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I've collected some #Mastodon 🦣 #instances to help with the #TwitterMigration focused in #inclusion, #accesibility and #minorities. They look like safe spaces for most of us. I'd appreciate the boost and new recommendations to add to the list:

🔗🇬🇧 ableism.rip/about - space to fight ableism
🔗🇬🇧 disabled.social/about - for disabled people
🔗🇬🇧 neurodifferent.me/about - neurodiversity and neurominorities
🔗🇬🇧 iaccessibility.social/about - interest in assistive technology
🔗🇬🇧 blacktwitter.io/about - history and voices for black people
🔗🇬🇧 lgbt.io/about - for LGBT+ and allies
🔗🇬🇧 queer.party/about - queer-oriented instance
🔗🇬🇧 tech.lgbt/about - for tech workers, academics, students, and others interested in tech who are LGBTQIA+ or Allies

Please boost to reach more people!

@HaleakalaCrater As a foreigner, it's “Who is winning World Cup?” option.

As an overseas “half” Chinese (which is still a foreigner), more likely the “Observe protest from a safe distance”.

As a mainlander, depends on my experiences and upbringing. If I was brought up to “obey blindly”, then it's the “Stay locked down- I want to live!” option. Otherwise, probably the “Participate in protests. Probably get tortured.”

ᜋᜊᜓᜑᜌ᜔᜶ (Mabuhay!) I'm 스노 (雪亮 Yuki), an from the , the “Pearl of the Orient Seas”.

I am an person. It was () and () which gave me the courage to say, “enough is enough” with all the discrimination, prejudice, and stigma about and .

Furthermore, I strongly believe in (under which are , , , and related). You will also occasionally see me sharing and talking about and .

My first identity was in 2008, when it was still called (the former was coined sometime 2010–2012). I used to run a public instance for the Philippines, and had my own solo instance. ( The Philippines is the capital of the world since 2008. [1] [2])

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My links:

* Hub: im.youronly.one

* Bio: iam.youronly.one

* Verification: youronly.one/?verify=keyoxide

* Liked something? 🧧 bit.ly/sendgift2me 🎁

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I love to read . My first was Book 5 of the original entitled, “The Mystery of Chimney Rock” when I was around four (I still have the book somewhere with a missing cover). By fourteen, I enjoyed reading a non-fiction book entitled simply as “Brain”, and dreamed of becoming a neuroscientist, which sadly remained a dream.

My longest read were 's “Pandora's Star” and “Judas Unchained” (more or less 1,000 pages each). My number one favourite is 's “Dreams of Stardust” (I even bought every copy I saw and gave it away).

When it comes to genre, I read anything. In the classics, I love by Charlotte Brontë. I also read 's “American Gods”. But I do have genres I favour more than others: and . To be more specific, science fiction and fantasy with and elements, if the author can combine it together, even better (like Lynn Kurland's novels: + fantasy + and sometimes with too).

That said, my taste in live-action shows is somewhat similar. And the more complex and/or engaging the story is, the more I love it. Some examples are:

(in no particular order)

* () – im.youronly.one/snoworld/%EA%B

* () – im.youronly.one/snoworld/%EC%8

* () – im.youronly.one/snoworld/alpha

. I am a . Well, not a professional runner. I run for and . I am also planning on doing again (my last was during my High School years). My first love was , or what Americans call . I also love , but what is close and dear to me is , in particular classic Asian archery, and Japanese archery called ( ). A must.

? This one is a long history. Who doesn't love games, right? To sum it up, I started with Nintendo's “Game & Watch”, then “Family Computer”. I also was able to experience playing in Atari and MSX; as well as table-top machines. My favourite games are: “Super Mario Bros.”, “”. As well as, “Curse of the Azure Bonds” () and the Krynn series () by TSR, “Sim Farm”, “Sim City”, “”, “”, “Neverwinter Nights”, “Eye of the Beholder”, “” series, and the Carmen Sandiego franchise, for the PC. (*cough*Digger*cough*)

In modern , I highly recommend , , , and the open-source game, .

For extended reality, or XR, games, I play , , , and ; sometimes .

Last, but definitely not the least, I am a as defined in Acts 24. It means that I believe in the and the .

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[1]: web.archive.org/web/2008101109
[2]: web.archive.org/web/2008092100

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1️⃣ 𐤔𐤋𐤅𐤌 𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤊𐤌

👇🏽 Shalom! 👇🏽

Sorry about that, had to fix typos in pinned intro post. (delete & redraft option)

I started using 's custom domain verification feature. Well, it's not exactly a “custom domain” as we usually think of it (i.e. registering our domain to the service). It's a 301 redirect.

My Keyoxide verification link is now: youronly.one/?verify=keyoxide

A lot of benefits to this method:

1. If I change my / key later, I can go to my domain's DNS setting and update it there.

2. I don't have to update every account and every post with the new Keyoxide link.

3. My domain itself is verified (not just in Keyoxide).

4. Identity recognition. Because, you know, im.youronly.one/

5. Branding. Of course! LOL.

Centralisation of communications media is an extremely powerful force.

The typical remediation for centralization is regulated public utilities is breaking up a monopoly into a cartel of 3-5 local monopolies.

Also not great.

We are participating here at a very rare occurrence of decentralisation.

For everyone who thinks this is important for our lives and for the world, it is incumbent on all of us to build structures now that hold this ground as the federation grows.

#cosocialca

I highly recommend the excellent book "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu.

It details the initial decentralization, followed by centralization and monopoly, of various media from telegrams to film, radio, tv, telephones, cable TV, and the Internet.

It's a fascinating read, and well worth your time.

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China declares victory over teenage video game addiction.
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Suddenly discovers that game-adjacent tech has its uses – and it's a huge export industry theregister.com/2022/11/24/chi

@nathanreed @AlisonW

Yeah. That's basically what JoinMastodon seems to be _trying_ to do, but their list includes many servers that don't block origins of hate/harassment.

I've opened github.com/mastodon/joinmastod but am not super-optimistic that improvements in this area will be given priority or that @Gargron even agrees with the idea in principle. So as contingency I think we need to either build on existing alternatives or plan to create them.

@koyu i read something about "nazi hunting" where basically you can get all your instance blocked if just one person is following someone considered as nazi.

And I also read several instances blocking other ones because "this instance users writes a lot", lol

It's ripe for abuse. The intention is good, but there's no way to shield it from abuse and money.

Check the thread, some even suggested:
1. a scoring system for accounts (a.k.a. China's National Social Credit system) (federated or local)
2. labels (federated or local)
3. If a server doesn't block a user, the server should defederate, or the other admins will block the entire server
4. Algorithms

Etc.

blaine  
Someone should set up a third-party tool that mastodon/fediverse users can report abuse to. It should be staffed by people who are skilled at evalu...

And so it begins.

Darius Kazemi  
Jumping off what @blaine is saying here: https://mastodon.social/@blaine/109400462722746600 I work in professional fact-checking and content mode...