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  1. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2019 20:51:29 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • atheism
    • Secular Society
    • Canada
    • Secular Humanism
    Canadian Atheist #WeeklyUpdate 2019-03-30 to 2019-04-05 https://www.canadianatheist.com/2019/04/weekly-update-2019-03-30-to-2019-04-05/ !Canada !atheism !secular !SecularHumanism
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  2. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2019 16:15:10 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • Secular Society
    • Secular Humanism
    In anticipation of the CAQ's Bill 21, for the past month I've been quietly putting together a series about religious accessories bans. Here's the series intro: https://www.canadianatheist.com/2019/04/religious-accessories-bans-intro/ atheism !secular !SecularHumanism
    about 2 months ago from web permalink

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  3. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2019 21:38:35 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • atheism
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    Canadian Atheist #WeeklyUpdate 2019-03-23 to 2019-03-29 https://www.canadianatheist.com/2019/03/weekly-update-2019-03-23-to-2019-03-29/ !Canada !atheism !secular !SecularHumanism
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  4. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2019 14:33:43 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • atheism
    • Secular Society
    • Canada
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    Canadian Atheist #WeeklyUpdate 2019-03-16 to 2019-03-22 https://www.canadianatheist.com/2019/03/weekly-update-2019-03-16-to-2019-03-22/ !Canada !atheism !secular !SecularHumanism
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  5. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 21:55:45 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    in reply to
    • Shawndroid
    Nope, can't say I have.
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  6. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 21:22:40 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • atheism
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    Canadian Atheist #WeeklyUpdate 2019-03-09 to 2019-03-15 https://www.canadianatheist.com/2019/03/weekly-update-2019-03-09-to-2019-03-15/ !Canada !atheism !secular !SecularHumanism
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  7. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 21:11:03 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    in reply to
    • Shawndroid
    It's not a matter of choosing between "the tech angle or the human angle". If these guys are not peddling vapourware, then they *MUST* solve the tech problems at some point. But those problems are *hard*; decentralized networks were designed that way from the ground up because people found that tacking that feature on later just doesn't work.

    I am not impressed with any group of people who ask for money while shrugging off the technical challenges they'll face.

    If they had a working proof-of-concept, then I would take them seriously. (All they've got now are videos of mockups that just look like Diaspora with a nice theme and auto-playing gifs.) If they showed some semblance of understanding about the technical challenges, and explained why existing networks can't work, then I would take them seriously. But all I see now is a "guys, this will be awesome; don't worry about how we'll actually make it work" marketing pitch.
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  8. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 20:43:44 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    in reply to
    • Shawndroid
    I value all of those things, and existing Facebook alternatives already provide all of them. The reason they seem to focus on decentralization so much is because that's the *hard* problem... which really makes me suspicious when I see these new guys just shrugging and saying they'll figure that out later.

    What existing alternatives lack is:
    1) casual-user-friendliness; and
    2) a critical mass of users.

    If these guys can provide requirement 1 and still promise all those other features, then they should either be able to build user-friendliness on top of the existing networks, or provide a reason why they can't, other than they can't be bothered to try.
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  9. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2019 20:02:36 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    in reply to
    • Shawndroid
    If they have a valid point, then one wonders why they wouldn't contribute "good new features" that offer a "fun experience" to the existing Facebook alternatives, rather than creating YAN (yet-another-network).
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  10. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2019 16:33:21 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    in reply to
    • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
    You might get better results by uninstalling the Gremlins plugin.
    about 2 months ago from web permalink
  11. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2019 18:25:33 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • atheism
    • Secular Society
    • Canada
    • Secular Humanism
    Canadian Atheist #WeeklyUpdate 2019-03-02 to 2019-03-08 https://www.canadianatheist.com/2019/03/weekly-update-2019-03-02-to-2019-03-08/ !Canada !atheism !secular !SecularHumanism
    about 3 months ago from web permalink
  12. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Friday, 08-Mar-2019 19:09:24 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • atheism
    The final part of my interview with In-Sight Journal's Question Time about the term "Nones" is up, wherein I posit what a better future of nonreligious terminology might look like, while apparently on a journey to Mount Doom.
    https://medium.com/question-time/ask-mark-3-peeves-to-nones-and-back-again-a-tale-of-marko-gibbons-3711a6afdf04 !atheism
    about 3 months ago from web permalink
  13. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Mar-2019 21:02:23 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    in reply to
    • Bob Jonkman, Brantford-Brant Green Party Candidate
    Good luck with the nomination!
    about 3 months ago from web permalink
  14. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2019 17:01:53 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • atheism
    • Secular Society
    • Canada
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    Canadian Atheist #WeeklyUpdate 2019-02-23 to 2019-03-01 https://www.canadianatheist.com/2019/03/weekly-update-2019-02-23-to-2019-03-01/ !Canada !atheism !secular !SecularHumanism
    about 3 months ago from web permalink
  15. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Feb-2019 00:17:20 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    in reply to
    • Bob Jonkman
    > It's a good thing bits are cheap.

    But the quality varies a lot depending on where you get them from!
    about 3 months ago from web permalink
  16. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Saturday, 23-Feb-2019 15:47:03 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • atheism
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    Canadian Atheist #WeeklyUpdate 2019-02-16 to 2019-02-22 https://www.canadianatheist.com/2019/02/weekly-update-2019-02-16-to-2019-02-22/ !Canada !atheism !secular !SecularHumanism
    about 3 months ago from web permalink
  17. Mark A. Gibbs (indi)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 17:26:05 UTC Mark A. Gibbs Mark A. Gibbs
    • atheism
    The second part of my interview with In-Sight Journal's Question Time about the term "Nones" is up! This part's about alternative terms. Looks like only one part left to go! https://medium.com/question-time/ask-mark-2-squeezing-more-some-things-from-nothings-eea9114021ff !atheism
    about 3 months ago from web permalink

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Mark A. Gibbs

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

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