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I was one of the 371 scientists who signed on to this letter urging governments to "Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media."
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You know what WON’T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?
Solar and wind energy
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Pity the sun doesn’t shine at night and battery complexes aren’t yet build over there. We’re not yet at the right stage for this comment.
And nuclear energy. Works great for years on end without any imports.
if too many cargo ships are held up the Chinese solar arrays won't get delivered.
geothermal & passivhaus
What if the components for solar and wind farms are on ships going through there?
I’m sorry solar pannels travel from China to Europe through Suez, and the mining needed to produce them should worry your organization.
or the geotermal energy from the north
thank god the international logistics of solar and wind tech are not bound by earthly distribution networks.
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Coal doesn't' get caught there either. I 'm surprised the coal people are not funding adverts about that.
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Nor geothermal or hydroelectric
that one got stuck in Suez, have you forgotten? also it can get stuck in Malacca.
just in case you missed what happens around Taiwan
so naive 😉
and nuclear ?
well one small crumb was the announcement today that Britain is using the least amount of coal for 400 years. Now if we can get gas and oil to follow...
True. It's always mediocre men that try to "correct" this type of post, isn't it?
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not a surprise really. Apple and Graphene OS would be the motherlode of surprises
I'm waiting overall until they share what this device will actually be. If it's just another touchscreen only device, with fingerprint & face scanners, that needs a case to avoid it breaking before I've even charged it the first time, then I'm continuing to avoid #graphene in favor of systems like #lineage & #postmarket that offer decent diversity of device compatibility.
surprised... another American company 🤦♂️
> For the rest of the world, i guess neither a chinese nor an american company seems like a good idea
Yeah, they've been letting people know they were trying to get a manufacturer in on this. Guess they found one.
The real question is, will they pull a OnePlus crap and suddenly decide profits are more important?
is moto secure enough to use Gos? 😂.. Before this news everyone was criticise moto for weak & insecure hardware, now suddenly moto becomes secure.. 😝😝.. Gos just finding another device to survive it's project after Google & pixel tantrums 😅..
i hope its not too expensive
Unfortunately, Fairphones are the only phones I will buy from here onwards. Graphene should look at them instead.
Also, even though sanxboxed, they are using the google play spyware instead of microg replacement. They should focus their resources on sandboxing microg.
honestly a pleasant surprise
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I'd turn that into a teachable moment.
''If someone resorts to violence that means someone was too stupid to accept being told "no".''
Sorry, but I don't have an answer for you either, Calvin.
I had just about this exact conversation with my grandpa—sitting on his lap—when I was Calvin's age. But in my story he said "I have no idea" and then started to cry.
Qp @Natasha_Jay does not feel like the original panel and it makes me furious
(Probably because it feels like a betrayal of Watterson's work)
I will apologize if it's the original panel but i'm not at home to check.
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thinking out loud but it appears that there is no consensus on what the world's problems actually are.
Some countries might start wars to protect their grip on power, be it it's influence, treasury, or fear to be overrun by competing nations.
Some regimes want to protect a certain way of life, and view outside influence as a corrupting factor. Wealthier and more powerful societies can project culture that overwhelms local traditions.
Much of it seems to revolve around fear.
Sadly, most will laugh at the joke, and not even notice there's serious wisdom here. Shame. 😢
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@paulschoe @NatureMC Nope, I have to object Petra. Just did a test on four different devices. Every time the date is clearly visible between the title and the illustration. No way you can accidentally skip that. For me personally, alas, that‘s a hard blow to Bens credibility.
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There are a lot of reasons for the downfall of the #USA but a big one is the purchase of traditional #media by plutocrat goons
Look at this fucking shit:
EDIT: some people are angry that i am potentially misleading because this isn't a recent headline. i am trying to make a point about the decay of traditional media and our current state of things. but yes, this is is from 2014, after #bezos bought WaPo. my point still stands, and you should follow my account for commentary, not breaking news
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Your description is spot on.
yes, it's not recent
i'm thinking of editing my post to indicate that
but i don't think it's that big of a deal
the point i make is true. it is also true the headline isn't current. i don't know. i'm not disturbed by what you're saying, nor that there is an indication it's recent, nor that i'm misleading anyone
@TagYourToe the moron knows it well. I criticise a post pretending it's a fresh screenshot. Ben could have given the facts/source that the pic is very old. @benroyce
@jwcph just... So evil.
@jamesmarshall I don't blame you for not wanting to go to their site. Here's an archive.ph link: archive.ph/Uiu60
The author apparently is one Ian Morris claiming to be a professor at Stanford (I don't even have to look up this person's history to learn they were born into privilege do I?)
Interestingly this was written back in 2014 apparently. They were also running hit pieces against Obama. 🙄 I didn't realize they were this bad even that long ago.
Hey, he's got a point. Wars are the one reliable reason to extract and recirculate wealth hoarded by sillionaires that they're relatively powerless to lobby agains, and this recirculation of stagnant wealth can, indeed, make everybody richer.
Of course, we could be even safer and richer if we recirculated the stagnant money without having any wars.
@riley Your point is great. The problem is that how to define stagnant money? For instance, Elon Musk can be hardly called stagnant money, as he invests most of his wealth into creating other new tech companies, SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, Boring Company, etc.. to redistribute his wealth would probably mean less new tech created, but also more equal society with a little less polarization probably. This is what EU or Europe in general has chosen mostly by taxing and social welfare.
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The United States doesn't suffer the full consequences of war: the bombing of cities, mass graves, displacement and migration, and cities razed to the ground. My family memories of the war include my grandfather's brother being killed with a shovel by a guard in a camp, and then being relocated. An American civilian watches the war on television and worries only about whether oil prices will rise. He doesn't have to worry about bombs falling on his home.
@benroyce... that headline is absolutely not true.
no fucking way
That headline prompts only one question: "Which 'us', specifically?"
yeah, the “us” is the plutocrats.
So WAPO translated a russian propaganda headline and ran it?
Published in 2014 already: washingtonpost.com/opinions/in…
I would be curious to see if they are still publishing such pieces (although I suppose the answer is yes).
is it really that big of a deal?
the point i am making is true. that it isn't recent doesn't change that. but i suppose there is an expectation that my account is a breaking news account?
Armin, Paul: if you want to unfollow me, that's fine. i believe you're holding me to expectations which are unfair on flimsy grounds
that someone makes a point with their account, if it is true or not. not that they are paid reporters. obviously i am not
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Same for me. It changes from 'oversight' to 'deliberate misinformation'.
From now on, I will be more cautious.
@paulschoe I don't think that it's openly manipulated. Depending on the device, the date can be under the picture. Then it would be wrongly cut. 😉 @Linkshaender @benroyce
I indeed concluded that because on my PC browser, the date is above the picture.
You might be right (I hope so).
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@paulschoe @NatureMC Nope, I have to object Petra. Just did a test on four different devices. Every time the date is clearly visible between the title and the illustration. No way you can accidentally skip that. For me personally, alas, that‘s a hard blow to Bens credibility.
@paulschoe @NatureMC By browsing thru the comments I am not astonished by the fact how few acutally looked up the article (at least the date) or read it (or beware, at least read an abstract of the book by Ian Morris if not the book itself). This just shows that (and Ben should have known this as he left out the date) how easy it is also in the „friendly fediverse“ to misguide people and how lazy and unread most of them are.
To my regret, but, as you demonstrate, the picture seems to be manipulated by removing the date,, from now on I will be more cautious when I see posts from Ben.
@Linkshaender 👍🏼 Therefore my decision: Not boosting posts without a source that allows to verify the facts. @paulschoe @benroyce
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You are very right, this post is from April 25, 2014, More than 11 years ago.
I hope that it is an oversight from Ben Royce, but otherwise it is very disappointing.
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right. because i'm not a paid reporter. nothing i said was untrue. i was making a point. you're acting like you bought a newspaper and found out the reporter lied. it's a little overdramatic on your part don't you think?
I mean, we knew that was the ultimate goal of the oligarchy. Now they're saying it openly. "We kill people to make money."
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and why did you ever not do that, if it's so important to you
i feel like i am being roped into a newsroom, as if i am paid reporter. none of which i am
Wars do make some richer and are an excellent way to stimulate the economy (when the war is sufficiently far away, obviously).
The USA figured this out in the middle of the great depression just before deciding to join WWII, and has been fighting wars ever since. The rest of the world isn’t particularly happy about it.
yes, after bezos bought the paper
Another topic treated in detail in the doc Orwell 2+2=5 (Not just USA, many western countries)
Wars have only made us safer when we're on the other side from the Nazis.
then unfollow me
and fuck off
is anything untrue?
no
everyone's always getting so fucking upset about the wrong things. i just don't fucking care anymore. it's always so overwrought and dramatic on the fucking fediverse. we're going to hell in a handbasket, and that seems to me to be the bigger problem
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it is. are you paying me? no. so like i said, fuck off
sorry for my grave grave crime
what a fucking joke
a lot of the US media promote on the same way. todon.nl/@prolrage/11411244835…
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there's a lot of people angry about this is the comments. i'm thinking of editing it, but at the same time i'm somewhat unimpressed with the idea that i'm misleading anyone. it's a real headline
but old
No, I don't have this expectation at all.
I'm just a follower who appreciates your posts, thoughts, and opinions very much - you are one of the most inspiring accounts here. I appreciate you debates with facts and respect.
Exactly *therefore* I want to trust your posts. The problem is social media: more and more posts on Mastodon come without sources or arbitrarily glued together for effect only. So I want to get the facts, be sure that what I could boost
all 4 of you:
i edited my comment on the basis of your complaints
but i would really like it if all 4 of you unfollowed me
because fuck you
endless nitpicking on the fediverse is driving me fucking bonkers
i'm not a fucking news outlet. i am making commentary. this is a real article. my comment is valid
i am not working for you in the news room, to be criticized on the basis of breaking news journalistic integrity
it's a fucking joke
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War is a failure of statecraft Ο πόλεμος είναι αποτέλεσμα της πολιτικής ανικανότητας Why peace is always justification for violence? ArcaneFou (kafeneio)
And thank you very much for the edit, now it's clear! 😊 (BTW, I wasn't angry).
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i don't care
endless endless endless endless nitpicking on the fediverse is beginning to really piss me off
It's a pity, I thought we could have a rational discussion. However, I shall comply. Perhaps you should also stop following me to be consequent? 😉 (This is now truly kindergarden level, a real pity.)
And now we are writing 100 times "fuck" in every combination we can find. 🤓 🤡
already unfollowed
all 4 of you
need to get the nattering nitpicking off my fucking back
i don't owe you shit
you have high standards, you follow those in who you follow
someone disappoints you?
fine, unfollow
don't fucking lecture me like i fucking owe you something, on the basis of overwrought nitpicky bullshit
the article is real. my commentary is valid
apparently not good enough
because you pay me?
FUCK YOU
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ok, I also want to say this one time in my life: fuck you! 💐 I don't disturb you any longer. @Linkshaender @paulschoe
@nrmacdonald @NatureMC @Linkshaender @paulschoe
then don't act like i owe you, on the basis of nitpicky bullshit, asshole
eat shit and die "big man"
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sorry but you're not on the menu
apparently i was
pick pick pick pick
i'm so glad nattering nitpickers know what is really important in life
you're a big help to the world. of such great service. i don't know how we could go on with out you
Fwiw I think your original point is valid with or without the date. If the professional factcheckers of the fediverse object to your edit, they should just unfollow and move on with their lives. The nitpicky arguments on here about the correct way to post are tiresome.
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@NatureMC
grow the fuck up
thank you
it's just reached a boiling point for me, apologies for my temper
i might have been too hard on these 4 but i CANNOT STAND this endless nitpicking on the fediverse. i just can't deal with it anymore, i'm just going to start severing connections
they apparently believe they are helping?
they just drive everyone insane
Sure, let's have another holocaust, think about the medical advances 🤡
Actually, let's make it bigger for bigger advances, let's make it so big nobody survives, that should give us maximum advances
You were definitely not too hard on them.
grow the fuck up?
ok
i won't pick pick pick pick at people on some lame personal need, like they owe me, on the basis of a "grave concern" which isn't shit
i will indeed grow up like that
thanks for your wise advice
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remember laffy?
it's these sort of assholes that drove them away
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Hello Ben
I agree with Petra:
'I'm just a follower who appreciates your posts, thoughts, and opinions very much - you are one of the most inspiring accounts here. I appreciate you debates with facts and respect.'
The picture looked manipulated. That was a shock because I take your posts for gospel.
If you had not built a good reputation, I would not have reacted, but since it was you, and assuming that the picture was modified, I was more than surprised.
i edited my top comment as you desired
i forced you to unfollow, i unfollowed you
FUCK OFF WITH THE ENDLESS FUCKING NITPICKING
IT JUST DRIVES PEOPLE AWAY
you're driving me insane
FUCK YOU
i will from now on sever all connections with overcontrolling nitpicky busybody accounts
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reminds me of those think-tank pieces that about low pay and wage theft being positive economic forces that brought stability to the economy.
Look, if you're going to get this bent about a small and very valid criticism about a single post in which anyone taking it at face value would assume that the content was contemporaneous when in fact it was over a decade old perhaps you should have a think about it all.
You're not a news service true but neither should you be misleading.
You're not a news service true but neither should you be misleading.
unread
uninterested
you and i are done
bye asshole
the endless nitpicking is driving me INSANE
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#RagePorn - no thanks.
She actually blocked me! I thought I was agreeing with her, but maybe my tone was wrong 🤷🏽♀
that's the anger
i do need to tone it down, i don't want to go off the deep end like that
i just blew my top
what's the acceptable amount of blowing one's top? once a month? 10 times a day? 😆
That's true, and the paper is problematic, for sure. Considering the current time and context, though, it is easy to assume it was written at this point in time which would put it in a slightly different light. Not a better one, but a different one.
no those people were relentless. Like a dog with a bone! Your response was justified.
@rejinl (she blocked me too. Similar experience of failing to meet her expectations of how to agree with her.
It's ok -- my timeline is plenty informative and more peaceful without that...)
It's ok -- my timeline is plenty informative and more peaceful without that...)
i liked laffy. but i also didn't comment much on their posts either, otherwise maybe i would have fallen afoul of the banhammer as well
that's why i'm talking about toning down my anger
i think what happens is valid things annoy you... then it builds and then every little fucking thing annoys you, things that aren't a problem, then boom
i don't want to do that
social media is good and bad in many ways. you have to control how you interact with it, or it controls you
@andrew773 He bought the paper in 2013, this was published in 2014. Seems that he went right to work promoting evil.
A lot of words to say "greed is good". But because he's from a privileged society that has been historically benefiting from killing others he doesn't feel the need (or even see) that it should continue with "...for the victor".
I have a 25 year dream of curating a lb art/design exhibition of weapons (and their uses/consequences), the most expensive, advanced and yes historically important designed items of human history. Through seeing them I wanted people to see how it is the source and the guardian of wealth of and in this country. The goal is to create a mirror to the middle classes that benefit from the results (the wealthy already know) and at least acknowledge the blood money.
This piece is a great example of "there is no alternative because this is what happened". Humanity only changes with the refusal of what we are. We try or die.
I have a 25 year dream of curating a lb art/design exhibition of weapons (and their uses/consequences), the most expensive, advanced and yes historically important designed items of human history. Through seeing them I wanted people to see how it is the source and the guardian of wealth of and in this country. The goal is to create a mirror to the middle classes that benefit from the results (the wealthy already know) and at least acknowledge the blood money.
This piece is a great example of "there is no alternative because this is what happened". Humanity only changes with the refusal of what we are. We try or die.
"us" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline.
@rejinl Yeah, it can really build.
Wise of you to see that happening and work to manage it!
Wise of you to see that happening and work to manage it!
@tk Interesting times, hurr durr durr.
The acquisition of media sources, PLUS…
A corrupt & biased SCOTUS,
The Citizens United decision,
Corruption of Congress by lobbyists,
Distortion of an equitable taxation system,
Wildly non-proportional influence of the billionaire class,
Grave lack of education in our general population, voter apathy, and widespread non-involvement of every-day citizens in politics,
And the ascendancy of unethical, unprincipled, amoral legions of principals in government…
A corrupt & biased SCOTUS,
The Citizens United decision,
Corruption of Congress by lobbyists,
Distortion of an equitable taxation system,
Wildly non-proportional influence of the billionaire class,
Grave lack of education in our general population, voter apathy, and widespread non-involvement of every-day citizens in politics,
And the ascendancy of unethical, unprincipled, amoral legions of principals in government…
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@invadersil But wouldn't it be perfectly in line with the Madman Theory for the proprietor of Pravda Socia tol resolve a falling-out with Darth Melon and with the ghosts of ajatollahs past alike by offering Xitter to Iran as a war reparation?
it's worse. the headline says war, but it's about genocide:
"If only the Roman Empire could have been created without killing millions of Gauls and Greeks, if the United States could have been built without killing millions of Native Americans, if these and countless conflicts could have been resolved by discussion instead of force. But this did not happen. People almost never give up their freedoms — including, at times, the right to kill and impoverish one another — unless forced"
WaPo /used to be/ left wing progressive, no?
I generally run some news video while I cook, and sometimes eat if I'm hungry enough for it not to make me sick, Reuters, PBSNewsHour, Al Jazeera (English), sometimes deeper dives. Tonight it was Reuters, They actually ran Kegsbreath's speech (right in line with this graphic). You know it's bad when there's no commentary, as if there's no response to cover, and even the fighting Irish can't think of anything to say.
There are alternatives, and they all have different personalities.
There was one big story, I've forgotten which :/, recently that was picked up by NPR and PBS from a Substack writer. Part of what's bad is too many journalism scholarships no longer exist because the degree just gets you a sycophant's job that pays enough to payoff the remaining $100K kids had to take in loans. No one wants to subsidize that, while grads still can't pay rent and take the risk to go truly independent, so they don't.
We need, need, need affordable housing.
it's insane out there. an entire generation is being priced out of buying a house. not even beginning to address the rent situation
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Why is there always enough money for MORE BOMBS
and never enough for school meals, healthcare, or to protect people from climate disasters?
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because good people aren't violent
Because every time there's an election, the candidate who's for dedicating more money to school meals, healthcare, and climate action gets zero turnout from "progressives" due to being Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris.
Because making war makes some people very rich. Schools and healthcare lack shareholder value.
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Because the latter three don't make plutocrats loads of money, that's why.
Bombs/AI/GMO/airports/drilling projects/crappified IT
Because a lot of money can be made with armaments. Armaments are automatically paid for by taxpayers.
look into mmt, it's all fuqed up political ideology
You've been around for a couple of decades. You tell us when it's time to burn the system down.
read "The Deficit Myth" by Stephanie Kelton and read up on "pay fors"
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What Every American Needs to Know About the Congressional "Pay-For" Game (Part 1)
I know this game. I watched it from the inside.Stephanie Kelton (The Lens)
because they don't know, their time has near finish
Because we don't tax the rich while they make more and more profits with weapons? 🤫😎
Some old men are bored. So, as good citizens, it's our duty to get killed
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There's nothing controversial about E2EE.
Unless you think it's controversial for private conversations to be.... private?
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TikTok says it won't encrypt DMs claiming it puts users at risk
TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.Joe Tidy (BBC News)
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Can't think of a government that wouldn't think that private conversations being private is controversial.
From the article itself:
"But the company has now told the BBC it believes the technology prevents police and safety teams from being able to read direct messages if they needed to."
This is the truth. But it is also part of the point of E2EE. And why governments hate it.
look - realise - anyone that does have shit to hide can ALWAYS do it regardless if law. Bad people can hide communications. These laws only
Impact normal people wanting normal privacy. Criminals can always do this. Laws only hit normal people.
Impact normal people wanting normal privacy. Criminals can always do this. Laws only hit normal people.
TikTok, whose entire business plan is to extract as much information as possible from its users, so they can sell it on / target them, doesn't want not to be able to extract all the information their users aren't giving them... That doesn't surprise me one bit.
\Donald Trump assigned leaders to that company. Now who are they?
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That is great and frustrating at the same time. This "enshitification" is totally a natural result of trading stuff. There is 0 difference between supermarkets putting a 5.99 price on food, or putting candies where people stay in line to pay, or deceiving people with those old ads on TV, and Facebook, Youtube and the like adding clickable ads in the middle of a video or making it play the next video automatically, or not making it clear what is a post what is an ad....
These are trade-based goods and services, and for them to sell, you have to engage in these "marketing" practices.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW!
Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to sell shit. All need to be biased towards their own business. Even the local small businesses are doing it. Everyone does it.
So instead of selecting a few of the most outrageous practices, call them shitty, and point the finger at them, better do 2 things:
- Understand why these products are "shitty". It is trade, the need to trade, that makes people put more ads, collect more data, etc.. Currency, data, or attention trade.
- Simply make 2 categories: trade-free and trade-based. If a product or a service is trade-free, it means it does not want anything from you, the user. Not your data, not your currency, not your attention. Therefore why would it want to make that product or service shitty?
Makes no sense.
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Side note....I like Louis but for fucks sake man start prioritizing a Peertube instance and post there rather than on the "shit" youtube....
#enshitfication #trade #trade-free #facebook #youtube #ads
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That video was so genuinely funny I was laughing my ass off 🤣 Truly refreshing to see something like this in this day and age. And I gotta say the Norwegian government is pretty badass for doing this! Let's hope more governments follow suit 🤞
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> Pretty much all companies and individuals do these in order to see shit.
I think you meant to type "sell shit" here.
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Complete this sentence:
"I experience #fediverse as a .."
#Poll #AskFedi #Microblogging #Mastodon #ActivityPub
- Bustling city (18%, 275 votes)
- Cozy village (70%, 1044 votes)
- Ghost town (4%, 64 votes)
- Other (please comment) (6%, 96 votes)
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"... mad scientist's urban planning experiment"
@dodosan exciting, in a good way then?
“I thought we were an autonomous collective.”
@PrinceOfDenmark do the square quotes indicate we aren't there yet? A collective sounds to me like it is very tight-knit. Shouldn't it be plural?
Quoting Monty Python. 😎
@maikel this is a very cool and relevant direction that explores new social networking use cases and areas, and where reflecting deeply on the social side of the equation will probably pay good divident when it comes to implementing the supportive technical side.
I posted the other day about the social networking direction I am most interested about, which requires healthy ecosystem and inclusive commons based collaboration.
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SX considers your applied research area to be exploring the Personal social networking paradigm, which in a more general sense also facilitate the notion of what it means to be "working in commons" on things that are "commons based".
Trust and safety are major concerns, I gather. I am not sure what is the status today, but the Open Hospitality Network at one point was investigating an ActivityPub based platform similar to CouchSurfing, where these aspects were also of key importance. @mariha hosts this community.
So the area where my plans go I call "Residential social networking", geo-fenced but inter-connected social networking circles that cover a city, town, or rural area, and which enable their residents to not only create content on the network, but the dynamic apps and services based on local needs that exist in the area. The intent of a residential social network is to engage people *offline* and in activities that support the local economy. Or rather strengthens the Circles of Sustainability in SX terminology:coding.social/blog/reimagine-s…
And all this should be a relatively low-code affair, directly accessible already for a first-time dev. This requires having a mature open standards based healthy technology foundation and thriving ecosystem.
I am a developer, though with rusty coding skills these days, and I might have started a fedi app design in 2018 or so. But this would not have led to the desired outcome, just throw one more app-centric software in the mix.
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...like you, no matter how weird you consider yourself to either date or build a support network when you live in a place where that's absolutely necessary for survival.
I experience it as a web of interconnections that span the globe, and across my many intersecting and diverting interests.
@unattributed I like that imagery, thank you. That aligns with the notion of a peopleverse/ Forming a road network that connects the offline and online worlds.
Exactly, it's kind of like each person has their own topography of what the Fediverse looks like based on who they are interacting with, and the nodes of interests where they intersect.
I call thinking about how people would experience such a network and taking their needs in account to be examples of Personal social networking in a new paradigm that differs to how we now think about social media (which is in a very technical sense characterized by "people are users").
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On that last bit..
"If as a developer you call your people users, you just lost the first battle of a great solution design."
-- Some dude on the fediverse 😅
Well, there are a couple of potential negative connotations to the word user. First, "user" was frequently used in the 90's for the customers that purchased some software products.
Then there is also the connotation of "drug" users.
Maybe the Fediverse is better thought of as groups of participants in communities that may or may not overlap.
I think you and I have some common goals. I was doing this over Christmas, then stopped because I realised I didn't want to build one for just LGBTQ+ but any minorities (eg: AuDHD). I want any minority to be able to support their own while at the same time, share a "town square".
Non-negotiables
1. Federated and decentralised tech.
2. Opt-in network-wide discovery without centralisation of an index (this is the hard one).
3. Protection in places where we're beheaded for existing (strong e2e is a must and sharing data like absolute location coordinates is a definite NO).
first it was about LGBTQ+, then I started to think about autistics, adhd, neurodivergencies, then about BAME.
Most of it, mimics algorithms I have already in my head about minimising the cost of a UK Nat Rep survey (e.g.: the more rare a participant is, the more expensive it becomes in e.g: Cint) for a previous job.
But each layer has to be carefully thought to be the most respectful and inclusive possible.
(part of why I'm preparing for a psychology degree to get some specialisation into Social Psychology).
The goal is, a dating / support app (the fact it is both things is key) where you can find people ....
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No, I love ghosts, they have the coolest stories, and I don't have to deal with those pesky living people with their racism and their hate.
I also love villages, they're livable, they're walkable and the only real problem is being stuck out in the middle of nowhere, and that downside doesn't really apply online.
And bustling: Every place is full of people I want to hear from.
I don't have the time to hear from all of them, but that's just the FOMO speaking.
I am especially annoyed by this practice of referring to companies and people you don't like by dysphemisms, as if saying their real name would summon them like Candyman. Thus "the orange site" instead of Hackernews, "the bird site" instead of Twitter, etc.
I suspect this might have had some utility on Twitter or other corporate media sites, where bot armies would search for a name so they could brigade anyone who disparaged their favorite site or person. But here it's just annoying, and, as you point out, plays hell with filters.
70% cozy village ! My... expérience is so different of obvious majorities ! Even here
@amans happy to hear that! There are a lot of fedi villagers on this thread, which is delightful. 😃
happy to read this also
Well, let's try to cross more often the ocean then to join your social village-like (i understand "good-will-and-possibly-kind") communitieS
@amans certainly, and welcome 🤗
@unattributed exactly.
I practiced myself in avoidance of the term, and found that to be refreshing and lending a different perspective.
"Users" carries an aspect of depersonalization, but also implies an ownership relationship that creeps into the developers thinking, and even where the noble ones say "I serve MY users" it has consequences to the entire dynamics around software dynamics, and how the solution deliverable is able to serve the needs of different stakeholder groups.
Social experience design focusses on needs-based development and starts to consider problem statements first for all identified stakeholders in the solution delivery process.
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Note that once you are conditioned to avoid the term "User" after a full career of addictive use of the word in that dev context, you start to notice how weird and awkward it really is.
You don't notice that while still addicted to your daily dose of saying "user" in broad generalization and technical abstraction. Devs think it is practical to use the word, pragmatic. But it is not. It is a technical word, and the use is similar to when a dev says "JSON" for instance. It is depersonalized, and that depersonalization seeps deep into the codebase over time. It is a word that anchors devs in the technosphere and keeps them there.
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A friendly global village, although a bit white.
An opensource school 
Een sidestep.. Het valt me op dat bijna niemand op de fediverse meer boost. Een boost is een schaars goed, en op zich is dat een gunstige ontwikkeling die aansluit bi het Personal social networking paradigma van SX. Maar voor orgs en mensen die een goede boodschap willen overdragen naar een groter publiek, zoals ook CEDO, is het geen goede zaak. Er moet een goede balans zijn, waarbij ook non-profits en actie groepen het gevoel hebben nut te behalen dmv campagnes i.p.v. tijdrovende friend-of-a-friend netwerk opbouw.
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I should mention I was trying to capture my experience as an anonymous user. I would still guess the town analogy is generally apt.
That is a nice thing the fediverse offers. Note that if you enter a descriptive email in your account registration, or talk about personal matters in fedi direct messages, then technically you are pseudonymous as the instance admins have access to that information if they wish to.
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Bustling city where everyone says hello and folks are mostly nice … so, not a real city and not entirely "bustling"
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A cosy village with a bustling public transit system bussing in interesting people to see people I like who say hello with a cheery wave as they pass by.
kudos for your reply-reply stamina!
I keep retuning 
to be any one of those things and more, depending on my prevailing energy/focus here/mood ... that's the beauty -- if frustration at the time it takes -- of being your own algo-creator.
[edit] -- notices "Automated" in the profile. Wonders ... HOW automated !!?
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Thank you!
An insight of this thread, also indicated in your post, is that everyone creates their own social experience and can foster good habits to improve it. Fediverse allows us to do that. It enables us to be more social online and improve our 'cyberspace' cultures. A paradigm shift towards Personal social networking.
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PS. It is really me, a person formally known as @humanetech at mastodon social. The 'automated' indicator was first of all a tease (a hedonic driver), but also the intent to use this account as an organization channel for Social coding commons, operated by a group of people. Which didn't happen thus far. Things move slow, and time moves fast. There's no automation, just plain masto web UI and me typing :)
That said, given the huge disruption we face today with AI et al, much more pondering of the risk and impact are in order, than the random firings of complaints into the ether I see so often. See:
social.coop/@smallcircles/1161…
How We Reimagine the Social Web
We find novel ways to collaborate and create value together.Social coding commons
Whatever we think of #AI / #LLM mad hype cycle, we have to deal with its rushed and inhumane dumping of the technology into global human society.#CALMculture is a strategic approach to that allows activist voices to have the most impact in dealing with the dangers of disruptive technology introductions, and focuses beyond berating people and demanding sacrifice ("don't use, or else.."), to creating a process that helps win people over and work together on best outcomes and in direction of solutions.
#CALM stands for Constructive activism-led movements, such as Social coding commons. Coding is social, and #SocialCoding the holistic approach to ensure that.
Social coding commons evolves Social experience design or #SX, solution development for grassroots movements, supported by the #SocialWeb.
In the thread below I copied a post to #Gleam's community with a suggestion to ponder about best outcomes from current and ongoing AI disruption, and deal with risks.
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CALM culture to ensure best outcomes to AI disruption
I posted a Question topic “Ensuring best outcomes from AI disruption” to the Gleam community. I shall copy the text below … As an activist with a strategic mindset I note how so much activism that is out there is very haphazard, inefficient, and m…Discuss Social Coding
Personal take, after thinking for quite a while about that: A larger metropolitan area in the global Northwest. Not too densely populated but far-reaching and covering a lot of real estate. A lot of roads and interconnects in between different parts, partly along areas that have been somewhat structured but in the end not really grown into /any/ kind of meaningful use. And a lot of more clearly outlined neighbourhoods of very different kinds, styles, attitudes and openness towards new arrivals or strangers, including places were you'd like to settle and stay for an indefinite amout of time and ... places, people you'd better avoid without taking a closer look or even stopping there.
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Yes, a nice depiction. An intricate social networking landscape is shaping up, where our social graphs fan out to interact in many different social settings and contexts. Lovely, thank you.
Yes, something like that. Including its chances regarding diversity, but also its challenges related to community management, bridging gaps and keeping infrastructure both working and at a sane level. Maybe it's similar problems in general, no matter which kind of network one's talking about. 😊
@z428 yes, this is the focus area of Social experience experience design, which takes on the challenge of overcoming the wicked challenge of cocreation at scale in "herding of cats" grassroots environments, where regular top-down forms of organization and governance like community-building are doomed to fail.
Joyful creation for the Social web
We reimagine the social web and cocreate a peopleverse.Social coding commons
What would be an alternative to the word User?
In my dayjob we have Organizations aka "Customers" with groups of "Users" who use our service for their journalistic work.
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When speaking in a general sense, you can substitute with people, person, human. "The user" becomes "the person", and "user-centric" becomes human-centric or people-centric, whatever fits best in context.
More interesting when not just defaulting to saying "user", is asking the question: Whom are we serving with our software? Who is the audience, who are stakeholders and stakeholder groups that have Needs that must be addressed by our solution?
"Joyful creation", the SX formula that envisions cocreation at scale supported by the social web, discerns between Creators and Clients stakeholder groups. If we apply this formula to Software develpment, then creator might be a Dev, but also Tester, Technical writer, etc. People switch stakeholder hats: A dev being client of an upstream project.
In your case you may have Journalists in a News Media domain. And that "Customer" stakeholder name, may indicate a Sales domain. Or may be a stakeholder group, really.
@draNgNon thanks, some very good food for thought.
I think the crucial point is that we do not know and do not offer proper ways to deal with different modes of communication, esp. if the only medium channel constitutes a stream of sticky notes, such as we have here in this #microblogging space.
On the first point, when is something an #EchoChamber vs. a healthy interest area, I think depends how well one is able to cross the 'membranes' of all the various social contexts and information spaces one navigates online, as it were.
There should be a place for 'influencing' to an extent if only to reach your crowd and build community and such. But all in balance and proportion and clear social context preferably. Non-profits and #activist groups want to influence, we may want to be informed.
To the last point. There's urgency to address the dark world situation, and either organize or lose. #SX defines #CALMculture as a way to engage in constructive #activism..
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@maikel that is a great list of points. I won't boost, or you get more of what you don't want, but you might consider filing a fediverse idea..codeberg.org/fediverse/fediver…
Some of these can be mitigated by nurturing cultural habits.
> 6. The worst one: people use other names instead to call them so filters don't work.
This one in particular. Besides references to toxic people you see it too with folks saying Gaggle, GMAFIA, Farcebook, etc.
Often these names are used in someone's "activism package", but using them is imho more performative to an existing in-group than that they constructively appeal to others and persuade them to join the good cause.
I posted something related to this today. See CALM culture in..
The acronym also litterally means that our social media culture becomes calmer, and there's better separation to where there's activism, and where the natural talk of the town.
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Whatever we think of #AI / #LLM mad hype cycle, we have to deal with its rushed and inhumane dumping of the technology into global human society.
#CALMculture is a strategic approach to that allows activist voices to have the most impact in dealing with the dangers of disruptive technology introductions, and focuses beyond berating people and demanding sacrifice ("don't use, or else.."), to creating a process that helps win people over and work together on best outcomes and in direction of solutions.#CALM stands for Constructive activism-led movements, such as Social coding commons. Coding is social, and #SocialCoding the holistic approach to ensure that.
Social coding commons evolves Social experience design or #SX, solution development for grassroots movements, supported by the #SocialWeb.
In the thread below I copied a post to #Gleam's community with a suggestion to ponder about best outcomes from current and ongoing AI disruption, and deal with risks.
your question is a cognitive dissonance for me.
Firstly, I've only ever experienced Google+ circles in an environment where the participants are similar to LinkedIn, posting about professional topics and/or corporate syncophacy. They are a good way to seal yourself into an echo chamber/bubble, even within that type of discourse
Secondly, influencer social media always feels more like people pitching their point of view or hot take or maybe just themselves. It's about collecting follower count for credibility. Fedi mostly isn't like that but there are some.
Lastly, I'm in the US, right now with political situation there is necessarily disruption and shouting and points to be made. (Some of them might even be correct!). But it does affect social media experience; it would probably make matters worse to increase the echo chamber effects.
a federation of planets like in start trek
Other: loosely-bound meta-network of more tightly-bound community or topical networks.
I *describe my experience* using all kinds of analogies such as the other options in this poll.
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That is a good, more matter of fact characterization to all the analogies indeed. Thank you.
What I particularly like in your definition, is that it makes clear that "fediverse" by itself indicates a pure technosphere. It enables social communication, and merely facilitates it. What people do on that channel, the way they communicate and how they interact with others then determines the social experience.
SX starts to consider a social experience from the most personal perspective, where a person has individual needs wrt their online participation. Then using the "Pyramid of perspective" this scale up to consider inter-personal relationships, and at the top of the pyramid and at the largest scale we shape the constructs of society together.
(Note that SX is a universal solution development methodology, even though it starts with a focus on social web and software development.)
See also: coding.social/blog/reimagine-s…
How We Reimagine the Social Web
We find novel ways to collaborate and create value together.Social coding commons
Awesome!
I hope my response didn't come off snarky, as that wasn't how I meant it - at worst I intended to be a bit pedantic. And relatable analogies are *always* at my fingertips when talking to the inexperienced or "non-tech" social network users, for sure.
But *eventually* we need to draw people in to a little more media- and tech-literate understanding.
I'm bookmarking your blog post, thanks - this is a topic in my current academic modules and my hoped-for masters capstone
@johannab No, not at all snarky. 💕
What is so interesting is to discern between the technical and social, and I think that most people have a very functional-technical perspective of what it means to communicate online, so to say. Consider it merely as extra channels to interact with others, more choice to connect.
But of course our online social network is much more than merely a channel, and we have to 'project our social' somehow over these thin copper and fiberglass wires, while we try to make sense and interpret the social signals that come from other remote places.
I think we underestimate the impact of communicating online, and the narrow 'social bandwidth' that our current networking tools support. Then we translate online situations to how we would behave offline and get wrong expectations, misconceptions, and subequenctly miscommunications.
We are still all youngers online, still all learning the ropes, while we do social networking offline for 1,000's of years already.
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@johannab I for my part are very happy you find this interesting. Addressing the social side is not the most popular among developer-heavy crowds :)
Feel welcome to participate in our matrix channels or forum. The latter serves as a note-taking tool, or - under SX definition - as a commons based prosperity vault, aggregating value over time as people leave their 2 cents.
Note the SX Mindfulness principle of Social coding commons.. the movement moves, or it pauses awaiting value aggregation by the next participant. Timeless. Everything hinges on proactive participation (and on the basis of intrinsic motivation following Hedonic peer production principles).
I am mentioning, as at the moment the movement is slow-moving, since I am looking for income to sustain my work in the commons. In other words I must let the SX Sustainability principle prevail now :)
Here a link to the core principles of Social experience design:
coding.social/blog/reimagine-s…
#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #ActivityPub
How We Reimagine the Social Web
We find novel ways to collaborate and create value together.Social coding commons
that last line - that's exactly it. I've been mostly under-the-radar blogging my thinking on this again lately (having started making these observations in 1989-90).
My current interest is (re)connecting real-world, localizable communities and real-world Third Places, using digital social tools as *tools* for those human social networks to get their needs met.
This ramble a few months ago was one related thought: johannab.ca/theBlog/2025-10-07…
Oww, that is interesting. See here what brought me to the #ActivityPub fediverse ages ago on IT timescales..
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So the area where my plans go I call "Residential social networking", geo-fenced but inter-connected social networking circles that cover a city, town, or rural area, and which enable their residents to not only create content on the network, but the dynamic apps and services based on local needs that exist in the area. The intent of a residential social network is to engage people *offline* and in activities that support the local economy. Or rather strengthens the Circles of Sustainability in SX terminology:coding.social/blog/reimagine-s…
And all this should be a relatively low-code affair, directly accessible already for a first-time dev. This requires having a mature open standards based healthy technology foundation and thriving ecosystem.
I am a developer, though with rusty coding skills these days, and I might have started a fedi app design in 2018 or so. But this would not have led to the desired outcome, just throw one more app-centric software in the mix.
How We Reimagine the Social Web
We find novel ways to collaborate and create value together.Social coding commons
Read the blog post, and these are astute observation and valuable way of thinking about the networking environment, both offline as well as online, and how they interact together, how they intertwine. #SX envisions a peopleverse (which is a concept, not a name), a hypothetical space where the interaction is seamless and technology unobtrusively serves our day to day needs.
#PersonalSocialNetworking is a powerful instrument to design better social experiences.
Often the talk of the town in the #ActivityPub dev circles is about some feature or other, an app functionality and the extent to which it can be made interoperable. Technical implementation details dominate the discussion. And drama ensues on the broader #fediverse if social impact and other externalities are overlooked in an app design.
When comparing #microblogging we have today, it really is like sticky notes on the fridge, which fall off or are removed by people. And we project all communication modes onto them.
I very much think you and I have arrived at the same space, perhaps from different directions and with different vocabularies - I'm still very much learning how to communicate my terminologies and I hope it's OK that you've prompted me to shift into some of yours!
My paid-work background is +/- 30 years in "tech support", but much involved roles with titles related to "integration" , "deployment" and "client care". Good tools are made when we start with UX/SX and work back.
I'm now a (hopefully temporarily) unwaged grad student in an interdisciplinary urbanism/planning/systems program mashing that all up with community-first technology planning.
I have a seminar discussion tonight on a recently assigned "The Mayor's Brief" paper, and I took the approach of presenting and argument that Cities need to own their own social technology tools.
Remains to be seen how well I did that!
Totally! Cities should have their own tools. I find the whole #SmartCity trend to be dystopic #SurveillanceCapitalism driven, from what I've seen of it. Large corporations in the driver seat, plenty #BigTech, and a general 'drive for control' by technical means, rather than creating and evolving vibrant and safe living spaces by social means and encouragement of close participation of local residents in sustaining that.
It is hard to find sustenance to focus on the important applied R&D in the more social areas, with most #funding and support reserved for the cold hard tech side. While tech can only ever be supportive of "true social". It must address people's needs.
I'm biased but think its urgent to #fund initiatives like Social coding commons and #SX for fedi to stave off existential challenges. I approached @nlnet among others. Current #EU mandate by @EUCommission for @ngi results in a tech-first "code it and they will come", not a peopleverse.
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#ThoughtProvokerThe current fediverse is an evolutionary dead-end for 2 reasons:
1. It has painted itself in a small niche of decentralizing typical social media use cases, by means of post-facto interop and the introduction of protocol decay.
2. Lacking a proper grassroots standardization process, and with the primary mechanism for fediverse extension being only post-facto interoperability, there is no way out.
Congratulations to the early adopters, who managed to "cross the chasm" with their own app platforms. It took true grit to become deep #ActivityPub experts, and plug holes needed for your app, but you have made it. Post-facto interop works in your favor now. You are unrestrained to productively add more features in your app, and put them on the fedi wire for others to deal with.
To avoid fedi to become less and less attractive to newcomers, we must now consider:
“Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom?” -- @ben
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Shared responsible social web ownership
We strive for an inclusive social web that is by the people and for the people. But how do we guarantee equity and shared ownership?Social coding commons
Oh, yeah.
I follow Evan, and Julian, but those threads sometimes cause me to glaze over - I've never been "a coder".
That said, I just re-read that one and holy cow, I'm seeing lots of analogies to problems with the DICOM protocol which DID drive my tech services/deployments work for decades.
One of the hardest challenges in keeping a human patient's medical records in order, and secure, is that different stakeholders need different relational connection to different components
DICOM data structures get crazy twisted, because every element in a recordbase could potentially be the point which is seen as the "root" from which everything branches.
Radiologists view Images, which have attributes including the Study, the Order, and the Patient.
Clinical care delivery people need Reports, which derive from Studies but also include Orders and Patients as attributes.
Primary care physicians are concerned with Patients, who come with 1:n relationships with attributes such as Orders, Studies, Reports, referrals, results, diagnoses....
Patients don't give a shit about having any attributes at all, they want to feel better and get the hell away from anything to do with medical technology!
I can see AP being at least as ridiculous as DICOM, though social networking is probably slightly lower-stakes for most. 🤣
I think what you will find interesting, and what immediately leads to a sort of mindset shift - which is required to fully grasp the holistic approach that SX follows - is that SX defines #SocialNetworking as follows:
"Any direct or indirect human interaction between people."
Period. That's it. It encompasses that vast scope, which includes both our offline and online worlds (handy, to focus on that peopleverse).
A healthcare system is a complex mulitplayer environment, where many people in different stakeholder roles work with sensitive data. That is the technical perspective.
On the social side, it is a social network, for which you can apply SX as the evolutionary solution design methodology.
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Absolutely.
I'm out of it now, but wow, it would be immensely beneficial for a patient to truly *own* their medical data lake and just exchange the relevant records when needed.
It would also be several lifetimes' work to do that correctly, I fear, and there are eleventy-million and one startups making their own wrongheaded attempts at it with "patient portals" and "AI health" and other such malwares.
Just start small and 🍀 evolve. A good example is the Netherlands where I live. In the 50s it was as car-heavy as any US state today, but by following a consistent policy we turned it into a bikers' paradise. And that is now an exemplar for other cities and even countries across the world. An export product :D
hahaha - your example appears somewhere in my world almost daily - urbanism studies, active transportation folks I follow, and in my fediverse-urbanism interconnections all the time.
It's amazing what we can transform if we get the entrenched and unimaginative status quo out of the way.
What no one has remarked thus far, is that this #poll has a serious flaw. Sure, if you're in a village or city you can find roads and highways that lead you to answer the question above.
But if you are in a Ghost Town out in the wilderness, the poll likely won't pass by your timeline. And warp the outcome of this little #fediverse survey.
Boosts are appreciated so the poll has more chance to find the outer reaches of our fedi universe.
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Even more remarkable is the near complete absence of the #ActivityPub developer community in mingling in the social side of the discussion.
To learn how #fedizens actually *experience* this here fediverse. A #fediverse which results from them tying their apps together, to hopefully get more than the sum of individual parts. By means of facilitating #interoperability, technically speaking. But it involves more than getting that feature across the wire to the next app.
There's exists a clear gap between #sociosphere and #technosphere, where the latter must serve the former to bring real solutions. Otherwise it is all apps and not much seamless social fabric to navigate. No peopleverse anywhere in sight. Just apps and users of them.
The apps see great success, and I enjoy their use a lot. But I don't see a future for the app-centric fediverse where it comes to providing mankind the future of #SocialNetworking.
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#ThoughtProvokerThe current fediverse is an evolutionary dead-end for 2 reasons:
1. It has painted itself in a small niche of decentralizing typical social media use cases, by means of post-facto interop and the introduction of protocol decay.
2. Lacking a proper grassroots standardization process, and with the primary mechanism for fediverse extension being only post-facto interoperability, there is no way out.
Congratulations to the early adopters, who managed to "cross the chasm" with their own app platforms. It took true grit to become deep #ActivityPub experts, and plug holes needed for your app, but you have made it. Post-facto interop works in your favor now. You are unrestrained to productively add more features in your app, and put them on the fedi wire for others to deal with.
To avoid fedi to become less and less attractive to newcomers, we must now consider:
“Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom?” -- @ben
coding.social/blog/shared-owne…
Shared responsible social web ownership
We strive for an inclusive social web that is by the people and for the people. But how do we guarantee equity and shared ownership?Social coding commons
I experience the fedi as network of cafés with shared seating, or a vast food court with characters and conversations galore.
Within this multitude different folks have different needs and desires, some are testing the waters, some are regulars.
Even the impulse for networked sociality ebbs and flows.
@django very much so. I particularly like your last observation, thank you.
an app as a doorway to something.
How do you see the the people verse, within ans beyond the app paradigm?
How do you see the the people verse, within ans beyond the app paradigm?
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In a technical sense constituting a shift towards a fediverse of apps and services.
In a social sense as inter-connected spaces that are open for people to explore, collaborate, cocreate, and do all the things we do offline to the extent we can do them online too, plus all the extra's that remote connection by technological means have to offer.
But that is an exploratory design area. A vast space hardly explored. This is where Social experience design focuses. See the diagram at coding.social where SX broadens horizons by taking a more holistic approach (actually utterly holistic and boundless in scope, as SX scales from personal to societal levels).
What #SX envisions is a peopleverse. A hypothetical place-to-be in the future where our online and offline worlds are seamlessly intertwined and in services of our day to day activities and human needs.
Joyful creation for the Social web
We reimagine the social web and cocreate a peopleverse.Social coding commons
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This is just me note-taking and cross-referencing.. weaving in public :)
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RSVP Future Fediverse: ✅ Fedizens present, ❌ Devs busy cranking out code
Adding a marker to this poll on how people experience the fediverse, with absolutely delightful outcome and responses, but also showing the huge gap to the developer community who seem to be lost in tech and their own app domains.Discuss Social Coding
You have confused me no end there. Couldn't find any point in it.
Don't worry it is more a note-to-self on the forum which serves as note-taking tool. The link it includes is to the poll at the top of this thread. Other than that I have tooted all over the place on the subject matter, which is unfortunately now all dispersed and sinking in timeline history (though I kept a bunch of bookmarks).
"Even more remarkable is the near complete absence of the #ActivityPub developer community in mingling in the social side of the discussion."
Once you've been here for a little longer you'll realise this statement isn't the case.
@wordsmith perhaps. Is 2017 long enough?
I guess I've been on the look-out for discussion by the people making things here. Owncast, Bonfire, RFF, Indie Beat Radio and TV, Fireside Fedi, Fedilab, dansup's many projects, and folk involved in AP more directly. They've all been talking about what they do and plan, and have listened or given a voice to people asking and answering questions about how the Fedi grows. There does seem to be plenty of social discussion out there.
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You are certainly not wrong. And I apologize, as it is not immediately clear that my post above is against the backdrop of 2 weeks of microblogging addressing a whole range of paint points and inhibitors to a fedi that evolves to be the future of social networking. Microblogging is too fragmentary and 'context-lossy', but unfortunately the primary comms channel for the dev community.
The gist and big issue is that the current fediverse is app-centric in nature, and accepted a work method that will further that app-centricness by introducing ever more protocol decay and tech debt. The examples you gave above are app talk, turn to features, howto federate feature, tech talk, get mired in impl details. And importantly: do not catch up with standards. That is up to some poor volunteers, who see that things are going side-ways.
There are 2 fediverse forks: the promised one in the AP specs, and the one we have. There's no shared vision, and tons of misconception to deal with.
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aha, then the apologies are mine for not considering the context before sending a reply. I guess it's more difficult to start a conversation - and for it to be seen - than to join one.
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As a mildly annoying social network website, and thanks to the rising number of polls like this, the levels of annoyance are growing as well.
@lproven ouch, I am sorry. At least it serves the goal of making social networking better. And the results thus far we are a long way on the road towards a Personal social networking paradigm shifts that provides you more control in finding the crowd you're most comfortable with.
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How We Reimagine the Social Web
We find novel ways to collaborate and create value together.Social coding commons
Hey, no biggie.
I am just not very fond of these metaphors though. It's all been going downhill since Usenet, in my book.
yes, I can understand that, and when e.g. we compare with LinkedIn, then it is all full of "add your like" polls that are not more than influencer growth-hacking. We should not get there.
Note that I posted this against a backdrop of warning for existential threats that the fediverse also faces at the same time. The top of this thread and onwards gives a good summary..
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The thread has many forks that delve in the interesting underlying social dynamics that we'd benefit from if we better understood them, and able to support them in our tools.
For example the discussion triggered by @johannab in this response..
cosocial.ca/@johannab/11616667…
Other: loosely-bound meta-network of more tightly-bound community or topical networks.I *describe my experience* using all kinds of analogies such as the other options in this poll.
none of the above.
tl'dr I think you might be right. the below are some thoughts but isn't directly addressing what you were saying, it just sits in the same universe.
I've been thinking about this exchange, and what I am seeing on Fedi is there's a tendency on the part of the promoters (especially on Mastodon, but to some extent all of them) to conflate shared interests with server preferences. way back in the day, Usenet was popular, and your connection to it did help as part of your (with a university, or other provider) (username@the.org.im.in.edu) but the discussions were separated by topics (sci.space, talk.bizarre, etc) and at least from what I saw did not become an echo chamber. some topics were moderated.
Reddit is centralized but still tries to do that. however since there's moderation and such still an echo chamber and everyone has throwaway handles.
Fedi is more like usenet, but people instead tell newcomers to find community by picking the right server and using hashtags. that's offputting and also leaves people who don't have time to go digging kind of lost and at the mercy of the boosting preferences of whoever does have time. and the hashtags are a guess, and rely on accurate autocomplete (which in my experience doesn't exist), and are often not used by people posting.
if there was a better way to register and define topics other than using freeform hashtags that might help, and also would shut down a lot of "hoa" behaviour like "put politics behind a trigger warning" etc. it would make it easier to avoid undesired topics, by simply not following them. but I suspect that means a change to the AP protocol which is already a mess.
Ghost cozy village.
@coffeetomorrow that is an original combination. I like it.
My problem with using person vor journalist is as follows:
- The Organizations are the actual, paying customers (Sales domain, but also grouping element for authorization checks)
- We have journalists on both ends of our software. *our* journalists produce news which the customers journalists use to write their news
- people are everywhere in our system. So we need words to differentiate between them
You may look at domain driven design here, the 'strategic design' parts, that is.
The solutions are to either use more specific stakeholder names than "Journalist", and perhaps make Journalist a stakeholder group.
Or distinguish the bounded contexts that define and restrict the meaning of Journalist to a particular sub-domain. Bounded contexts form consistency boundaries in the software design, and when you communicate across boundaries you can take contextual or semantic differences into account.
That is the part where tactical patterns apply, like an anti-corruption layer between the different journalistic contexts.
ECommerce is the usual example, where an Order has a different meaning to the Sales domain than that it has to Billing or Shipping. And the data model of the Order has different fields in each of these sub-domains.
I do know about bounded contexts and DDD. Our code is structured to make clear in which context we move. I guess its more of a "Ubiquitious Language" Problem when talking with people about what we need to do and what not.
Did I mention that not *all* our "users" are journalists? Some are just "consumers". So I still need a word to mean both at the same time as they are the ones to get authorized to different parts/services of our Software.
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Yes, ubiquitous language. I created an excalidraw copy of a diagram that you see quite often to explain the idea. I adapted it slightly for the purpose of coding.social
I can't say what are best name choices in your case, but at least I feel confident that it is possible to entirely avoid "user" and benefit from some extra clarity by doing so.
Joyful creation for the Social web
We reimagine the social web and cocreate a peopleverse.Social coding commons
Hmm... Well.... I thought at least a good year about these questions and did not yet come up with better words.
I mean, yes, our journalists are creators, which clarifies that. But then our users would be consumers and thats not better. And I cant call them journalists as not every user is one. So client maybe? But that would be a better fit for the Organizations as they are the ones talking with sales and paying the money.
All in all: I really am at a loss for better words here.
Nonetheless, thank you for your time 🙏🏻
I was going to answer a cozy village after seeing how crazy a place like BlueSky is whenever emotions run hot, but then I realized that effect is exactly the opposite of a cozy village.
The best and worst part of a cozy village is that you know everyone, but you can't get away from them so the limited diversity means you're always stuck on the same things. If you don't enjoy those exact same things you either keep to yourself or you leave.
In a bustling city, it takes effort to find your tribe. Even though you're in a much larger population center, your in-group can end up being far smaller than it would be in a cozy village because everyone has a much larger number of choices of groups they can belong to.
Being lost and NOT being able to quickly feel like you belong is exactly what you'd expect to experience in a bustling city.
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international conference
... overlarge, international office tea kitchen. Come over when you feel like it, take a biscuit and talk to whoever happens to be around.
Mastodon is a loose networking of occasionally like minded people who take the time to look for the tags and individuals that interest them. A community doesn't have the ability to just disassociate from problem people.
It's a neighbourhood in an old city, a chowk. I see a lot of the same folk and we look after each other. There's a river that connects us to other parts of the city, and market gardens, and hills still covered with forests. I look after an old monastery at the base of one of those hills, with a big tree in the courtyard. There's quite a large bazaar nearby and many friends have workshops and sell things there. Sometimes I go for a cycle ride to other neighbourhoods where I have colleagues or friends. Folks come by for morning rituals or just good food. Sometimes drunk twats from the business district get lost and show up here, so someone has to help them leave.
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@yetiinabox this I really like as a mental image depicting the future of social networking.
A rallying cry of coding.social is to (dare to) Reimagine Social. To reimagine social networking holds a challenge to think out of the box, and distinguish the sociosphere from the technosphere that should support it.
On the social side we can pursue dreams together, while we materialize them as we realize corresponding technology visions on the technical side.
We are nowhere near of the deliberate solution design of our dreams (pun intended: added wordplay), but framing your technology effort in a proper social context is a great way to more meaningful and purposeful software development. Good examples are @Bonfire and @Framasoft
Framasoft lets the artwork, created by @davidrevoy, speak for the vibes and values of the open technology landscape they envision. The imagery depicts the dream driving the vision.
To Reimagine Social our place on the Fediverse Adventure Map is here ...
Joyful creation for the Social web
We reimagine the social web and cocreate a peopleverse.Social coding commons
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With developer verification, Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy
Questions remain as Google prepares to lock down Android app distribution in the name of security.
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With developer verification, Google's Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android's open legacy
Questions remain as Google prepares to lock down Android app distribution in the name of security.
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I wish you made it more clear that this only affects stock android users and not all android users. Unless something has changed since last time I checked?
@duckz it affects all android users cuz FOSS apps developers will have to register with Google (pay fees and get Google's consent) to publish their apps even outside the play store and this in effect will kill alternate app stores like F Droid and developers who want to remain anonymous and projects like ReVanced and effectively also increase surveillance of all the people making & using these apps.
@skywalker2k17 that's not true. And this is why I wish Ars would be more clear
@duckz that is true. And you should read more about it.
@skywalker2k17 what you say is incorrect, please do a search if you don't believe me. It affects so-called "side loading" on stock android but not aosp. If you reason about it logically for a second, why would aosp devs merge in an upstream change that would in practice break the project? Re stock android, sure it reduces the ability of people to access free software but otoh on a phone that's infested with gafam apps having a couple free apps imho makes no difference
@duckz umm, it affects AOSP, that's why F Droid and other parties wrote a letter to Google that they are trying to control what they don't have control over (AOSP). Which is exactly it's not going well, cuz it is unreasonable.
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@skywalker2k17 Ars please be more explicit next time! @fdroidorg are concerned because it will reduce their potential user base and thus make it harder to reach those users that don't know about libre apps but that would have been interested if they had a chance to try
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Hey guys, I think the major concern here is that it will affect the entire Android ecosystem because this policy is targeting developers not users. How many FOSS developers would keep making apps for Android after this? Even if you are on a de-googled version of Android that won't add this restriction you still need developers to keep making apps or else you won't have anything to install/update. So there is still great cause for concern here!
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It's okay, don't worry, only about 3.9 billion users are affected.And it's not like they needed to use apps that don't invade their privacy, apps that don't sell their data, apps that don't track them, apps you can inspect their source-code, apps with developers that answer bug reports, apps you can localize to your native language, apps that connect to your own hosted services and all that.
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@fdroidorg ah yes those 3.9 billion users who can't be bothered flashing LineageOS but are definitely hosting their own services! Look, all snark aside I appreciate the argument of potential exposure and yes I see the advantage in having for example Jami available on stock Android or even iOS but let's not pretend that installing a couple free apps will make a difference when you also have GApps TikTok Whatsap Tinder running. I'd focus on the target audience at this point
This is not a purity test, we don't want or need 100% FLOSS or "go away". No, each step, each #FLOSS app that replaces a proprietary app is a win. Just because you/me researched and were able to buy a device with an unlockable bootloader and a custom Android version available, does not mean that 3.9 billion users should be abandoned or punished.
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F-droid is the answer.
@dangillmor “Android’s open legacy”
Excuse me while I laugh out of both ends.
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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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Yeah. Have you ever tried talking to a scientist about their field of study? I don't particularly recommend it; once you get them going, it's damn near impossible to get them to shut up! 😉
. . . this one neat trick. ugh.
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…discovered by a single mom
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Oh please someone read this paper. Anyone! Anyone with a heartbeat please read this paper. Here.
The assholes at Elsevier put it behind a paywall but here's a preprint you can share with anyone else who has a heartbeat.
Please for the love of God. Anyone read this!!!
THANK YOU!! (Same with doctors.)
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Scientists don't want you to know this, but orange cats are slowly replacing humans!
“The only thing I can think of is maybe I didn’t talk enough about coelacanths?”
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I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.
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yes i want it too
can someone make an "I want" song out of this, like in a musical? ^^
wait, I was told, that there are too many bees, in some regions (partly because of human-organized honey production). They are pushing other pollinators out of local ecosystems...
As for the other points, well, small Antarctic-base sized scientific settlement on Mars would be cool, but huge 2-stage rocket without high-power 3rd stage probably won't be enough for that, which was now officially admitted, after all.
The AI bubble is problem. And as for water and climate, nobody can deny this, of course.
food medicine education electricity at very low cost for every normal person, that's all I want
agreed. For those who don't want AI in every app, we're still standing ✊
agree! I want it too, I wanna live in a world with lots of trees and electricity and education isn't expensive
This isn't exciting enough for the people in charge of current events.
That makes no sense for the capitalists. Because these people don't earn any money that way.
Capitalism has become a doomsday machine.
Capitalism has become a doomsday machine.
Insects (more than just bees!)
Well…I can honestly say what you are likely to get is none.
But they’ll certainly kill the last three to grift money for the first three…
…and that was always the plan.
I think it won’t be more than 10 years, before Elon Musk after his data centers in space failing, suggests that it would be better to launch humans into space so we can fit more data centers on earth…
By that time he’s already become techno-pope with his own religion, and will frame all this is ”spiritual” cultish terms, like ”expanding the light of conciousness” or similar. 🤔
I want environnemental protection and technological advancements walking side by side.
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I do not like it, Sam Alt-man
I do not want your AI spam.
I do not want your AI spam.
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I don't want unlimited growth.
I don't want unlimited wealth.
I don't want dictatorial rule.
I want respect for indigenous ways.
I want use of indigenous technologies.
I want sequestration of fossil fuels.
You might want to _read_ "A city on Mars" though.
(It's a really good book about how feasible a colony on Mars actually is. Spoiler: It isn't. acityonmars.com/)
A CITY ON MARS
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp.www.acityonmars.com
Agree... by the way, I think that a self-improving city (that is able to build other cities) on Moon or Mars cannot even be implemented now, because economy depends on so many things, one city is not enough... I think someone should study this and enlighten Elon Musk about it.
what about ants?
The important thing here is that we could have both a paradise on earth and space exploration.
The scales have been purposely tipped by capitalists. They want us to believe that there are not enough resources for all of us to survive and flourish on our beautiful planet and to explore our wondrous universe.
They hoard the wealth and watch us fight for scraps. Let's never forget that we are many and they are few.
The scales have been purposely tipped by capitalists. They want us to believe that there are not enough resources for all of us to survive and flourish on our beautiful planet and to explore our wondrous universe.
They hoard the wealth and watch us fight for scraps. Let's never forget that we are many and they are few.
A reliable living wage would be neat, too. Expecially if it supports (or at least doesn't erode) those other three.
To my mind being a civilised nation requires that everyone living in that nation has access to:
- clean water,
- sufficient food,
- effective sanitation,
- basic medical care,
- effective shelter from the weather.
According to this, I suspect no nation on planet earth can be regarded as civilised.
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Sounds good. But bees are not the only pollinators, and the use of domesticated honeybees for honey and pollination often harms native pollinators.
I don't want your AI slop, I don't want your fake docuflop. I don't want your fascist state, I don't want your racist slate. I don't want you MAGA here I don't want your MAGA anywhere.
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in reply to System76 • • •> The challenges we face are neither technical nor legal. The only solution is to educate our children about life with digital abundance. Throwing them into the deep end when they’re 16 or 18 is too late. It’s a wonderful and weird world. Yes, there are dark corners. There always will be. We have to teach our children what to do when they encounter them and we have to trust them.
Thank you for writing this, so true....