mastodon.ar.al is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This is my personal fediverse server.

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Every private space is owned by someone. That someone makes and enforces the rules according to their own interests.

You have no right to free speech in private spaces. If the owner of a shopping mall doesn’t like what your t-shirt says, they can have security escort you out.

“Social media” (Silicon Valley and venture capitalists) sold you the lie that shopping malls are parks.

They are not.

If you care about human rights and democracy, build and support parks not shopping malls.

@aral

We should work together to make products that interop beautifully.

@davew Indeed. And tools even; they don‘t even have to be products in the capitalist sense of the word.

@aral

Absolutely. I call them products because I put the same attention into my free stuff as I did with my commercial products.

Mastodon is a great example. The UI isn’t perfect, but it is really good, shows people who know how to do it put a lot of love into this and didn’t fight over bullshit, they made something nice without locking people in.

Aral Balkan

@davew Yeah, and product doesn’t have to imply that it’s commercial but, sadly, that’s the usual connotation these days. It can also just mean “that which is produced” :)