Counter Social?

[cilla4progress]

https://counter.social/web/timelines/public/local?session=oathed

[Wounded Bear]

1. I rarely click on blind links. A bit of lead-in would be helpful...nt

[haele]

2. Counter Social is run by Jester Actual, it's a 'White Hat/Activism' platform

It's also moderated.
Not a bad forum, sort of like Reddit.
Could act as a less-toxic alternative to Twitter and Reddit. And so far as I know, your personal data is safe.

Haele

[cilla4progress]

4. Thank you!

I can't abide staying on twitter if musk buys it.

I try to always carefully source my interactions.

[cilla4progress]

3. Sorry...

as twitter alternative.

I was all hyped ranting here in favor of TribelSocial developed by Omar Rivero who also runs Occupy Democrats.

Turns out there are...questions.

Someone here pointed this out to me. Now I'm seeing the same questions on twitter. Someone there mentioned CounterSocial. I tried it before, unsuccessfully, but it's grown alot. The interface is already better than Tribel.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

5. I didn't realize Tribel was run by the Occupy Dem people

What are the questions? Related to their dubious bookkeeping?

[cilla4progress]

6. Primarily,

yes.

There was a good thread here yesterday about it. May be searchable.

[Celerity]

7. this thread has a lot of info

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217279922

[AZSkiffyGeek]

8. Thanks!

Occupy Dems is a BIG red flag for me. And a quick skim of Rivero's tweets about Tribel show the same flags.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Two links more useful than a login link

https://onlysky.media/mclark/countersocial-isnt-the-new-twitter-its-something-way-better/

Can we do better than the social media that's dominated Western culture and distorted its democracies for the past decade? CounterSocial says yes—if you're ready for change yourselves.
Reading Time: 13 minutes

There’s a popular myth about a frog that stays in a pot of gradually heating water until it boils to death. It’s not true. The original frog takes a bit longer, but it does hop out. And yet, our fatalist belief in the myth of the dead frog makes a lot more sense after my first week “out” of Twitter, and onto a social media platform unlike any I’d experienced before. CounterSocial is one of a few forums you might have heard mentioned in the wake of Elon Musk’s declared intent to buy Twitter, but it’s not a replacement. It’s been around since 2017, as a specially curated instance of pre-existing infrastructure, and it has the potential to be so, so much more.

https://counter.social/faq.html

Why does CounterSocial block entire countries?

Isn't blocking entire nations 'racism' or 'xenophobic'?

Surely that's 'nationalistic'?

Well then it MUST be 'censorship'? Right???

What about my 'free speech'?

Well dayumm, CounterSocial must be somehow violating the (A)GPL license then?

Who defines these rules, anyways?

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Is that a European or African Swallow? There's a difference ya know!

[cilla4progress]

10. Can we expect msm to do a deep dive

Into Tribel?