@resl oh yes, I like your pivot! You're spot on. Economy and culture are giving codependent toxic relationship vibes all day!

It's not that I want to disagree about which boogeyman is the best/worst, I'd rather say "yes AND". So yes and... current conclusion is that media change feels more accessible...? An achilies heel maybe? Like the one in the relationship who just needs better boundaries...?! 😂🤔 Maybe I'm bringing too much personal experience in here! 😂

@resl OOH, I was reading that thinking you were about to describe us, then it went toward economics instead of media at the end! Still, it seemed close enough to reach out!

Hi! 👋 we're fairly new here.

@fight sounds right up our street, but gutted we missed it! Don't suppose it was recorded was it please?

@dustcircle interesting. Important to note though, that the "news" papers and TV know this and have a strong and growing presence on socials.

Not to mention huge cultural influence from the amount of indirect reshares of their "news" content. "News" (when using speech marks, we mean to say billionaire opinions) still dominates billionaire socials. We need a #MediaRevolution

Of the many challenges to #HumanRights and #ClimateJustice campaigners...

...getting a message past #billionaire #algorithms really shouldn't be one.

This is just one reason the #fediverse is a logical switch.

Numbers matter, but having genuine connection and access is more important than vanity metrics of bot views.

And the fact that those same billionaires are often the root cause of the issue in the first place is another.

#FreeSpeech #Dissent #Silenced #BigTech

just had a fabulously productive meeting with @FreddieJ and @newsmast - talking about the great #fireexit and #buddysystem - offering a hand to folk ready to cross the bridge into the #fediverse 🌉 ✨

Excited to get my hands on the Newsmast tool and take it for a test drive, I think it could be just what the revolution needs!

I hear/see that @renewedresistance have been using it to great effect for the #NoKings actions! 🚫👑🔥👏👏👏

@lizardp @_elena you tooted? ✊😘

But srsly. Genuinely disrupting the distraction and obsession with #BigTech are some intended outcomes of the #MediaLiberationDay grassroots coordination campaign.

Lots in the pipeline...keen to connect and network with other advocates and pioneers of the #fediverse

@sanaroohealthcare welcome, welcome! Not so old here ourselves ☺️ working out our way around and happy to share what we've learned so far:

#hashtags are important - to find stuff and be found. You need to be an #explorer

#FediverseTips will get you far

#toots instead of tweets

Toots are like #tweetsbuteditable

People are genuinely really welcoming to the #fediverse

There's no #buddysystem yet but if you post with #NewHere or #Introduction you'll find other #newbies it's pretty easy!

⚠️ #MediaRevolution Launch - 28th July is coming up! 🌎

We’re looking for 99 people around the world for a social media stunt which will be recorded and edited in advance and released on the big day 👀

Highlight YOUR campaign, YOUR area, YOUR issue, and expose how the malignant media are letting YOU down.

🌍 International - all locations welcomed
👐 Intersectional - representation from all issues/crises needed
❤️‍🔥 Raising awareness of media failings, and move to change it!

Are you in?!

Bluesky backlash misses the point https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/bluesky-backlash-misses-the-point/

@patrickleavy this is brilliant! I followed the links to find Amanda's Imagine The News site...it's brilliant too! 👏👏👏

Great video by a friend, showing just how cruel and pathetic #bigtech really is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJQe2aIaJ5o

Please share widely!

We need people off these platforms by the end of 2025. So use these hashtags on multiple platforms:

#deadline2025 #reclaim2025

@strypey

YES!! Love #FireExit!! Have been talking for ages about how the climate activists have raised the fire alarm but not done amazingly at showing people toward the exit!! 🔥🪧🪧🪧

So excited to welcome you to the campaign, Strypey... you're helping already, tysm! I just got your email too. Let's go!! 👍

(also... should I keep these folks on cc? Is it better etiquette to remove...? 🤔😅)
@fediforum @TCMuffin @lexicaleigh

@patrickleavy oooooh! AMAZING! I'd love to hear more! We are planning similar... #MediaLiberationDay 5th November... Perhaps we can collab? 🤗

Thanks @strypey - your boosting is workinggggg 🙏

@strypey 👏👏👏

Such welcoming words and warm wisdom!

It's as if you were hosting an event space IRL, right? New arrivals will integrate and interact much better with a little human support and gentle wayfinding advice!

💚 Thank you for doing this for us!!

In the fediverse, we are all the welcoming committee! If someone you know from elsewhere joins, make sure you interact with them, helping them feel welcome and included.

* Reply to their posts, @mentioning people who might be interested in the topic.

* Boost their best posts to help people find and follow them.

* Subscribe to their feed to get a notification every time they post, so you remember.

* encourage them to post an #introduction, to help fun folks find them.

#FediTips #onboarding

Award for Morrison an insult to the truth https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/06/award-for-morrison-an-insult-to-the-truth #Auspol

What made the early internet special “were people like John Young, who just kind of showed up and started making things that were interesting and useful and important and were just stubborn enough to make them happen,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @newyorktimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/john-l-young-dead.html

@McRocker @xkataquapit

My mum never knew what to do with moose roasts and other meat we were given. I remember rather grim braises and stews. Not fond memories for me.

But venison was a favourite. It still shines in memory. We get farm-raised every so often but it isn’t the same at all.

One of my aunts was a dedicated home pressure-canner but she used large glass sealers. That was tasty.