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Nemo (the happy leftist) (@MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social) (kolektiva.social)
"Stop overusing the word Nazi" No, you stop facilitating Nazism by pretending it's a phenomenon unique to 1930s Germany. When you say shit like that you are downplaying the monstrous actions of Christofascists who are in power and copying directly from the Nazi playbook as we speak. You're basically saying "well sure they're bad but not as bad as Nazis." That's you giving yourself an excuse to do nothing. That's you letting Nazism fly under the radar because "it can't happen here." It is happening. And if you're waiting for people to be put in literal gas chambers before you are willing to call it what it is, you're gonna be way too late to stop it.
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vruz (@vruz@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
Attached: 1 image No the melonhead hasn't said anything too extravagant of late (by his standards). What we're seing here is likely the #Automattic combined #Wordpress + #Tumblr effect, and I don't know if #Medium are already running tests too. We may cross the imaginary barrier of 10 million earlier than expected if this rate of adoption holds. #Mastodon #fediverse #mastodev
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As usual, read this from @pluralistic and get pissed. No, I mean really pissed. This is extra pissed times.

“Listen: people aren’t pissed off about the bailout because they want startups to fail. They’re pissed off because they are living in the century of “socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor””

Pluralistic: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank’s apologists (15 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout

—@jdarnold

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Friendly reminder that using those ‘fancy text’ generators to make your name or the text in your posts all pretty makes them inaccessible to screen reader users. They can also be a pain to read visually.
to you, they’re just cute lettering you can just skip over. For a screen reader user like me, depending on various things, they could come out as
‘mathematical small bold k mathematical small bold a mathematical small bold r mathematical small bold a’,
‘letter 126b letter 17dj letter 13y7dwiz’
or nothing at all.
I’m not sure off the top of my head how they appear on a Braille display but it’s bound to be a right mess.
I don’t particularly call any of those pretty, do you?
Plain boring text that is accessible to everyone is the new pretty.
#a11y #accessibility

—@KaraLG84

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In reply to @chris.

@chris My uncle posted singing the praises of that congresswoman who concocted the Jira conspiracy and let me tell you something it was an actual struggle to not comment and tell him he's a fucking moron and that he and everyone like him deserves to be confined to the boomer playpen that is Facebook because if they venture out onto the rest of the web they'll continue hurting themselves.

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Two things going on that may be related:

1) Mastodon new user count is up to about 1000 per hour for the last day. This is way up from the recent low hundreds.

2) Reddit r/Twitter is full of complaints that Twitter feeds are now not showing followed accounts, replaced by right wing politics and even porn.

Getting tweets… from people that i dont follow and dont know at all >>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/11stqha/getting_tweets_on_the_timeline_from_people_that_i/

Did twitter change its algorithm completely? >>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/11suqxl/did_twitter_change_its_algorithm_completely_no/

#twittermigration

—@mastodonmigration