So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl they should have used MS-PAINT.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
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Right, cstross. I don't need you to explain social media to me.
And yep, it's a thing.
Via Public Citizen
"Today, during the peak of our national day of action, the No Kings Coalition Instagram account was taken down and is no longer accessible.This is a clear attempt to silence the No Kings Coalition & prevent future communications.
Don't let them silence No Kings. Spread the word."
@QueenOfTheCroneAge @cstross @Remittancegirl
they consented to be silenced by using a meta platform. the idiots.
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@QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl IG is owned by Meta, aka Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook. They're ratfucking Lula's election campaign on behalf of Bolsonaro, so dabbling in politics on the side of the Fash is absolutely typical. Rancid goddamn nazi-snogging billionaires.
@cstross @QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl
Charlie, I adore you.
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@Remittancegirl Exactly. We need to continue to encourage ways to not participate.
@karmic_resonance @Remittancegirl
participating in the fedi verse is huge. We are unplugging from those billionaire fascist scumbags
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@Remittancegirl People are completely captured by Meta (& TikTok & X). You’ll never convince them to leave. (Preaching to the choir, I know.)
dopamine addicted.
That's by design.
They've hacked our neurotransmitters. They've hacked our brains. It's a construct. It's a manipulation. People can unplug. -
@suddjian Hey, thanks for playing! Go fuck yourself!
Meow, Chris.
this is not Twitter. Where is your civility, sir? I thought Canadians were polite. What happened to you? -
@QueenOfTheCroneAge @cstross @Remittancegirl
they consented to be silenced by using a meta platform. the idiots.
@roblosricos OK, but what about their followers who made themselves reachable only via oligarch media?
IMO, movements like #nokings should have been dropping hints to their supporters that they need to focus their attention on better platforms.
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@acm_redfox And here is a really great place to do that - because the tech bros can't shut the fediverse down.
@Remittancegirl I would agree if fedi didn't have so many UX pitfalls.
If one is technically inclined, then clicking on a fedi link and landing on a foreign instance website doesn't seem too bad... we hopscotch right over that inconvenience. But most other people won't realize what happened and they will be confused/angry that Mastodon has "forgot" their login & won't let them access functions etc. This happens because the ActivityPub spec is incomplete; it should have defined a protocol handler.
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@Remittancegirl I would agree if fedi didn't have so many UX pitfalls.
If one is technically inclined, then clicking on a fedi link and landing on a foreign instance website doesn't seem too bad... we hopscotch right over that inconvenience. But most other people won't realize what happened and they will be confused/angry that Mastodon has "forgot" their login & won't let them access functions etc. This happens because the ActivityPub spec is incomplete; it should have defined a protocol handler.
@tasket If people cannot deal with that, do you really think they're going to have the staying power to triumph over authoritarianism?
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
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@tasket If people cannot deal with that, do you really think they're going to have the staying power to triumph over authoritarianism?
@Remittancegirl What is the point of offering people a tech adventure (chaos)? If something presents itself as broken, then in the users' minds its broken; they'll move on.
Fedi culture is broken, too. The same people telling me the above is OK UX are also saying that teaching users to be aware of domain name spelling (with https) is a big infosec No-no. A tech culture that bases itself on disparate domains but doesn't think users should have literacy about domain names probably deserves to die out. (Keeping in mind that fedi is like 85% tech pros & enthusiasts.)
Bluesky "solved" this problem by making all links point to bsky.app. This makes it centralized, but bsky's backers don't really want decen.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
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This is what I was thinking, too:
“This reeks of people, of organizers who do not really understand what they are up against at all.” — Madeleine Morris
@donray @Remittancegirl @the_gneech
Consider that the organizers DO understand and the whole thing is a whitewash designed to harmlessly vent steam.
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@acm_redfox And here is a really great place to do that - because the tech bros can't shut the fediverse down.
@Remittancegirl @acm_redfox perhaps not the tech bros, but the US government could possibly shut down quite a bit of the Fediverse the same way they took on Autistici/Inventati, by revoking domains and designating server operators as terrorists.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl this! Every time. They keep playing in the yard of the enemy. It makes me so confused.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl I repeatedly tried to warn fellow activist organizers to move off all META & Tiktok for organizing because of this exact same reason.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl Time to find alternatives. Chat and video calls can be done with apps using XMPP: https://xmpp.org/ Quick updates via Mastodon, of course. The resistance must go on!
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@Remittancegirl I repeatedly tried to warn fellow activist organizers to move off all META & Tiktok for organizing because of this exact same reason.
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So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.
So... here's the thing:
DON'T PLAN YOUR REVOLUTION ON THE KING'S BLACKBOARD.
The fact that organisers are depending on the availability of a platform run by any of the tech bros... well, it makes me think you aren't a terribly effective opposition.
@Remittancegirl our local No Kings organization does all its organizing via Signal. Outreach on social media, organizing and planning on Signal. I’m sure some local groups get it wrong, though.
