The Nexus of Discussions

And Posty (by @oli) is a useful tool for using those backups to a static site - https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/posty-this-is-how-you-take-your-posts-with-you@ophiocephalic @bastetfurry

Probably the best way to approximate it is to compare the number of new users with previous days. The two (very imperfect!) sources I use for statistics are https://fediverse.observer/dailystats (which also lets you get daily statistics for each software platform) and https://fedidb.org/ But, the data is messy. @pockets @MichaelimOdenwald @mastodonmigration

@GuyDudeman no need to imagine, you can read the article and see what experts actually have to say!

Many thanks to our collaborators at r/feminism, and to co-authors @sarahgilbert, Marianne Reddan, and Tyler Simko.Sarah and I have written further about behavioral science and rights of assembly and association in this post:https://citizensandtech.org/2024/10/assembly-and-association/

@_elena if you run into people at FOSDEM who are looking to explore here, I've just updated https://privacy.thenexus.today/resources-for-choosing-instances/

@kissane great essay. "Franklin’s insistence on putting the realities of the most vulnerable at the center of decision-making is maybe the most radical part of her technology thinking—more radical when she was alive, less radical-seeming for a few years when artifacts like Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Design Justice emerged, and now an idea under concerted and overwhelming fire."Yeah really. Not sure if you've seen Afsenah Rigot's Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive? but it's very much in alignment with Franklin's point about groundeing work il understanding of fears and the conditions that produce them."This deep understanding of criminalization is not only for lawyers, human rights experts, or historians, it is vital for technologists too. The details of how highly marginalized communities are criminalized are the key to how we can build robust and even scalable tech that is not oppressive. This is how Design From the Margins truly works.Fear and dehumanization of communities who are othered pave the way for abusive technological advancement. These groups are placed in protection black holes and become testing grounds for this tech. They face the biggest threats from states and power regardless of who is in office: from migrants at borders and incarcerated people in prisons, to apartheid systems. Once these approaches have been tested on those living in the margins, it is then expanded to other segments of the population."

Mark Zuckerberg Agrees to Turn Meta [Back] into a Pogrom Machine -An excellent post by @emptywheel , including this"Most people — including Elizabeth Warren, in the WSJ story — are focusing on how this is effectively a bribe, a $22 million donation (on top of the earlier $1 million one) trading for regulatory favors. It is. Trump continues to engage in unprecedented corruption in plain sight.But it is more than that. The concession of the settlement implies that Facebook should not have banned Trump for using their platform to incite an insurrection, though it admits no wrong-doing.This is not just about eliciting a bribe for regulatory favors. It is not just about winning an argument about actions taken four years ago to halt an insurrection in process.The entire lawsuit is about an ongoing chilling effect. And Zuck’s capitulation is a capitulation to that chill, a soft commitment that the next time Trump uses social media to launch his mob against vulnerable targets like trans people or legal Haitian immigrants, against co-equal branches of government in Congress or the courts, or against his select targets like Milley, Meta will do nothing to slow the mob."#fedipact #meta #uspol

Thanks! fortunately archive.org has it -- https://web.archive.org/web/20241126072739/https://whtwnd.com/alexia.bsky.cyrneko.eu/3l727v7zlis2i@emergencygg @negative12dollarbill