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We went to #NoKings with my mother-in-law. Her father was in a Nazi prison camp as a resister, & survived. She & her husband escaped Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, traveled by ship from Germany to NY as refugees. Arrived in NY harbor in the morning fog, which lifted to reveal, the Statue of Liberty. 🇺🇸
Protest works.
Keep it up, Frogs and unicorns.
🐸 🦄
Report: Greta Thunberg detailed the torture & abuse she & other Flotilla participants suffered in Israeli detention.
Thunberg says she was repeatedly kicked by guards, forced to undress, & deprived of food & water.
"If Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.”
#Thunberg #IsraeliCrimes #GazaFlotilla #palestine #USPol #Europol .
#Mastodon #Rewards
Some incentive and respect #system towards #more-social / pro-#social #movements in healthy way - because without it you have quiet empty software / shallow posts and no real trust and relationship #building.
So promoting, accepting, using all types of people with a #reward helps increment #trust slowly in the #Fediverse. Let me know what you think of the picture - #FreeSchool
#AltText
An edited picture (from other rewards system) - not real but re-edited towards #respect / #reward given n social for Mastodon #ecosystem etc by sending reward of some kind (doesn't have to be #crypto).
Important parts of Text say "How do I contribute to websites and creators?"
and "puts your privacy over #BigTech's profit... With rewards, you can directly #support websites and #creators"
So creators and people can all get together more and not be so #scared online...
Source re-edited from Brave Rewards:
https://brave.com/brave-rewards/
⚠️ I replied to the #consent email but with a #question (so not "yes" or "allow") and it accepted that as consent :)
🎈 So maybe that needs checking better... as I didn't really consent and more wanted to know more!
So I wanted to ask before the consent something - the question was:
❓ "What do you use for automating the #alttext?"
❓ "How does it work as a automated process?"
This could go in the auto-email same to with the #privacy link & while asking for #consent.
Maybe it's not in #github or as clearly either so feels like it is important enough to be said how it's done and the process magic... as I have no idea!...
Thanks a lot for #answers...
I'm blind and for me alt text is the Big Special Thing about Mastodon. If someone posts a meme, I'm in on the joke. Someone shares beautifiul moss, or their cat, I'm in on the beauty or fun or whatever. I'm now 62, and this is the first time I entered a community and a culture where people grant me this kind of access and community. So grateful for people who do alt text.
@anantagd @coffee4danz That's so much more wholesome than chiding people for not doing alt text. Thank you.
reddit is proprietary garbage, and full of spam.
i've shut down r/libreboot on reddit. nothing but endless silly there.
irc is all you need. we have an irc chat.
the best thing about the irc chat is it's much easier to moderate, and the inherently daunting nature of merely using irc, for the normies, means that the person coming there must really need/want to be there, and isn't going there to post things so frivolously.
that and our mailing list. we have that too.
no more reddit. good day.
We need cooperation / acknowledging others... or we die online... (Looking for a 'system' of respect / valuing others for the normal they do)
We need cooperation / acknowledging others... or we die online.
➡️ Even for the normal they do -
Everyone has things they can do more towards others instead of on their own / only as 1-way consumers.
➡️ 2+player-mode!
PLEASE don't treat us all as scammers and hackers - we're not!
If we really can't do cooperation.... how about 'rewards' (of some sort)
(I'm reaching here because we don't know how to accept help or give help or get trust a bit to increment or to talk to each other properly / deeply)
so then...
maybe some reward or 'something' for what we do to give us some "credit" or score for what we love or do already A LOT OF... like 9999 points -
People understand this like #ebay #feedback - it's just text tied to some type of transaction which doesn't have to be financial..... some text translation / audio editing / whatever for others / "This person did this for me and could for you too"
so hear me on this.... as reaching a bit for something else.... if people can't be intelligent to trust each other FIRST and build from that...
The problem is social = without real social. [currently Mastodon etc - it's just software not much organised to BRING people together, expecting unskilled people to make friends - Not happening]
One-way mostly.
We need something like attention for each other to discover what we can do or already do -
I saw "Attention Rewards" or similar
(call it anything)
but towards better communication on a aesthetic way yes but towards the real ways ..... our own version of #feedback tokens or something.... to keep us pumping each other up and doing things for the "us"
(the good individuals and even good businesses like #GrapheneOS phones / #Libreboot #laptops @libreleah etc..). I just saw Leah in her bio say "Judge me on the merits of my words and actions." ⬅️ yes that could be us online as various levels and fields - a #dojo class of various of people helping the upper and lower levels develop nice technique (not to kill each other but gain their respect to in the learning):
So what we are ALREADY looking at and feeling ok about ?
Can we do more of this and call it "Adverts" for us (like a as a #betterbusiness info post link 'advert' to leah?). I don't get any reply from leah so this is a good example both as a good person but also as no way to make friends of strangers or build anything... So what just business?
I don't mean adverts without a cause on #Mastodon but something 1-notch nearer - more than everyone scrambling now to be heard or make money - something that helps us work together since A LOT OF US HAVE TIME but we can't now because you are too scared or always waiting for a bigger '#verified checkmark' style logo system to helps us feel it's ok.
👤 You
(see how easy that was!) It's not about all-in trust and give your wallet over.
There could be a way for #admin to say "This person is ok in conversations I've had" as much as they can or anyone with frequent #experience... with the normal #caveats ....
BUT PLEASE don't treat us all as scammers and hackers - we're not!
I verify you with what I do and love and and you do you what you do and love - we share and verify each other (a bit like #Ubuntu phrase) e interests and with those interests we involve / evolve more people looking at more people's things (which we do anyway but as a movement like an 'OutReach' department of Mastodon or anything which I think it should have to teach people HOW TO BE SOCIAL!! Yes 'don't give credit card details etc!!" but DO TRUST THEM and part of their profile to some extent.
We verify each other anyway.
Why can't we do a bit more together?
I already do "adverts" for others off my own back so it would be nice if I got some recognition and acknowledgment.
This why I'm posting this as I don't exist to many. As many of us are dead or treated as excess to humanity without being professional coders or PhD in something... which could be a waste of time for a lot of what we can pool together like crowd-funding the resources and love for people / things... not just money.
I entertain something else to help us run around a bit more or add visible things we already do just because it's advertised well on this Brave page (still has lots of problems but have a look)
https://brave.com/brave-rewards/#brave-ads-appearance
(SEE PICTURE again with pinch of salt 🧂 )
Something to see respect for ourselves because we don't have it now - something to #credit people as runners / doers which even a dedicated admin person could do (I don't mean just "more adverts" but something like respect #communication and #cooperation #related doing the caring work people
🔈 maybe meetings also and let that be as evidence / practice / trust building even if there are nicknames - just to get things done and ACTUALLY TALK between us as MEASURABLE GOOD (and test ourselves and thoughts). Many of us don't actually do anything! So use us mutually after seeing last few month messages!
Without needing all-in TRUST
- something that we need to increment as #Trust daily (a token is not my 1st choice but you see how people go for it) otherwise we stay far too isolated... so something really better
Or Else... Fediverse ends up not trusting anyone either but a few #Caturday people momentarily
So the learning more about those good connected as THE #work / and adverts (to ourselves) is much like following others) to helps a better #web / #ecosystem...
So not google #syndication etc but our own really transparent flow charts of what we already do and see. #Goodpeople.
Ideally I'd like #Mastodon or projects to help people actually do social (it's quite empty here, plenty of #posts but not real #interaction and inter-personal #solving things, improving language, allowing like-minded strangers to help)...
So this post we about finding what isn't 100% in #Brave but right idea that we need to INVOLVE all good #Fediverse people and 1 by 1 see them for what they are and use them for our causes. Else we wait for slow death as a better twitter and don't actually cooperate together for next steps or finding next steps...
Pic from
https://brave.com/brave-rewards/#brave-ads-appearance only as a guideline to something we could do to respect others... forget the #crypto part if too averse but think #positive things what could help us...
Sanctions against individuals so they can't do business in #USA...
"... political and #economic #warfare against the #UnitedStates and #Israel will no longer be tolerated." #Quote #Quotes
- #Trump #USPol response to
👩 #FrancescaAlbanese
#Palestine #Journalist #HumanRights / #WomenInHistory / WomensHistory etc
+ #AltText
#Quote "...the #empire (and its [EU] vassal ruling class) are the major driving force behind all of the #problems in the world."
💬 Jordan Biserkov
➡️ @jbiserkov #Quotes
From post: https://mas.to/@jbiserkov/115045960540933104
@TrueNorthSpice Yes, we're trying, but logistically, it's tough when we share a nearly 9,000 km border and centuries of deeply-entangled cross-border family and business ties. It's also going to be the work of many years (or decades).
TLDR - Inaction = Fascism
"Free School" is a 60's & 70's term I follow for a movement of continual practice in educational living & learning together towards #DIY & #Caring. (All at the same time, not an after-thought or specialism in 1 field or #compartmentalisation to ignore others in other fields).
Posts are often 1-line #Notes #Quotes about #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites etc that links all things (again it's not just about 1 thing). CW is used to allow the post to have a 'show more' button and reveal more text if you want.
All things towards #Freedom and Short-to-Deeper thought.
Freedom doesn't come from short-depth lifestyles / short lines of text / ignoring / #inaction. Not less communication between lovers of similar things. MORE!)
#FreeSchool = Learning Together 🔁
#FreeSchool = Working Together 🔁 (eventually + I do Free work for Freedom.
#FreeSchool = Co-Operating & #DIY Solutions 🔁
See My #FreeSchool (Hashtag) for latest examples anytime. Or keep open and refresh from time to time:
https://qoto.org/web/tags/freeschool
#FreeSchool ➡ Increment Talking - Peacefully solve everything.
Trust comes from "slowly but surely"... Doesn't have to be all-in, but peace doesn't come from one-way short messaging on 'social' Mastodon either - collecting memes and cats only is limited!
Remember we need develop better humans as well as 'develop' code on computers etc.
☮ Peace needs more... even to save all types of cats!
Get in touch - I'm someone that cares for everything because it's all human-related...
Human #chats welcome - I using #Jitsi audio chat which uses JUST browser (ANY PLATFORM + 2minutes to enter !)
(i.e. no-install / no account / no google / instant / privacy-respecting / safe-enough, etc!) Really the best out there - any platform / device! Instant audio chat !
Just ask for a link and prepare a few topics!
#AltText used (when I remember).
FREE WORK - I do free audio and video editing (anything considered - just ask / send ideas).
Again - Creating Trust needs a bit of trust given "slowly but surely"... not all-in... being relaxed about it... but has to be more - 'working' like a 2nd job towards peace because your job isn't going to do it / it's now allow by State to get there! War increases prices etc ☮
So do "peace" as a side-job like it was your real job in the world, parallel to the Capitalism (Trap) you (we) were born into. We have to accept that and fight out of that and not be comfortable in it.
Heart and Soul all the way.