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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺

Thank you Mastodon and the Fediverse for being an example of communicating without billionaires and US venture capitalists calling the shots. We're going to need more of this.

@bert_hubert they might have to go underground (if you get my drift) 😕

@bert_hubert @nlnet @NGIZero I think NLnet also has a way for already funded projects to contact their National Horizon Europe contact to talk about this.

Now seems like a critical time to do so.

@bert_hubert Sadly from what I've seen with friends flocking to bsky, they like it when the billionaires and nu-kings are subjugating them.

@geos @bert_hubert I've been through abusive relationships and helped friends through them... I know how hard it can be to break free, after a while it just becomes familiar.

@philpem @bert_hubert
Right Bluesky to me seems to be fleeing one cult (Xitter) to join another. Crazy.

@bert_hubert

An immediate action to take if at all possible - financially contribute to the existence of your instance. Recurring contributions, however small, will help keep our independent communication channels open.

@BRMiller @bert_hubert These are all great things to do to navigate a way forward in this moment — a dual movement: contribute in every way to the decentralized fediverse, and deprive all who prop up corporate owned media of our attention, financial support, and social capital.

@bert_hubert It is very comforting that there is a safer place like this.