Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

"Mastodon Is 'Antiviral' Design"

My essay on this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

Twitter (and most big social media) is laser-focused on creating virality -- i.e. training the joint attention of millions of people on one hot post/meme/story/event happening *right this instant* ... and doing it over and over and over again

Mastodon really isn't -- for lots of rich and interesting reasons

It's why some emigres from Twitter find Mastodon so baffling

This place embraces slowness and useful friction

Juhuu, he cancelado mi infinitum @Telmex! En @JobNetworks me atiende un ser humano amable. Por el contrario, el robot de @Telmex me quiere vender paquetes de videos (solo 99$ el primer mes) que en lugar de contestar preguntas y resolver mis problemas de conexión (3 días sin red).

Out Of Steam

I very recently learned that the term “boycott” comes from someone’s actual name: Charles Boycott. Boycott was an English land agent who tried, in 1880, to collect unpayable rents from Irish peasants on behalf of an English aristocrat landlord. When he failed to collect the rents, he tried evicting the tenants. The Irish Land League responded with a campaign to ignore Boycott’s orders and isolate him socially and economically.

They not only ignored his eviction orders and threw manure at his process servers, but refused to deliver his mail or sell him food.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott

It was pretty effective—the British government eventually had to deploy a thousand soldiers (naturally, because the state works for the propertied class and none more than the 19th century British state) at a cost of some £10,000 to harvest £500 worth of crops. Boycott had to be evacuated by the soldiers, who even had to drive him out, as no locals would agree to drive his carriage out of the region.

Imagine being cancelled so hard that your name becomes permanently associated with getting cancelled.

It's important to know that when certain grifters see the Fediverse, they don't see a better way of building the Internet.

They see unexploited resources -- ready for the taking.

Apparently, this is how you find out about instance blocks. https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=mastodon.social

Preparando para el #twexit. Están invitadxs a
mexico-pensante.blog/community
@robert_winkler @robert_winkler
Qué es el linuxreviews.org/Fediverse?
En pocas palabras: redes sociales de la comunidad.
pruvisto.org/debirdify/

The French Free Software unit at Etalab DINUM is glad to announce a promising cooperation with the NLnet foundation.

Together, we will reward EU maintainers of #FreeSoftware #OpenSource already used by the French administration.

More about this in the next coming weeks !

The insecure "software supply chain" is the result of large corporations incorporating open-source software into their highly profitable, mass market software, without providing resources to those open-source projects. The only real solution is to provide those resources to those projects, but since this is a cost-cutting measure, that is unlikely to happen.

Zukunft

You know the #fediverse isn’t just #Mastodon, right? :)

Do you live stream? Check out https://owncast.online

It’s a lightweight free and open live-steaming server. (We use it at Small Technology Foundation for our streams at https://owncast.small-web.org)

And you can follow people’s Owncast servers from the fediverse and get notified when they’re about to start streaming, etc. (e.g., hit the follow button on our stream and enter your Mastodon/fediverse account)

#smallTech #smallWeb

I've noticed a small wave of new people making their way to Mastodon from the birdsite.

Here is my brief Mastodon guide for social media worriers that may prove useful for making yourself more at home.

https://axbom.com/mastodon-guide/

Editorial: Between Mastodon and Feedbin, I Now Have All the Tools I Need to Avoid Using Twitter While Following People’s Tweets https://ryanschultz.com/2022/10/21/editorial-between-mastodon-and-feedbin-i-now-have-all-the-tools-i-need-to-avoid-using-twitter-while-following-peoples-tweets/