The people leaving Twitter right now want Twitter minus Elon. That's Bluesky. They've heard a couple of their Twitter follows mention it and they've gone to their app store where they find an app called Bluesky, install it and easily join and start using it. Once they do they are finding it pretty straightforward to find people they used to follow on Twitter.
That's all people want.
Yeah, we broke away from TST in around 2018. Too centralised, too controlling, with concerning owners. We also have a couple of US Orders these days (Steel City in Pittsburgh and House of Heretics in Seattle).
And it'll stay that way until people use, and keep using, this space. So, to use an overused phrase, be the change you want to see :)
How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch has the recipe for that.
(Seriously, it's a great read - one of my favourite popular science reads since, well, since Sagan.)
Farewell to the flesh :(
They are not TST-affiliated, more like an old style LaVeyan group.
The Satanic org I'm a member of also have a Chilean Order and I know the two orgs have talked but their LaVeyan-ism (i.e. libertarian/Ayn Rand type of Objectivism) doesn't really align with us.
Mainstream social media track and identify in non-obvious ways such as browser fingerprinting. If you're on a federated open source social media site then there's none of that. If you use a VPN (and if you can't afford one, Proton offer a free tier) or Tor browser to mask your IP and you're using a non personally identifiable email address that goes a long way towards protecting yourself.
Beyond that, never posting identifying info about yourself such as the place you live, including the State, will protect you even further.
But I do agree that using an E2EE service is the best way to communicate.
Well quite ;)
Thank you!
Satan Not Hatin' - our campaign to tackle hate and the far-right in alt music scenes such as metal, punk, goth, industrial etc has released a compilation album on Bandcamp called Contra Odium ("Against Hate") featuring the music of thirteen of the Satan Not Hatin' participants.
Proceeds from the album will be divided amongst participating Orders (UK, Sweden, Pittsburgh and Seattle) and in turn passed on in full to charities local to each Order:
I unplugged the bassist but noone ~~noticed~~ cared.
Some of our UK Order will be at the Satanic Flea Market this coming Sunday (6th October).
Market address is: Electrowerkz, 7 Torrens Street, London, EC1V 1NQ. Nearest tube station is Angel. There's a £4 entry on the door and its open from 12-6pm. Come and say 'hi' :)
Last week, our "Satan Not Hatin'" campaign - set up to challenge hate and far-right extremism in alt music scenes - welcomed it's 200th opt-in participant. That's 200 artists, bands, record labels, promoters, venues and other organisations not prepared to tolerate hate.
As well as the documentary on the project (which is still being shot), a Stockholm based radio show, Trigger, have announced they will be dedicating an episode to the campaign and playing bands that are participating!
You can read more about the campaign at it's dedicated website and details of how to access the Trigger episode (either as its broadcast via their website or the next day on their Mixcloud account) are also on the site.
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Possibly too esoteric a reference but if you know, you know etc.