Collected Over Spread @collectedoverspread@qoto.org
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(Mostly unqualified) thoughts on technology and social dynamics from a software developer. Longer thoughts on https://collectedoverspread.tumblr.com/ Formerly @collectedoverspread@mastodon.host
Joined Dec 2020
Linktree ( https://linktr.ee/ ) is a site that lets people create a single Web page with links to all of their online accounts. The fact that this exists as a commercial service annoys me greatly. Should something as basic as a single-page site with a bunch of links really be outsourced to an outside service? #Web #WorldWideWeb
Some people on Twitter seem to be reacting to [@]EFF's post with this quote from David Greene from an interview on KQED without hearing/reading his full remarks: "My free speech heart doesn't bleed a ton for perhaps the most powerful person in the world having a more difficult time speaking to people" https://www.kqed.org/news/11855408/social-media-giants-banned-trump-but-they-still-have-lots-of-problems
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"My free speech heart doesn't bleed a ton for perhaps the most powerful person in the world having a more difficult time speaking to people" - EFF’s @davidgreene on @TheBayKQED https://www.kqed.org/news/11855408/social-media-giants-banned-trump-but-they-still-have-lots-of-problems
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Private companies can exclude who they want. But the closer you get to the Internet's core infrastructure, the more troubling those exclusions become. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/beyond-platforms-private-censorship-parler-and-stack
"Reducing the Power of Social-Media Sites," on #Twitter 's recent move and how to deal with the immense pressure big social-media sites face https://collectedoverspread.tumblr.com/post/639805607078232064/reducing-the-power-of-social-media-sites #SocialMedia #SocialNetworking
US politics
With the situation at the Capitol I'm already seeing people drawing comparisons to Black Lives Matter protests, and frankly I don't see the point. Are we trying to figure out which side has perpetrated more violence? Does it matter? Virtually all political affiliations are fuzzy and prone to exceptions. I've long suspected that any generalizations about such fuzzy groups serve no purpose.
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@bonifartius On the other hand, large institutions like EMA (in Europe) aren't just going to approve something out of the blue. Of course they've checked and rechecked before they'll approve anything.
We, the people not in the medical field, have to trust those large bodies to do the research for us. Chances are more than likely that the medicine is less deadly than the actual virus itself.
Can something go wrong with this and end up harming us? Absolutely. It could.
The difference is, the virus will certainly try and is already here to do just that.
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Going to *try* to maintain a list of dead Fediverse instances here: https://fediverse.rip/
There are a ton of them. If you know of a few batch them up in a message to me and I'll add them. If you have the approximate date they died supply that too. If not, I'll try to find the date.
There are a ton of them. If you know of a few batch them up in a message to me and I'll add them. If you have the approximate date they died supply that too. If not, I'll try to find the date.
Announcement of my new #Mastodon account and why I chose Qoto https://collectedoverspread.tumblr.com/post/638565582265073664/moving-to-qoto-for-mastodon
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(Mostly unqualified) thoughts on technology and social dynamics from a software developer. Longer thoughts on https://collectedoverspread.tumblr.com/ Formerly @collectedoverspread@mastodon.host
Joined Dec 2020
