So, I have a really bad case of upended circadian rhythms jet lag
Everything still feels surreal
Working on 🆕 nonMETA platform is more discombobulating than expected

So what do we think?
Do we like this space? Is it interesting, invigorating, friendly?
what are we thinking?

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Tof'Michaels

2025-01-13 16:36:48

Video by annehidalgo

Le 27 novembre 2023, j'ai été l'une des premières responsables politiques à quitter Twitter et je ne l'ai jamais regretté. Ce réseau est devenu un vaste égout mondial et une arme de déconstruction massive de nos démocraties.

Les femmes de gauche, écologistes, humanistes, féministes y sont partout traitées de la même manière : par le harcèlement, le dénigrement, avec une volonté délibérée de détruire.

Face à la toxicité de ce réseau, il n’y a que des avantages à le quitter.

Je me réjouis de voir de plus en plus de personnes quitter Twitter et je vous encourage toutes et tous à sauter le pas avec @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/helloQuitX]HelloQuitX[/url], une plateforme qui permet de reconstituer facilement son réseau ailleurs.

Rassurez-vous, on vit très bien sans Twitter et c’est très bon pour notre santé mentale !

Meta's recent decision to allow claims of mental illness towards LGBT+ individuals on its platforms has sparked a wave of outrage. This new moderation policy, announced by Mark Zuckerberg, now permits labeling a person as "weird" or "mentally ill" based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, under the guise of free speech.

This conservative shift by Meta could have disastrous consequences, similar to those observed on X (formerly Twitter) with the HelloQuitX movement (helloquitx.com/). Indeed, this decision not only risks violating European and French law but also alienating a large portion of its user base, particularly sensitive to issues of discrimination and inclusion.

In light of this situation, one wonders if a "HelloQuitMeta" movement might emerge, prompting users to massively abandon Meta's platforms. This phenomenon could represent a serious setback for the company, both in terms of image and advertising revenue. At a time when social networks are closely scrutinized for their handling of hate speech, Meta is playing a dangerous game that could prove costly.

Reference article in French francetvinfo.fr/internet/resea…

#HelloQuitMeta #LGBTRights #SocialMediaExodus #DigitalEthics #Community
Standards

Les nouvelles règles de Meta autorisant à traiter les personnes LGBT de "malades mentaux" sont-elles applicabl

Ces modifications des principes de modération ont été mises en place début janvier aux Etats-Unis, mais ne sont conformes ni au droit français, ni au droit européen.

^{Linh-Lan Dao (Franceinfo)}

La récente décision de Meta d'autoriser les allégations de maladie mentale envers les personnes LGBT+ sur ses plateformes soulève une vague d'indignation1. Cette nouvelle politique de modération, annoncée par Mark Zuckerberg, permet désormais de qualifier de "bizarre" ou "malade mentale" une personne en raison de son orientation sexuelle ou son identité de genre, sous couvert de liberté d'expression.

Ce virage conservateur de Meta que l'on observe depuis le début du mois de janvier 2025, que l'on attribue à une forme d'allégence de Mark Zukerberg au futur président US pourrait avoir des conséquences désastreuses pour l'entreprise, similaires à celles observées sur X (anciennement Twitter) avec le mouvement HelloQuitX (helloquitx.com/). En effet, cette décision risque non seulement de violer le droit européen et français, mais aussi et surtout d'aliéner une large partie de sa base d'utilisateurs, particulièrement sensible aux questions de discrimination et d'inclusion.

Face à cette situation, on peut se demander si un mouvement "HelloQuitMeta" ne va pas émerger, incitant les utilisateurs à quitter massivement les plateformes de Meta. Ce phénomène pourrait représenter un sérieux revers pour l'entreprise, tant en termes d'image que de revenus publicitaires. À l'heure où les réseaux sociaux sont scrutés de près pour leur gestion des discours haineux, Meta joue un jeu dangereux qui pourrait bien lui coûter très cher en nombre d'utilisateurs.

francetvinfo.fr/internet/resea…

#HelloQuitMeta #LGBTRights #SocialMediaExodus #DigitalEthics #CommunityStandards

Les nouvelles règles de Meta autorisant à traiter les personnes LGBT de "malades mentaux" sont-elles applicabl

Ces modifications des principes de modération ont été mises en place début janvier aux Etats-Unis, mais ne sont conformes ni au droit français, ni au droit européen.

^{Linh-Lan Dao (Franceinfo)}

Will Belgium follow France in its quit x trend ?

demorgen.be/meningen/waarom-de…

Mastodon foundation is looking for a talented Front-end Developer (m/f/d) to join their small core Mastodon team. In this role, you’ll work closely with our designer and core engineering team to elevate the web UI/UX experience for Mastodon users.

jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/6a09…

#job #jobdescription #jobboard #mastodon

Front-end Developer (m/f/d)

We're looking for a Front-end Developer to work with us remotely on our free and open-source Mastodon software.

^{jobs.ashbyhq.com}

Keine Sorge, wenn niemand mehr mitkommt. Ich probiere gerade aus, Bluesky und Fediverse zusammenzutüteln, damit ich nur noch eine Timeline befüllen muss.

Das dauert nun mal und ist auch mit Fehlschlägen verbunden. Seht es mir nach.

Komisch ist, dass bis auf einen Versuch alle meine anderen Versuche inzwischen weg sind. Weg, also... Weg. Auch die Registrierungsmails sind weg. Also ganz weg. Keine Ahnung, für mich ist es ja auch die sechste Stunde.

Na gut, ich fummle mal weiter. Vielleicht bin ich ja auch irgendwann mal fertig.

linkedin.com/posts/david-chava…

app.HelloQuitX.com

David Chavalarias on LinkedIn: Then one day, HelloQuitX came along and offered X users the chance to…

Then one day, HelloQuitX came along and offered X users the chance to leave X with all their followers in less than five minutes without losing connections…

^{David Chavalarias (www.linkedin.com)}

I have (had) accounts over on diaspora* since 2014-Sep-28, but seeing that Friendica has a "calendar" function, I thought it was time to give it a try. (I'm considering finally de-Facebook-ify myself later this year?)

So, about me?

You could say I’m your average anybody.

I like #reading — #books, but also #comics, both in paper and digital form. I tried audiobooks, but it didn't fit at the time. I do enjoy books read on the radio, and radio theatre, and listening to radio and "pods", though, so maybe I'll give audiobooks another try later on.
A few years ago I got myself an e-reader, and with age it's really convenient to be able to choose the size of the letters myself.
I mainly read #fiction, but there's the occasional non-fiction #book as well.

I listen to #music, but not as much as I used to. (I visited Roskilde festival 10 years in a row. It’s been more than 20 years since.) The music I enjoy may range from #alternative / #indie / #NewWave, over some #classics, and #pop, and #synth, to certain #rock, to #EBM; I enjoy #ska to a certain extent, but I’m really not that fond of reggae.

#Films are usually #nice, but if it’s too hetero-normative romantic I may start feeling uncomfortable. It doesn't "have" to be #lgbtq, though.
But horror #film is not my thing.

I used to spend time #geocaching, which then more-or-less got faded out by me playing the mobile app game Ingress.
Now I'm more into #krokning (it's called #TunisianCrochet in English, but there's nothing "tunisian" specific about it) — a yarn craft which, unfortunately, is less social / mobile.
But I do try to exercise. Considering that I have #rheumatism, I aim to get back to my exercise 2–3 times a week routine — but that very same thing also makes me prone to catch colds, and when I get it, I'm down for 10-14 days, and it always takes a bit to get back on track …

I used my #Jolla phone as my daily driver. With some Sony's in-between, I now have a #Fairphone 5 instead.

I liked #CrunchBang (#!), and then continued over to #BunsenLabs. I'm on Windows 11 now … (and still wish I was better at #Linux).

I'm a cis-gendered Kinsey scale 5 female, and, should we go into detail, the Klein sexual orientation grid is probably a more refined "but messier to describe" tool. Also, I guess I'm more bi-romantic, than -sexual? ⚢

I like #languages. It would be neat if I could just "transfer" them into my head. Studying a #language is hard, and if you don't maintain it, it's gone.
I’m #adopted. My first language is #Swedish, and I think I manage ok in #English.
Being #Scandinavian, I can usually understand #Norwegian and #Danish - at least as long as both sides concentrate on making themselves understood.
I can understand German so-so, but some of the German I studied went out the window when I gave learning Dutch a go. I’ve been studying Chinese (as an adult), and tried to learn #Esperanto (as a teen). I can’t really say my attempts of learning Spanish or Japanese, or Swedish sign language, have stayed with me.
I’m not good at grammar as a subject.

I like #mathematics. I’m no longer that good at #maths as when I was in school. I like the #scientific approach on things, even though I wish I was better at grasping and explaining — e.g. as in: understanding why things work the way they do. ♇

I understand that we as human beings wants to "believe in something bigger", but we shouldn’t forget the #sceptic approach. To blindly trust things without even questioning them is seldom good. Then again, to question every thing, to the point of seeing conspiracies all around us, isn’t logical either.
I’m a close-to-atheist #agnostic. I have an equal hard time understanding fundamentalist atheists as I find it hard understanding fundamentalist theists.

I’m a #feminist. Being #female ♀ myself, that wasn’t a hard decision. When I was younger, I preferred calling it "being pro-equal treatment", or "pro-equal rights". Then I understood that there are branches of #feminism, and that calling myself "pro-equal treatment" instead of "feminist" only hurt the bigger cause, and that I don’t necessarily need to connect myself with the branches that (in my opinion) have the "wrong" view of feminism.
I don’t want women to rule over men, with sex/gender being the only denominator, just as I don’t want men to rule over women, with sex/gender being the only denominator. We’re in this together, and to make things work we need to listen to, and learn from, each other. I'm not always good at this, but I hope I'm trying.

I wish I was up-to-date with #programming — what I learned in the 1980’s / 1990’s (Basic, Pascal, Ada, Prolog) is either out-of-date, or buried too deep in my brain-archive.
I think I can be quite good at contributing ideas, though.

I’m really not that unique.
We may even have things in common.

additional tags that may or may not be relevant: #NewHere #NyHär #average #unique #anybody #läsa #bok #böcker #serie #serier #library #bibliotek #literature #litteratur #musik #alternative-music #indie-music #klassiskt #cinema #movies #yarncrafts #reumatism #lesbisk #lgbt #hbtq #hbt #gsm #språk #adopterad #GenX #svenska #påsvenska #svensk #svenskar #Sverige #SE #inSwedish #Sweden #SWE #skandinav #Skandinavien #skandinaviska #dansk #Danmark #Denmark #norsk #Norge #Noreg #Norway #finlandssvenska #Åland #Finland #nordisk #Norden #Europa #Europe #matematik #science #vetenskap #astronomy #space #TheUncertaintyOfDoubt #rambling #TooLongForSanity #over-tagged

Now, what about you?