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I’m all in on proportional representation but the irony of FairVote highlighting the concentration of power while posting on BlueSky is just too on the nose.

Still got my upvote.

Archived link without the noise: https://archive.ph/pTYtU

Sadly I think some of the folks in power at our neighbours to the south use this as a calling card for their desired endgame: https://www.wcbu.org/npr-news/2024-06-03/the-upside-down-american-flag-goes-mainstream-as-a-form-of-right-wing-protest

They’re destroying and capturing everything. Twisting the meaning of everything.

It’s revolting.

Can’t sign this - it’s way too shortsighted.

I would sign a petition (and even campaign) for a law requiring that no public sector communications be on any corporate platform. But calling out x/twitter is useless. In my area, RCMP and the town use Facebook. I do not have a Facebook account.

My town regularly fails to post updates on their own site.

We need to a law that mandates no private platforms should be the primary source of any public information. I don’t want my public services to just start posting on BlueSky.

Ganong hurts a bit - the Cookes stuck their fishy hands in that pot - but it’s still worth supporting.

The Cookes are awful billionaires but at least they’re awful Canadian billionaires? /s If we haven’t heard of them, that’s by design.

Local food bank or Soup Kitchen - maybe check in if you have a local Legion?

In KV where we live the food bank does delivery and can always use help.

There are also other ways to get involved. I recently found some trails I use all the time and joined the organization to help keep them up / develop them.

But no matter what you do this is awesome. One of the biggest tricks that’s played is this idea that things are out of our control - and yet so much of what (and how) we do can be shaped locally.

Also if you find something’s not your thing - don’t give up - keep looking.

Finding a cloud service provider that’s reliable and has good terraform support has been impossible. Best we could do there was switch to another American firm that didn’t seem to be a Trump-supporting sell-out.

Otherwise it’s been pretty easy. But mostly because we already had everything.

As a baseline my focus hasn’t been so much not buying American at all but buying from Canadian owned and operated stores as the primary entry point. So no more Amazon, etc.

I’ve got two Atwater bags. They’re really nice. I’ve had some mixed experience with the company though, sadly. I hope it was just a blip. Quality, well designed, and handmade in Montreal.

I switched much more recently. It’s been more than fine - great even. A few rough edges but nothing that prevents me from getting my vision out. Publisher 2 is a very adequate replacement for InDesign and I like that the tools are more tightly integrated.

The one feature I miss is the integrated and centralized asset library for multiple users and teams.

And codeberg is the the hosted alternative which runs on Forjego. It has OG GitHub vibes: https://codeberg.org/

Have you considered that some folks don’t go visit the cross posts?

Article is paywalled on mobile. Not sure why I was downvoted for pointing this out.

Here’s a bypass: https://archive.ph/qc7hE