What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.
What a world. #Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.
it's #WorldDayAgainstCyberCensorship and did you know that you can help keep people safer—people like freedom fighters, political dissidents, journalists, and regular people simply seeking medical information or services, like abortions, HRT, sex ed, therapy, or psychiatric medications—by becoming a @torproject Snowflake?
you can even run it in your browser or on your phone via @guardianproject's Orbot app
here's an explainer by @eff:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship
Notes (and thoughts) on organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere is a deep dive on the landscape today, based on multiple discussions with US-based organizers.
There's certainly room for progress!
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!)
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."
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?
if not now, when? Mutual aid and organizing in the fediverses and the ATmosphere
https://privacy.thenexus.today/if-not-now-when/
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.
An election may be called any day – can you help make sure that #2SLGBTQIA+ issues are presented to candidates and help deliver flyers or other assistance?
#LGBTQ #Organizing #CdnPoli #CanPoli
Join the Rainbow Equality Campaign:
https://www.rainbowequality.ca/action?recruiter_id=3666
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
https://maskon.zone/
and
https://howtogetarrested.puter.site/
for more anti-repression and anti-doxxing strategies
If you want to get a group of people to do something you don't need to ask who is not interested. You can just ask who wants to do it and organize among them.
You don't need votes if you aren't using hierarchy to force everyone to be involved
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:
https://reshapingreality.org/2025/02/05/what-were-up-against-and-where-to-go-from-here/
Hi all, I did another update and reorganized the action items people can do to make it easier to navigate: https://reshapingreality.org/2025/02/05/what-were-up-against-and-where-to-go-from-here/
If y'all think of more resources, let me know and I'll update this again!
Just some slides of sample sentences from last week’s organizer training on #semantics. Words matter. #unions #organizing #linguistics
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
Feb. 28 - mass protests to defend our communities against Musk and Trump!
#SanJose #PaloAlto #SiliconValley #BayArea #organizing #democracy #musk #50501
We, The Myselium Collective, are looking for new humans to live with in #sydfyn , #denmark. Please share far and wide with people who are into #communitybuilding #selforganising and #sharing <3
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