people can live quite fine without Bezos Musk and Zuckerberg. Fuck all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be small biccies compared to iron ore to China, but the optics are really bad, and when Australia is included in the tariffs, then psychologically we are siding with Everyone Else in this new US vs Democracy fight. Because that’s what the US (tech bros, who are now in charge) are orchestrating: a direct attack on democracy.

  So yes, the numbers are small compared to other countries, but the attack is ideological, and real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we can all do something. I know our economy is tiny, but Australia buys way more from the US than they buy from us… and you know what a big chunk of that is? Services. Some of those are hard to shift but others are easier.

  I’ve hosted all my websites and registered all my domains in the US for over 20 years.

  That changed yesterday and I’m transferring everything over to Australia.

  For Fedi, look at Australian servers where you can. Subscriptions? Fuck off Netflix et al. Get out of Google as much as you can. If you’re here you are probably already out of FB and Reddit, but leave anything else you can that is US based and try to support AU or EU.

  Don’t buy US foods, cars, or technology where possible (let’s face it, most of those are crap anyway).

  And you know what, most of the US based internet is shit now too. It was fun 20 years ago, but consistent enshittification has been the worst in the US. At least the EU is trying to fight it.

  Yes our economy is tiny, but we can change more than you might think, and as the rest of the world probably will do similar, the US won’t be quite as well off as it thinks it is.