Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
@dk
It is not just thinking about #mastodon, it is digital tech/comms in general, especially "phones" and mobile data. None of that will solve any problem, not social media, not hunger. This goes back to the origins of the Internet itself, or at least back to the #GoreBill. The dreams of some (stoned?) 70's Silicon Valley would-be hippies of a world where "bad" government is not needed because "we", with the help of (corporate) machines will administer everything ourselves - are not realisable.
Keith Whyte
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@jakintosh well, we had this vanguard in the days when all social media was federated, Usenet, email, Inc, etc, and where it led was here.
@1664 @jz
Yes, the big Chinese players, #Tencent and #Bytedance
Hey @jz Not sure about deleting. I think you open an interesting point, and i know this was done without intention to make those mistakes. Anyway, mistakes are great, we learn from them, and mistakes ARE allowed on mastodon 😉
You prompted me to look for any non-US based big tech "social" project that has gained any kind of traction on the Internet since the dawn of time. I found #VKontakte and #Telegram. What else?
Seems most tech industry activity outside of USA is manufacturing (hardware)
Keith Whyte
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💬 It’s going from bad to worse for Meta.
"Meta faces €390 million in fines and must find a new legal route to targeted ads, while the Irish regulator is suing the EU data protection body over claims of ‘overreach.’ "
https://www.politico.eu/article/meta-fina-ad-business-model/
@jz I hesitated for a moment to pick the "right" option. I should maybe reaffirm that Mexico is North America, although culturally closer to other options here, not that it matters really for the goal of the poll.
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Yeah, it's like, why even bother? We all know Big Brother is watching, so why not just embrace it? Let's make our own search engine and make it better than theirs! Or, you know, just go about our lives and do something more productive. #YOLO!
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the sad reality of open source software development
In short: folks love the amazing decentralised encrypted comms utopia of Matrix. But organisations also love that they can use it without having to pay anyone to develop or maintain it. This is completely unsustainable, and Element is now literally unable to fund the entirety of the Matrix Foundation on behalf of everyone else - and has had to lay off some of the folks working on the core team as a result.
https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update-2022
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"mastodon would be a lot cooler if you were more analytics-friendly" is the "you'd be a lot prettier if you smiled" of the fediverse
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I think I am ready to leave #academia.
I’ll add this to my #NewYearResolutions list, which I have never made before. There’s always a first time.
"The diverging paths of life are hidden under the fog of the future, you can't plan the route and then fail to follow it, because there is no map..."
On setting a #theme for the #NewYear, or even just for the #Winter
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE
(via @the_duke - video link modified)
It's that time of the year to think about #NewYearResolutions.
Rather than talking to the voice in my head about it 🙂, to come up with things that probably last till 3pm on Jan 1, how about we do some collective brainstorming and come up with some (critical) mass action!
Who's game to #JoinIn?
Proposal: discuss ways to reduce screen time, as in #DigitalMinimalism
* Try to make one day per 7 days, not necessarily the same day every week, which is 100% computer and device free.
@modacitylife@mastodon.world
Unfortunately I cannot envisage in this or a possible next generation that anything like this could happen in #Oaxaca - the worst car-centered city I have ever experienced, even worse than #MexicoCity
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I really think we need to reject the term "content creator."
That phrase is used by people who aim to Monetize™ us without needing to care about what it is we create. A "content creator" is there to make the stuff that attracts people so they can be fed advertising.
Call us what we are. Artists. Essayists. Film makers. Authors. Photographers. And so many others. We are creators, yes, but what we create has so much value beyond filling otherwise empty space on a website.
@steely_glint
I began to wonder recently, does #SpaceX have a so-called #netneutrality policy?
#starlink
P.S #FuckCars, #YesAllCars that is to say: #FuckAllCars Brick 'em all, ASAP
@edtechsInfo @scottmichaud @dangillmor @mhawksey
Just in case #google didn't already scrape a complete copy of your twitter history, this seems like a good way to hand it to them on a plate.
@dudenas @jayrope
Maybe not everyone hosting a single user instance, but instances where most if not all of the users are somehow an actual community, where most people know (or know of) each other AFK.
That said, I don't think there is a technological solution to the dire social problems that the #fediverse is now making visible.
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3/ The few people who were present at the expert session also seemed swayed by the “empty cafés” argument. But I think I succeeded in letting them at least consider there might be an alternative.
I told them about the point of view of a civil servant of the municipality of #Rotterdam. He says that cities used to be physical-social spaces, but are now turning into physical-social-digital spaces. This means that cities need to manage two (!) new dimensions: physical-digital and #digital-#social.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
