Better❤People+Habits? (🔓+🔔) @freeschool@qoto.org

Chewing #Celery sticks and leaves until desperate for food...

#StarveTheSuperMarkets until really desperate and reduce #Capitalism...

#Diet #Tricks / #KeepBusy #Food #Snacks

Chewing #Celery sticks and leaves until desperate for food...

#StarveTheSuperMarkets until really desperate and reduce #Capitalism...

#Diet #Tricks / #KeepBusy #Snacks

"Cuts" seem to be more like "Cash in the Pocket" for #Government and #Company programs, so now they need to pay less for the the same "services" they were pretending to offer but was just another "cheap as possible" thing getting worse and worse proportionately.

#Public #Cuts #WelfareCuts = #Profit for #Government and Companies
Not #Funding #Welfare #Services

#wars go together with conquest and trade

Is there anywhere the Dutch East India Company hasn't been around in the world (seems everywhere or at least trading everywhere)...

Even the people I've know from there are like explorers with scary stamina - don't want to imagine a whole troop or any brutal slavery and wars as conquest / trade!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

#Dutch #NL > #India #Indonesia #Asia #Java #War #Slavery

BBC Extending Mastodon / Fediverse social media...

Summary of facts and notes below (almost cut and paste + full text source is after this list):

█ Trial has been for 6 accounts for 6 months: incl. R&D, Radio 4, and 5 Live.

█ 60,000 followers total (six trial accounts, not all as main focus)

█ very little moderation of replies were needed

█ most comments and feedback have been positive,

█ replies, re-posts and likes sometimes significantly larger engagement for some specific topics they've posted

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VERY GOOD POINT BELOW (FOR ALL EXISTING FEDIVERSE COMMUNITIES)...
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█ "we may not be able to engage and reply as much as the Mastodon community and culture expect, and we recognise this could be an issue going forward."

I think already lots of people don't answer as individual or even worse as a company on Fediverse...
And... They really should (especially the alternative communities) for the many types of positive or "just don't wait to get eaten by the Google T-Rex dinosaur" type of reasons I'll list below:

● respecting fans
● involving fans (recirculating the movements / causes / skills)
● allowing a safer place than Facebook / Github or at least more neutral even if they have benefits to do a "public test" phase here until it gets really unmanageable and then accept defeat IF NEEDED.

Many companies don't want to do the human work... maybe all of them...

█ "we need to be particularly careful with our editorial processes and within the scope of this trial we are not in a position to guarantee time and effort from other teams outside of R&D. This means we haven't been able to include BBC News in the trial yet, but we are working on it."

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BBC - Extending Mastodon social media...

Posted by Tristan Ferne, Bill Thompson on 13 Feb 2024

In July 2023 we announced our plan to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media applications all linked together by common protocols, as part of our research into social technologies. The experimental BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc has now been running for six months and hosts accounts for R&D, Radio 4, and 5 Live.
Extending our Mastodon social media trial

We were aiming to learn about how much work and cost this involved, how many people we’d reach, what levels of engagement we would get and to explore the risks and benefits of the federated model. The trial so far has been really effective in helping us learn about how the Fediverse is evolving, what technical support a Mastodon server needs, what the costs are, and how a large media organisation like the BBC can engage with the many different overlapping communities that exist in this rapidly changing space.
We are therefore pleased to say that we are going to continue the trial for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start some technical work into investigating ways to publish BBC content more widely using ActivityPub, the underlying protocol of Mastodon and the Fediverse.

So far in the trial we’ve amassed around 60,000 followers across our six trial accounts, and we have had to do very little moderation of replies associated with our content. Reassuringly, most of the comments and feedback have been positive, welcoming both our interest and the way we have set things up.We’ve had really encouraging levels of engagement (i.e. replies, re-posts and likes) on Mastodon. For some equivalent posts we’ve seen significantly larger engagement numbers for Mastodon compared to X/Twitter, particularly given the relative sizes of different platforms. We think this is partly due to the culture of Mastodon, and partly because of some of the topics we’ve posted about. Because this an experiment and a trial, it's not always the main priority for all the teams involved, so we may not be able to engage and reply as much as the Mastodon community and culture expect, and we recognise this could be an issue going forward.

We have been asked by a number of people on Mastodon to include BBC News social accounts in the trial. Because of the potential sensitivity around news stories, we need to be particularly careful with our editorial processes and within the scope of this trial we are not in a position to guarantee time and effort from other teams outside of R&D. This means we haven't been able to include BBC News in the trial yet, but we are working on it.
And to be clear, the @BBC_News_Labs account represents the R&D team working on news technologies and doesn't represent BBC News as a whole.

Over the next six months the trial will continue and we will continue to learn. We will make best efforts to post and engage with our audiences and add more BBC accounts to the trial. Internally, we’ll continue to talk to teams about future plans and strategies for a BBC presence on Mastodon and other emerging social technologies, and we’ll stay in touch with the community by publishing updates like this, hoping that they are useful and relevant to others using or considering a presence on Mastodon or in the wider Fediverse.

The last six months have been invaluable in improving our understanding of what it takes for an organisation like the BBC to be a good member of the Fediverse, and opened up new areas for investigation, such as looking at ways of using ActivityPub as an alternative publishing mechanism for BBC content, alongside the social uses of Mastodon.

We have been encouraged by the support we’ve had from the wider community and found a lot of interest internally. Our hope is that this work will lead to long-term BBC engagement with the wider network of federated online services, and that we will be able to serve the communities here just as we provide public value in other online spaces.

Topics: Social Internet

Post related to source: https://social.bbc/@BBCRD/111924897917996449

#Fediverse #Mastodon #BBC
#News #Summary #Notes
for Other Groups / #Communities to consider

@AskUbuntu = great way to hear about Ubuntu problems from users as they ask... BUT currently can't answer on Fediverse... This would be GREAT!

IMAGINE you could answer also !

For example.. Someone if asked "how to XYZ" in Ubuntu someone could answer here since we have time and already "logged in" !

Currently I must log into their "other site" to answer (not really needed (and is it not enough to be on Fediverse?).

Right now appreciate the @AskUbuntu account here is like an echo for #Ubuntu problems and they have more control on their site for logged in comments on their site, but people could also be pointed to Fediverse as a generic footer and possibility added to their site.

Also nobody wants an account for each site for adding simple social media type comments,
right?

So people take note, official things like this = User-based answers FOR THE WAY - or just one-way listening to problems for now 🙄

@askubuntu / #AskUbuntu <=== ALMOST -
BUT LET ME PEOPLE KNOW and say you're on #Fediverse to also get answers here as your social help system!

#Paradox of Life - You need others to grow... so even the mental work you can't avoid... you can only displace it / hand that work to others (unless you are working with people yourself and growing with them more closely as you do everything else).

"Cruel Paradox" could even be said because even with "Love" or positives not everyone wants to follow or do reasonably...

I've known many friends that even have a lot but are destined to destroy so needing heavy therapy and mental-checks by everyone to do this route.

There will be killings, without me jumping now to extremes, because people will want to stop others, one way or the other.

And also in the name of love people can want to protect people and things, so how to share all that... indeed to share at all... It's hard enough sharing my music when I got it free! (sharing makes people less special and less scarcity in terms of material)

So "to grow life" (grow healthier people) isn't easy.

BUT >>>>
Play the game with me and I promise to show the way a lot better in many more ways, not least the reducing of the less moral ways and feeding the better ways. 🌴 🌻

#GROW #HEALTHY #PEOPLE / #MENTALITY

Good work is achieved by drinking non-stop or having something on had whenever you feel...

If water is considered good but a bit too neutral in taste for you, then consider flavouring but not necessarily over-riding the water always, a varied amount also takes any solid food to make it a lot cheaper / easier for body to absorb:

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Flavoured water examples:
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= Infusion which is a posh word for let it sit in water and flavour it

= Soups = leave anything in water and cook

= Diluting existing liquids (milk, juice etc)

You can try liquefy foods also by juicer or blender and then adding water... but unless you're ready it's often better to keep solids for when you really need sometimes and stick to what natural you can get and find around watered-down of everything (leaves, mint, elderflower, add a bit of sugar, milk if you like, whatever and then reduce it's intensity after starting this liquid style)

#water #liquid #drinking when you feel for #mind and #body

"Make them comply by ensuring they can't afford not to."

- Kerfuffle #quote @kerfuffle
https://mastodon.online/@kerfuffle/112665127565927711

Money is what?... 🎤 Listen...

🎤 https://bin.dembased.xyz/money-as-debt-banks-impossible-maths-freeschool.mp3 🎤

How does mathematical oppression work for Banks and people who use it?.... #Maths = giving #Debt #Negative Numbers #Money

Notifications window I have open the whole day so post now and I'll see it the whole day....

If I follow you - post something good or post a short marker-post for your future ideas or plans and I'll follow you / provide feedback better this week... or if you need something just "ask the world" and I'll have a think...