I'm looking at dropping google and have seen two interesting projects, #freedombox and #syncloud, both of which seem to be #raspberrypi distros.

Interestingly, syncloud comes with a disapora pod. (Small instances like this could help solve their moderation issues, tbh) And freedombox comes with a GNU Social instance.

I'm wondering which of these is the most suited to a lazy admin in a fairly tech-phobic household?

@omanreagan Andstatus has multiple account support, does notifications, works offline and can actually scroll a timeline (a lost art in Android development). The UI is a little clunky to set up at the start.

@Cocoron The image in this cover is an example that might purport to treat religions the same, but uses racist images: https://andrewgripp.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/charlie_hebdo_cover_pope_rabbi_mullah.jpg?w=640

I wrongly remembered that this had the words, 'Ni Dieu, ni maître!' on it. They have used that phrase, but not in this particular image.

@Cocoron The Charlie Hebdo covers with anti-Semitic/racist caricatures spring most immediately to mind.

I've also read that this slogan is alienating to Muslims. There's a tendency among some white leftists to imagine that LGBT and Muslims are necessarily in conflict, but this ignores both the existence of LGBT Muslims and the need for (and existence of) solidarity of groups under attack by fascists.

I think 'no masters' is already a cry for a pluralist/secular society.

@Cocoron I've seen it used in practice against Jews and Muslims.

I was brought up in a very conservative catholic household and was informed of being hell-bound and that was not a good time, at all. But I don't want to accidentally ally with people attacking vulnerable, minority religious groups in my desire to have freedom of non-religion.

@Cocoron Are you saying a person who has suffered religious discrimination (ie, an American Muslim) or someone who has been repressed by religion (ie a transgender person raised in a strictly catholic household)?

Waiting for, supporting and relying on heroes is fundamentally passive and disempowering.

Becoming heroic, by contrast, is TOO empowering and is a way of activating unearned power in the quest to force others into one's will.

All heroes and heroics must be banished.

And in other news, the US centre-left has had, for much of my life, a certain waiting-for-a-hero quality that was most strongly in evidence in the groundswell of support for Obama (and a lesser extend with Sanders). Once the hero arrives, everything is taken care of, so no need to, say, vote in further elections, or continue to protest the war. Everyone can take an 8 year holiday on pacifism (and wake up in 2016 wondering what happened).

But also, the original idea behind 'No gods, no masters' was anti clerical power. And the problem of the clergy was that they wielded an enormous amount of political and economic power based partly on their connection to god. This knowing-god's-mind and carrying-out-god's-will is strongly akin to notions of heroism. Of course, the other source of their power is tradition, but that also figures into the heroic ideal.

tl;dr: the slogan was really against heroism the whole time.

No, but really, I want to talk about this:

'No gods' is often a cover for anti-Semitism and islamaphobia (see: Charlie Hebdo)

And the notion of 'heroes' is not only a core idea in ur-fascism (see: Umberto Eco's essay), but I'd guess that a lot of asshole behaviour by manarchists comes from their conception of self as heroic.

If we see ourselves in solidarity rather than as liberators, we'll get a lot father and be less terrible.

No heroes, no masters.

(Everyone can keep their gods because religious freedom is a cornerstone of liberty)

Watching GNU Social users freak out that Mastodon instances block Nazis, is well, everything wrong with the 'Free' software movement.
I always thought RMS's insistence on ABSOLUTE FREEDOM was a quirky Mad Max fetish, but as libertarian thinking has become dominant in American politics, it's become more concerning.
If his utopia is lberalism eating itself, this should have been a clue to be a it more wary, but frankly all software politics suck.