Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
A sample of the top DNS queries from the phones connected to #tic-ac community #GSM network over the last few days.
#decentralised (not)
#dnstop
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On 8th of March 2023, we call for a #CounterCloudActionDay.
On this day, we will try to withhold from using, feeding, or caring for #TheBigTechCloud. The strike calls for a hyperscaledown of extractive digital services, and for an abundance of collective organising.
We join the long historical tail of international feminist strikes, because we understand this fight to be about labour, care, anti-racism, queer life and trans★feminist techno-politics.
Join the #strike! https://titipi.org/8m/
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I'm so super happy to announce that OFFDEMo3 programme is online, it will be great to see you there on february 4-5
https://ps.zoethical.org/pub/offdem-ozone-programme
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Microsoft and Google are both making investor noises along with their recent layoffs that they're going to be refocusing their efforts on "AI" and as a user of both Microsoft and Google products I am feeling absolute dread about what monstrosities MS and Google are going to label "AI", shove in my face, and make it extremely difficult for me to turn off
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“The #fediverse is like #email.”
Yes.
Now read this and understand it:
“I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999 … But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.
Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality … I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email servers.“
Via @cancel
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Poor countries are not “under-developed”, they are over-exploited.
@dk
Yes!. Understanding internet use as mainly a kind of light entertainment, with the remote possibility of a conversation that might actually lead to some constructive action, I like it! The thing about social media is the dinner party never ends, they just keep serving up more wine. Which even on twitter (a bad dinner party) entices one to stay, 😉 drunkenly believing all these words will actually change anything other than the bank accounts of the tech oligarchs.
@dk
Now, having said that; #mastodon seems like it is the first non-US (to be complete I have to say also non- China*) based user-facing tech platform that has gained any traction since "web2.0" was imposed. In terms of social media and the kind of activity that is typical on it, mastodon is possibly the least bad thing since web 2.0, but no, it will not solve problems in itself. Who actually thinks this anyway?
* it's not terribly relevant, I just want to tag that this is not about China.
@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.
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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)
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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
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
