Kin Lane @[email protected]

I wrote about how I cannot understand why anyone is interested in joining a new centralized social media platform when we now have a great opportunity to move to protocols instead of platforms. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/21/why-would-anyone-use-another-centralized-social-media-service-after-this/

In my New Year’s prediction for @niemanlab, I write about newsletter writers’ long-overdue ethical reckoning, and tell an embarrassing story about the time a mysterious company offered me money to write a hit job on Amazon.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/12/newsletter-writers-need-a-new-ethics/

We may never be able to match the incredible achievements of #JohnMastodon, but the European Union still plays its part!

We are proud funders of Mastodon through the Next Generation Internet initiative (@EC_NGI).

Open,
Interoperable,
Decentralised,
Trust based.

More info: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

#Artwork by #farmworking communities in #Washington State, "a way of resisting a system that prefers to see farmworkers as disposable and invisible."

#FoodJustice #community #agriculture #grassroots #Latino #Latina #joy #justice #painting #artwork #illustration #journalism #pnw

https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.2/north-art-the-beauty-and-complexit-of-farm-work-in-washington

Fourteen years, nine months. End of an era. Apparently you can't delete straight-up, you have to deactivate and wait 30 days and then it is deleted.

And yes, I am deleting my account. Best of luck to whatever impersonator or spammer takes over the tinysubversions name. I refuse to dignify Twitter as a canonical namespace.

This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.

Mostly all of this platform upheavel is a giant fucking blinking neon sign to own your own shit.

Our publication has a long history with #JohnMastodon

He went to college with our illustrious founder, P.R. O'Publica