Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
RT @Matthew82069336
Only in Britain could an obscene Tory regime oversee 200,000+ Covid deaths, and then herald it a roaring success. Sick, twisted bastards who delight in people suffering and grieving. Eton Virus @BorisJohnson said he wanted "Bodies piled up high". Evil and disgusting beyond words.
RT @SpillerOfTea
Can’t get too excited about this #NoConfidence thing.
There are two possible outcomes, both of which leave the country in the hands of some flavour of horrendous fucking twat.
RT @caitoz
Silicon Valley Corporations Are Taking Control Of History
"This idea that anyone can ever be an impartial arbiter of objective reality is logically fallacious and is invalidated by facts in evidence."
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/silicon-valley-corporations-are-taking?s=w
RT @RedJohnBounds
Bang on the money. https://twitter.com/happyjack1981/status/1533694297849094145
RT @PhFreisleben
@polevaultpower So to get that straight: in order to protect my daughter from extremely unlikely sexual harrassment by a trains-kid, we make a law that forces sexual harrassment on all girls who want to play sports?
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains https://youtu.be/fe-SZ_FPZew via @Zoe_TheBee
How Royal Propaganda Protects The Queen https://youtu.be/yC8qunXBa60 via @novaramedia
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When you're posting hashtags that contain multiple words, it's a good idea to capitalise the first letter of each word. This helps blind people who use screen reader software to know what the hashtag actually says.
For example #DogsOfMastodon is much easier for screen reader users than #dogsofmastodon, even though they're technically the same tag.
This kind of capitalisation is usually known as "CamelCase". CamelCase doesn't just help blind people, it also makes hashtags clearer for sighted people too!
Using CamelCase won't affect your post's visibility (because searches ignore capitalisation) but it will improve the post's accessibility, so you'll get more people reading it.
Thank you to @martyn for raising this topic 👍
RT @mrcraftyg
@FraserNelson Because they don't pay enough?
Why should people be forced to work for pittance?
RT @blueannoyed
UK government’s £2.9bn job search scheme fails to find work for 93% of people @1kilroywashere @paulapeters2 @AnitaBellows12 @charlotteh71
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/05/uk-governments-restart-scheme-fails-to-find-work-for-93-per-cent-of-people?CMP=share_btn_tw
RT @PritiNot
Sleaze Dog on the bonfire #BrexitHasFailed 😏 https://twitter.com/johnwest_jaws/status/1533359201204019200
Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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I love how people on shitter and REEEEsetera are noticing the big problem with centralizing a community around Discord.
The problem with Discord/Reddit is on one hand the same problem with Yahoo Groups/Answers/Tumblr/etc, or 8chan if we want to look at this section of the internet. Being centralized means that you are toast when a big tech company sees you as not profitable, or it gets shut down for some reason.
But it has other unique problems. Maybe you got banned, or a user involved wipes all his posts because he rightfully hates Reddit's moderation, or a group ends up self censoring to stay happy with Reddit's moderation (which is never enough if mobs come for you), and whatnot. Discord groups also vanish easily when drama happens or there is a chat schism and it's harder to archive.
Here's a personal Discord story I tell people on why forums are better. Some guy I used to know ran a big Discord server for some microgenre of music and eventually during the Summer of Floyd drama hit because the mkultra signal went out everyone was looking for a quick cancel. Some guy in that scene gets canceled for making fun of SJWs years ago (no really) and drama blows up in the server. The server admin takes many rational approaches like banning people, whining about it, whining about how people deserved it, was just happy Kiwi Farms didn't notice this drama (because the trolls might start noticing the scene he was in and laughing at it for a week), and finally suicide baited and threatened to delete the server.
That's right, because of drama in the scene the server owner was threatening to delete his Discord server and kill himself. Imagine how much info would be lost if he actually did it. I'm sure people left said server from his outburst too.
This is why Discord groups are bad hubs for a community.
The problem with Discord/Reddit is on one hand the same problem with Yahoo Groups/Answers/Tumblr/etc, or 8chan if we want to look at this section of the internet. Being centralized means that you are toast when a big tech company sees you as not profitable, or it gets shut down for some reason.
But it has other unique problems. Maybe you got banned, or a user involved wipes all his posts because he rightfully hates Reddit's moderation, or a group ends up self censoring to stay happy with Reddit's moderation (which is never enough if mobs come for you), and whatnot. Discord groups also vanish easily when drama happens or there is a chat schism and it's harder to archive.
Here's a personal Discord story I tell people on why forums are better. Some guy I used to know ran a big Discord server for some microgenre of music and eventually during the Summer of Floyd drama hit because the mkultra signal went out everyone was looking for a quick cancel. Some guy in that scene gets canceled for making fun of SJWs years ago (no really) and drama blows up in the server. The server admin takes many rational approaches like banning people, whining about it, whining about how people deserved it, was just happy Kiwi Farms didn't notice this drama (because the trolls might start noticing the scene he was in and laughing at it for a week), and finally suicide baited and threatened to delete the server.
That's right, because of drama in the scene the server owner was threatening to delete his Discord server and kill himself. Imagine how much info would be lost if he actually did it. I'm sure people left said server from his outburst too.
This is why Discord groups are bad hubs for a community.
RT @freedom2fly
A story you won’t read anywhere else.
‘Bungs’ to Billionaires: Cummings Exposes Johnson’s Cash for Content Scandal – via @BylineTimes
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/05/11/bungs-to-billionaires-cummings-exposes-johnsons-cash-for-content-scandal/
Nads looks like she’s eating a lemon. Mind you …
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RT @UKGovtGoogles
fantasy threesome?
https://twitter.com/UKGovtGoogles/status/1533124197509365760
RT @safeasfuck
Just watching the local news.
What….(and I don’t say this lightly)….the absolute fuck
RT @JohnWest_JAWS
Crowds of woke, union jack waving, left wing monarchists & nobility boo the Johnson's.
Dash it all. https://twitter.com/vicderbyshire/status/1532660093489119233
RT @caitoz
If you've been reading the news Blinken's tweet makes no sense until you remember the US government believes it owns the entire planet so it's allowed to do things Iran isn't allowed to do. https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1531355020532367360
RT @caitoz
It says so much about the state of western academia that it's treated as a major scandal if university professors don't unquestioningly regurgitate what their government says about international affairs. And it says so much about British state media that this article was written. https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1531616500146118656
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Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.
Joined Apr 2022
