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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0cq_nEWduY
Okay that was pretty cool, NGL.
#YoutubeVids #Science #Educational #TheActionLab
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So.... um, yeah I had to code on my mobile 'cause my laptop broke, lol 😅 Not really the cleanest code ever but I'll improve it 🙃 Also just take a look at #Tromjaro and see how much it has grown over the years! I like how @tio pays attention to every little detail of how an average nontechnical person uses Linux, where they get confused, etc and try to improve/fix everything he can - what you end up with is not a perfect distro but one with a much better UX than most.
TROMjaro 12.08.2023 (big update, many changes)
This is a big and important update for TROMjaro, and we made so many little changes that I can only highlight the most noticeable ones. In essence, I want TROMjaro to be very user friendly from the get go.TROMjaro Forum
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What it Takes to Find a Sperm Whale in Turkey ?
https://videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/1a18aef6-2984-414e-b0a6-a250d473c0ee
@sober_pirate thank you for capturing these genuine moments on video and sharing it with us. Watching the decline of our oceans and its natural ecosystem is very sad, tho it does give me a little bit of hope to see these humans who actually cares and try to do something about it. Videos like this inspires me, and I hope it reaches more people and inspire them too 🙂
What it Takes to Find a Sperm Whale in Turkey ?
I've joined Whales and Dolphins Research Expedition organized by organization DMAD. The project called " Giant Guardians Of The Deep Seas" the aim of survey is to scan all Eastern Mediterranean part of Turkey for cetaceans. My position was drone pilot and to find sperm whales there was not an easy task.Such researches are very important and necessary both for scientific purposes and conservation. Unfortunately as it often happens such projects lack funding. And right now further surveys under questions because of not enough money to cover the expenses.
To find more about DMAD : https://dmad.org.tr/en/
Home Page | Deniz Memelileri Araştırma Derneği
The choice is Yours. DMAD – Marine Mammals Research Association is a non-profit and a non-governmental organization that aims to create an ecological consciousness through its scientific research and outreach activities. Get Involved Be the change.Deniz Memelileri Araştırma Derneği
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In June 20, 2023, a documentary miniseries called TROM II was published on #Peertube, making it the first feature-length film to ever be released exclusively on the #Fediverse. Question is, were you aware of this documentary before?
Boosts appreciated.
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (documentary)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.videos.trom.tf
- Yes (6%, 4 votes)
- No (93%, 56 votes)
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@kev @mike did you guys make any changes to the server these past few days? @apps do you have any idea what might be causing the issue here? 🤔
(I'm now forced to use the webapp)
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Ok folks, I think I figured out the issue here. I was able to login with #Fedilab after connecting to a VPN, so my theory is that because of some regional differences my internet connection with #Fosstodon server became slower than usual, and Fedilab's http request timeout must've been lower than Tusky's making it only wait for a few seconds before giving up on the connection. @apps would be nice if you can make fedilab more tolerant to low bandwidths & high latencies
I think I figured out the issue, using a VPN solved my problem - https://fosstodon.org/@futureisfoss/110701476238899498
I don't want to always enable my VPN every time I open my social media app, so it'd be nice if you could make fedilab more tolerant of high latency situations. Thanks for your replies and all the work you do for the app 🙏 fedilab has always been my favorite fediverse client 🙂
@lps
Ok folks, I think I figured out the issue here. I was able to login with #Fedilab after connecting to a VPN, so my theory is that because of some regional differences my internet connection with #Fosstodon server became slower than usual, and Fedilab's http request timeout must've been lower than Tusky's making it only wait for a few seconds before giving up on the connection. @apps would be nice if you can make fedilab more tolerant to low bandwidths & high latencies
Have you tried in the login page to tap on three dots and use the built-in browser?
Also make sure there are no proxy (also in the three dots).
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Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPw9dSV6y2c
Proxied links 👇
Invidious link: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=ZPw9dSV6y2c&local=true
Choose your invidious instance: https://invidio.us/watch?v=ZPw9dSV6y2c&local=true
#youtubevids #science

I love the gel ant nest so you can see everything like that! Weird that the other ants didn't take any notice. I guess the theory could do with some fine tuning 😅
It wouldn't make any sense that an ant could react to this chemical and think it's dead 😅
I also hate these gel nests, they're terrible for the ants

Ah, I hadn't considered that they were eating the gel... I found a nice answer to explain more about that here in case others are also wondering about it:
https://wildaboutants.com/2012/06/01/reader-question-about-harvester-ants-eating-ant-farm-gel/
Reader Question About Harvester Ants Eating Ant Farm Gel
We have a question for the Consult-Ant today: Hello I wanted to ask you if wild Harvester ants, will learn to eat the gel in a antworks gel farm. I have an empty one and put about 30 wild, I’…Wild About Ants
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https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-2164-91d0-57b1-6bc227435170
The TROM II documentary is finally out my folks! 😃
As someone who has already seen it before, I HIGHLY recommend all of you awesome people on Fedi to give this one a watch. I only say this with such confidence because I'm sure it'll be worth your time, you will not only enjoy watching it but you'll also learn a lot about our world, and maybe even be inspired by it in the end!
TROM II: A Message to the Aliens (2023)
Ok people, the documentary is finally available. Please keep your expectations low and keep in mind that this documentary is made mostly by one human being, with limited resources. We have not used any stock footage (except maybe 2-3) so everything you'll see is real and genuine.Also, keep in mind that this is not the beginning or the end of anything, but a continuation of our work for this TROM project. We will create more materials and projects.
Watch it here https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
Download it from here https://www.tromsite.com/save/We hope this documentary can provide something valuable for you.
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So the way to move forward would be to create a system which doesn't have these flaws, and the only way to do that is to somehow get rid of the power difference between the one who can run servers and the one who can't.
Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?Aral Balkan
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I mean, not necessarily *literally*. But if you can participate without having to set up *or* join a server, that'd be grand, no?
https://www.theregister.com/2007/08/20/skype_outage_post-mortem/
What happened is that Skype used a so-called hybrid p2p network, where they bootstrapped everything off two supernodes, servers they were running themselves. But because they were no longer contacted, they got shut down. Patch Tuesday meant thousands of nodes trying to re-join the network and not finding supernodes.
I know this, because at the time I was working at Joost, which used the same tech, in the p2p team.
Patch Tuesday update triggered Skype outage
Mass reboot exposes VoIP network stability bugJohn Leyden (The Register)
The TL;DR of the story is, a fully server-less system can work very well, for years even, until a bunch of nodes disappear at the same time.
But the good news is that the only "servers" it needs to keep running under those circumstances are quite simple, and don't need to know much about anything. Add one, remove one, it...
So having *that* kind of server simple to run, simple enough for a bunch of folk to do in their spare time, is a big deal, because then you're pretty much where you need to be: resilience without the single point of failure/control.
however, i don’t know how widespread support for this is in clients.
#Scuttlebutt, aka #ssb, is an already existing p2p social network with some server-like nodes.
@jens @futureisfoss
I'm also a big fan of these domain-less peer-to-peer services and have been keeping an eye on the developments there. One such decentralized p2p project I know is the @briar messenger and they've recently announced the release of their new Briar Mailbox app, which is an app you can just keep running on an old android device or something and it basically turns it into a server for sending & receiving your Briar messages! - https://briarproject.org/news/2023-briar-mailbox-released/
Briar Mailbox released to improve connectivity - Briar
Press release The Briar Project released a new Android app called Briar Mailbox today. Briar Mailbox is a helper app for Briar messenger that lets you receive encrypted messages from your contacts while Briar is offline.briarproject.org
Like @aral said, they're all different methods/solutions for tackling the same problem, and they don't have to be mutually exclusive with one another. Its good to have different options at our disposal 😉
What I'm building with @interpeer is similar enough from 10,000ft, but is really less about "a messenger" or "a social media app", and more about re-imagining a generic (stack of) protocols where HTTP and TCP would be nowadays, with a tentative view to pushing into IP extensions (rather than replacing IP, though I'm open to that in principle).
Because of that genericity, a whole lot of individually relatively small things are different from...
But of course I know about scuttlebutt and briar.
@ArneBab is involved with #Hypha, the original #p2p freenet. See: https://freenetproject.org
https://reticulum.network/ and the GUI app for it https://github.com/markqvist/sideband. These projects are still in their early stages and the last time I tried it out there were many bugs, tho its still an interesting project to keep an eye on.
https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ - this one seemed more technical to me but from what I understand it helps liberate your IP address or something like that 🤷
GitHub - markqvist/Sideband: LXMF client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or anything else Reticulum supports.
LXMF client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or anything else Reticulum s...GitHub
But it also means more aggressively taking out single points of failure. I was recently editing https://specs.interpeer.io/draft-jfinkhaeuser-caps-for-distributed-auth/draft-jfinkhaeuser-caps-for-distributed-auth-02/ which is about authorization without having to ask some auth server.
@futureisfoss @aral @octonion888 @interpeer
Capabilities for Distributed Authorization
Authorization is often the last remaining centralized function in a distributed system. Advances in compute capabilities of miniaturized CPUs make...Interpeer Specifications
https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
#SmallWeb
What is the Small Web?
Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player.Aral Balkan
Also not gonna lie, Kitten is the cutest software project I've ever heard of

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Not only can you take your identity and content to a new server, but you can keep one or more live clones so that if your main server goes down (permanently or temporarily) you can just log in to one of the clones and carry on as usual. Useful as a backup, but also in case your main instance suddenly shuts down or kicks you out.
Nomadic identity, brought to you by Hubzilla - Andrew Manning - Medium
If you haven’t heard of Hubzilla yet, it is an advanced platform for online communications and content publishing powered by a decentralized identity and permissions framework built using common…Andrew Manning (Medium)
I'm a tech consultant who has been building email systems for over 25 years and using email for over 35 years.
Google didn't "take over the email ecosystem", and any suggestion that they did so displays a complete lack of understanding of the email ecosystem.
Gmail provided a better "free" email system than Hotmail, etc. There are many, many ways to use email that don't involve Google, many free or so low cost as to be insignificant.
Just listen to these people's experiences and tell me companies like Google still don't have power & influence over the email ecosystem:
https://octodon.social/@aneel/110571044143582876
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
https://trouble.social/@mookie/110571569621571610
What gives these companies their power is simply the fact that they own the vast majority of email users. One of the fundemantal flaws with federated networks is that corporations with large amounts of money & resources can scoop up the userbase and then get to control which messages reach them and who they can interact with.
@pls I used to run my own email server. I did everything I could to make sure my server did all of the SPF and DKIM stuff correctly. I made sure I wasn’t on any public blocklists. I wasn’t spamming. But I discovered that some people would just silently not receive email I sent. Apple mail and Gmail addresses were common examples. There was no appeals process or even acknowledgment that my server was being blocked. So eventually I had to give up and move to a commercial email provider that was big enough that the major mail providers couldn’t just ignore.
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You said you're a tech consultant who has been building email systems for over 25 years and using email for over 35 years, so I thought you'd know better than me. Anyway, since you asked I looked up the actual data, and this is literally the first sentance of Gmail's wikipedia article:
> Gmail is a free email service provided by Google. As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide making it the largest email service in the world.
Wikipedia page - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
And the source Wikipedia cited for that data - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/26/gmail-dominates-consumer-email-with-1point5-billion-users.html
This means that if Gmail unfairly blocks your email server, like the experience of many others I've linked above in my previous post, then you'll lose access to 1.5 billion active email users, which is surely a number you cannot ignore. Also note that there is no transparency or an appeal process for this blocking.
Its also interesting to look at the most used email clients - https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/most-used-email-clients
> Even though it’s the second-most popular email client, Gmail’s market share is still a significant 32.6 percentage points behind Apple’s. But together, Apple and Gmail make up a whopping 87.02% of the total email client market share.
> The third-most popular email client is Microsoft’s Outlook. It’s used by 4.42% of email users worldwide. Fourth on the list of the most used email clients is Yahoo! Mail, which has a market share of 2.91%. This is followed by Google Android, with 1.5%, and Outlook.com, with 0.66%.
See a pattern here? The majority of the email ecosystem (both in servers & clients) is dominated by big tech corporations like Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc who has the money and resources to scoop up such a big chunk of the userbase.
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I have said since the moment I discovered this fediverse network that nothing escapes the forces of trade. Facebook (fucking Meta name man 😁 ) wants to trade with people, so if they see the fediverse growing they'll jump and try to conquer it. Happened to pretty much everything, from software to products or events.
Defederating with them does not seem a solution for me. Rather let people get used to the fediverse through them, and then maybe they can move to different instances. But what's sure in my mind is that everything that's free and good (purely free and good) is fragile in this trade society.
@tio I'm also not so sure about defederation even tho I hate Meta joining this place, you can read some of the talks I had with my instance admins (@kev & @mike) here - https://fosstodon.org/@futureisfoss/110572085192899168
There seem to be a lot of questions about how Meta is gonna make money out of this and how that will affect other fediverse users, we'll need to wait and see. And you're of course right that its all about trade, I hope more people become aware of this through your new documentary - https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1164-9071-4d18-9b8950421735
@mike @kev @tychosoft My biggest question/concern is about their business model. As a company their entire goal is to make profit, how are they gonna do that? Will they collect people's data? Will they put advertisements on fedi or on their apps? Will they have paywalled features like the twitter blue check mark? I feel like all of these are against the spirit of fedi, the reason why this place is what it is today is because its not commercialized and rely on donations instead.
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Decentralization is the ideal: where the user chooses what to view or block, not a gatekeeping admin making that choice for them.
The Fediverse is feudal at its core, and I'm not sure how evenly this problem is spread between ActivityPub (the protocol) and instance admins (the people).
Protocols > People? People > Protocols? I choose the former.
@paramdeo You're absolutely right here, the ability to defederate shows you that this system doesn't really work and that admins do have some level of control/influence over their users, and the bigger the instance the more power the admin will have. We've had lengthy discussions about this issue before, here's the last post I wrote from what I remember - https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-7762-f814-5ad9-208146996908
The social impacts of moderation & censorship
This post is related to these previous discussions we've had about moderation:
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-4262-df68-a596-611155190199
https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1562-f428-15c1-f3b204992293So in those above posts we have shared some ideas regarding how we can improve moderation on the fediverse. Those posts were looking at moderation from a technical point of view. But after seeing some of the responses I got for my last post, I feel like I should write about the social impacts of it, because for some people moderation is a sensitive topic and TBH I don't think many people understand how complex this topic actually is.
Types of moderation issues
Usually when people say bad moderation, it can be of two types:
- Moderation is not strict enough and there are still a lot of bad content that needs to be removed.
- Moderation is too strict and content that shouldn't have been banned is being banned, leading to censorship.
Types of social media users
Many people disagree on how strict moderation should be, and what I noticed is that most of these disagreements come from 2 types of users who want different things from a social media:Type 1 users
These are people who don't want to see or interact with others who disagree with them. They might be doing this for 2 reasons:
- They want to create a safe space for themselves. For example, if someone's getting bullied online due to their political believes or race or whatever, then they might want to block out everyone who might be a potential threat. These include vulnerable people, like those going through depression and such, so they might need more stricter blocking than others.
- They don't want to hear from people who disagree with them. For example, someone might wanna block out all anti-mask people because they don't agree with them and don't want to argue about it.
Type 2 users
These are users who want to reach a lot of people via social media, including ones who disagree with them. They might be doing this for 2 reasons:
- They want others to hear them. For example, an environmentalist would want to be heard so that more people become aware of its importance.
- They want to hear what others are saying and change/improve their own views & knowledge about the world.
So Type 1 users generally want strict blocking while Type 2 users prefer less strict blocking, keep this in mind.
What content should get blocked?
So in the previous post I made, some people object to the idea of a "Soft block" and this is their reasoning:If my friend is on a poorly moderated instance, I want to get them off of that instance, not make an exception to my block just for them. With your system, there is no reason for people to leave bad instances because they can still interact with their friends, and there is no pressure on admins to actually moderate their instances, either. You make blocks completely toothless by having these exceptions.
I actually thought blocks were used for creating a safe space for the users of that instance, but reading this makes me realize that some people also see it as a way to punish other instance admins for not moderating properly. There are of course a lot of issues with this mindset, but in order to understand it you have to know a few things.What should an admin block in order to not become a "poorly moderated instance"? I'm simply asking here which type of content should be blocked. So the usual answer to this question is to block all of the socially unacceptable content. So if someone's being racist with people, then that person should be blocked because its not socially acceptable, so far so good. But now if you look at the history of what was considered as "socially acceptable" or not, then it gets real confusing. Because in the past it used to be socially unacceptable for women to vote, but at the same time slavery was considered okay! And even just in the past decades or so, a lot has been changed as to what we consider socially acceptable. There are still some countries today where homosexuality is considered socially unacceptable, and they're having to fight for their rights. So what people consider as socially acceptable will change from time to time and place to place. And I'm sure this will change in the future too, because there might be some things that are considered normal today, but we'll realize later that we've been wrong about it. This is not a wild claim, we've been wrong in the past many times and it'll happen again.
If Fediverse existed in the past - social norms changes everything
If I want to explain this to you then we'd have to talk about the past, what people had to go through in order to change the norm, because if they didn't change that then we'll be still living in a society where sexism and homophobia is norm. What would have actually happened if fediverse were to exist at the time where sexism was the norm? Moderators would actually be blocking feminist instances from federating, because in their own sense of morality that seems like the right thing to do. But the interesting thing here is, how will the users of a feminist instance react to getting blocked? So Type 1 users of the instance will say:"If they're blocking us for being feminist then we don't need to talk to them anymore, they're a bunch of sexists anyway. And users who really do care about feminism will move away from that instance. In fact, our admin should have blocked that instance way before they blocked us, because some of our members have been harassed by the sexists on that instance"
So Type 1 users are not directly affected by the censorship, and they are criticizing their admin for not blocking the big instance long ago. But Type 2 users will be quite upset over this, because they actually want more people to read their posts that explains the discrimination they face in society, to spread feminist ideas as much as possible, and getting blocked by big instances mean they lose a lot of their followers and will also limit their exposure to others. So now if these Type 2 users want to get their followers back, there are 2 ways for them to do so:
- They can try to tell their followers to move to a different instance, maybe to the feminist instance they're currently on. And this seems like the right thing to do because they were unfairly blocked. Now I just wanted to ask you this, if your instance blocked mine for unfair reasons like this, then would you be willing to switch instances for me? TBH I don't think anyone would do that for me, maybe some of my very close friends may do that, but that's it. So yeah, switching instances is not as easy as people make it sound like, if it was then this wouldn't be an issue.
- Type 2 users can't get all of their followers to move for them, so now their only option is to move themselves to a different instance. This is not a good choice because it sends the message that what the other admin is doing is okay, which it isn't. So keep that in mind. Now if their aim is to get their followers back then they'll have to move to an instance that federate with this big instance that blocked them. And by now we know that all of the feminist instances (if there exist any) will be blocked already, so they'll have to go with a generic instance. But after this move is happened, it'll put the admin of that generic instance in a hard position. Because if blocks are used as a way to punish instance admins for not moderating properly, then this admin will of course be scared of getting blocked by big instances. Remember that feminism was considered socially unacceptable at the time, so if the admin don't kick out these feminists then that instance will be considered a "bad instance" and it'll get blocked out of fedi.
Social structure
If you notice the above example, you'll see that Type 1 users don't have a problem with censorship, even when someone's blocking them. This is because they don't really want their posts reaching people who disagree with them, all they want is a safe space devoid of haters that harass them, and this is understandable when you're part of a marginalized group. So because of these, Type 1 users don't see any issue with strict blocking because they're not directly affected by any censorship, so they might be unaware of its long term consequences in our society. On the other hand, Type 2 users such as activists want their posts to reach as many people as possible, they want their voice to be heard, but as a consequence they can also get a lot of harassment from haters, usually more than what Type 1 users get because of their extended reach. So in that case, Type 2 users could actually empathize with Type 1 users too. And the moderation tools available to users are very helpful for both people.Type 2 users play an important role in changing social norms, because you can't create much of a social impact without reaching people who disagree with you. All activists are Type 2 users.
Now instead of focusing on the feminist instance, let's look at the social structure of the entire fediverse network:
- Type 1 users in support of feminism - These users will always be on feminist instances and they encourage their admins to block out all the other instances that isn't in support of feminism.
- Type 2 users in support of feminism - These users don't want their admins to block out too many instances because it'll reduce their ability to reach more people and spread feminist ideas.
- Type 1 users not in support of feminism - These users will stay away from feminist instances and they encourage their admins to block out all the feminist instances.
- Type 2 users not in support of feminism - These users don't want their admins to block out too many instances because it'll reduce their ability to reach more people and spread sexist ideas.
So when Type 1 users ask for stricter blocking, they could be trying to create a safe space for feminists, but they could also be trying to censor feminist content and create an echo chamber for sexists. And while Type 2 users ask for less strict blocking, they could be trying to spread feminist ideas, but they could also be trying to spread sexist ideas. This is why moderation is such a complicated issue, because there are 4 types of users who all want different things, and an admin will never be able to satisfy them all. In the case of that big instance that blocked the feminist instance, that decision was in favor of Type 1 sexist users, all of the other groups will be annoyed by this decision, except maybe Type 1 users because they don't care about censorship. Long before that, when the admin of that feminist instance chose not to block the big instance, that decision was in favor of Type 2 feminist users, Type 1 feminist users on the instance was annoyed by this because they prefer strict blocking.
The real problem
Maybe you got confused by the complex social structure of it all, but don't let that deviate you from the real problem here, if all of these users could choose for themselves what type of content they wanna block or not then this entire issue wouldn't exist. You see, the real issue here is that admins are making the decision for all users, and by doing that they are basically imposing their own sense of morality on others. Usually what will end up happening is that most admins will go along with the social norm, because that's how they can satisfy the most number of users. And so if sexism was the norm at the time, then feminism will be considered socially unacceptable and will get blocked.All of the ideas I've shared before, like the concept of "Soft blocking" and the use of "Blocklists", they were all attempts at solving the real problem here, and that is to give the choice to the user itself, let them choose what they wanna block. If soft blocking was the default, then those Type 2 feminist users would've been able to get their followers back without having to switch instances. And if blocklists were a thing then those Type 1 feminists would've been able to protect themselves from harassment by subscribing to a blocklist that gets rid of all sexist users. Giving more choice to users is the sane way to solve this problem, because users know what they want better than their admins do. Letting the users choose for themselves is also good for moderators/admins, because now they don't have to make decisions on behalf of everyone and worry about offending people. If some users on an instance want stricter blocking but others want less strict blocking, currently the only thing moderators can do is to choose between these and risk offending others, but if blocklists were a thing then the admin could recommend users to apply a stricter or less strict blocklist depending on what they want. And if such a blocklist doesn't exist then the admin can make one themselves, remember that anyone can easily make a blocklist and publish it online for others to use. If you look at how the blocklists for ad-blockers are made today you'll see that its maintained by many people and anyone can contribute to the list, also because most of these are managed using git repos every decision they make along the way is public and transparent. Can you expect the same level of quality blocking when a few admins or moderators are doing all the work for you? Blocklists are just better in so many ways.
A real world example
I've talked a lot about the past, but now I want to give you a real world example that's ongoing. @Cleo of Topless Topics is someone who had to deal with a lot of censorship because they question social norms. She is trying to normalize non-sexual nudity, and because nudity is considered as "socially unacceptable" in our society she gets censored everywhere. Speaking of that, did you know that men were once arrested for baring their chests on the beach? Here is an article that explains it all and how men fought for the right to go topless - https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/01/05/men-were-once-arrested-baring-their-chests-beach/
Today if we go to the beach we see lots of topless men, but its not considered socially unacceptable or looked at in a sexual way. But if a women shows her bare chest, maybe even to feed her baby, then that is not considered okay. This is the issue that she's trying to address.But of course, she gets blocked everywhere, so much so that she even has a page on her website to showcase screenshots of every time she got banned by different platforms - https://www.toplesstopics.org/banned/
Going through that page you'll understand that her content is being disproportionately censored compared to other nude content. And one of the reason why this happens is because her content gets false reported a lot by what she describes as her "Dedicated Cabal of Haters". You see, she's not only having to go through censorship but she also faces a lot of harassment from haters, all because she tried to question a social norm. And this is interesting, because the job of moderators is to stop people from harassing others, but in this case her haters are making use of moderators to harass her. A perfect example of how moderation can be a double edged sword.She didn't want to upload her videos to porn sites because she isn't making porn or any sexual content. And if you look at federated platforms like Peertube, then instances that allows nudity also allow all kinds of crap like pseudoscience, conspiracies, etc, so this is not a nice place to be. But finally she found @Tio who had a well maintained Peertube instance devoid of all the crap, and he agreed to host her videos there. So here's her channel now - https://videos.trom.tf/c/toplesstopics
But now if we were to spread this mindset that we should punish other instance admins for not moderating properly, then this peertube instance might get blocked simply because there is one person there that questions social norms. So is it a "poorly moderated instance" just because it has nude videos? Now you see how subjective these things are, because different people will have different opinions about what type of content should get blocked, so allowing users to choose for themselves is the best we can do here.
And BTW, I also wanted to point out that content warnings are not a solution here, the whole point is to normalize non-sexual nudity, so putting content warnings for it works against that goal. It is like asking users to put content warnings when writing about homosexuality or something like that, it goes against the whole point. On her mastodon account she sometimes put content warnings like "heinous nonsexual female nipples" to show how ridiculous it is.
Addendum
After publishing this post, the follow up conversations made me realize that I missed one important point. While I've made various suggestions to improve moderation like the idea of "Soft blocking" and of "Blocklists", I just forgot about a much more simple feature that already exists on most fediverse platforms. If you're worried about things like online bullying or just want a more strict protection, then one thing you can do is to change your post visibility to "followers only", this along with manual approval of followers would mean that no one can see or interact with your posts unless you manually approve them as your follower. You can find more info on how to do that here - https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107208540449655167Platforms like Friendica would also allow you to put people into different groups and then when you write a post you can make it only visible to the members of that group. This will be very useful if you have a lot of followers but still want to restrict who can see some of your posts.
So instead of relying on moderators to filter out the bad guys from the entire network, you're just filtering in good guys and only they can see your posts. This will of course be much more strict than relying on moderators or a blocklist, and can be very useful for those who want that level of protection.
Currently this is an opt-in feature, but it would be nice if the admin of an instance can make this setting default for all their users, so that all posts will be private by default unless you opt out. If an admin feels like their users need stricter protection, then having this option can be very helpful.
An adblock-like solution for the fediverse. Thoughts?
Hey people on the fediverse, I have a serious question/proposal. I talked about this in the past, but I want to create a thread about it and I will tag a few...social.trom.tf
Like with Twitter under Musk, I think some Fediverse admins that are pro-censorship are afraid that Zuckerberg won't allow censorship. Coupled with the enormity of Meta's userbase that kind of freedom makes radical instances that defederate obsolete.
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My most awaited project of the year, the TROM II documentary, is now finally close to its release! 😃 So I just want to share a few thoughts as to why its so interesting for me:
👉 The entire #documentary, around 5 hours long and divided into 4 parts, is made by a single person ( @Tio ), using only #FOSS software like @Kdenlive for editing, and on a #linux distro (https://tromjaro.com) as the main OS. This in itself is a very impressive feat! And also a shout-out to the awesome #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource community for how much it has grown. I heard this documentary is the biggest project ever made on #kdenlive so far, and making such a big documentary by a single person is no joke - took years of hard work to complete.
👉 Following a #FediFirst approach, it will be released on #fediverse platforms like @PeerTube first! Free for all to watch without any ads or data collection. I don't know if this will be uploaded to proprietary platforms like #YouTube, tho I'm sure #Peertube will always have top priority 😉
👉 Unlike the first TROM documentary which was released a decade ago, this one features interviews with people like @Sasha, @Aaron, @Dima, @Georgi and Tio himself. They talk about their personal lives, how they grew up in this world and such, their stories are supposed to give us a larger perspective on how our current society works. I can't tell you much more until I get to watch the documentary and see how all of this falls into place 🙂
👉 No stock footage has been used in the documentary! If making a 5 hour documentary doesn't sound hard enough for you then this will do it, lol 😄 So for example if it shows some scientists looking at data in one scene, then its actual scientists looking at actual data that they work on, not some stock footage of actors pointing at screens and faking stuff. Finding real world footage like this is a time consuming task as it'd require going thorugh a lot of documentaries, videos, etc looking for the right clip you need.
👉 If you've ever read any of the TROM e-books or seen their videos before then you'll know how it goes - looking at the world from a scientific perspective, encouraging people to be curious about the world we live in and the universe that surrounds us, and perhaps most important of all, to cut through all of the social constructs we've been accustomed to and see the world for what it really is, because only if we truly understand our world can we solve the many problems that are plaguing our planet right now. To get a little taste of what TROM is about you can try watching these short videos they've released in the past:
https://videos.trom.tf/w/jrLmgWLj9nWsdXc4j438cU
https://videos.trom.tf/w/tVV1uZFkYPYJGV37NTPvAE
https://videos.trom.tf/w/uZNAYArrAAa7VgThJ8tFsq
#science #educational #documentaries #activism #capitalism #environment #sustainability #NonProfit #volunteer
⬆️ UPDATE 1: The documentary is likely to be released in a few days from now and so I just wanted to share its official trailer here - https://videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG61HduWrryW?subtitle=en
⬆️ Update 2: For those who haven't seen it yet here's the link to watch the whole documentary - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
Or you can also watch it directly on Peertube - https://videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrWawHkggKi7Wz
Based on a recent poll I made on mastodon a staggering number of people aren't even aware of this documentary yet, so please spread the word if you find this valuable 🙏
32. Prison Earth by Sasha
Video inspired by Sasha's article - https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2020/01/07/prison-earth/ and recorded/edited by Dima https://dmitrylisenko.com/Welcome to Prison Earth. If you’re a very well-behaved inmate, you might not even realize that you’re locked up. If you never try to step outside, if you never question the guards or the other prisoners, and you do as they all do- work, work, work- slave your life away, and take “vacations” only when they let you, for as long as they let you- you might never even question the prison. You might be numb to it, quietly existing, working in the system, perhaps drinking or taking pills to cope with the lack of meaning in your imprisoned life.
I hope you’re not like that. I hope you question, and take a step outside, at least with your own mind.
Prison Earth
So I’m in Romania now with Tio and his family :). I had to leave Spain (again) because by law, I can’t stay there for more than 3 months at a time.Big World | Small Sasha
trom ii: a message to the aliens (trailer)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.videos.trom.tf
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👉 The entire #documentary, around 5 hours long and divided into 4 parts, is made by a single person ( @Tio ), using only #FOSS software like @Kdenlive for editing, and on a #linux distro (https://tromjaro.com) as the main OS.
This is the last thing in the documentary btw:
I made sure I mentioned these trade-free tools.
👉 No stock footage has been used in the documentary!
I'll make sure I'll mention this a lot and source all of the footage used. Simply because for one it makes the entire thing a lot more real (for example when you see some people pointing at some stars, these are not random people pointing at pointless stuff, are the scientists behind the WEBB telescope for example - footage I took from a documentary); and second because it is a massive amount of work to find footage that is not stock. Luckily I also built https://www.videoneat.com/ and I know so many documentaries.
Roko thank you so much my friend! You are so awesome and I hope you won't get too border by the documentary. As I said no huge expectations. And you'll get to watch it very soon ;).
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Wow that screenshot is lit ! 🔥 Imma share that on my mastodon account 😁
> I hope you won't get too border by the documentary.
Don't worry I won't get bored by it, lol 😄 I'm actually really curious about it, curious to see all of you and hear your interviews & personal stories, curious to see how you weave these interviews together with facts and knowledge about our world to create an engaging story, curious to see how you did the music, editing, and other audiovisual effects using FOSS softwares like kdenlive, inkscape, krita, etc. Unlike most other documentaries this one was made by the work of one single person, so I'll keep that in mind while watching, to really appreciate your effort 😀
But...
- = Huge filesize with it (my own personal thing about free or DIY is keep options for small is beautiful and not over bloat energy I. E. downloads / streams per user) unless really a final or big thing worth keeping / adding copies online in such sizes per file.
So only these monster rates available for your 4 min movie. .. just for example 1 file
●1440p (3.3mb/s = up + down rate) 102mb ? ?
●1080p (1.9mb/s = up + down rate) 59mb
●720p (1.2mb/s = up + down rate) 37mb
● no 360p?
(take off over'bloat useless 1440p maybe and save planet a bit?)
Again 4 mins of planets energy 102mb up then down + storage 24/7.
Not in balance or care. Measurably.
Consider 360p - knocking off 1440p. And make energy-peace a bit more even if you think it's just an opinion, because you're burning shit up too easily / cheaply.
Can't wait for then 12gb movie documentary ^_^
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If you're complaining that there isn't a 480p or 360p option available, then from what I understand its because of server limitations - converting the video to more formats require a lot of energy, CPU power, and storage space on the server. Looking at the small number of views these videos have, it might actually save more energy by not providing too many formats, tho the biggest hurdle is still the server cost. Commercial platforms like YouTube are able to provide people with all kinds of formats because they have the money and resources to do so, you can't expect the same from small Peertube instances run by volunteers. At least in Peertube it doesn't track and collect data about their users to then sell it to advertisers, nor does it force you to watch ads in their video player, YouTube does all of these and not only would it consume more energy, data and resources, but it also takes away your privacy (data collection) and valuable time (watching ads).
I also wanted to point out that its highly subjective to call 1080p & 720p videos as "monster rates" or "over bloat" since a lot of people have screens with that resolution and prefers watching video in that format, on the other hand you have people who watch Netflix in 4k and 8k 🤷 (I'm not encouraging this behavior just pointing it out)
> Consider 360p - knocking off 1440p. And make energy-peace a bit more even if you think it's just an opinion, because you're burning shit up too easily / cheaply.
I don't know where you saw 1440p but it probably has something to do with the height/width ratio of that particular video. And while its true that 360p may consume less MB or storage space, this will also significantly reduce the clarity of the video, sometimes to the point that people with poor eyesight can't read the text on screen or induce eye-strain in some people. The argument about energy can be used against anything really, why not stop making videos and write e-books instead? that'd save a lot more energy, if everyone stops using social media altogether then that'd probably save tons of energy, but we as a society use these things despite their energy expenditure because we find it to be beneficial for us, there are exceptions to this of course but in your case of using 1080p & 720p video quality I don't see this as a waste of energy.
We're not all on your style of residential broadband cable REMEMBER THAT- it's important. Even more so for the trade-free or minimalist style people/groups.
Leaving a big version for the heroine-style massive screens ok, but what about the little peeps (small screen & low mobile connection pay-per-gb-of-data) of which are probably more?
so I'll rest my case for that (and as mentioned before for the almost-just-voice-chat videos going to 2gb for 2 hours!).
Thanks for info about Peertube - I did know all that but good to have your blurb about it to advertise to others and save me typing it to someone else 😀
Yeah Netflix people who watch Netflix in 4k and 8k - while you don't encourage it I'm suggesting you are for me are already getting to Netflix with your other vids and sizes. I don't think you are totally... so 'a few videos' MIGHT save your footprint (or those behind this) but still the ratio kills even if nobody watches it. (See all the backup Tio does, all that is cost even if cheep cheep from US/Amazon S3 etc)
I accept your reply but looking on the previous voice chats etc videos (2gb!! for 2 hours of mostly still faces on screen... with many resized formats) it's clear Gb's and Tb's are not a problem / so cheap (for example getting double for $8 or whatever previously, again honestly mentioned before by Tio). Just sick cheap and wasteful cheap. Bad habits are here and you're not even the main person - I appreciate you being the nice front here while main artist makes massive files.
So offering praise is good but good to really look at all the copies you guys have.
Just too easy probably to make / consume - trade-free or not. .
Measurably speaking... check demographics of devices
●I'd bet mostly people play on mobiles
(you could check this and act accordingly while leaving 1 massive version to see if anyone clicks it)
Remember the default on PeerTube will be lowest resolution usually and most wouldn't even notice the 'detail' on mobile (and not sure if even the documentary would even justify that for its content while some commercial movies are lesser in ratio).
Good luck again.
We're not all on your style of residential broadband cable REMEMBER THAT- it's important. Even more so for the trade-free or minimalist style people/groups.
Leaving a big version for the heroine-style massive screens ok, but what about the little peeps (small screen & low mobile connection pay-per-gb-of-data) of which are probably more?
so I'll rest my case for that (and as mentioned before for the almost-just-voice-chat videos going to 2gb for 2 hours!).
Thanks for info about Peertube - I did know all that but good to have your blurb about it to advertise to others and save me typing it to someone else 😀
Yeah Netflix people who watch Netflix in 4k and 8k - while you don't encourage it I'm suggesting you are for me are already getting to Netflix with your other vids and sizes. I don't think you are totally... so 'a few videos' MIGHT save your footprint (or those behind this) but still the ratio kills even if nobody watches it. (See all the backup Tio does, all that is cost even if cheep cheep from US/Amazon S3 etc)
I accept your reply but looking on the previous voice chats etc videos (2gb!! for 2 hours of mostly still faces on screen... with many resized formats) it's clear Gb's and Tb's are not a problem / so cheap (for example getting double for $8 or whatever previously, again honestly mentioned before by Tio). Just sick cheap and wasteful cheap. Bad habits are here and you're not even the main person - I appreciate you being the nice front here while main artist makes massive files.
So offering praise is good but good to really look at all the copies you guys have.
Just too easy probably to make / consume - trade-free or not. .
Measurably speaking... check demographics of devices
●I'd bet mostly people play on mobiles
(you could check this and act accordingly while leaving 1 massive version to see if anyone clicks it)
Remember the default on PeerTube will be lowest resolution usually and most wouldn't even notice the 'detail' on mobile (and not sure if even the documentary would even justify that for its content while some commercial movies are lesser in ratio).
Good luck again.
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This article is the perfect response to anyone who says that end-to-end encryption or privacy in general should be undermined because "the bad guys might use it". News flash, the same can be said about almost all of our existing infrastructures and the argument doesn't hold up when you consider how vital these are. End-to-end encryption provides the same level of safety & security to a victim as it does a terrorist, it protects activists & journalists from surveillance.
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This is me watching the new TROM II documentary! 🙂
I know this isn't officially released yet but a few of us close friends got to watch it early 😁 I went with very low expectations as I knew it was entirely made by a single person, and it completely took me by surprise how well made it was, seriously impressive work! I liked it so much that I even volunteered to help write the English subtitles for it, gotta help where you can 😉
Trailer for the documentary - https://videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG61HduWrryW?subtitle=en
TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.
What are these humans living for?
In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.
Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
Watch it here: https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
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#Educational #environment #Sustainability #cobalt #PublicTransit
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#YouTube #OurChangingClimate #YoutubeVids
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If environmental harm = number of cars x pollution, does make you wonder if reducing the pollution isn’t the only way to reduce the harm. …
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The trailer for the new TROM II documentary is out! 😃
You can watch it on #Peertube here - https://videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG61HduWrryW
Its made by a single person @tio entirely using #FOSS programs like @kdenlive, @inkscape and @krita.
The documentary also features interviews with some curious minds like @aaron, @bigworldsmallsasha, @sober_pirate, @georgi, and @tio himself.
I've explained more about it here - https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1264-45eb-d223-3ef585340224
TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.
What are these humans living for?
In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.
Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
Watch it here: https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
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#animation #movie #disney #solarpunk
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Exploring the surprisingly radical ecological messages in Disney's Strange World. The movie's visuals are borrowed from old pulp adventure magazines but its ...YouTube
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TROM II documentary is my most awaited project of the year, and now that its finally close to its release (Yay! 😃), I wrote a post explaining why its so interesting and unique - https://social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc44-1264-45eb-d223-3ef585340224
My most awaited project of the year, the TROM II documentary, is now finally close to its release! 😃 So I just want to share a few thoughts as to why its so interesting for me:👉 The entire #documentary, around 5 hours long and divided into 4 parts, is made by a single person ( @Tio ), using only #FOSS software like @Kdenlive for editing, and on a #linux distro (https://tromjaro.com) as the main OS. This in itself is a very impressive feat! And also a shout-out to the awesome #FreeSoftware / #OpenSource community for how much it has grown. I heard this documentary is the biggest project ever made on #kdenlive so far, and making such a big documentary by a single person is no joke - took years of hard work to complete.
👉 Following a #FediFirst approach, it will be released on #fediverse platforms like @PeerTube first! Free for all to watch without any ads or data collection. I don't know if this will be uploaded to proprietary platforms like #YouTube, tho I'm sure #Peertube will always have top priority 😉
👉 Unlike the first TROM documentary which was released a decade ago, this one features interviews with people like @Sasha, @Aaron, @Dima, @Georgi and Tio himself. They talk about their personal lives, how they grew up in this world and such, their stories are supposed to give us a larger perspective on how our current society works. I can't tell you much more until I get to watch the documentary and see how all of this falls into place 🙂
👉 No stock footage has been used in the documentary! If making a 5 hour documentary doesn't sound hard enough for you then this will do it, lol 😄 So for example if it shows some scientists looking at data in one scene, then its actual scientists looking at actual data that they work on, not some stock footage of actors pointing at screens and faking stuff. Finding real world footage like this is a time consuming task as it'd require going thorugh a lot of documentaries, videos, etc looking for the right clip you need.
👉 If you've ever read any of the TROM e-books or seen their videos before then you'll know how it goes - looking at the world from a scientific perspective, encouraging people to be curious about the world we live in and the universe that surrounds us, and perhaps most important of all, to cut through all of the social constructs we've been accustomed to and see the world for what it really is, because only if we truly understand our world can we solve the many problems that are plaguing our planet right now. To get a little taste of what TROM is about you can try watching these short videos they've released in the past:
https://videos.trom.tf/w/jrLmgWLj9nWsdXc4j438cU
https://videos.trom.tf/w/tVV1uZFkYPYJGV37NTPvAE
https://videos.trom.tf/w/uZNAYArrAAa7VgThJ8tFsq
#science #educational #documentaries #activism #capitalism #environment #sustainability #NonProfit #volunteer
⬆️ UPDATE 1: The documentary is likely to be released in a few days from now and so I just wanted to share its official trailer here - https://videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG61HduWrryW?subtitle=en
⬆️ Update 2: For those who haven't seen it yet here's the link to watch the whole documentary - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/
Or you can also watch it directly on Peertube - https://videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrWawHkggKi7Wz
Based on a recent poll I made on mastodon a staggering number of people aren't even aware of this documentary yet, so please spread the word if you find this valuable 🙏
trom ii: a message to the aliens (trailer)
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires.videos.trom.tf
If a single person can make a 5 hour documentary (split into 4 parts) using only #FreeSoftware then that goes to show you how much the #FOSS community has grown over the years. @kdenlive @inkscape @krita Be proud of what your software is capable of today! 😃
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This video hits hard, we're all immersed in propaganda without even realizing its influence on us, so when someone points it out you're in shock of how you didn't see that before.
#YouTube #educational
#propaganda #news #media
#capitalism #neoliberalism
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•But this is something I rarely see in videos/documentaries, the focus on why these things happen. Dima said he will try to emphasize on that more in the future. I understand that you can get repetitive since it all starts from this trade-environment (mostly), but it is definitely worth adding the "why people do these bad things".
Anyway, Dima does a great job with these videos, from editing to highlighting these wonderful people who do wonderful things. Like he was saying, these are the heroes.
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•@Tio actually i had to cut out few scenes out of the video, when Aylin (that woman) is explaining how everything is rigged by oil and gas industry and military exercises. Because she is protecting sea she is in a conflict with Turkish oil industry, they sued her for some kind of bullshit which his not truth, but anyway she got court right now. And before publishing i showed video to her and she liked a lot that part, but decided to ask her lawyer if it's possible to publish that. Because in that part of the video there were also cuts from Turkish media news outlets how they support basically destruction of an environment for a profit. And lawyer said that it has to be out of video 100%. Because if published she will had huge problems in the court. Imagine that!!! That's a fucked up world where you can't really point on the problem because you can be fined or even jailed. And Turkey is not the most "free speech" country in the world.
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