Category: meta

On Getting Banned

This was a rant I originally posted on Facebook on January 15th, 2021

“You don’t want this tool used against your enemies because you’re next or it’s already been used against you” is for no-fly lists, offshore prisons, grand juries, travel bans, gulags and secret police. Being banned from social media is more like “I’m used to it being used against me and it’s totally hilarious when it’s used against thin-skinned grievance mongers”.

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Self-Promotion on Social Media

In the great migration happening from twitter to fediverse (mastodon, akkoma, et al) one group who understandably has been slow to do so, artists, has met with a major cultural difference they might not have expected, norms or explicit rules against self-promotion on many fediverse instances.

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