2/ Pétition au gouvernement du Canada
Attendu que :
Les députés de tous les partis à la Chambre des communes, les sénateurs et tous les hauts fonctionnaires du Parlement partagent un intérêt commun et ont le devoir de communiquer avec le peuple canadien de manière fiable, résiliente et innovante;
3/ Les médias sociaux traditionnels sont devenus des sources de controverses, de harcèlement, de mésinformation et de conflits considérables, mais des solutions de rechange libres, décentralisées et fédérées émergent;
4/ Le Parlement fournit déjà un ensemble complet de services techniques, comme le courriel et la télédiffusion sur le Web, pour établir des liens entre les citoyens du Canada et leur Parlement;
500 signatures in less than 48 hours!!
Everything after this point, as they say, is gravy! The more signatures we have will now show just how serious we are.
We have 89 more days.
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Talk to your friends, your colleagues, about why Parliamentarians should use a Parliamentary Social Media instance!
GREAT JOB!! #e4769#Canada#CanPoli#CdnPoli#Fediverse#OpenSocialWeb#Mastodon
@jerome Excellent question. This is actually why the petition was released this week and not back in December.
Short Answer: Essentially it is easier thetorically to say "Twitter Bad, we should do something else like an open alternative Parliament can control and ensure is open to all Canadians equally." than "We should use Mastodon"
Long Answer: Basically when we submitted it back in December my MP consulted and came to the conclusion it would be best to avoid the specific of naming Mastodon as an alternative. The point isn't really about one alternative over the other, it's about Parliament having control over its own social media presence using open, federated software that makes it fully accessible to all Canadians and outside the control of unstable billionaires.
In the long run, it really is about more than Mastodon. It's about the #Fediverse. The #OpenSocialWeb. Maybe Parliament would want to use #PeerTube to host and share their streaming? They could use #Lemmy, or #Pixelfed. Parliamentarians could use all these at a trusted Parliamentary instance so Canadians could trust that what they are seeing is legitimate.
Very grateful for all those who’ve #followed already but still struggling despite the advice to find any old mutual follows. If you fancy sending some of your followers my way to enrich my #mastodon experience, that would be ace.
There aren't many sports journalists on #Mastodon. Most take the lazy #Bluesky option because it looks and feels a bit like Twitter. Even more just stay on that sinking ship while the band plays on. Jason deserves a follow here for making the effort.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they say there's no alternative, then they beg you to help them figure it out, then they act like they led the movement. A paraphrase but it's what this social media platform decentralization feels like. #fediverse#opensocialweb https://pca.st/episode/57796b81-af46-45f7-a719-2942abc7c51f
fuck off. there wasn't before, those were/are malls. you just had more customers back then and now there's more malls splitting the customers and more riffraff and the owners are now more friendly to the people you hate. boo hoo.
the #fediverse#opensocialweb is an actual public square. you just don't want to move and compete more fairly for attention. you also know the model will eventually destroy all the privileges that gave you your elevated cultural status.
Flipboard CEO @mike interviewed leaders at the forefront of the open social web movement for the Dot Social podcast. Here's how to follow everyone he spoke to.
The Fediverse gives @coachtony “early internet vibes.” The Medium CEO joins Flipboard CEO @mike to discuss what’s wrong with the attention economy, why human curation still matters, and how decentralized social media is enabling entrepreneurs to “rethink everything.”
The use of email #newsletters and #rss could mostly disappear if there were dedicated #ActivityPub apps to ingest/parse feeds and read or listen to articles. The bonus being that we'd also have comments and virality. Then podcasts and video too. #fediverse#OpenSocialWeb
Yesterday many left leaning pundits and journalists were suspended from TwitterX without notice. Some were subsequently reinstated after very public complaints from a few prominent individuals.
We have seen this tactic before. Musk uses the ban hammer to enforce self censorship. The message is clear, step over the line and you will be silenced.
Open message to journalists and others still on X Twitter. We have a very nice open social network over here, without Nazis, and not owned by any billionaires. You won't have to worry about being silenced for sharing your thoughts. We would love to have you join us in reshaping social media to benefit people instead of corporations. Come on over. At least give Mastodon a fresh look. Help us build a better future.
@tchambers, author of the Twitter Migration report and admin of indieweb.social, is an internet steward everyone should know. In this podcast with @mike, Tim expounds on social media’s thorniest issues and explains how the Fediverse offers a better social home than anything we've had before.
We’re working on federating all Flipboard accounts and implementing two-way conversations (see @mike
’s blogpost in our pinned post for more) but in the meantime, here's a thread of all the profiles you can currently follow in the Fediverse.
"Meta's fediverses", federating with Meta to allow communications, potentially using services from Meta such as automated moderation or ad targeting, and potentially harvesting data on Meta's behalf.
"free fediverses" that reject Meta – and surveillance capitalism more generally
The free fediverses have a lot of advantages over Meta and Meta's fediverses, some of which will be very hard to counter, and clearly have enough critical mass that they'll be just fine.
Here's a set of strategies for the free fediverses to provide a viable alternative to surveillance capitalism. They build on the strengths of today's fediverse at its best – including natural advantages the free fediverses have that Threads and Meta's fediverses will having a very hard time countering – but also are hopefully candid about weaknesses that need to be addressed. It's a long list, so I'll be spreading out over multiple posts; this post currently goes into detail on the first two.
Opposition to Meta and surveillance capitalism is an appealing position. Highlight it!
Focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety
Emphasize "networked communities"
Support concentric federations of instances and communities
Consider "transitively defederating" Meta's fediverses (as well as defederating Threads)
Consider working with people and instances in Meta's fediverses (and Bluesky, Dreamwidth, and other social networks) whose goals and values align with the free fediverses'
Build a sustainable ecosystem
Prepare for Meta's (and their allies') attempts to paint the free fediverses in a bad light
Reduce the dependency on Mastodon
Prioritize accessibility, which is a huge opportunity
Commit to anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and pro-LGBTQIA2S+ principles, policies, practices, and norms for the free fediverses
A lot of people are indeed talking about things more generally in terms of the #openweb or #opensocialweb. In this series though I'm talking primarily about how today's fediverse should evolve so decided to stick with the term fediverse.
I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas! If you are celebrating a different holiday this season, I wish for you the very very best!
After a full year on Mastodon I am truly thankful for this place and everyone that makes it so great. I see so many kind and supportive people helping others especially when this time of year can be hard for many and all that is happening in the world.
Everybody leaving #Substack is great if that's gonna help the #OpenSocialWeb crush more corporate platforms, but I really don't care what content you allow if you're not pushing it on others or locking users in. I'll agree their business model of secretly paying some writers extra is shady too. We've gotta build a decentralized donation system for open access writing, audio and video ASAP.