Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
A contemporary #internet story.
ALICE: Bob is a #psychopath.
CAROL: Could be, I don't know, I haven't seen any direct evidence of Bob being a psychopath.
ALICE: Come on, even Mallory says Bob is a psychopath.
CAROL: Wait.. now I HAVE directly seen Mallory display sociopathic behaviour.
ALICE: Carol is a psychopath.
Don't be bullied into beliefs. #JustSayNo to #CancelCulture
@dk
.doc is also somewhat cringeworthy
@dk
.asp wins for me.
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@Nour @laurenshof @aral If Microsoft Edge hid the address bar behind a button, auto-loaded store.microsoft.biz and called it the “official web site of the internet”, we’d all have problems with it. Having an “official node of the Fediverse” is the same thing. You are giving Mastodon so much control by being ok with this. There is no official on the Fediverse. We’re all equals.
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* Make software that works on older devices, the older the better.
* Make software that will keep on working for a very long time.
* Make software that uses the least amount of total energy to achieve its results.
* Make software that also uses the least amount of network data transfer, memory and storage.
* Make software that encourages the user to use it in a frugal way.
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VC's feces
n. pl. – electronic waste from abandoned investment schemes (i.e. bricked IoT devices, app-based juice squeezers, derelict bikes and e-scooters)
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Monthly home internet line rental, prepay mobile packages of x GB etc. This is all sold, and it's HUGE. It leads somewhat to "Who cares what the content is as long as I can ship it on my wires and charge for that"
It would seem this was an integral part of the strategy to extract value from the internet.
However, I do not have hard data on a comparison between "profit" from advertising and that from selling pure bytes on the wire.
Does anybody else have any insight?
@dk
Thanks for reminding me of this post from a few years ago.
In 2018, it think many agreed with this sentiment: [... that they earn profit by exploiting their own users, who generate all the content.... However, this is not the case because the media is not sold, and therefore makes no profit... What is sold is advertisement.]
Nowadays, I like to point out that while the media is not sold, the medium IS sold.
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"The problem isn’t the #internet itself, but the fact that the most popular digital spaces are managed by private enterprises"
https://lab.cccb.org/en/no-thoughts-head-empty-would-digital-disconnection-be-a-utopia/
@info_activism
....which we can do by presenting a book or by sharing part of an article that has made an impression on us... 😃
@danyork
Now, you could just take all that as meaning that there is still an awful lot of work to be done, and you'd be right!
So not giving up yet. 😃
@danyork
I think we can agree on the vision, the goals, the dream maybe, but In my experience, and this makes me very sad, but almost nobody in the ACTUAL real-world communities I work with has ever asked for fediverse, local content, etc. whatsapp is the main thing.
I did a presentation on fediverse, almost nobody came, I setup a mastodon server, nobody signed up. I setup nextcloud but our own #communitynetworks promoting sister orgas continue on gmail and 💩 gle docs. It's all talk.
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"We’ve reached internet saturation point. Even so, we are ever more hooked on screen time. Can we find other ways of conceiving of and relating to the internet that leave space for thought?"
Read this piece by @AlbaLafarga for @CCCBLab. https://lab.cccb.org/en/no-thoughts-head-empty-would-digital-disconnection-be-a-utopia/
@danyork
More #IXPs is great! Bring it on! In the amercias south of the US border this situation is not good.
I've sort of lost patience with the #communitynetworks narrative. The only place from where I can approach that conversation now, is one that firmly places the #internet as a corporate/telco $$$ and state #propaganda (think hollywood x 1000) project. From there we can actually talk about why that happened and how to combat it. Otherwise, you're just bringing clients to fcbck,
@danyork
Oh!, I see, you're actually talking about an entire LEO constellation and teleport(s), launched and maintained by somebody other than spaceX or the other usual suspects! Well.. I'd guess that's a nation state gig if it were not fully corporate. I kind of can't bring myself to be content with LEO, I don't have hard facts, just a bad gut feeling about it. So I'm happy for the corporates to do that for the moment, while one builds something autonomous.
@danyork
I'm all the time more convinced that the solution to the "digital divide" involves decentralisation and bringing the digital content closer to those who use it - both geographically and culturally - But that flies in the face of the up-to-now extractive business model of the entire internet, so I wouldn't expect ISOC to be thinking about that either, (yet) ?
The problem is probably going to be more in, as is alluded to in the article, the actual cost (in so many ways) of keeping these LEO systems running.
To me the bigger challenge in closing the so called digital divide, is actually making the digital relevant to the life of the "unconnected".
@danyork
If the costs of one earth station are split among many people, internet café style, or as done by local WISPs, there's every likelihood that it is affordable. Or if it's paid for by the state, like CFE-TEIT are doing. It's not really a problem.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
