How can I follow a user on another instance, if their instance's web interface doesn't have a follow button? :/
@lukedashjr
Did you try putting in their name in your search box? It maybe comes up with a follow button next to the results.
@alanturing Yeah, it showed nothing. :(
@NovusOrdoWatch@gab.com to be specific
(No, my instance does not block GAB, so that shouldn't be an issue)
@lukedashjr @alanturing Gab defederated itself. We can't work with them anymore.
@verretor @alanturing @JTR21 So in other words, GAB are hypocrites who got mad at others blocking them, but then they went and blocked literally everyone else...
Sigh. Are there any other reliable non-Bitcoin non-censoring servers I can recommend to people?
@lukedashjr @alanturing @JTR21 I was wondering too.
@verretor @lukedashjr @alanturing @JTR21 I'm not sure you really want 0% censorship. If someone were to start promoting shitcoin scams on bitcoinhackers.org, posting every minute of the day, would you not moderate that?
There are plenty of instances that don't censor much, and with Mastodon you can also migrate your account between instances without losing your social graph, in case you're unhappy on the one you chose first.
Here's a list of some popular instances: https://joinmastodon.org/communities
@raucao @verretor @alanturing @JTR21 joinmastodon only lists servers that censor reasonable things, last I checked
@lukedashjr @verretor @alanturing @JTR21 That may be (mostly) true. But I think e.g. https://qoto.org isn't one of them and still listed there as the #1 tech-related instance.
@raucao @verretor @alanturing @JTR21 "You must be...a S.T.E.M. student or professional to join our server." kinda excludes a lot of people unfortunately.
Besides, their rules indicate they do in fact censor reasonable things too. ("homophobic speech will not be tolerated" plus a vague condemnation of "hate speech")
After the Reddit debacle, it is important to never join a service with an ambiguous set of rules.
"Homophobic" is not clearly defined, nor is "hate speech." That means: we remove whatever contradicts our personal narrative.
Fuck these people. They're liars.
@amerika @alanturing @lukedashjr @verretor They are not liars. You just disagree with them on what you find reasonable. Every community has its limits, including your "free speech extremist" instance.
@raucao @amerika @alanturing @verretor What is unreasonable about a blanket rejection of all non-procreative sexual activity? (I'm not asking if or why you don't agree, I'm asking where it is lacking in *reason*)
@lukedashjr @alanturing @verretor I think that's the wrong question. The question is what your community finds reasonable in regards to you encroaching on others' freedoms, like their right to choose sexual partners. If you are not tolerant of their sexuality, then why should they be tolerant of your opinion on it?
@raucao @alanturing @verretor I'm not censoring them either.
@lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing @verretor Exactly, live and let live. I just hope other more conservative minded folks will still live by that mantra once they become dominant again. While I can live with their disapproval I really don't fancy being prosecuted or killed for liking guys 😩
@sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing @verretor That's what the left wing Big Tech censorship brigade morons don't get. Setting the precedent for what is acceptable for whenever a right wing, extreme right wing leader gets into power again. This strategy only works if you establish a one party state (which it seems they are trying to do)
@michaelfolkson @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing @verretor They're so impatient that they're going for this strategy prior to gun confiscation.
@pete @michaelfolkson @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing @verretor Yamamoto’s quote about a “rifle behind every blade of grass” might be apocryphal, but wtf do they think is going to happen?
@eatoutfrom5lbs @michaelfolkson @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing @verretor Realistically? An ineffective attempt at confiscation that gets them re-elected and helps divert a bunch of money to their buddies in the surveillance business.
@pete @eatoutfrom5lbs @michaelfolkson @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing Like Trudeau's law that prevents us from buying some guns.
Technically, he's not confiscating guns.
@verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @michaelfolkson @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing Actually, the Biden proposals _are_ gun confiscation: they want to tax®ister guns, and thus not paying - or not registering - can result in confiscation. Obvs, the registration will also enable confiscation.
@michaelfolkson @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing The interesting thing is its at a time when guns in the US simultaneously have the most support in legal terms in quite awhile.
@pete @michaelfolkson @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing It’s also at a time when they are the most needed.
@michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing
Good thing he didn't win. Trump won by a landslide until the day after. Why do you think they are panicking and trying for the 25th/impeachment when he supposedly has just days left? The left hasn't accomplished anything and sudden;y they move this quickly?
@michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing
Also, why didn't they count the mail in ballots first? Total incompetence? Or did they need to know how many they needed to turn in? Also, how many counties reported over 100% voter turn out? How many had over 200%? They won't get away with this.
@Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing Inauguration in a week. Looks like they got away with it. Not going to choose to investigate an election that put them in power post inauguration.
@michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing
Don't be shocked if something happens between now and then.
@Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing I won't be shocked. But seems to me only thing that can stop a Biden inauguration now is military intervention. And regardless of whose side you are on (I lean towards Trump), military interventions in elections seems to me like a failed state. I'm just staggered Supreme Court refused to look at it. It is a failure of democracy and a failure of the legal system.
@michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing
Well, Military intervention is OK if they see we were infiltrated by China and they literally stole the election.
@Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing If China hacked the vote counting software then you could argue that is an act of war. But anything short of that should be resolved in the courts.
@michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing
Also printed ballots. Also released a virus that prompted insecure vote by mail that was the major source of fraud. Yea, the voting machines were rigged but it was such a landslide they needed the mail in ballots that took weeks to count because apparently everyone mailed them in late? BS, they should have been counted first. Also, people were coordinating this across the battle ground states.
@Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing Anything that required humans on the ground in the US (e.g. movement of paper ballots) should be resolved in the courts first before getting the military involved. Only airspace attacks or cyberattacks on election go straight to the military. No one brought a case to the Supreme Court alleging anything other than states not following constitutional guidelines.
@michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing
What if china has bought most of the congress/governors/etc? What if their strategy isn't a physical fight but an infiltration? There's a book called Stealth War by Robert Spalding that describes their strategy.
At some point enough will be enough and I think we just went there.
@michaelfolkson @Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao@kosmos.social @alanturing
Ｉthought Biden is legitimate win US2020 at the very beginning, but after the Big Tech chain-reaction, I start to wondering the manipulate vote may be a possible.
@kimisan @Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @alanturing The Twitter blocking of (supposedly) private DMs sharing the Hunter Biden NY Post story was scandalous too. It started well before the election.
@michaelfolkson @kimisan @Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @alanturing I feel like you’re just playing devil’s advocate.
@bryancyan @kimisan @Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @alanturing Me? I have no idea what happened on the vote counting. Lots of dodgy s*** but I don't know if that kind of stuff always happens. Twitter on the other hand, I am 100 percent certain it tried to suppress the Hunter Biden story, silence Trump and conservatives and push the BLM, Trump hatred narrative.
@michaelfolkson @bryancyan @Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @alanturing
I think if Big Tech just "do nothing", Biden can be the US President and be recognized by any of US citizenship.
but the Coordinated operations of Big Tech already make US People feel "Something very strange" inside US.
The "vigorously" Coordinated may reveal US Gov(Not included Trump Team) is actually 1984 since 1984.
@kimisan @michaelfolkson @bryancyan @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @alanturing Biden won't ever be recognized as a legitimate president except for by the media. We all know Trump won. We have proof of fraud. We also remember him as VP for 8 years and how our country was sold to china. The American people won't let this stand.
@kimisan @michaelfolkson @Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @alanturing Yes big tech did their first coordinated attack a year ago in the deplatforming of Alex Jones. This, I believe, was a trial run to deplatform and unperson all political opponents, so this was all planned and under development for a while.
@kimisan @michaelfolkson @Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @alanturing Also, big tech encoded censorship and “re-education” workflows directly into their platform. It is identical in spirit to Chinese Communist Party tech, but more so, it specifically targets CCP-critical posts, this I know from tests I personally performed.
Big tech is infiltrated and operated by the CCP.
@kimisan @michaelfolkson @Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @alanturing How can US govt prove that? As much as I hate NSA spies, my understanding is they secretly collected data on big tech (as the fuckers do on everybody) and Trump declassified it this week to present to courts and that is what is part of the supposed takedown that is coming.
No takedown is much more scary as we will effectively be ruled by the CCP going forward.
@kimisan @michaelfolkson @Zachary_BTC @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @alanturing Example to trigger the censorship/re-education workflow on Tweeter. Get a Twit burner account and post the site of a Chinese dissident that the US does not care about, only China.
gnews.org
Posting that will trigger an instant 12 hour account ban, and a “repentance” workflow to re-instate the account. China builds authoritarian policing directly into software and force platforms to follow suit
@Zachary_BTC @michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @raucao @alanturing Why are people saying China? I heard during the Georgia runoffs, they traced it and ended up at a Vatican-run satellite...?
@lukedashjr @michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @raucao @alanturing
Well, china has everything to lose if Trump is re-elected. He's foiling the controlled decline of America and rise of China. We know they have bought our politicians and control hollywood and our media. We know they printed some if not all of the fake ballots. They have the most to gain from a Biden presidency.
@Zachary_BTC @michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @raucao @alanturing I won't be shocked either way, but I'm not expecting anything anymore.
@Zachary_BTC @michaelfolkson @pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @raucao @alanturing They did get away with it, as far as I can tell.
It's okay. Democracy isn't essential. And America is overdue for a governmental collapse anyway - it's time to move on.
@pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @michaelfolkson @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing yes but youre right @pete in your previous toot, they will use it as a tool to get re-elected, but they know they are not going to confiscate much (if anything). In any case they can slowly start tightening guns an ammo controls, like @verretor implied with canada example. In Venezuela was a lot simpler... the gov just called for everyone to surrender their guns amd people did it.
@pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @michaelfolkson @sebx2a @raucao @alanturing I'm not registering anything.
It's funny how people disobey reasonable mask mandates, but obey unreasonable concealed-carry licensing requirements...
Hopefully any attempt to force registration will get a backlash of CCW disobedience.
@pete @verretor @eatoutfrom5lbs @sebx2a @lukedashjr @raucao @alanturing Certainly the anti gun rhetoric has been the strongest I can remember in my life time. https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-says-he-will-defeat-the-nra-while-in-office_3650623.html