Lots of people wondering why I've been so quiet - I'm really sorry, the truth is because I have been heads down & tails up with the development team for hours and hours every single day building the greatest social media application we've ever seen, for you all! We progress daily
...and often when my head and my focus is constantly immersed in technical detail like that, the outside world blurs and the days melt into one another and my awareness centers around build requirements & delivery deadlines (which I never, ever miss as I'm sure you've noticed!)
In the not too distant future, someone far cooler, more adept, more interesting & better at the role than me will become the public face of @pan_quake & I'm really excited for that.
In the meantime, I'm building them & you all a product that lives up to all promises & beyond <3
If you hadn't seen it yet, this video is of our April public delivery meeting.
I think the Fediverse is a wonderful thing. That's why I've ensured @pan_quake will be interoperable with it. PQ will contribute to the strength & growth of the Fediverse.
But those telling you that the Fediverse is "free" are lying to your face.
While being promoted as free, paid Fediverse hosting services are attractive to some users precisely because of the hardware costs, technical know-how barrier & ongoing funds required if you self-host instances. The more users in your instance the higher the costs you must meet.
Better worded: while the Fediverse is promoted as "free" participating in it often isn't free at all. Nor is it effortless. Should we invest effort in obtaining digital freedom? Absolutely. Is the Fediverse better than Big Tech? Vastly. But barriers to mainstream adoption remain.
As usual, we kicked it off by reviewing the updated campaign statistics for the last 4 weeks.
Huge news that THANKS TO YOU! we now have 4 full time development contractors & 1 part time paid contractor working very hard daily to deliver this groundbreaking next gen product
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Remember last month when we announced 3 new marketing projects? We've delivered on all 3.
The first short thematic vid premiered at the end of the event & will be up on Instagram & other social media shortly.
On the surface, I'm the target of the lies but in truth, we all are.
Because I am live-blogging my response, please periodically update the page to see new content. It may take several hours to complete. Once finished, I will present the key evidences in the below thread.
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OK, here we go. The article is finished - for now - and here is the tl;dr thread as promised.
How to become a beloved mainstream liberal politician:
1. Smile no matter what you're saying 2. Embrace Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, & every other war criminal you meet 3. Secretly facilitate US-led drone bombing "missions" & kill POC daily
4. Use "diversity" as a cover for reinforcing the military industrial complex & your business-as-usual (ie. killing for $$) stance 5. Spend tens of millions of dollars of public money on PR campaigns to teach people how great you are, then celebrate your greatness at every chance
6. Advance "total awareness" intelligence agency agendas, violating your citizen's homes, schools, workplaces, vehicles, streets with ubiquitous spying hardware & software at a level that would put China to shame 7. Make your citizenry a police force, turning them upon each other
Only 4 weeks on, we've had a 50% increase in donations, a 30% increase in donors, 4 new campaign updates posted, 6 new media appearances and some very dodgy and untrustworthy new follow stats from big tech that may or may not be accurate!
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Second: more techy geeky stuff
You may remember from last month, we'd completed our use cases, workflows, & mockups.
This month we've been mapping our application properties: the objects, methods & data structures that our code will reference & which define our application
BIG THREAD: When a self-professed "disinformation specialist" turns out to in fact be a specialist in circulating disinformation.
I was surprised at how many people failed to scratch below the surface of @davetroy's semi-recent yet widely circulated pontificating about QAnon
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Many people know that I was among the first people in the world to call out QAnon for the giant scam/psyop that it is.
I called it out in a now famous & epically long thread that I wrote in May 2018.
That thread was picked up & amplified by Julian Assange & WikiLeaks.
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My thread calling out QAnon for a psyop and warning people not to fall for it was not only written while I was living in Russia, but was widely circulated by many Occupy-related activists & WikiLeaks supporters.
Why? Because we knew QAnon was bullshit & were warning people
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