Darius Kazemi

@tinysubversions

I'm trying to make social media better: . Back on Twitter for research. Former Mozilla Fellow. he/him On fediverse: @darius@friend.camp

Portland, OR
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    1 Jul 2019

    I just finished ten incredibly rewarding months as a Mozilla Fellow working on making open source decentralized social media better for everyone. I've relaunched my Patreon with a focus on, well, fixing social media. You can see what I've been up to here:

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  2. Retweeted
    Apr 15

    "Cash is the best transactional tool for increasing community and individual autonomy that we have invented so far.” always read

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    Apr 6

    Now that your favorite western oligarch has bought a large stake in this platform you might be considering how to get out? hosts a free workshop 14-15 May for groups interested in running alternative social media.

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  4. Apr 14

    The Lurk folks are running a workshop May 14-15 that will teach what to do once you get a server up & running (either by paying someone as mentioned earlier, or on your own). They are looking for participants who plan to bring over an existing community!

    Now that your favorite western oligarch has bought a large stake in this platform you might be considering how to get out? hosts a free workshop 14-15 May for groups interested in running alternative social media.
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  5. Apr 14

    If you're a weirdo (I know a lot of you follow me), maybe give a shot

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  6. Apr 14

    If you're a new media artist (I know a lot of you follow me), is a pretty big tent and as far as I know a pretty cool server

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  7. Apr 14

    If you want to join an already-existing Hometown server, I maintain a list of them here. Though it's not as ideal as bringing along your already-existing community, it's a start.

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  8. Apr 14

    I realize this is not a solution for everyone but it is definitely a solution for SOME subset of people I see on here who are currently despairing and wondering "what should I do next, where should I go?"

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  9. Apr 14

    You can sign up for their server and they'll have a server up and running for you within about a day. Then you can post "@darius@friend.camp hello I'm here!" and I will follow you back and help you get acquainted with cool fediverse people

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  10. Apr 14

    Once again gonna promote Spacebear, who will handle the technical side of maintaining Hometown for you (Hometown is my mod of Mastodon that has extra features to enable cohesive small communities) (we're not affiliated, I make no $ from their sales)

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  11. Retweeted
    Apr 14

    “I have to buy and take the public square private in order to save it!” Try saying it out loud. It sounds ridiculous. Hero-complex nonsense. But so are the ideas that 1) we should have a global public square and 2) that there’s no “moderation” in the public squares we do have.

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  12. Apr 14

    "buy 100% of your favorite social media platform" is ALSO not what I meant when I said

    "buy 10% of your favorite social media platform" is not what I meant when I said
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    Mar 21

    It would be really nice if 's official integration would support full commit messages and not just the short form title. This would encourage devs to write longform commit messages using markdown and make git logs better for everyone.

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    Apr 12

    Fuck off

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  16. Apr 12

    I noticed Twitter got worse in the last week and then I realized it's been more than 30 days and I need to re-up this muted phrase (I am setting it to "Forever" this time)

    Screenshot of the Twitter "muted words" interface. I have muted the "thread" emoji for 30 days
    Self care
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  17. Apr 11
    Replying to

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  18. Apr 11
    Replying to

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    Apr 7

    it's the 53rd anniversary of the first RFC that would eventually lead to the internet! 👀 I couldn't imagine a world without it now, and I am grateful that it's allowed me to meet all of you. 💜 Thank you to Steve Crocker, and to :

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  20. Apr 7

    If you're on the fence about bringing your community over to Hometown, there's a workshop being run May 13-14 that will cover what exactly to do *after* you get the software up and running! (aka the hard part)

    Now that your favorite western oligarch has bought a large stake in this platform you might be considering how to get out? hosts a free workshop 14-15 May for groups interested in running alternative social media.
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  21. Apr 6

    mfer said palce

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