Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

When I started on Mastodon, people would advise me to “only Boost posts.” Since there’s no algorithm that places a value on Favorites, “only Boosts have value.”

I disagree completely.

When people Favorite my posts, they unwittingly introduce themselves to me. I have discovered some very interesting people that I may not have if they didn’t Favorite my posts.

Keep ‘em coming. It’s nice to meet you.

#feditips #mastodon #favorite

Does anybody on here know of an instance dedicated to Black queer folks? I'm not necessarily planning on moving but I am curious since apart from blacktwitter.io and wibblur I haven't even seen much that's even focused on Black communities. And if there isn't one/aren't many... Is that something people would be interested in? 👀 Edit: well, I went ahead and spent most of the past day making one. https://blackqueer.life is the name. Check it out!

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackQueer

any word on if Facebook-Twitter is gonna bring back the 'poke' feature? it's pretty clear that social media went off the rails the moment we quietly lost that.

in conversations ive had around "open" source and "open" protocols im recognizing a recurring sentiment that does not sit well with me: the idea that "openness" requires that we tolerate capitalist corporations, that if we don't we are no longer "open".

i disagree categorically with this definition of "open"

New feature: Private Browsing tabs are now available!

They also get a purple outline in the carousel view to recognize them.

Next step: containers, to help you manage all your social accounts :)

Firefox "awesome" (address) bar tips:

Use ^ anywhere in a query to search through your history
Use % to search your open tabs.
Use ? to search the web.
Use * to search your bookmarks.

By default awesome bar blends it all together, but sometimes you know where you are looking for something, so it can yield better results !

Others magic characters: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox#w_changing-results-on-the-fly

#firefox #tips #search

New month — New Krita Art Challenge!

July 2023 = Yin and Yang

Give us your best!
https://krita-artists.org/t/monthly-art-challenge-july-2023-yin-and-yang/69686

#krita #KritaChallenge #ArtChallenge #DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #MastoArt #KritaArtist

In 2020, I published *This is Fine: Optimism & emergency in the p2p network*(https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine). It laid out a clear argument that the #fediverse is irreparably vulnerable because of its p2p nature and political naivete:

*"Anyone with administrator access to an Instance can read anything that travels through that Instance’s infrastructure – including direct messages. The level of risk correlates with the number of cross-Instance interactions between users. If users from different Instances communicate, an attacker need only compel one Instance to reveal the direct messages between all of the interacting accounts. [...] In a peer-to-peer network without encryption, there’s no structure, no agreed-upon governance, and absolutely no protection. Compromising or compelling an Instance or its staff means that all of network traffic is laid bare to its assailant. [...] The decentralised community seeks to antagonise a powerful status quo whilst making tradeoffs that do not acknowledge how societies directly threaten their communities."*

Today, Kolektiva - a anti-colonial anarchist instance - announced an FBI raid of one of their admins, which included the seizure of an entire copy of the Kolektiva instance.

This is *literally* the kind of situation I warned about nearly three years ago.

https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150

There are proposals to fix this, but the current system has been around for years.

What’s also interesting to me is that Bluesky is also punting on DM’s and encryption. They might link to your matrix profile for DM, basically use matrix for chat and DM’s which isn’t a terrible idea but does at a lot of complexity.

My main worry with both the fediverse and bluesky’s lack of tackling encryption and privacy is that you lose the ability to do interesting private groups. This is an important future for Nostr and something which makes us unique.

The FCC is accepting applications for new, low-power, community radio stations the first week of November.

This is huge, you guys, this window rarely opens (the last time was 2013), and as you know, KUZU shows one way LPFM can be a foundation to build valuable community information resources.

The Grassroots Radio folks are holding a conference in West Virginia to help folks out with this.

Please boost and share.

#radio
#community
#local
#journalism

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/lpfm

If you are in Canada and you're looking for a good long-term home on the fediverse, consider #CoSocialCa. We are a co-op, meaning we're member-owned and -operated.

I am very grateful to live in Canada, and for all of the privilege that affords me. I also feel strongly that we can do much better and many different people in this country are not having their needs met… which is inexcusable because we are a very well off country.
Things we can do better:
- reconciliation and land back
- housing
- climate
- environment
- income inequality
- healthcare
- mental health/homelessness/toxic drugs
Canada can and should do better day!
#Canada

A comic on #AffirmativeAction that I drew some 20 years ago

#supremecourt #scotus

corporate centralization is killing the web. everything we were told would never happen is happening. every hysterical alarmist has proven to have been understating the risks.