#onthisday in 1100, Theodoric was #elected #antipope in opposition to the legitimate #pope Paschal II. He took the name Sylvester III. The #schism was between supporters and opponents of Henry IV, #holyromanemperor. Fleeing #rome after his #election Theodoric was arrested, forced into a #monastery and died in 1102. I don’t know about you, but I miss the days of antipopes. #otd #history #histodons #Catholicism #papacy #religion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Theodoric

Those who advocate for the surrender of the fediverse to the Zuckerberg surveillance entity have been busy mischaracterizing adherents of the FediPact alliance in various ways. More needs to be said about this, but for the moment, let's unpack one of their more persistent slurs, the claim that we are "gatekeeping".

The term itself is one they have inherited from Silicon Valley crypto-fascist propertarians who, themselves, have seized power by overseeing the construction of a number of rigidly gatekept "walled gardens"; and the corporation they are so eager to collaborate with and invite in to colonize the fediverse is one of the most draconian of those gatekeepers.

But why accept this metaphorical territory on which to battle? Beyond the "walled gardens" and "marketplace of ideas" of neoliberalism, anarchist thought provides an alternative lens for viewing the predicament - the ZAD.

Within the Zone To Defend - the acronym derives from the French equivalent - there is safety, autonomy, solidarity, and yes, real freedom - freedom to express *and* freedom *from* the poisoned expressions of those who seek to weaponize speech to declare others inferior, excluded, and unworthy of existence.

However, as often when ideal meets reality, a contradiction is encountered. The presence of a "zone" infers the dialectical presence of space which is not the zone. Ultimately, our autonomous zone is one we would like to see grow to be boundless, which would be the fulfillment of its natural condition.

But provisionally at least, our zone is situated in the world as it currently is; a world in which we are surrounded by enemies on all sides. We do not ourselves choose the boundaries, but we acknowledge them, as we must. Unhappily, the Zone To Defend is bounded, and at the boundaries, we make our stand.

The defense of the zone is necessary, not just to guard the terrain, but more importantly, to defend the souls who have taken refuge and find community within it. This is a conviction the Meta collaborators don't appear to be able to grasp. They hunker down in the topography of protocols and MAU analytics, unable to catch sight of the actual people nestled in its hills and valleys.

In fact, the boundaries of the ZAD are not calculated, but rather emerge spontaneously from the defensive needs of those within. Their struggles, traumas, defeats and victories form the positions, shapes and composition of the barricades. Those who point this out are sneered at; as in, for example, the recent blog post of a prominent mega-instance admin and pro-Meta activist, who rolled his eyes at the "almost religious overtones" of our argument. Speak of people rather than protocols, and one will be waved off as a woo-dazed fanatic.

The communards of the Zone To Defend don't want to live in a bounded world, but they have to. And certainly, there is no interest in swinging open the gate now, as they observe the approach of perhaps the most dangerous of enemies - a totalitarian empire which has claimed its power by enabling and profiting from exactly those elements and forces which the ZAD exists to shelter them against.

Sorry Zuckerbros, but we will be keeping our gates.

#FediPact #FediblockMeta #DefederateMeta #FreeFediverse #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Schism #FediSchism #Anarchism #ZAD #AutonomousZone #Prefiguration

Fediverse friends @alexis and @jo have documented the presence of vile fascist kill-list compiler accounts Moms for Liberty, Libs of Tiktok, Gays Against Groomers and PragerU on Threads. In the attached screenshot, Jo is dogpiled for harassment.

There will be many, many more like them. These accounts won't be banned from Threads, because they produce engagement. And engagement - of any kind, the more negative the better - is all the psychopaths who run Meta care about.

Now we see exactly what we're being pulled into. Facebook hasn't launched a big Mastodon. Instead, the fediverse instances that federate with it will become little Facebooks

Receipts:
https://blahaj.zone/notes/9gu7nefip0
https://alexisart.me/@alexis/110665196652161520 (paste this link into search box)

#FediPact #FediblockMeta #DefederateMeta #Meta #Threads #schism #FediSchism

#Undertow. Jones is een meester in visual art en dat blijkt ook uit de magistrale video's die de songs van #Tool begeleiden. Hij creëert ook de covers en alles rond de tool albums, wat hem in 2007 een grammy oplevert voor 10000days. Hij zorgde ook voor de make-up van de acteurs in #Schism en #Parabola.
Hij helpt #GreenJellÿ met hun acts en ook de clips.
Jones tekent ook comics oa The X-Files/30 Days of Night is van zijn hand.
Jones tourt en speelt ook met #JelloBiafraAndMelvins en #Isis.

Two big coups going on at the moment - a coup against dictatorship in Russia, and a coup against democracy on the fediverse

#FediPact #schism #DefederateMeta #FediblockMeta #Meta #P92

The rumor circulating about large instances taking paid deals to sell out to Meta is useful, even if it's false. It should be put right in front of the NDA signers / unilateral fediverse destiny deciders. If there's no truth to it they can deny it outright without violating the NDA. If they evade answering… that's informative too

#FediPact #schism #DefederateMeta #FediblockMeta #Meta #P92

The most enraging of the Zuckerbros is actually Gargron, exactly because he's so quiet. Say what you will about the others, they're at least in the discourse. About the only thing Gargron tooted on the day of the NDA betrayal was a snap from a concert he attended. The federation is burning because of him, but he's having a ball.

It's a complete failure of leadership - and he has claimed leadership, even calling himself a "benevolent dictator". But there's actually no such thing, and these techbros who talk up decentralization, while sneaking around with a corporation which has spent 15 years trying to singularly enclose the internet, have ceded their claim to lead.

However, this is actually a golden opportunity for the fediverse to route around the damage of these Mastodon megaservers. What galls most is the spectacle of 3 mediocre white guys unilaterally deciding the destiny of hundreds of thousands, extolling the virtues of open standards and interoperability while dragging everyone else in the community around by the hair.

We don't need "new leaders", what we need is to horizontally distribute leadership so that everyone has some of it, and all network participants possess agency and an active stake in their own community.

Some have waved away the Anti-Meta Pact, noting that most of the participating instances are very small. That's not a bug, it's a feature. It's exactly what the fediverse should become - a network of countless small communities, distinct yet together. Pixelfed has implemented a limit of only up to 1000 users per instance. It's a good idea, and whatever we replace Mastodon with should implement something similar.

The #FreeFediverse will look back some day and see the megaservers, and the Zuckerbros that dominated them, as a aberration on the path to *actual* decentralization and democratization.

The fediverse is dead, long live the fediverse!

#FediPact #schism #DefederateMeta #FediblockMeta #Meta

En pas in 2001 komen ze tot de release van #Lateralus, een album dat al volledig gelekt is via #napster, maar zorgt ook voor een crash van de downloadsite.
Het album zal hun grootste succes worden met de song #Schism die hen weer een grammy oplevert.
Ondertussen heeft Danny al wat projecten opgericht waaronder #Zaum met #ChrisPitmann in 1995, Jazzfusion en jamband band #Volto! in 2000.
Hij werkt mee aan verschillende tracks van supergroep #Pigface.
En werkt ook met #LesClaypool en #Slash.
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19th century abolitionism disrupted some American Protestant denominations more than others because of differences in centralized authority & capacity to suppress dissent, rather than theological variation, according to Kristin George in the most recent Social Science History. Open access https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.1
@sociology @politicalscience @geography @economics @anthropology @religion #history #histodons #theology #Protestant #slavery #abolition #ideology #schism #SocialScienceHistory #USA

I've been playing guitar for 50 years (how can that be) and I'm still in the lowest foothills of Mount Skill.
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RT @felixmartin14
Tool - Schism - Duet

#toolband #Schism #ToolSchism @mjkeenan #progressivemetal #toolLateralus #Lateralus
https://twitter.com/felixmartin14/status/1589316370302656512

Marjorie Taylor Greene had a dream
Of a national divorce it would seem
It'd be such a shame
But the votes she's to blame
For her dreams of a great schism to teem

#marjorietaylorgreene #divorce #schism #limerick #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-national-divorce.html

#unitedmethodistchurch #UMC #globalmethodistchurch #GMC #disaffiliation #schism #christianity #protestantism #Methodist #methodists #Methodism #Wesleyan

@Miro_Collas A #schism can't come too soon. #Anglicanism can't pretend to have love at it's centre when a good proportion of it is filled with hate. Let it split and set the progressive arm free, otherwise it's doomed to die.

I love this song #schism by #tool so much since I heard it the first time as a teen.
Here is a little #piano #cover of the middle section 💓

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co5G3fBJNzs/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
#toollovers

She's absolutely right. Deep shame on all the #bishops. If #schism is the only solution then so be it. Tear the whole institution apart and rebuild with actual love as the foundation, not this tiresome bigotry. It's destroying and even ending lives.

#BBC News: Sandi Toksvig: I can't let the #Church of England hurt #LGBT people

#SandiToksvig #CofE #Synod #Anglican

BBC News - Sandi Toksvig: I can't let the Church of England hurt LGBT people
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64561692

🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:

AN 6.94 Tatiyaabhabbaṭṭhānasutta: Things That Can’t Be Done (3rd)

“Mendicants, these six things can’t be done.…”

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#killing #schism #StreamEntry #AnguttaraNikaya #Theravada #PaliCanon #RealBuddhaQuotes #Suttas #Dhamma #Buddhism #Buddha

I haven't listened to much #Tool. #10,000Days was pretty amazing. And who didn't like #Schism back in the day. I should rectify this.

#Metal #Music #NeverListened #MissedOut

#Lisp folk: if one were building a sophisticated new web client, would it be better in this day and age to write it in #ClojureScript and compile to JavaScript, or in #Schism and compile to #WebAssembly?

Ik las dat onze rappende Frans ook een #Instance heeft die blijkbaar overal geblokt is. Helemaal prima wmb. Maar wat ik afvroeg, aangezien het allemaal separate servers zijn, is het mogelijk dat andere servers uit hetzelfde genre als Frans elkaar wél toegang geven tot elkaars server? Ontstaan er daardoor verschillende continenten naast elkaar binnen #Fediverse (die niet met elkaar communiceren), of ontstaat er bij #Schism een nieuw #Fediverse?

https://axbom.com/fediverse/

L'armonia nasce dalla comprensione
e vale la pena preservarla,
trovando la bellezza nella dissonanza.

Lo so che i pezzi combaciano.

#Tool #Lateralus #Schism