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No offense to the citizens, but USA is a failed Capitalist experiment. Nothing really works optimally, or even close to it. Everything is backwards, wasteful, unjust, non-free, anti-democratic, and in general several hundred years behind more mature nations…

"Soldiers without guns are still working for war" #War #Poem #Lyrics 

Feedback appreciated on that...

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Why "GOOD" people are Bad at "Business"...? + Do better BAD? 

WHY?... BECAUSE ultimately good people don't agree with a lot (like don't like banks, tax, hyper-inflation, added %'s, arbitrary / added pricing pyramid schemes, etc...
...so good people tend not to do those things knowing and shy away knowing it's trouble / bad design FROM THE START... BUT

The idea of this post is to create our way so it's done better
(in a much smaller and careful scale) and that needs you to find something you like and STICK WITH IT slowly but surely to make 'The alternative(s)".

WE NEED EACH OTHER BECAUSE UNLESS we can help each other do these things better then Capitalism, then Crapitalism will do the bad for us + tax us to death

(we fall victim to it anyway and end up paying for these things we don't like anyway, so we must / should do it ourselves as the imperative):

FOR EXAMPLE:

- Better Advertising
(nobody likes the idea of this especially using 'Free' software bubbles but WE MUST do it for our own sakes and causes to stay in touch / stay alive / keep each other in contact the *good version* or 'better business' type model of ADVERT which is to *ATTRACT* inside a that more-free style constantly and what I think gets better of improved as we go and as we get more mutual and aligned

(e.g. we don't need to pay for server space or internet connections individually - we can share locally or remotely and then the others gives what they already have - pooling it all)

And even "Time" is a usable resource and very under-estimated with people on Fediverse.

SUMMARY
We must use all in the eco-system if we are to break through the concrete Crapitalism... and ALSO BUILD OUR OWN TO CROSS THAT THRESHOLD... build slowly by surely... anytime from NOW! And make from old... to new...

(get in touch - start with any passionate topic - I can help converse about it and give some options to ping pong)

From + Crapitalism
To [INSERT YOUR TAGS HERE on ]

I don't know the whole setup - just that we need each other and 'some' business... so let's not die alone and pool something together (copy Capitalism but better / clearer non-just-money accumulation and snowball something else at the same time as selling what you usually sell - including yourself since nobody can escape this anyway so we good people MUST FACE IT!)

"Soldiers without guns are still working for war" #War #Poem #Lyrics 

They want me to be a soldier
in a war I never started,

I don't have a gun
but my money and tax pays towards the dearly departed.

When I talk about money and banks, it's like I was the one who farted,

but YOU'RE the one paying
to fight a war that I never started.

"Go to work" you say and then complain about the "company" bosses who are half-hearted.

Maybe I don't accept people paying for matches
and saying "I didn't light it!"

"The war?..."
"Well I didn't start it!"

Yours sincerely,
Tax code: 321-5776-858283...

#Mastodon #Backup BUT NO #Import function! Am I right if I say this?... Your data on is stuck (on Mastodon or other ActivityPub platforms also, ask your admin!) because the export format of your backup is NOT a human readable format and no pictures show with it! (i.e. your backup is almost everything on one long line of code, in JSON format, and post text is all mixed together) AND currently there is **NO OFFICIAL WAY** to import your data and put post TEXT BACK WITH THE PICTURES in something like it's original form!!!! Do I have this correct? PLEASE TELL ME I'M WRONG -CAN BACKUPS BE ACTUALLY IMPORTED BACK INTO IT'S ORIGINAL FORM (OR SIMILAR) USING OFFICIAL MASTODON WAY ? 

Am I right if I say this?...

has BUT NO function! ? :blobrofl:

Your data on is stuck (on Mastodon or other ActivityPub platforms also, ask your admin!) because the export format of your backup is NOT a human readable format and no pictures show with it!

(i.e. your backup is almost everything on one long line of code, in JSON format, and post text is all mixed together) AND currently there is **NO OFFICIAL WAY** to import your data and put post TEXT BACK WITH THE PICTURES in something like it's original form!!!!

Do I have this correct?

PLEASE TELL ME I'M WRONG -CAN BACKUPS BE ACTUALLY IMPORTED BACK INTO IT'S ORIGINAL FORM (OR SIMILAR) USING OFFICIAL MASTODON WAY ?

"Supply and Demand" and similar systems make us compete and pay more for the same things... 

"Supply and Demand" pricing means that we are competing against each other and the pricers are put the prices up sharply and steadily, purely from more people in any system willing to fight or pay more...

So just to stay alive we can easily start paying crazy prices... and also deliberate scarcity too (control and manipulation) so we the public have a big weakness from many angles...

(also others things like people paying for extra luxuries but imagine how much even basic things like bread other have gone up even though they try keep those lower because it would literally kill us too fast, and they want to kill us slowly and financially, like bleeding human patients almost dry in a bad hospital but not killing them off)

This is not good and superficial / arbitrary (a human-add and market manipulation)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_a


and of is us and us

The federated revolution started 14 years ago; CW: long (636 characters), Fediverse meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse Meta 

You think decentralised social networking was invented with Mastodon? Think twice.

It was almost exactly 14 years ago, on May 13th, 2010, that @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️ conceived Mistpark. All by itself revolutionary and with features which no-one else has ever built into a decentralised project until today, it was only the first step of a long journey which led to Friendica, nomadic identity, Hubzilla, all three still before Mastodon, and eventually the streams repository.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mistpark #Friendika #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams)

You can now adjust the hue, brightness and opacity of your board! Customise to your liking in the board settings of your account menu. What's your setup?

Bot accounts that forward / relay hashtags (if following bot account)... 

Hi Oldkid and those interested in this Bot acc "Socialmedia Relay" @socialmediarelay

I think this message relay could have added to description and improved text about what it is and does / doesn't. Mainly to to allow people less chance to scare themselves... and understand, and say more clearly what it is not.

I had to work out what it meant originally so while it's natural or new, and not a bad start but more would be good so here's my suggestions and reasoning below. (let me know and I'll have another look after you edit)

====================
Add something like these points:
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- "This account is a bot account which automatically forwards to those people subscribed to to this account any hashtagged posts related to SocialMedia (- hashtags such as... "Meta/FB etc"

[hashtag list you have already written]

....BUT don't write "captured" - it's misleading to what it means / what the account is doing)

"If you *Follow/Subscribe* to this account..."

["subscribe" on it's own sounds is a bit different and in Frendica is "subscribe" I think but elsewhere "Follow" mostly]

"...then for specific similar hashtags (like what you may have been writing in your own social media post) your post and others will also be Boosted."

"This account automatically sends only to those already interested / already following the bot account to get similar hashtagged posts.

This bot account is within The Fediverse / ActivityPub protocol and not outside of it.

[Some is similar to what you wrote so not a complete re-write but this helps people understand it's not a Meta / Bluesky kind of bridge 🌉 - It's not an attempt to copy posts elsewhere as a 'relay' but forward them to those interested) <=== lol could put that in there instead of some of the other text...

If you do not want your posts to be passed on to those following this bot then please send us a message to @oldkid to stop any hashtags from your posts being shared via this Bot Account...

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" You should never sign an NDA without advice from your lawyer. " 

" You should never sign an NDA without advice from your lawyer. "

- Mastodon Migration @mastodonmigration

Source Post: mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra

Migrating out or to a new server (to avoid Admin who love Meta/FB/Threads, BlueSky integration) 

@mastodonmigration Hi about migrating... to a new server.... Wondering if you've delved into migrating / exporting / moving backup data (posts) to another account?...

It's amazingly not yet possible officially to import/move a whole account of posts BUT you can copy to a solo instance or manually replace OUTBOX.JSON into a new account (I think with some fiddling) or export somewhere?... so before I say more do you follow me so far on general notion of keeping my posts somehow and general topic in question? Thanks!

away from


Build Your Dreams [BYD]... DIY + EV Cars... 

“Build Your Dreams [BYD]... entry into the U.S. market isn’t an if. It’s a when.”

- Chuck Darwin @cdarwin
c.im/@cdarwin/1124379069974157

" ...could be a nightmare for the U.S. auto industry. "

An Incredible Day In Internet History

It started with the Twitter lockout. 10,000 new users per hour. A QUARTER MILLION people migrated to Mastodon in one day. The servers struggled. Remarkably, admins all over the world built up capacity in real time. New users were patient. The system held.

It's running better now. There will be more hard days ahead, but people powered social media has arrived.

#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome

@mastodonmigration My post stands as I did not claim stux signed an NDA or met with Meta.

stux did basically state the general concept is fine (fair enough) and he's not concerned they have ill intent (wtf?), which is what most concerns me given the long, terrible record Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg have regarding respecting people and basic human decency.

@ricardoharvin

I think the burden of proof should be on #Meta and not on us to tolerate them.

#Meta can demonstrate that they can become a healthy participant on the Fediverse by becoming a healthy social media steward on their own platforms before they come here.

If they chose not to, well... what makes you think they will do here what they don't do on their own platforms?

It doesn't stand scrutiny.

@ricardoharvin @nuz my therapist would say “the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior”

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