Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet) (Calckey Social)
What @gruber@mastodon.social clearly doesn’t understand about the Fediverse is that *I don’t have to interact with people or services that make me miserable*. Which I couldn’t do when I was using Facebook. I was at the mercy of their algorithm, hoping that I wouldn’t encounter something *they dumped into my feed* which would make me deeply unhappy. And yet he believes that *choosing* not to connect with #Barcelona makes you a “misfit island loser”. @gruber@mastodon.social believes that freedom of association is for losers. (📎1)
Eniko Fox (@eniko@peoplemaking.games) (People Making Games)
Love seeing people defend staying on twitter by bringing up people who's livelihood depended on it, as a person who's livelihood depended on twitter. You know what that made me do? It made me work extra hard to set up shop elsewhere because with my livelihood on the line I couldn't actually afford to stay on twitter and wait for Elon to destroy it and my livelihood with it

@rolle I am part of the generation that knew Jabber, that was happy to see Google embrace the Jabber/XMPP protocol: anyone with a gmail address had an XMPP instant messaging account interoperable with all other servers.

And one day gmail closed to other servers. Most users, already on Google, then asked others to create a gmail account to continue communicating.

I don’t want to go through that again. “Embrace, extend, and extinguish”, again.

@lebout2canap

@georgetakei You know another great way to ally? Use alt text on your images so those of us who can’t see them can be clued in to what you’re talking about. It’s really disheartening to see a prominent figure who I admire and who regularly promotes inclusion not get in on the alt text bandwagon here. It helps so many, not just blind people like me and it’s not that difficult once you get in the habit, at least that’s what I’ve seen a lot of people saying around here. Think about it, please. And thanks to all of you already using alt text. It makes a big difference.

@atfarnum

Carey Lening :blobcatverified: (@privacat@dataprotection.social) (Data Protection Social)
Attached: 1 image This is why the US can't have nice data transfers. F.B.I. Violated Surveillance Program Rules After George Floyd Protests and Jan. 6 Attack https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/fbi-violated-surveillance-program-rules.html >The bureau made changes after the newly revealed violations of rules for querying messages intercepted under an expiring warrantless surveillance law.
Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
What continues to disappoint me the most is that people who know better -- particularly journalists -- have capitulated to Musk in every way that matters. They kind of, sort of recognize the menace he represents, and don't like his loud loathing of what they do. But the audience and content matter more to them, even though they could bring both to better places. Look, I have my own hypocrisies. But supporting Musk was one I couldn't abide.