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How to make progress? Here's some of the questions I have ... very interested in hearing people's thoughts! If you'd prefer to respond anonymously, here's a CryptPad form (it takes a few seconds to load, so don't panic).

  • What examples have you seen of successfully leveraging social networks for organizing and mutual aid? (It's fine to include examples from centralized commercial social networks as well as alternative and/or decentralized social networks)

  • How could social networks better support organizing and mutual aid?

  • What do you see as the most promising and/or urgent short-term opportunities?

And if you'd like to get involved, you can leave your contact info in the form and we'll follow up with you once there are some concrete next steps in place. (Although you're also welcome to fill out the form anonymously!)

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Easier said then done, but the opportunity is there. As Afsaneh Rigot says in Can We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive?

"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....

The experience of the most criminalized in the US and globally shows how power really works. This knowledge, the workarounds, can also be translated into stealthy tech design, build, and engineering choices that help navigate systems."

substack.comCan We Build Tech That Is Not Oppressive?With a Trump presidency and the rise of global authoritarianism, we must see that the antidote to our techno-harms are found in communities framed as “dangerous” or the "other," writes Afsaneh Rigot.
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We need to accelerate work on a few things at once:

  • Find ways to leverage and improve the current prototypes for mutual aid, organizing, and counter propaganda, hate, and information overload

  • Help people move from corporate social networks - without losing their support networks, ties to communities, and connections with friends and family.

  • Build whatever comes next. Structurally, and in terms of applications, what will decentralized social networks, designed from the margins using design justice principles look like?

privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-

The Nexus Of Privacy · If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next (DRAFT)Draft! Feedback welcome!

if not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere

privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-

Mutual aid. Organizing. Sharing, contextualizing, and making meaning of news and health information to counter propaganda and information overload. The use cases for alternative social networks – not controlled by techbro white supremacist CEO's working with their cronies in authoritarian governments – practically write themselves in today's world. And with so many talented social scientists, designers, systems thinkers, and developers directly impacted by DOGE, MAGA, et al, there are a lot of people with the right skills for these new networks to make rapid progress.

The good news is there's a lot of promising work happening in the decentralized social media ecosystems known as the fediverses ("federated universes") and the ATmosphere (a fediverse built on Bluesky's AT protocol), including DAIR-tube, Blacksky, the #FreeFediverse, and more.

Still, as promising as these efforts are, there's still a long ways to go.

The Nexus Of Privacy · If not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses, the ATmosphere, and whatever comes next (DRAFT)Draft! Feedback welcome!

we take each other and our resistance seriously, right?

so for everyone's sake, when it comes to protests / demos / actions, please:

📌 wear a mask (N95 or similar, with or without neck gaiter)

📌 cover your face (forehead, eyes) and any identifying marks (hair color, tattoos, piercings, body mods, logos)

📌 avoid arrest by any means necessary (so long as it doesn't jeopardize the safety of others)

📌 don't discuss or post about your involvement with any related organizing or association with any organizations

📌 never sign up for anything, ever (lists can be subpoenaed and used against us

📌 scrub faces from imagery (stills, footage)

📌 refuse to boost posts that include sensitive information about anyone involved (names, neighborhood, address, place of work), including visible identifying marks in imagery (faces, tattoos)

👉 check
😷🔛 maskon.zone/
and
🏃 🚓 howtogetarrested.puter.site/
for more anti-repression and anti-doxxing strategies

maskon.zonemask on — anti surveillance protest guide

I'm gonna list out my interests, and there's a ton of 'em. Classic autism move, getting obsessed with weird topics that stick with you forever.

Heads up, #Fediverse, you might lose it when I drop 100+ hashtags in one post. That's just how autism rolls I guess.

## Interests and Obsessions

Substances and Legalization:
#Drugs #LSD #Shrooms #Psychedelics #THC #Psilocybin

Tech and Privacy:
#Linux #Debian #QubesOS #GrapheneOS #GooglePixel #Auxio #AntennaPod #PGP #Obtainium #PeerTube #FreeTube #Privacy #Security #Thunderbird #CapyReader #RSS #AtomFeeds #NewPipe #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Openreads #Signal #LocalSend #ThinkPad #FreeSoftware #FSF #ElementaryOS #Elementary #PaldoLinux #GNOME #i3wm #Monero #Mullvad #iVPN #LinusTorvald #Fairphone #DivestOS #Tor #TailsOS #Whonix

Politics and Activism:
#AnarchoSyndicalism #Anarchism #Syndicalism #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #TransRights #HumanRights #WorkersRights #Unions #Decentralization #Organizing #GrassRoots #DirectAction #AntiCapitalism #FuckSpotify #Piratpartiet #PirateParty #Piracy #ThePirateBay #EdwardSnowden #Wikileaks #JulianAssange #MeredithWhittaker #RichardStallman #RightToRepair

Music and Artists:
#ZoëStraub #Bandcamp #ShadowOfIntent #Alestorm #AlisonSudol #CœurDePirate #RussianPop #YuliaSavicheva #SavichevaMusic #Music

Content Creators:
#DougDoug #DistroTube #MattRose #TheHatedOne #EricParker #The8BitGuy #BernadetteBanner #LynnSaga #LukeSmith #UndineAlmani #DarkViperAU

History and Tragic Events:
#NorthKorea #WW2 #ColdWar #KoreanWar #Unit731 #NuclearWeapons #USSR

Fashion and Identity:
#GenderFluidity #Dresses #Lingerie #Pins #Buttons #Statues

Culture and Media:
#Buddhism #Warframe #Moomin #Books #Joker2019 #SocialIssues #AlternativeSocialStructures

#Traveling and Destinations:
#Austria #Vienna #Salzburg #Idlib #Pyongyang #Moscow #Bergen

Miscellaneous:
#AntiReactionContentCreators #ReactionContentBad #Crying

Yeah, I know it's a lot. But that's the beauty of an autistic brain I guess, we go deep on what fascinates us.

I updated this post again. I added in information on necrosecurity, which is what was used during Covid19 to spread disinformation about Covid and normalize mass death of vulnerable populations as a "public good."

I added in other harmful actions DOGE-TrumpoMusk has done and the consequences of those actions. This includes the incoming firings to SSA, which can have a devastating effect on vulnerable populations and the services we use.

I then updated the action items and organized them better:

reshapingreality.org/2025/02/0

Reshaping Reality · What We’re Up Against and Where To Go From Here (updated 2/28/2025)
More from Reshaping Reality

Boosting the signal for @LeatherCubAndrew

"Looking to find like-minded people into #witchcraft and #activism to brainstorm ideas combining them into #organizing for #solidarity for #intersectionality to combat the threats of bigotry in its many forms and promote #inclusivity.

"Somehow I think we might need to bring this onto another platform, but I am unsure which... lemmy, signal, matrix, others?

"Would like to discuss rituals that non-witches may participate in to coincide with things alongside demonstrations to maximize effectiveness"

Looking to find like-minded people into #witchcraft and #activism to brainstorm ideas combining them into #organizing for #solidarity for #intersectionality to combat the threats of bigotry in its many forms and promote #inclusivity.

Somehow I think we might need to bring this onto another platform, but I am unsure which... lemmy, signal, matrix, others?

Would like to discuss rituals that non-witches may participate in to coincide with things alongside demonstrations to maximize effectiveness