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All good things come to an end. Mastodon included.

This is what we need to prepare for:
When #Mastodon changes (not even ends but *changes*) into something less than it was or others override it...

Like all good things, naturally others will try to merge with it / railroad it / buy it out in other ways (even if it's not for profit etc it can be done). What holds it together is "better average users" else people are the same 'dumb' users that end up somewhere else with maybe only a bit of a better clue after getting here...
(progress or potential is still more than just creating an account)...

What we do about this inevitable point in time (when the time comes) is most important to move and keep doing things well.
I'm not encouraging a downfall but it's obvious we're already being merged etc.

So changing to funnel ourselves in into better things is likely... because "all good things come to an end."

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WHY / WHAT'S YOUR IDEA?
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The commercial links on Mastodon / Fediverse is killing us and our movements - no doubt about that per click (millions per day and per link).

I think if we (developers included) don't try develop curve better habits using our software then we are losing big. Because on the one hand we do good work (even over-do it) but then the other hand is letting things slip too easily with links to commercial links like YouTube ( Google ) that could be filtered by user and even helped by software to add automatically another 'Alternative Link' as part of software and options.

So I mean specifically links to YouTube and Google video that could be #redirects and #filtered link / #proxy - e.g. this link is better than a youtube .com or youtu.be link:

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=YCN_OFF0tHQ

The above for ALMOST EVERY LINK is possible and not feeding the Google farms ...
Links are basically what that harvest our users and developers that don't say / do anything about that... and inside their free model that's bad. Kinda like Linux servers and GPL licenses it's given away all too easily to be exploited.

When users are slack (in being harvested and offering poor links) it's also part of social or developer responsibility I think to advise at least or train - else just becomes another X or Twitter... (both in uneducated users 👥 and uneducated links 🔗)

So "all good things come to an end" is a phrase but "Unless responsibility is taken / given... then you can be more sure it ends sooner or just gets taken over so we need to upgrade brains too 🧠
🔧 -> 👥 <-> 🔗 🧠

Responsibility is needed else things get taken over / weeds overrun.

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ADDENDUM / MORE POSITIVE NOTES
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I have to say some of the recently added privacy options added to Mastodon recently are great - mostly listed here in V4.2.0 log:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0

but still lack the social habit of users is leaking things and the weak-point. Giving a tool also needs also this kind of guide or training and let people know "how to links better" using @invidious etc... and hand-holding (a cringe term for most developers I expect who are just wanting to focus on code) is needed... whichever way you go - else you allow people the misunderstanding this is just another commercial social.

If this is a social movement (ask yourself if Mastodon is born a social movement or brings many part of many movements combined?) and if surely a yes for why we came politically in the first place or personally motivated, then as choices and wanting to contribute here more than commercial models as tendencies, it means we must also do the propaganda / advice type work.

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Ok that's the end of this section.
Comments appreciated...
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#QUESTIONS

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- is it mostly political or personally involved being on / using Mastodon ?

- developers and admins should care about the links both on their space or as movement to advise people?

- maybe users wouldn't mind changing to Invidious links (or similar newpipe style youtube filters) for the same video?

☑️ It saves them and their followers viewing the adverts and allows download of video too optionally in the interface!

Try it https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=YCN_OFF0tHQ

or https://redirect.invidious.io

People that don't strengthen their users (to educate, improve mindset and actively) I think are losing eventually from a kind of from the fizzling of thermodynamics which is happening every day as matter transforms perhaps with less potential meaning...

So as in #physics the thermodynamics (conversion of different forms of energy) can be seen as happening, which might not be seen as "end of the world" or even that important today, but heat or endothermic reaction on Fediverse is simply lost if people are not aligning better AT SOME POINT, or having better thoughts and habits towards the overall mission (there could / should be many).

I know some fallout of energy is needed to exist and natural but as learning / existing goes IF NOT BEING TAUGHT / GUIDING BETTER IN PRACTICES or PARTICIPATING then you eventually set yourself up for a fall AND EVEN REVOLUTION AGAINST YOURSELF!!! (people stay unintelligent as much less opportunity and less encouragement to do better is there, people are left to their own devices and less with others communally).

#Physics huh?

#Fediverse #Admins and #Instance #Moderators #Activity #Participation = Eventually all is #Political in the Personal sense.

People are mostly just a #tax container for a cold #system for a #society.

How does that sound as you read that? #Question

#TAX + #WAR ....
#Taxes + #Wars... (more = more)

Even if numbers and % are not precise, #HELL OF A LOT GOES TO WAR (funding war, not just defending war!!) AND #BANKS...

Ah life...

#Taxes - Paying taxes pays for problems to be created !

When we pay tax, it is a direct paying for military etc as well as other things - and anyway more expensive since we're already changed a premium for everything and then they profit from it.

That's a kind of #war on people itself.

“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

- Thomas Jefferson #Quote

👕 T-shirts with slogans =
interesting / fun...

█ 🔰 It Offends You, Until it Defends You" 🛡️

█ † #Trust #Jesus ✝️ . Not The Government 💥 🔫

█ 🙍‍♀️ The #People vs. The #Government 🤑

█ #War ✈️ 🚗 vs. Religion 👳 ✝️ etc

https://hangovergangofficial.com/

#Mastodon #Pics I'm using <10kb JPG files for what can be safely auto-scaled, like big text and line drawings...

Ask if you want bigger version - but right now it's saving the planet being 10's of KB less per post in transit and storage...

<1Kb for this post and pic!

"If there is a #book you want to read and it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it." - Toni Morrison #quote

#DIY #Book #Life #Lessons ?
#Question What would you write?

#Book #Question

If you had to write you OWN BOOK leaving some learned lessons, what would it be about?

#Life #Lesons

800 #US Bases approx. all around the world....

US bases.... in other countries...
hmmm... d¬(^~^)

It's almost like #USA wants to take over the whole world... d¬(^~^) #Stop #War #Funding via #Tax

The Fabian Society founded the London School of Economics in 1895.

A lot of extremes or reactions to things in History (don't say Hitler) have some good and bad points to take from (stripping some unwanted parts sometimes... )...

Because either way the war continues (didn't stop after WW") and just became civilized instead.

So the "nice"civil wars people have to fight also instead of following others blind and paying blind 🤑 to "yet another bad thing, oh my God isn't it bad" 💰 (Just keep paying them?)

Motto:"Wearing the enemy down"
+ "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"...

#FabianSociety #Civil #War
#Economics #CivilWar

LAUGH OR CRY ?
If you don't know whether to laugh of cry about something... try do both about the subject... #FreeSchool

"The longer way" or "taking the high road" is often worth your own reasons... #FreeSchool

In modern times of 'free' and 'easy'... it's *easy* to do bad work, for *free*. - #FreeSchool

Ecological succession + Fungus underpins forests and everything!

Pic re-mixed from: "Fungal banking"
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/06/20/occasional-paper-fungal-banking/

#Planet = 1st #Economy
#Fungus #Fungal #Economics
#Organic #Banking #dynamics

Comments from page:

Gareth Richard Samuel Wilson

That (part below) reminds me of Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters, where even after an entire city has been taken over by mind-controlling parasites, parasitised businessmen still have to go to parasitised bankers to get business loans.

from original post:
“Depending on your point of view, you could say this all shows that banks and finance — in the very broadest sense — are not only natural but hardwired into life; something very similar has been going on, silently but profoundly, for millions of years, and it has shaped the world around us.”

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Doug M. (original poster)
" And, really, you could rearrange these facts to tell a more lefty, socialist kind of story: the trees in the forest cooperating, pooling their resources to achieve common goals. I didn’t mention it in the article (it was getting long enough already), but there’s evidence that trees may use the network for something that looks like altruism — as in, trees may divert resources to support trees that are injured or sick. So it’s not all tooth-and-claw. "

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Janis:
I’ve been at odds a long time with Adam Smith. Yes, our beastly nature has capitalism built in, and it’s worked for crude propagation. We aren’t #fungi, or #trees. We have this fancy little knob on the top of us that’s supposed to have a function.

Those seeding trees are mothers, something fringe capitalist literature is only now addressing. Spore drive, indeed.

Make Banks & State stronger?

Or... #Monero #Money #Currency #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #State

I don't fit very well in other people's boxes and packages. □ ⌂ ▲ ◊ ♥ ◊ ▲ ⌂ □

Other people's measurements and metrics are for their directives, objectives and rational.... They lose me almost completely as a result and should involve me and people, more willing to debate about what we are doing and who it's for...?

(ANSWER: for us and the next generations...?)

Ask yourself why you are doing what you do.

#Capitalism #Opinions #Metrics
#STEM #Boxes #Rational #TheMatrix #FreeAgents

Some human company in measured amounts can make the whole world a lot warmer and fun!...

Reality is there but we dance around it a bit usually in the mind and occasionally physically using the fire as a focus... #Togetherness #BeingInThePresent