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 Well this is where we need the European Union to consider funding NGI beyond 2027.
https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Union_must_keep_funding_free_software_open_letter
We're going to need the investment in projects of all sizes.
@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 A lot more.
@bert_hubert Wild times ahead... Even more than now.
@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.
@philpem @bert_hubert
Weird, right?
@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.
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 Much more.
@bert_hubert It is very comforting that there is a safer place like this.
@bert_hubert at the very least the coming four years...