Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

And I think that leads me to a concern I have been brooding over in the last few weeks:

👉 The #Fediverse is not a drop-in replacement for #Twitter.

And it shouldn't be, because that would undermine the added value that comes

1) from local communities, connected by shared values, that also federate,

2) from empowering individuals to be in control of their identity and data, and

3) from the open standards that allow extending the "language" of the network.

(5/7)

Of course there are military Starlinks. Shit.

"The LOFAR researchers also identified more brightly glowing satellites than publicly published orbital data accounted for. The researchers suspect the extras could be military Starlink satellites being deployed for a US Dept of Defense project called Starshield. If they’re right, the satellites are not as secret as the Pentagon thinks—and the interference problem could be worse than the public satellite numbers suggest."

https://www.science.org/content/article/worst-nightmare-elon-musk-s-starlink-satellites-could-blind-radio-telescopes

Reminder of how much we like to criminalize being poor.

Skipping a $3.50 transit fare results in a $425 fine while skipping a $20 parking pass lands you a $70 fine that rich people complained to high heaven about. What justification, other than hating poor people, is there for this not scaling?

Make parking fines $2000 and then let's talk about the fictional "war on cars"

#Toronto
#FareIsFair

This is how people used to ignore each other before smartphones existed

Bienvenido #NuevoUsuario

Si vienes de Twitter, es comprensible que sientas que aquí hay mucho más silencio. @Mastodon no está "muerto", pero no hay un #algoritmo que te bombardee con cosas. Aquí desarrollas tu propia experiencia de usuario buscando y siguiendo a gente y cosas que te interesan. Puedes construir rápidamente una experiencia mucho más satisfactoria, pero requiere un poco de esfuerzo. Seguir #hashtags es una buena manera de empezar. Ten paciencia y participa en las conversaciones.

I've been running mail servers and writing email software since the dialup days of 1995. I guess by today's trends, that could brand me a holdout.

But we're still hosting mail for hundreds of company domains across dozens of mail servers, all in a nicely packaged system that's always just an "apt install" away.

The landscape has changed over time, and, yes, it is annoying dealing with the imbalance that the behemoth mail providers represent these days.

But there's a lot to be said for not bargaining away your digital autonomy.

I saw @mwl selling his "Run Your Own Mail Server" book and jumped to pick up a copy. Not so much because I had a need for it (though it'll be interesting to compare notes!), but because I strongly support the idea that email is still a shared ecosystem and love that Michael is sharing the knowledge to encourage folks to continue to participate.

Long live the open Internet.

#ryoms

#privacidad #filosofía
Filósofa hispanomexicana 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 Carissa Véliz Facultad de Filosofía y el Instituto para la Ética en Inteligencia Artificial de la Universidad de Oxford 🇬🇧
https://ethic.es/entrevistas/debemos-defender-nuestra-privacidad-para-proteger-la-democracia/
Eso no quiere decir que empresas como #Facebook
escuchen directamente lo que decimos a través del micrófono del ordenador. Al menos no existen evidencias de ello. Lo que sí se ha demostrado es que, por ejemplo, ALGUNOS TELEVISORES inteligentes captan palabras para hacernos sugerencias.

Tienen muchísimo poder. Estamos lidiando con gigantes. Muchas de las sanciones propuestas contra grandes tecnológicas como Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft o Twitter se encontraban bloqueadas por la inacción de #Irlanda, donde la mayoría tienen su sede.

PeerTube admins, if you're looking for high quality video accounts to federate to your server, here's a list thread to get you started:

➡️ https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/113034585910396420

(Ignore the "livestreaming" section though, they are OwnCast accounts and don't have any recordings.)

#PeerTube #PeerTubeAdmin

Cambiar Internet desde lo sencillo, desde lo pequeño
👇
Ante la toxicidad de las redes digitales hay otras formas que visibilizar, que practicar

La web pequeña. Sí se puede!

#ComunalidadDigital #DerechosDigitalesColectivos
#SmallWeb

https://sursiendo.org/2024/07/cambiar-internet-desde-lo-sencillo-desde-lo-pequeno/