People say mastodon is too hard to explain to non-technical people, but I explained it the other day to someone extremely non-technical by just saying "it's decentralised. so instead of being run by one company, it's run by whoever wants to run their own version of it. This way there's no profit incentive, no algorithm and no ads" and she immediately understood what I meant, and why that would be a good thing.

You don't really need to explain federation and all the underlying tech to explain people what it is. Even federation is simple to explain. "anyone can run their own version of it - but they can all still talk to each other"

New computer with Windows pre-installed? Want to install #Linux 🐧 instead?

You pay for #Windows, even if you don’t use it. That’s unfair and non-transparent.

#Refund4Freedom from @fsfe & @ItaLinuxSociety defends your right to get refunds for unused pre-installed software! 😎

https://refund4freedom.org/

The campaign starts in #Italy 🇮🇹 but will later be extended.

FSFE & ILS support your right to choose your operating system. They also support #EndOf10 to prevent e-waste!

#GetYourWindowsRefund

It’s so exciting that the whole world now gets to experience instance admins repeatedly subtweeting each other on their respective shitty social media sites

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

@pluralistic

ive been forced to forward this to you, the unsuspecting victim, by circumstances beyond my control

with deepest apologies

Specifically the petition to ban conversion therapy practices is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)

If you're a citizen of these countries you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy practices by voting at:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home