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Extra! The results are in! Poverty makes outcomes worse! One small group of people deciding who is in poverty and who gets human rights, anywhere in the world, is global autocracy!

Social scientists and the rest can take a break from our research talks now and form a fucking labor union to re-write international monetary policy! 👏👏

CrashCourse: *A World Without Governments? #Anarchism Explained*

youtube.com/watch?v=P-Ibq-9wul

I must admit (as an anarchist) that this is pretty good. Remember that #CrashCourse is part of #PBS, the US public broadcaster. Therefore I'm worried about their future under the Trump-regime.

But yes I have some criticism and that's about their attempt to have some criticism. At the end they give some bad examples of anarchism, as part of the criticism that because of a lack of central control, everyone against the government can call themselves anarchist. Yes of course everyone can, but that doesn't mean that they are.

Let me explain. Anarchism is not only about anti-government or anti-state. Anarchism is about no authority, therefore no hierarchies and against authoritarianism. As a result anarchists are against every form of #oppression, including economic oppression like #capitalism, gender oppression like #sexism and the #patriarchy, #racism, #fascism, #LGBTIQIA-hate, oppression against #nature and #animals (#ecocide), and yes also against nation #states (and their oppressing tools like the #police, the #military and #nationalism) and of course their governments.

Some call this #intersectional, some call it total liberation/struggle. Our tools are mutual aid, direct action and #prefiguration.

Hey, I am working with a few people on completely remote, horizontal game dev worker cooperative to fight against exploitation of game developers and to create awesome games. We are looking for Visual Artists and Musicians. Please contact me if you are at least slightly interested, I will share details with you, or please share this with people who you think could be interested in this project. We try to have a very constructive, deliberative culture to create non-oppressive environment where our collective creativity can shine to hopefully create something awesome.

Another great video from #Andrewism that I advise to watch. But please take your time, make notes and don't take it as a blueprint, but as inspiration (like all of anarchism) to start or continue the social revolution.

*How Anarchy Works*

🎞️ youtube.com/watch?v=lrTzjaXskU

"Anarchism is the political philosophy and practice that opposes all hierarchies along with their “justifying” dogmas and proposes the unending pursuit of anarchy, where free association, self-determination, and mutual aid form the basis of our society. But what does that mean? Let's explore how we might organise anarchy."

See also todon.nl/@joenepraat/112231879.

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If you are into it and want to learn more about #LibrarySocialism follow it up with their awesome trilogy on the basic concepts of their whole political idea.

Library Socialism & #Usufruct (2019)
srslywrong.com/podcast/library

Library Socialism & The #IrreducibleMinimum (2019)
srslywrong.com/podcast/library

Library Socialism & #Complementarity (2019)
srslywrong.com/podcast/library

A better world is possible!
#podcast #prefiguration

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A better vision for a near-future fedi requires an exercise of both the technical and social imagination, and another thing that Meta's collaborators appear to find elusive: a moral center.

Instead of a regression into another Zuckerberg-controlled nightmare of hate speech, harassment, "brand engagement" and dehumanizing surveillance, we can push forward into an intentional federation based on consent and community, which centers the non-negotiable requirement of safety for everyone who otherwise has the most to lose from the betrayal of this online space of refuge and resistance.

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A note also on the gaslighting we face from Meta's colluders; the latest being the embarrassing spectacle of ActivityPub co-author Evan wagging around a "small fedi". @thenexusofprivacy has a good rebuttal to this cringe exhibitionism here: privacy.thenexus.today/the-ann

Evan has seen fit to misappropriate the "small fedi" idea, then build a blog post around warping it into a smear, with a long list of patronizing and fictional mischaracterizations. But what is truly small is the thinking that the fedi's future is surveillance, algorithmic ingestion, centralized servers too big to moderate, and huge psychotic corporations like Meta. In fact, that is social media's catastrophic past, the one we're all here to reject.

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The Nexus Of Privacy · The (annotated) case for a "big fedi"As Johnny Rotten once said, "Two sides to every story"
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An intentional federation would be a more decentralized one, as we could fully affirm a collective choice to keep instances small. That's not just an abstract idea; a more decentralized fedi would be a more democratic one: kolektiva.social/@ophiocephali

And it would also be a more community-centered one. Currently, the Mastodon network in particular is being driven by an approach which denies the prospect for a riotous polyculture of small and distinct communities in favor of a growth-oriented monoculture in which "servers are not... communities" ( mastodon.social/@Gargron/11162 ) and "it doesn't matter which one you use" ( theverge.com/23658648/mastodon ), an outlook which Zuckerberg must find favorable.

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kolektiva.socialophiocephalic 🐍 (@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social)Content warning: Long post - The Free Fediverse, Decentralization and Democracy - the mega-servers and the Kolektiva calamity - Part the Second
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We accept and support new spinups by fellow travelers were are already in community with. The servers which entirely come in from the cold are mostly those belonging to the creatures of the dark-fedi, which cause many of the moderation problems for those of us on proportionately-sized instances (and most of the other problems are caused by the disproportionately-sized ones, who will be joining the Zuckerverse).

By assuming agency for who we choose to federate with, rather than existing in a state of constant reaction against those who would try and force us to federate with them, we can defend our federation both from the fascists, racists, transphobes and pedos of the defediverse, and from the horrifying and corruptive threat of the Zuckerberg entity, and its collaborator instances.

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Some worry that consent-based federation would lead to isolation, but this doesn't need to be true. For the end user, nothing at all would change; it would be just as easy or hard to join an instance as it is now, minus the funneling into a centralized, poorly-moderated vanilla flagship.

And what about new instance spinups? Their prospects could actually improve from the current status quo, if an allow-list fediverse was structured into instance alliances as described in the fedifam concept. New intra-fam spinups would automatically federate: kolektiva.social/@ophiocephali

Fedifams could then form trust-treaties with other fedifams, smoothing federation out from the fam into the broader fediverse in whatever manner of comfort or caution is preferred (such as limited or probationary federation): kolektiva.social/@ophiocephali

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kolektiva.socialophiocephalic 🐍 (@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social)A Free Fediverse beyond surveillance capitalism should prioritize deepening its commitment to decentralization by keeping the maximum user count of its instances small. This addresses practical needs. Smaller communities are easier to moderate, on a human scale which doesn't involve algorithms or invasive third-party data collection. Smaller communities disperse targets for threat models like spambots, and enhance network resilience. And smaller communities are better at scaling democracy, so that we can avoid being pulled back into the circumstance now plaguing the fediverse of mega-server admins unilaterally imposing their will on everyone else. However, keeping things small can result in problems of its own. Smaller communities means more people grappling with the complexities of trying to set up, administer, moderate, and - not to mention - *fund* operations. A system of mutual aid, beyond the current haphazard status quo, is required. As an approach to solving these problems, and to instilling a ethos of solidarity devoid of the for-profit "monetization" impulse, consider the concept of the fedifam. :fediverso: 👩‍👩‍👧 🧵 1/4 #FreeFediverse #FediPact #FediblockMeta #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Democracy #Decentralization #Prefiguration #Fedifam
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While Authorized Fetch remains important to activate, it is clear that even it - which remember, provides better defense than that currently implemented on most of our home servers - is inadequate to the threats facing us as the Zuckerberg incursion progresses. If we're serious about protecting our communities and expressions from absorption into surveillance capitalism and the accelerating miseries of fascism, we need to talk about a stronger grade of defensive weaponry.

To this end, @are0h has fired a first volley: h-i.social/@are0h/111653850819 Every fedi community which serves as a refuge for those targeted and under siege should be thinking like this. True safety only awaits us in a transitive approach to defederation, and further on, in an intentional federation based on the allow-list.

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h-i.social powered by Masto Glitch EditionOptional Dictator (@are0h@h-i.social)Every instance that federates with Threads will be limited or suspended by the one I run. No, this is not up for negotiation. Run your instance as you see fit, but Threads will be treated like a bad actor until proven otherwise.

The Intentional Federation

We have recently been advocating the activation of a function which is present but usually off in Mastodon and other fedi services called Authorized Fetch. As we plead with the major development projects to take safety more seriously and make it a default, we have learned that Meta itself didn't think twice about it and has activated it in their own ActivityPub implementation against *us*.

We know this because of news that a fascist has devised a way to evade it and force federation with Threads. They promise to then turn their technique upon us and coerce unblockable federation with fascist and cryptospam instances: soapbox.pub/blog/threads-serve

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soapbox.pubThreads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | SoapboxThreads has begun testing federation over ActivityPub. And they have blocked two important servers I administrate. The first server is the Mostr Bridge. The Mostr Bridge connects ActivityPub and Nostr together, so people can communicate across protocols. The second server is Spinster.xyz, which is arguably the largest independent feminist community online.