Indivisible: "Take the Pledge to Adopt the X-last Approach and Collectively Act" Against X

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Sunday December 10, 2023 · 5:48 PM PST

2023/12/10 · 17:48

Indivisible launches X-Last Strategy for X/Twitter. They write:

“Take the pledge to adopt the X-last approach and collectively address its hateful, dangerous direction and help strengthen better, more functional alternatives.”

They go on:

“Adoption of the strategy means simply this: A commitment to posting to X-alternatives first, and posting to X, if at all, last.”

This bit is key:

“The approach doesn’t preclude more substantial steps some users are taking, like exiting the platform completely or drawing down their presence to a bare minimum. In fact, it creates room for these steps by signaling a collective resolve to shift our conversations and communities to better, safer platforms.”

And it gets to the key goal of the organizing:

“And it is powerful because it robs X of its last remaining selling point: That X is where news breaks, where instant analysis happens.”

And they close saying:

“We can’t count on corporate advertisers to lead the way. We need to create our own momentum away from X because it’s the right thing to do, because better alternatives are possible and – for those of us who rely on social platforms for our organizing and outreach – more functional, less-problematic platforms are necessary.”

Take the pledge here and help spread the word:
www.xlast.org

Indivisible: "We’re stepping back from the increasingly dangerous and dysfunctional ‘X'"

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Sunday November 05, 2023 · 6:22 PM PST

2023/11/05 · 18:22

Indivisible made a deeply important move last Friday, that they described on their Medium post, which described their stepping back from X:

“We’re stepping back from the increasingly dangerous and dysfunctional ‘X’, and we’re sorry it’s taken this long…. X is no longer a normal platform. And, absent a change of ownership, there’s little hope of it doing anything but becoming a more toxic, dangerous cesspool of hate and disinformation ill-suited for progressive organizing.

We’re in the process of removing its icons from our website and emails. We’ll no longer ask supporters to follow us there, or run advocacy campaigns on the platform.* We’ll phase down original content to a minimum to prevent the X Corp…from seizing our account.

And we’ll be creating migration guides to help Indivisible groups establish stronger presences on alternative platforms.

You can now find Indivisible national accounts on Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. Each may have its own issues, however, ALL of them are far better, safer, and more viable platforms for the work we need to do now — and in the years ahead.

This is a brave and important step from Indivisible, and one I think many places - including DailyKos - can watch and learn from, to see how this is done and how to navigate and migrate users over to a new, better social home than X.

Everyone can help right now by boosting this announcement post that they did on X.

And if you are on Threads, Mastodon, or BlueSky, follow them on those platforms, welcome and spread the word there, to help them build up their social graph on those new spaces!

Indivisible on Theads

Indivisible on Mastodon

Indivisible on BlueSky

X/Twitter Migration Report Live

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Friday October 20, 2023 · 9:03 AM PDT

2023/10/20 · 09:03

Screenshot2023-10-20at12.00.39PM.png — Opening Quotes from the X/Twitter Migration 3rd Quarter Report 2023

So my team just launched this report on the X/Twitter Migration. It is the fourth one we have done since Elon took over Twitter and created X. You can see some details of the report here, and download the full PDF here.

A full list of the turmoil inside of X this quarter, where users are shopping to find alternatives and what is rising and falling. TLdr on the alternatives… Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky are the main and growing beneficiaries, Post less so. Everyone else falling fast.

Happy to answer any questions in the comments below!

Divesting DailyKos from X/Twitter

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Friday October 20, 2023 · 8:44 AM PDT

2023/10/20 · 08:44

Screenshot2023-10-20at11.07.03AM.png — Listing of top traffic referrals from DailyKos in the US Over the Last Year

According to SimliarWeb, DailyKos.com now sends 15 percent of its total outgoing traffic to X/Twitter.

This makes X the largest single website we have sent traffic to over the last year. The image above lists the top sites that DailyKos sent US desktop web traffic to over the last year.

In contrast: DailyKos gets BELOW a .1 percent of incoming traffic FROM X/Twitter. It's so low that Simliarweb doesn’t list it.

To put that into perspective: DailyKos gets far more incoming traffic from Flipboard, NextDoor, Post.news, Bluesky, and Threads than it does from X. Even Gab.com is sending more traffic to DailyKos than X.

Given Markos' (I think correct) view about X, here…. It feels like it’s absolutely time to divest of X for the DailyKos community, start building out our social graphs on places like Mastodon, or Threads or BlueSky, and integrate those places into the UX of DialyKos for social sharing tools, etc.
And good to see Markos posting off of X here.

There is no need to give Eleon even one more click of monetizable social activity from the DailyKos community.

I also posted before the idea of what a DailyKos Mastodon server could look like to help with this idea. Even moving DailyKos to Threads, which claims it will join the Fediverse shortly, would be a far better place to send traffic to than Elon’s “God-forsaken Hell Hole” the site has become.

And you can follow me on Mastodon here, and on Threads here.

DailyKos #Mastodon Social Media Strategy - Create Dailykos.Social

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Wednesday February 08, 2023 · 8:59 PM PST

2023/02/08 · 20:59

DailyKos was born out of the #Indieweb and #blogging ethos. Self-hosting and federating out content from compelling authors was in the DailyKos DNA. Before independent “blogging” became “micro-blogging” and then was subsumed into coroprate silos.

Time to go back to those roots, embrace a decentralized and open web-first strategy — and to give the finger to a spiralling Twitter and other closed silos at the same time. Here is one strategy as to how to do it.

And it would not be costly — in fact it could give a reason for subscriptions to Dailykos. And there is already a very compelling model for how this can work.

First Idea: DailyKos should setup it’s own Mastodon server ASAP. Call it “Dailykos.social.”

I’ll leave it to other links like this to explain in more detail of what those are and how they work, but in essence it is a five year old open source and interoperable mini-Twitter like service — that can speak to all other Mastodon users, and servers in one federated network. It has almost 10 million users on the Mastodon/Fediverse network, and it has risen dramatically with the woes at Twitter.

Mastodon’s ethos and DailyKos’s ethos are also very aligned. From Mastodon’s founder: “we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire. Your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company! Developed by a non-profit, Mastodon is essentially a framework that allows communities, individuals and organizations to self-host interoperable social media - a decentralized social network. We have no power to define your rules, to show you ads, to track your data--by design.”

Second idea: DailyKos should set this up as what is called a “closed” Server — for the DailyKos trusted community only.

So when one sets up a Mastodon server you can choose who can join, and how. Start with all staff. Then add top trusted users. Medium.com has pioneered this model: they setup their own sub-branded Medium Mastodon server, called http://www.md.em. And then they own and manage that closed server and are migrating over all staff, and top Medium authors to the platform.

If you are a trusted, paid Medium user, in addition to seeing no ads on Medium.com, you get access to becoming a me.dm member to boot.

See this model here: medium.com/…

It completely meshes with what a Dailykos.Social Medium server could be. This could give one more reason to become a DailyKos subscriber for the $40 bucks a year it asks for now — and it could also get you in line to get on Dailykos.social on Mastodon.

And you would know it would have good admins managing it, and it would tie into the overall trusted and known DailyKos community.

Third Idea: For Now, This is a Compliment to Daillykos.com — not a replacement. But you can integrate in easy ways: adding “share to Mastodon” using your DailyKos.com profile to verify your Dailykos.social account as you. It could integrate in light and simple but powerful ways from the web based Dailykos.com and the Mastodon/Fediverse based DailyKos.Social.

Many key staff and writers already are on Mastodon. This is already happening in a ad hoc, non-strategic way one by one. This strategy would help it happen in a strategic way.

This could happen, and could happen quickly.

I admin and manage a 10,600 person instance now on Mastodon, http://indieweb.social. We are in the top 100 mastodon servers now. I would love to brainstorm with anyone able to build steam for this idea.

Best way is to vote this up, share it around, and message me at @tchambers@indieweb.social

Across Maryland, Indivisible and Grassroots Progressive Groups Support New Voting Rights Bill

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Monday February 04, 2019 · 10:29 PM PST

2019/02/04 · 22:29

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Indivisible and Progressive Groups Across Maryland just announced this key endorsement. We are looking to get this to as many Maryland political press and top thought leaders on voting rights and democracy reform as we can. Appreciate everyone’s help. Here is our announcement:

Timed to a hearing in the Maryland House of Delegates’ Ways and Means Committee, a large coalition of Maryland grassroots advocacy groups submitted testimony in favor of an important voting rights bill. The bill, House Bill 119, would allow Maryland voters to choose to receive absentee ballots every election unless they decide otherwise. This “permanent absentee voter list” would increase voter participation for people whose disabilities, age, or other issues prevent them from voting in person.

The coalition of groups in support of the bill represent thousands of engaged, progressive voters from across Maryland, and includes Indivisible MoCo, Indivisible Howard County, Indivisible Kent and Queen Anne’s County, Indivisible Worcester County, Indivisible Baltimore, Indivisible Cabin John, MoCoWomen, and Do the Most Good Montgomery.

“HB 119 will help Maryland continue to be a leader in pro-voter reform,” said Indivisible MoCo’s Stu Henderson. “Last year, Maryland passed the Secure and Accessible Registration Act, which will allow eligible Marylanders to automatically register to vote when they interact with certain state agencies unless they opt out. This past November, voters approved a ballot measure allowing for Election Day Registration—by a massive margin. HB 119 will keep Maryland on this pro-voter path, aligning our state with western states that have expanded voting access by making mailed ballots more common.”

Studies have shown that making it easier to vote by mail dramatically increases voter participation rates. Voting by mail as a permanent absentee offers benefits to many potential voters concerned about long lines, lost work, extra childcare, and other issues. It also improves voting access for those with mobility or transit issues.

“HB 119 will help Marylanders be more informed voters,” said Mr. Henderson. “Not everyone does full research on every candidate in every election before they step into the voting booth. When voters have a mail-in ballot, they have more time to research issues and make more informed decisions. We need to be empowering every eligible voice to be heard on election day.”

ABOUT US:

Indivisible MoCo, Indivisible Howard County, Indivisible Kent and Queen Anne’s County, Indivisible Worcester County, Indivisible Baltimore, Indivisible Cabin John, are all independent progressive grassroots organizations aligned with the national Indivisible movement. MoCo Women is a grassroots group of progressive women in Montgomery County. Do the Most Good Montgomery County is a grassroots group promoting inclusive, progressive values in our community and our nation.

Idea: Crowdsourcing Kavanaugh

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Saturday September 29, 2018 · 8:49 AM PDT

2018/09/29 · 08:49

Are there any efforts underway to have a central site to crowdsource Kavanaugh’s key documents?
I’m a bit inspired by the work of Josh Marshall on this and by this user on Twitter doing so by himself.

The idea would be we would centralize all key source materials on somewhere like Document Cloud link to them from one website and have one place for users to share insights and finds. This can include Kav’s calendar, and other core docs that have been officially released so far.

Is there any central source for crowdsourcing docs that anyone knows about. If not maybe we create one?

IF YOU LIKE THIS IDEA OF CREATING ONE, VOTE THIS UP.

ShareACA.org - Donald Trump is trying to silence the ACA. We can give it a voice.

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Saturday January 28, 2017 · 3:17 PM PST

2017/01/28 · 15:17

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Thursday night I saw the news that Trump had intentionally sabotaged the critical final week of the ACA's enrollment by killing $5 Million dollars in ads that the HHS had pre-paid ads.… This was somewhat of a final straw to me.

This virtually ensuring that up to 1 million people who would enroll in the final weak now will not have any notice or outreach and threatens to hurt a lot of people who would otherwise have gotten care. I was in the mood to #resist.

There was late news yesterday that after near universal protest and outcry that the Trump administration had partially relented on paid TV and radio, but I have seen no confirmation that the $5 million in digital paid ads have been restored.

So after a quick social post, some friends of mine and I created this quick action tool: http://www.shareaca.com

If Trump is going to pull the $5 million in promotions then it's up to us to be that promotion these final four days.

And the digital ads - all public domain and taxpayer created - all were still gettable if you knew where to look and dug hard enough. (And we crowdsourced the research on that)…

Our goal is that this is an online action tool allowing you to with one or two clicks share the most active, best performing ads that Trump pulled down.

So we propped up in 12 hours and if we can get momentum around it, maybe just phase one of this site.

Donald Trump is trying to silence the ACA. We can give it a voice.

Help us get the word out about this. Talk it up on your blog. Repost this to FB. Tweet about it by retweeting this.

Bigly. And Fast. We have THREE DAYS.

shareaca.org

Support this Thunderclap on the ACA

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Saturday March 22, 2014 · 7:25 AM PDT

2014/03/22 · 07:25

We're working on this Thunderclap - an online webapp allowing everyone to share their social networks to send out a single message - on ACA enrollment.

You can support if you have other Twitter, FB or Tumblr accounts....

https://www.thunderclap.it/...

We currently have grown to a social reach of 1,492,899 and we are SO CLOSE to crossing the line to 1.5 million!

If you can join this, and then share it on your social networks, blogs, etc, it would be of great help to get the word out as widely as we can!

Thanks!

Support this Thunderclap about ACA enrollment

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Wednesday December 11, 2013 · 9:27 PM PST

2013/12/11 · 21:27

Here is a great way to help get the word out about #ACA enrollment, I'm supporting...The more of us support this the bigger the social reach of this message sent out in about a day from now, all delivered at once, via all our social networks.

The message we would all send is:

“10 days left to sign up for #HealthInsurance coverage that starts Jan. 1st. It’s not too late to #BeCovered! http://thndr.it/...

Right now we are at a social reach of just over 400,000 people.... please, add your own support, and share and repost/reblog everywhere you can.

Thanks!
https://www.thunderclap.it/...

Virginia Voter Registration Deadline is October 15th

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Saturday September 07, 2013 · 11:56 AM PDT

2013/09/07 · 11:56

We just launched a "Thunderclap" to get the word out that the Virginia Voter Registration Deadline is October 15th!

Please support this Thunderclap, which will go out at 10AM on October 14th—just one day before Virginia's voter registration deadline ends. Help us get the message out that in Virginia, which offers online voter registration, citizens can register to vote until the close of business (5pm) on October 15th.

You can support this Thunderclap with your Facebook or Twitter account, and helping building awareness of this deadline and helping every Virginian register to vote is critical.

We want every voice heard on election day for Virginia!
https://www.thunderclap.it/...

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Monday October 15, 2012 · 10:13 PM PDT

2012/10/15 · 22:13

I know there are lots of stressed people here. And we're about to go into what may be the closest election most of us have seen since Bush V. Gore. This could get pretty crazy and while I know we all wish deeply that the bad two weeks of polling is the worst, we know it could get tighter still. And tomorrow's debate is going to be pretty white knuckle for many of us, wishing our President the best, knowing it is a crucial, crucial fight. But frankly even if we win or draw, it's the first of many in the next few remaining weeks.

This is an open question to Kossacks. I had my first bout of actual insomnia over the Election this last Saturday (not coincidentally it was during one of Romney's best polling days yet).

My question is: what tricks, what practices, what techniques do you all use to deal with the stress, the uncertainty and the sadness that is a part of all this - even a part of winning campaigns such as ours will be?

We need energy, we need focus, we need bravery, we need action -- but all of that doesn't just appear like magic. And my suspicion is that the DailyKos community itself can be a resource of sorts for helping us all manage the natural flip side of all that. The flip side of nervousness, anxiety, fear, and minor depression, so we don't wallow in it, but push and work through it to the other side.

Those of you -- especially those who are old hands at campaigns -- what wisdom have you gained?

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