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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · Nov 17

I appreciate all the new follows and would like to point out, that Bluesky is just a backup. If you want to follow me, please do so - primarily - on Mastodon:

legal.social/@malteengeler

Malte Engeler (@[email protected])

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 4d

With that in mind: A platform that is not ruled by a single, profit-driven entity like Bluesky (or any other commercial platform) can be a place to build lasting communities. Universities, libraries, cooperatives and other associations could help build that place now.

Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 4d

... as a concept it very much is viable. It needs a collaborative governance. It needs a community that develops mechanisms of accountability beyond the instance owners uncontested rule. To become that platform, it needs institutional support and people that are willing to be part of it.

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 4d

Mastodon, as all parts of the Fediverse, has many problems: Bad branding, terrible attitude, technosolutionism to just name a few. It's reliance on "a decentralised protocol as the silver bullet" is a huge flaw and a symptom of its community being infected by cyberlibertarian brainrot.

And yet...

Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 4d

Looking at the meltdown of what is left of Bluesky's former semi-liberal brand I feel like this site here has irrecoverably startet its own exodus-timer.

With that in mind I'd kindly remind everyone that there are different solutions available, most prominently: Mastodon*

*yes, YES, I know

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Fan of Buff Coach Dan Campbell Team @motowncatscrown.bsky.social · 5d

By the way, this is blatantly not true if you look at the way they suspended a bunch of people after Kirk's death. You can absolutely harass these people into moderating the way you want them to, you just have to be a right winger.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 5d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 7d

Wenn Rechte vor der Marktmacht von Big Tech warnen, dann ist das keine Basis für eine Allianz. Es ist Anlass, sich klar zu machen: Eine geteilte Kritik an Big Tech ist noch lange keine geteilte gesellschaftliche Vision.

Mein Text für das @ndaktuell.bsky.social 👇

www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1194...

Digitaler Medienimperialismus

Rechte und Liberale, EU und Staatsminister Weimer sind sich scheinbar einig: Die Marktmacht der großen US-Tech-Konzerne muss gebrochen werden. Warum sich Linke dieser Forderung nicht vorschnell anschl...

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Interventionistische Linke [IL*] Berlin @il-berlin.bsky.social · 9d

Wir verurteilen jede Form staatlicher Repression und stehen an der Seite all jener, die davon betroffen sind.

Solidarität mit Palästina ist kein Verbrechen!
Free Palestine and Abolish the Police!
#freeGaza #allezusammenfürgaza #b2709

Am 27. September haben wir gemeinsam mit rund  100 000 Teilnehmenden bei der „Alle zusammen für Gaza“-Demo protestiert. Währenddessen wurde eine weitere Palästina‑Demo am Moritzplatz von der Polizei erst brutal zusammengeschlagen und dann aufgelöst – ein Vorgehen, das in den letzten zwei Jahren zum Standardrepertoire der Cops im Umgang mit Palästinasolidarität geworden ist.

Auch die „Alle zusammen für Gaza“-Demo blieb nicht von polizeilicher Gewalt verschont. Dort wurden Mitglieder von Migrantifa kollektiv aus der Menge herausgezogen und im angrenzenden Park isoliert. Dieses Vorgehen ist kein Zufall! Immer wieder richtet sich staatliche Repression gezielt gegen migrantisierte Menschen, BIPoCs und andere marginalisierte Gruppen. Durch solche Maßnahmen wird versucht, uns in „gute“ und „schlechte“ Demonstrierende einzuteilen – dem müssen wir entschieden entgegentreten!

Wir verurteilen jede Form staatlicher Repression aufs Schärfste und stehen an der Seite all jener, die davon betroffen sind.

Solidarität mit Palästina ist kein Verbrechen!
Free Palestine and Abolish the Police!

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AfD-Verbot Jetzt! @afdverbotjetzt.bsky.social · 17d

Berliner*innen aufgepasst: am Donnerstag, dem 25.9 lädt unsere Lokalgruppe online zum Neuentreffen. Schickt uns einfach eine Mail mit dem Betreff “Neuentreffen” an [email protected].
Wir freuen uns auf euch 🩷💚✊

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Anne Roth @anneroth.bsky.social · 18d

Es ist übrigens nicht möglich, sich für aufgeklärt, menschenrechtsorientiert, rechtsstaatlich und geschichtsbewusst zu halten und zum Morden in Gaza keine klaren, verurteilenden Worte zu finden.

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 17d

This kind of policy work is wasting space and attention that is much needed for bold and transformative answers. As Aline says:

"By describing a real problem and writing about an inadequate solution, it becomes harder for others to open up the window she almost closed."

Excellent text ✨

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 17d

So many people build their reputation as a "critic" on strikingly precise and eloquent analysis of a problem to then only suggest solutions that are harmless to the status quo and guarantee a wide audience.

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 17d

And just like Aline said: This is by no means a criticism towards specific people. We all have our roles and being the head of signal is one for sure. Yet, this is not an outlier.

Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 17d

I am happy and thankful that Aline Blankertz took the time to write down her thoughts. I very much agree: This specific kind of criticism is systemic to how progressive policy people deal with current issues.

www.structural-integrity.eu/on-signals-m...

On Signal’s Meredith Whittaker in The Economist. Or: The origins of poor digital policy demands

Over the last years, I have taken part in numerous meetings about how to square the circle of formulating policy demands that both make a difference and have a vague prospect of being adopted by polic...

www.structural-integrity.eu

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 17d

After reading @meredithmeredith.bsky.social's essay in The Economist I was baffled by the discrepancy between the factual analysis and the policy demands derived from it: Brilliant and precise awareness of what is wrong is met by unambitious calls for "a-little-less-terrible".

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 18d

It's a trap. Breaking up Big Tech is well and fine. But it's not an end to itself. It can be a crack in the hegemony of capitalism. It can also simply be a tool to boost EU corporations who are more easily to put in line with our own European nationalists agendas (aka "digital sovereignty").

Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 18d

Don't mistake formal similarities in means (breaking up of US Big Tech) with a shared material goal: Emanzipation and democratic control over technologies.

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 18d

Wolfram Weimer founded the right-wing outlet "Cicero" and regularly pushes right-wing or right-conservative positions. It should be absolutely obvious from his political profile what "freedom of speech" means in this context: A shift of the overton window further to the right.

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 18d

Hey digital policy people 👋,

please be cautious what framings you adapt and boost. Example: The German Minister of State for Culture (Wolfram Weimer) is calling for breaking up Google to safeguard "freedom of speech".

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · Nov 6

I wrote 'Resisting AI' (subtitled 'An Anti-fascist approach to Artificial Intelligence') to help preempt the kind of convergence of far right politics and the tech sector that we are waking up to today. The struggle against fascistic solutionism continues. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

Resisting AI

Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuri...

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 19d

Breaking up Big Tech is good and fine. But it's not an end to itself. It can be a crack in the hegemony of capitalism. It can also simply be a tool to boost EU corporations who are more easily to put in line with our own home-grown nationalists and authoritarian agendas (aka "digital sovereignty").

Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 19d

Don't mistake formal similarities in means (breaking up of US Big Tech) with a shared material goal: Emanzipation and democratic control over technologies.

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Malte Engeler @malteengeler.bsky.social · 19d

Dear leftists,

please be cautious what framings you adapt and boost. Example: The German Minister of State for Culture (Wolfram Weimer) is calling for breaking up Google to safeguard "freedom of speech".

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Wootmaster @wootmaster.bsky.social · 27d

I'm not particularly mad that I was suspended, because it simply proves what many have already known. Bluesky leadership essentially follows orders from fascists.

They repeatedly ban trans users, black users, palestinians, anybody the fascists want gone. @jay.bsky.team essentially works for them.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 27d

I know you can justify this away a million ways in your brain but the only real reason is- some lives are valued more than others

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 27d

FYI multiple members of the Bluesky community have been shot without anyone at the company making a single peep about it

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