@cas
We were just wondering. You do know that 2020 was a time of increased concentration of wealth, right?
400 billion to the top 1 percent, or something akin to that.
You have seen the money supply chart, and the quadrupling of it (in Australia, sixtupled). It is not "deranged" to talk about this stuff in the context of technology, given the types of discussions at the time, including quotes from US congresspersons. Heck Trump wanted forced sale of a tech company to Oracle. Stay well.
@gabriel
We were #shadowbanned on @dsfgs for 2.5 years. Limited at 173 followers. Only after the instance shutdown a day early on 7 Oct 2023 did we learn that it was being hosted by a large #mastodon-centred operation called #mastoHost (domain is masto.host).
We thought it was being operated by #activists the whole time, and that only the #contentDelivery was masto.host — nope.
On fedi since 2019, causing chaos for fascists. We foresee a tragedy gilded with growth ideology, so fight for #degrowth.
In 2020 we were booted from f'book, where we were already #shadowbanned for talking on #Assange's plight, advocating #NoMoreWar, calling out exit scams, educating how proprietary apps for #contactTracing were bad, and more.
Seeing suppression across #legacyMedia does something to you.
#Twitter just #shadowbanned my PhD advisor Michael L. Nelson. He was covering how the wife of the US Speaker of the House had an anti-#LBTQ+ website and just took it down, but it’s still in #webarchives. Due to the #shadowban, we can view the tweets by URL, but cannot view the whole thread. He’s asked us to #retweet him in hopes of: (1) getting the word out about the shadowban, and (2) overcoming the shadowban (unlikely).
A screenshot of four posts from a Twitter thread that read “This Post is unavailable. Learn more.”
A screenshot of a tweet from @phonedude_mln, somehow half blocked. The tweet above it in the thread reads “This Post is unavailable. Learn more” but the tweet under that reads: But the problematic text (pictured) is not in the website, it’s in the: “OPERATING AGREEMENT of ONWARD CHRISTIAN COUNSELING SERVICES, LLC" Which is a PDF linked from the web site. Underneath this is an image of text that reads: Marriage and Sexuality. We believe the term "marriage" has only one meaning and that is marriage sanctioned by God which joins one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to only occur between a man and a woman who are married to each other. We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe and the Bible teaches that any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography or any attempt to change one's sex, or disagreement with one's biological sex, is sinful and offensive to God. We believe that in order to preserve the function and integrity of the Company, and to provide a biblical role model to the clients and the community, it is imperative that all persons employed by the Company in any capacity should abide by and agree to this statement on marriage and sexuality and conduct themselves accordingly. Because we believe in ...
A screenshot of a tweet from @phonedude_mln Michael L. Nelson that reads: The original @HuffPost article has a copy of the PDF hosted in scribd. There appears to be an original (?) copy of the pdf still available at: https://6ea37b86-6bd5-478a-93e4-d7e6f6a280b0.filesusr.com/ugd/a430fd_5bf898e6d0c044cfb4a8b4c5f387c63f.pdf "fileusr. com" is apparently a hosting service for Wix.
I mean I live in a West German "Commie Block lite" that is basically a 7 story block of concrete stuck with similar ones surrounded by greenspace with excellent public transport [by. U.S. Standards] and walking distance amendities...
It's nice, quiet and affordable...
Also for no good reason is my account #shadowbanned, #delisted and my posts are automatically being delisted...
So what I hear from people around TBS is that, apparently, it is now okay to threaten "white trans women" with violence or worse because we all have a "4chan phase" (those TBS people who say shit like this should take a look into a mirror, really) and, according to someone else, "every tactic is allowed now" because they're on the right side.
They still fight for TheBadSpace to be included in Mastodon or even ActivityPub.
Interestingly none of those involved answered my pressing questions and right now I have the feeling that @stux chose to cave in to #MassFalseReporting against me and #ShadowBanned me instead of answering my question "why"...
Just a lil reminder that my feminism-and-other-progressive-activism video series Topless Topics is "constantly banned from every platform you've heard of and some you haven't,"
so if you'd like to help me try to convince new people (and someday far in the future, the platforms themselves) that enforcing different levels of censorship based on "what gender you look like" is absurd and blatantly sexist,
please consider widely sharing, reblogging, and posting your own reply content (or just shouting out my channel) to my own posts, to help me get out of the shadowban-void I'm constantly fighting against (when my content isn't banned outright, as happens almost daily)
I have to change social media accounts fairly often as they get banned (always and only for the heinous unforgiveable sin of "female nipples") but here they are as of me writing this post:
(see the most up-to-date contact list at toplesstopics.org/contact )
Best Ways to Contact Cleo in Order of Preference:
In the future I'm hoping to set up my own mastodon instance focused on progressive activists and creators, and their supporters, called the "Outcast Creator Collective." You can read up more about that here: https://www.toplesstopics.org/outcast/
Made a #topless#genderEquality#meme based on a rant with a friend. It really drives me up the wall that the ONLY place I can post NONSEXUAL female #nipples are places that allow "full body sexually explicit #nudity " like #sexWorker sites (no hate to sex workers, it's just infuriating that in the eyes of American culture, "female nipples" = "full body nudity" = "sexually explicit"), alternative platforms like #mastodon / #fediverse that I jokingly say "no one uses" (except, you know, the legions of infosec nerds who would much rather be talking about ruby-python-activitypub-compsci-whatever-other-programmer-type-terms than the crazy radical notion that "female-looking nipples" should be allowed anywhere "male-looking nipples" are ;p)
and "anything goes" " #freespeech " platforms where you're sharing space with nazis, conspiracy theorists, and other such deplorables (:
Please feel free to download this and post it to your own #socialMedia apps! (Seriously, PLEASE DO....when my posts aren't outright #banned , they're all #shadowbanned so that they don't show up in any "recommended" feeds or search results, so I'm utterly depending on OTHER PEOPLE to share my content for anyone new to find it. 🙏
I have NO interest in having my every day whatever-posts on my main #fediverse accounts opened up to the exclusively #meta#threads users (I've hated #facebook for way longer than it's been en vogue)
But I would b free curious to see some smaller servers opened with the INTENT of posts being open to threads, to try to encourage basic users to see the kinds of (non-nazi) content by limiting themselves to meta's platforms. Specifically, figure out how to let them know my #freethenipple videos exist, beyond putting up super-pre- #censored posts on existing centralized platforms that go "if you're curious about this video, type in this link* to see it uncensored on my #peertube account!" that will just get #banned and #shadowbanned anyway (see https://www.toplesstopics.org/banned for hundreds of screenshots of proof)
*I have to break the hyperlinks to my own website, aka" go to toplesstopics(dot)org to see my videos" rather than "go to toplesstopics.org" or #YouTube will hit me with yet another strike for "linking to porn"... On my own website... Merely for having "female looking nipples" visible in my topic-based vlogs and interviews. Hence the whole need to highlight the hypocrisy of gender-based censorship, aka #toplessEquality
But back to meta/threads/etc, is that even possible? I'm one of the ten people on mastodon who joined before the November Twitter exodus who isn't a programmer (lol) so I barely understand what "activitypub" etc means, but until something like a server that allows all nipples, not just male nipples, to be visible-but NOT porn, which is currently my only option for posting my content outside of mastodon, where more than ten people might find it--gets specifically defederated by meta, is there a chance threads users might stumble onto, or dare I even hope, SHARE a post about one of my videos to other threads users?
I mean, I don't have the resources or knowledge to start my own instance, and I would much rather the instances I'm already on not federate with meta so that all my past posts suddenly become viewable to those who refuse to try out non-Facebook platforms. But a new instance that's specifically intended to federate with and prosletyze to "the plebs" who have remained unreachable so far.
I just can't imagine meta not immediately defederating from anything like my content, though. So why they even say they want to federate in the first place doesn't make sense to me. Why would they want to connect with sources of posts they can't control?
@SallyStrange@isotopp@Sonikku Anyone who is even /able/ to use #Reddit, who have not been #shadowBanned or booted, are ineffective activists & likely pushovers anyway. So I suspect Reddit is reading their crowd right… they can get away w/it.
OC Does kbin/fediverse have shadowbans? Also i submitted an article on /m/worldnews and i cant see it
I submitted this news article on worldnews...