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Jay Baker (they/he)

@ MediaActivist @beehaw.org

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Muckraker. Filmmaker. SilenceBreaker.

Long-time guerrilla documentarian/journalist (ex-Indymedia; Freedom News; Organise Magazine, etc.) • Podcaster • Zinester • Carer for my partner, a #pwME caused by Covid (#MaskUp if you can!)

Passionate about #Solarpunk #Veganism #MutualAid #Cooperatives #NonCentralisation #Fediverse #FOSS #Linux #Comics #LuchaLibre (which is real; borders are fake)

https://www.mediaactivist.com/

  • UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted

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  • Labour purged leftists, then Starmer got in with fewer votes than Corbyn. With few options left, the general population - despite having good opinions - will remain unrecognised by the state, and Farage will represent the people no more than Starmer does. It is all quite sad.

  • Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’

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  • I just switched from my Proton package of services to alternatives. For mail and calendar, I went with Tuta and I'm surprised by how ignorant I had been to their functionality - really good!

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    Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

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  • "Use a pen PIN, Sideshow Bob."

  • Building a radical mutual aid info network using the Fediverse

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  • That's really insightful and interesting, thanks! I do like the idea of simple reporting of posts rather than downvoting.

    Hopefully as a Fediverse instance of radical info hubs forms, these discussions can be the topics to tackle. That'd be a wonderful "problem" to have! I'm hoping more people step forward expressing interest in the concept and willing to help make it happen.

  • Building a radical mutual aid info network using the Fediverse

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  • That's an interesting point. If it doesn't make much of a difference, then why even ever enable it?

    I find it best to really only embrace what contributes to a positive, productive experience rather than just replicating the Reddit culture through copycat features. But that's just a small detail. The main challenge ahead is to utilise these templates to create a radical info space similar to the Mutu Network. Hopefully we can do it!

  • Building a radical mutual aid info network using the Fediverse

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  • I was on kolektiva.social for a while (and still use their sibling instance on PeerTube, kolektiva.media), but found they became too unwieldy to effectively moderate, and unfortunately hit headlines with their compromised server data. I'm now on todon.eu.

    I think Mastodon is a fantastic and important system of communication. However, I think a Mutu-style network would rely on something similar to Lemmy/Beehaw.

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    Jay Baker (they/he) @beehaw.org

    Building a radical mutual aid info network using the Fediverse

    www.mediaactivist.com /manifesto/

  • Silicon Valley’s ideology is this: Libertarianism for me. Feudalism for thee.

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  • It's what happens when we have libertarianism without socialism. One without the other is bad news.

  • Looking at America spiraling down into racisme, hate, etc... as a non-american is like reading a Lovecraftian tale: starring into the abyss of contempt, chaos, and bigotry… it also makes me sad.

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  • And it's happening in a lot of other countries - here in the UK the political culture is more right-wing than any time since at least the Second World War (and that's saying something).

    It's Late Stage Capitalism: in order to continue business as usual in the face of all reason and evidence of its devastating effects, capitalists look to authoritarianism and fascism to ensure capitalism's continuation.

  • Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice

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  • Most potential technology will of course be acontextual and lacking any kind of critique of capitalism. I witness people I know make all kind of "wise" decisions based on career expectations or ambition and definitions of "success," and they're actually really miserable yet can't seem to recognise why. I'm unconvinced AI developed by capitalist companies would provide healthier perspectives. Heck, even humans fall short in such roles as counselling, when they lack class consciousness or a critique of neoliberalism. AI probably doesn't stand much more chance.

  • Does Beehaw benefit from federation?

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  • I was merrily using Lemmy, and later on Kbin in addition to that, for many months.

    But then in recent weeks the culture seemed to change: More aggressive, insulting, and rude posts, even over nothing; some of them first responses to posts, others over nothing particularly political, just pop culture opinions and the like. And way, way more downvotes. And that last one was particularly new to me personally.

    I've always been a laughably polite person, even irl, according to folks who know me, and had been the same online unless someone was outrageously offensive and mean (though in recent years simply handled that by a process of mute > report > block, rather than waste energy). But in recent weeks I'd noticed way more downvotes coming my way on innocuous posts, which was a first for me. I'd even told folks who were unsure about joining Lemmy, "Ah, don't worry about the Marxist-Leninist reputation and the bad rap; I've never experienced any tankie stuff on there, and only ever had positive experiences - I mean, look, I've barely ever been downvoted, only ever received kind upvotes for what I've tried to ensure are thoughtful, positive contributions!"

    Lately it's turned nasty, and negative. I joined Kbin and most discourse on there was either polluted by the same culture rising on Lemmy, or dominated by people mocking Beehaw for wanting no part of what many agree is a recent influx of bad habits from Reddit folks. This theory is particularly popular on Mastodon, where people pointed out the switch from Twitter to Mastodon was more politically motivated, whereas the Reddit exodus was more about convenience. I thought that was an interesting explanation for these more negative experiences of late.

    I'm sorry if this is a long post that doesn't at first seem to address the actual question, haha! I guess I'm just trying to contribute my own personal perspective that is related to the topic - and demonstrates why I've recently arrived at Beehaw, as an online space that appeals to me, in contrast to those other aforementioned places.

  • What are some of the 'best' Lemmy apps for Android?

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  • Liftoff is working really well for me!