:solidarity: égalitaire
:solidarity: égalitaire  ·  last month
@pluralistic

>> Almost nothing you do as an individual is going to make a difference.

Disagree. Relevant attached.

"It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn."

A photo of Sophie Scholl, German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. In court before Judge Roland Freisler on 22 February 1943, Scholl was recorded as saying these words, which are overlaid on the photo, "Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
A photo of Sophie Scholl, German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. In court before Judge Roland Freisler on 22 February 1943, Scholl was recorded as saying these words, which are overlaid on the photo, "Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
A photo of Sophie Scholl, German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. In court before Judge Roland Freisler on 22 February 1943, Scholl was recorded as saying these words, which are overlaid on the photo, "Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."
gregg r
gregg r  ·  last month
@pluralistic I use NetNewsWire for many blogs/websites and it's generally excellent, but a few sites only supply snippets of the posts so that going to the browser is the only way to read the whole item (unless I'm missing a setting?). Also, for blogs that send email, I can use my DuckDuckGo email forwarding address that strips out the trackers before sending it to my Inbox.
GhostOnTheHalfShell
GhostOnTheHalfShell  ·  last month
@pluralistic

(FB) “ .. is so insurmountable that you end up stuck there, with a bunch of people you love and rely on, who all love each other, all hate the platform, but can't agree on a day and time to leave or a destination to leave for and so end up stuck there.”

They don’t need a day and time.

Each of them can sign up for mastodon and then tell each other on Facebook etc, follow each other, and grow away from the platform.

Academia has moved several times, because of platform loss

B O
B O  ·  last month
@pluralistic I’ve read this through my rss reader ( @NetNewsWire ) and couldn’t agree more.

But I disagree on a fundamental point: RSS is not a solution to the problem at hand, it doesn’t fill the same space as mainstream social media. Especially annoying since so many entities use X for important announcements. With nitter gone, no way to get rss feeds from x accounts. So using RSS can’t mean leaving X/instagram/fb, it’s complementary.

It _is_ a solution to blogs/websites enshittifying to death and privacy being an afterthought

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