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+title: "Emerald Social: A Local Mastodon Server"
+date: 2022-09-03T18:02:10-07:00
+draft: true
+tags:
+    - emerald social
+    - tech
+---
+
+## Introduction
+
+With social media, I've found that people will often gravitate towards whatever is put in-front of them. As such, it is a great power, and thus great responsibility to have control of that. Unfortunately, as it stands, platforms like (but not limited to) Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok fail to handle this responsibility well. It's well-known that corporate social media abuses its power to [destroy people's mental health](https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739) and [influence elections](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/russian-propaganda-group-purchased-ads-facebook-2016-election-heres-means). Not only that, but they intentionally foster communities of toxicity for profit.
+
+## Go Local?
+If national news sucks, why not go local? Much the same might be said for social media. However, in local communities, there aren't any *good* options in practice.
+
+### Neighbors
+
+As part of [Amazon's mass police surveillance company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(company)), Neighbors is primarily used for "public safety", otherwise known as [violating privacy and racial profiling](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/amazons-ring-perfect-storm-privacy-threats).
+
+### Citizen
+
+Similar to Neighbors, Citizen is primarily designed for "public safety" and snitching. Almost everything about Neighbors also applies here.
+
+### Local Facebook Residents Group
+
+It's Facebook. All the problems mentioned in the introduction are there. In addition, it's impossible to view posts without logging in half the time, and that's unacceptable for the free and open web.
+
+### Nextdoor
+
+Nextdoor presents itself as a friendly local-focused social media network, but in actuality [ends up being a NIMBY hell-hole](https://redbrickblog.co.uk/2021/11/how-scrolling-through-nextdoor-made-me-a-yimby/) with similar toxicity to Facebook residents' groups and all the other options mentioned previously.
+
+## Enter Mastodon
+
+[Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org) is a decentralized, open source, and interoperable social media network. That means people can talk to each-other across various Mastodon servers, and servers running other software that runs [ActivityPub](https://activitypub.rocks/), the glue that holds it all together. Since there's no corporate control and the source code is free (as in both freedom and price) for anyone, I knew this would be a good choice, especially since there are instances specific to individual places out there, such as [oslo.town](https://oslo.town/about), [toot.wales](https://toot.wales/about), [social.tulsa.ok.us](https://social.tulsa.ok.us/about), and [pdx.social](https://pdx.social/about) to name four.
+
+## Enter Emerald Social
+
+To add one more to that list, I introduce [Emerald Social](https://emeraldsocial.org/about), a social network for the Eugene-Springfield, Oregon area!
+
+The 

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 ### Introduction

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-title: Why I Don't Like Proprietary Software (as an Anarchist)
-date: 2022-08-08T04:50:00.000-07:00
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-- software freedom
-- anarchism
-- goolag
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-> Why aren't you using normal software?
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-_Alright, so this article is mainly meant for the people at uni who glance over at my laptop screen and wonder why I'm not using a "normal" operating system._
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-_In short, I believe that proprietary software is an existential threat to our individual autonomy._
-
-_For the long answer well, you'll have to actually **read** it._
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-What do I mean when I say that proprietary software is an existential threat to our individual autonomy? To start with, there are a significant amount of incentives for proprietary software developers to do things which harm your autonomy, such as operating systems which prevent the user from installing apps other than from a single location. Since there is no way to excercise [your freedoms](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms), it is impossible to verify that the software isn't doing injustice to you, such as with [period tracking apps providing data to tech giants without user consent](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/opinions/period-trackers-app-roe-abortion-ranney-yao/index.html).

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