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What determines what appears in the "federated" feed on Mastodon?

Is it all the posts by off-site accounts followed by anyone on site?

I think part of the issue is that there is a subset of the left that thinks being right-wing is unacceptable.

But they can't say that, so they try to stretch terms like "white supremacy", which can be attacked, to cover their targets.

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if you haven't already done so:

NOW IS THE TIME TO DOWNLOAD YOUR TWITTER DATA

even if u have no reason to be suspended, u never know who could go after u

data includes follow list, followers, media, DMs, and js files of tweets + likes

I find in straightforwardly unsurprising that police are much more violent against people protesting the police than against people protesting other things.

No one owes you service.

Just create your own lunch counter.

That's how we decided this works, right?

Oh, it isn't?

You might as well say "taxation is theft".

You're technically correct, but so far away from common usage that it's not worth bothering.

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If you want to call what happened on January 6 a "coup attempt", (with ensuing "counter coup",) you _can_, but then it's the lamest coup ever.

When an event would be the most outlying member of its category, it's worth asking if it actually belongs.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Also, Facebook is the site where murderers live stream their massacres.

cnn.com/2019/03/15/tech/facebo

Apple and Google, remove this vile site from your app stores today!

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I would just like people to apply the same logic they're currently applying to Parler to Facebook, a social networking site best known for helping plan and arrange genocide.

nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technol

as ever, bootstrapping is the problem with new social media sites =/

I see the discourse has settled on calling it a "sack" of the capitol. Probably because of the viking.

Right-wing grifter speedrun.
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RT @robertmathisok
Holy shit ok so by now you've probably seen plenty of photos of the guy on the right, but believe me when I say that the story below is the guy on the left. His name is Br*an Clowd*s. Thread:
twitter.com/robertmathisok/sta

have you tried testing your posting fitness in novel environments to solve the problem?

Still lots of days left in January for us to be living in interesting times.
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RT @disclosetv
BREAKING - Pompeo cancels all restrictions on US officials in their relationships with Taiwan.
twitter.com/disclosetv/status/

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