US citizens: phone your representatives and senators and call on them to protect funding for NPR and PBS. They are far from perfect. They feel obliged to take a "balanced" view even in an unbalanced situation. But they will help resist fascism.
@rms You are a cringe retard, and dipshit takes like this discount all of your achievements to date. Learn to stop talking.
@rms I scrolled through your posts.
I'm not one to usually give a shit about stuff like this, but you get 1-5 favorites on each post you make.
You are Richard Stallman, a famous and widely-recognized personality with more than five thousand followers.
Most people would take a hint.
@eriner @xianc78 Contrary to certain misconceptions, what actually happens is this: the political notes are posted, and the person who has set this up operates a bridge between Mastodon and email on my behalf. This means that I (RMS) do indeed get all replies through the bridge and send email responses to the bridging software to post on Mastodon. but I do so only on occasions where I believe it is warranted.
As a young man, I wanted to treat someone I respected to dinner, because I valued what they did: Foster a software culture of free sharing, with restrictions on the software to KEEP it free.
As a grown man with a family of my own, I see that you actively work against my interests in other areas, promoting a deadly ideology that, if allowed to proliferate, would result in the molestation and degeneration of my children and the end of my people.
Please take your Win regarding responsible software sharing policy and let that be your legacy. Not "social justice" activism: the work of someone our grandchildren will be angry we didn't shoot like a dog in the street while they still walked this earth.
Eriner is right and you need to shut the fuck up.
@Humpleupagus @tyler @xianc78 @rms @eriner was going to say don't let him around children, but looks like you are marked safe from his blog posts
@rms I retract my criticism in lumping you in with the non-responsive posters indistinguishable from automated accounts.
@xianc78: I demand self-flagellation.
While I'm sure you don't appreciate my crass vernacular, I appreciate your response. Not only because you responded to clarify, but because you can see my post to begin with (i.e. you/the bridge maintainer haven't imported a blocklist of dubious origin, intention, and effectiveness to silence dissenting voices).
Thank you.
Referring to the Fediverse as "Mastodon" is like referring to GNU/Linux as "Linux", considering that the original instance software was GNU Social, which is still being using, despite how much Mastodon developers like breaking federation.
@Suiseiseki @rms @eriner@noauthority.social Hmm... There are 3 levels to it. The Fediverse, the Activity Pub itself. And every little service built on those. Like Mastodon.
Similar to how there is GNU / Linux, the Linux kernel, or something like Ubuntu or Trisquel, or Debian, or Arch.
Please do no write that, as that implies Linux is more than a kernel.
If you want to stress that Linux is more than a kernel, please write; "the kernel, Linux", or "Linux, the kernel", or otherwise please just write Linux when you mean Linux.
Ubuntu or Trisquel or Debian or Arch are GNU/Linux distros, so you you want to write about general OS usage, like operating GNU software in GNU bash, you would write about "using GNU/Linux".
If you want to write about posting messages onto the Fediverse, you should write about that, unless you were complaining about the ridiculously low default character post limits of Mastodon.
GNU Social also implements OStatus, which Mastodon supported until they decided to abruptly remove support, without even giving the GNU Social developers a bit more time to finish implementing ActivityPub.
@Suiseiseki I like a strategic language approach better than correct language. For example it is often very good to use "Free Software" especially with English speakers, because it confuses people enough to make them ask questions.
It is correct that free means freedom.
@Suiseiseki Also sometimes you want to avoid bursts of norephinephoria in people. So you choose words that triggers them less, to then slowly and carefully make them reconsider.
@xianc78 @rms I shouldn't have to know Richard Stallman lore to be aware that the poster of this content isn't a human being who is able to read my reply.