Jules the fairy @Jules@computerfairi.es

I want to do a bit of research on opinions on federation for my #decentwebeu project. I'm digging for arguments in favor of decentralising. Please boost and/or answer any of these questions:

1) How aware are you of the federated nature of this network in your day-to-day use?

2) Which, if any, concepts of federated networks do you find challenging, confusing or foreign?

3) Why are federated networks "better" than centralised social networks (silos)?

(The last question is biased, roll with it)

its fucking heavy that the lunchtime conversation at work, after working on software development, is about the war in syria and in palestine, the situations in north africa, how egypt and other countries are hired by europe to police the border... but for me i think its important to hear and important to hear from the people who lived it.

so many of these people are here because they were pro-democracy demonstrators against military dictatorships. they are young people who have such high concern for human rights and for fair government, and i'ts so good to hear their perspectives, as a person from the USA and europe.

So many of my students come from ISIS controlled villages in Syria, or who were policail activists who protestsed Assad and who lost half of their entire families in the war, who were forced to fight for the Assad regime, who went to prison for demonstrating for democracy...

The first thing they all tell me about the war is that the USA created ISIS, created al Queda, and coopted the Arab Spring and the result of their intervention has been utter chaos with no smooth transition of power away from these dictators.

Just wanted to remind y'all that the USA created ISIS and "fighting ISIS" is bullshit empty rhetoric so everything you heard is a lie.

Does anyone want to start an orginisation that just brings people together online to make small specialised apps? Like desklet things for Ubuntu/Mint and stuff like that.

The purpose would be to give an easy opening into open source projects and to put people in contact with each other. We have lots of developers and lots of artists and writers and stuff.

Also I am annoyed with the world and want to do something.

starting #nanogenmo off by making a corpus of every sentence in every novel in project gutenberg. (someone has probably already done this, right?) https://mastodon.social/media/w_rxQ5MwOxlWbVgyEdc

One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mining-electricity-consumption-ethereum-energy-climate-change

Everyone is asking where "Sneepsnop" comes from

it's the nonsense word from that tumblr post about how to cheer yourself up in the darkest times, with the answer being to hold your nose and say "sneep snop" and it would make you giggle to yourself cuz it sounds silly

and also "she wears snort snirt I wear sneep snop"

this has been The Philosophy Of Sneepsnop you get 1 credit towards your degree in sneepsnopology

And here's another red squirrel, at Loch an Eilein, near Aviemore in the Cairngorms. #photography

Secret Sneepsnop Gift Ideas:

* Adorable attempt at drawing someone's fursona
* Record yourself singing a song you wrote or just a popular song you change the lyrics about
* Gift a cheap game from steam or humblebumble that's cheesey and pertains to their interests or a joke about them
* Make a gamezine in pico8
* Write a very touching letter about their positive qualities
* Make a bot based on or inspired by their posts

Sneepsnop gifts are meant to be silly, cheap, and fun. It's about the exchange!!