Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Hello #CoSocialCa!

A June 2023 update on the blog https://cosocial.info/cosocial-ca-update-june-2023/

* We’re currently at 62 paid co-op members
* We've got a great group of volunteers, could use some more across trust & safety, comms, & membership
* Follow #CoSocialHour
* Co-op Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be this fall; members will vote for a board and discuss major issues

it really would have been better if more people questioned the entire concept of mental illness and the idea of it being grounds for removing someone's bodily autonomy, it's extremely fucked up and allows and directly causes so much horrific abuse, and the only people who say anything about it are psychiatric survivors and no one even listens to them
and now in Russia they are actively banning transition and the state is openly attempting to make sure all trans people are treated as mentally ill and "cured" in what must be horrific ways
and i wonder if this will eventually happen in the U.S.
but if your response is "this is bad because trans people aren't actually mentally ill" then fuck off, those "crazy schizos" you find so annoying don't deserve to be tortured either, and it should have been obvious that if society accepts human rights violations for any group (mentally ill, terrorists, etc.) then the next step is that label being used on anyone the establishment wants to get rid of, and if you reached adulthood without thinking of this then you don't think enough
if everyone collectively agreed to stand up for those who are most despised, like unhoused folks and people with highly stigmatized neurodivergences, we might not have to worry about being the next genocide target
but if you think some genocide is acceptable as long as it has an imposed limit that stops it from affecting you then seriously fuck off

People of the #fediverse, especially those creating various services, there are alternatives to HCAPTCHA when you ask people to create accounts or login. Despite HCAPTCHA's propaganda, HCAPTCHA is not truly accessible to #blind people. It requires us to give up our privacy if we choose the cookie option. The text alternative doesn't work most times. I just tried to sign up for a /kbin server at https://redit.buzz and wasted 30 mins on HCAPTCHA.

Please be #inclusive!

#accessibility

we need more roving vendors. they shouldn't be solely the province of ice cream and scams.

We are not at the end of the useful Internet. We may be nearing the end of the phase where the corporate Internet pretended it didn't feel entitled to your attention and efforts.

Any of these large media sites have been useful in the last 15 years, it was rarely because of anything they did. Usually in spite of.

Now presenting another #VeryGoodIdea:
The latest fediverse client is your calender with a mastodon <-> CalDAV bridge!

Post from your calendar, and stream your home feed back to your calendar!

Just write your post in the Notes field and you're off to the races.

Part of the #MastoBridges #SuperPackage - you'll never instantly regret installing and running this! Comes with bonus crossposter to commit messages in an empty git repository!

https://git.jon-e.net/jonny/masto-bridges
#InfrastructuralShitposts

Going to be speaking on a panel for the 2023 #solarpunk conference! called "From Capitalist Realism to a Solarpunk Reality: Theorizing and Building the Infrastructures of a Better Future". Where we challenge the idea of what's 'realistic'. With a Q&A session after the talks!

Our talks will be building off each other's work, blending academic & activist methods, techniques, and thoughts with concrete, real-world examples. These ideas are guided by sociopolitical movements and feminist, queer, and indigenous thought.

A sneak peek into my own talk! I'll be telling a narrative story of how we can build dual power through collective action, with actionable examples mixed in that highlight steps that we can take right now - steps that might snowball into larger change.

Everything happening with Reddit will happen with GitHub.

I know that ActivityPub has this "group" concept, and the github.com/mastodon/mastodon software seems to have some tentative support for it (type @news into the Search Or Paste URL box. There's a little "Group" tag there?). Maybe it would make UX sense if every*
single Fediverse instance published a virtual "group" of itself that just encapsulated whatever its equivalent of following the local firehose feed is.

* Assuming this is compatible with the privacy/user safety norms of that instance.

If anyone is interested I've started up a Godot community on lemmy for those who are migrating from reddit!

Feel free to join and show off your stuff as people start moving over to it :), weve got a showoff thread where you can showcase your current work or you can make a separate post for it

https://programming.dev/c/godot

(You can see the posts from right here on mastodon as well, just search for the url above in the search bar (with https:// in front of it))

#godotengine #godot #gamedev #lemmy

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert