Spyke

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Threads and the Fediverse

FWIW: I see no reason to federate with Threads/Meta/FB. We can always change our minds later.

My hope will be that users of Threads will end up learning about federation/activity pub in general, then become curious about other instances. I’m the early nineties, many people thought AOL was the internet. It was the intro to the internet, for many, many people who moved on to finding all other kinds of wonderful stuff out there. No reason it couldn’t happen that way.

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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning

https://pca.st/episode/26653693-fa5b-4d82-a7c2-683d1b29240d

Vice had a tech podcast called ‘Cyber’ and they dropped a final episode yesterday. It’s just a bunch of the staff bewildered and mourning the fall of Vice. Pretty interesting.

More amusing was that they did it ‘rogue’. Much of their CDN was inoperable, except for the podcast deliver infrastructure.

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‘It’s a racism crisis’: call for action on Qur’an burnings in Sweden

Thems the breaks with speech.

Burning the Koran is most certainly going to get people upset. If someone took another’s Koran and burned it, there’s already a law for that. If someone burned a Koran, pointed at a Muslim person and said “You’re next!”, that’s a direct threat.

Getting overly upset because someone desecrated a common item you feel is holy… I don’t have a lot of sympathy.

If you are in a liberal democracy that values free speech, you’re gonna have to suck it up and pick your battles. If you want people to be tolerant of your nonsense book that has backward ways of seeing the world, you will have to tolerate that they may tell you precisely what they think about it. On the best days, people should be able to hear speech that offends them, and everyone goes home safe to argue another day. No personal threats, no violence.