father husband FOSS OER foodie ruminator hopeful-idealist No longer actively using Twitter - gone to more open, hopeful channels: [email protected]
Christchurch, NZ
Joined November 2007
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By the way, I haven't posted on Twitter for a long time. I do all my social media interaction in the Fediverse - mastodon.nzoss.nz is my jam (I also run the server). See some of you in the Fediverse - see fediverse.info and joinmastodon.org.
Just listening to @radionz and @NZMorningReport and fully encourage Wanaka to give the McDonalds Corporation the fingers. I think it'd be great if more (all) communities did. There're quite a few other corporations peddling 'food-like-substances' who're worthy of rejection.
LightweightMastodon retweeted
My Dad used to vote National, more recently has voted Labour, but I could have cried when he proudly told me that he's just party voted @NZGreens for the first time. Incredible when I think back at the arguments we used to have 30 years ago.
It's never too late.
💚💚🙏
LightweightMastodon retweeted
So we've found that Chris Luxon does not believe in:
- Budgets
- Abortions
- Dinosaurs
- Climate change
- Te Tiriti (te reo)
- First Elections
- Classroom autonomy
- Renter's rights
What else?
LightweightMastodon retweeted
#BREAKING in Newshub’s final pre-election polling the Greens are on 14.9%, & NINETEEN MPs in Parliament.
The Green wave is here. It’s happening.
The most important thing now is that everyone goes out and VOTES. The time is now.
Hah. Xwitter is so pathetic now. I haven't even been here for months. The Fediverse is where it's happening. Smarter people saying far more sensible things. Xwitter, you're enshittification is now almost complete. I encourage the few remaining clever folk among you: abandon ship.
The #NZGreens should spank National for their idiotic (and totally inappropriate) slogan "Get NZ back on track". Ugh. National hates tracks, be they rail, bike, or walking. No. The love *roads*. They want to 'Keep NZ in traffic'. See more: mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweig…
So if our gov't is using Twitter as a critical disaster management tool - rnz.co.nz/news/national/4931… - it needs to realise Twitter is an unreliable foreign tech. Why not use local (onshore in Aotearoa) tech, run by NZers. Many of us are already in the Fediverse, why not have 1/2
a NEMA official Mastodon instance that they can post to for everyone in the Fediverse. Given that their alert are broadcasts (not expecting responses) they can then set up auto-tweeting (to the extent that Twitter allows it is functional) for the laggards still here. 2/2
Open, local community run, and decentralised first, closed, profit-motivated, and centralised second (if at all). That's the way to do social media. Please demonstrate that you're listening and learning @LGNZ and @nzgovt_edu
As @mmasnick points out on in the Fediverse (mastodon.social/@mmasnick/11…) this strange article newint.org/features/2023/02/… wonders about decentralised, non-profit alternative to centralised, profit-driven social media. He mentions Mastodon at the end, but implies it's not viable. Wut?
It'd be very cool if @oia_nz also posted in the Fediverse. They have a selection of NZ-based Fediverse instances they can use at no cost... mastodon.nz, moo.nz (might require permission), mastodon.nzoss.nz among others.
Ok, so it's abundantly clear to us all by now that Twitter is a depraved cesspit of maladaptive human interaction. If we're honest with ourselves, we also know there's no way it'll change for the better. Given systemically better alternatives, why are people still here?
The current state of party politics in Aotearoa NZ: mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweig…
This is a very good point: mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/… #BigTech #SocialMedia is neither the only, nor best choice for #TechJournalists.
Wondering why people are still talking about this Musk stuff here on Birbsite. It's just rearranging the deck chairs. In the world of #JohnMastodon, the seas are much calmer, and there's nary a free speech iceberg in sight.
Huh. If I said to people that the reason I don't do much of anything on Twitter because all my social medial interests are far better met by the Fediverse, particularly Mastodon, & encouraged everyone still here to similarly move to greener pastures, would I be banned, too?
What if I said that all of you still here could find a more vibrant, welcoming, and less stressful, caustic, and uncertain social space in the Fediverse. I encourage you all to joinmastodon.org or one of the other Fediverse apps - see fediverse.party