Très cool que Radio Canada donne la parole à Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic ) pour parler de la "merdification" ("enshittification") de l'internet. Plus y'a de gens qui savent, plus les gens vont réfléchir à quitter le bateau et se diriger vers les alternatives éthiques et locales.
Centralised moderation teams often lack the context to know what they're looking at. Fediverse admins each take care of a small, well-defined bit of overall moderation; the bit that affects accounts on their server. They know what's acceptable in their community.
"Today Ukrainians do not speak about 'after the war;' they speak about 'after the victory'—пiсля перемоги (pislya peremohy). 'Peremoha'— Polish theater director Krzysztof Czyżewski suggested—should become part of a new universal vocabulary. The prefix pere indicates a crossing and moha means 'I can.' Peremoha—'victory'—literally expresses a going beyond what one is able to do."
This, I think, is a significant statement about the value of #decentralisation as an organising principle.
"Assuming that Russia did want to detonate a small nuclear weapon in Ukraine and succeeded in doing so, despite all of this, this would make no decisive military difference. There are no big clusters of Ukrainian soldiers or equipment to hit, since Ukraine fights in a very decentralized way."
Votre rappel mensuel qu'un des principaux intérêts de #Mastodon et du #Fédivers c'est d'être décentralisé.
À éviter donc de tous se tasser sur l'instance mastodon point social.
Votre rappel mensuel qu'un des principaux intérêts de #Mastodon et du #Fédivers c'est d'être décentralisé.
À éviter donc de tous se tasser sur l'instance mastodon point social.
I need to broaden my #Matrix discussions.
Here’s a 2.5 yo post about an 800 lb gorilla in the Matrix idea. I’ve heard people brush it off, but their needs were often niche, fanciful, or delusional. I need some engineers to help me separate the facts, legends, myths, and bullshit of a large scale federated matrix chat network. In our experience, just enabling presence can bring a Synapse server to its knees, if even if just 1 user follows a BIG room. What if many folks follow MANY big … 1/2
✍️ Il y a donc maintenant une page de blogroll sur ce site avec les deux derniers billets publiés par personne listée. J’espère que j’arriverai à maintenir une page qui représente mes lectures réelles. — Blogroll, https://larlet.fr/david/2023/09/09/
Thanks to all of you who have mucked in with testing ThePriceIsRightNet. It really is a massive help, and once again you’ve uncovered some unexpected issues.
Indeed, this one has been a bit of a curate’s egg - good in some parts... a bit whiffy in others.
I'm contemplating writing a piece about the political importance of the #Fediverse. We talk about #democracy, #decentralisation, and #horizontalism in our societies, but it really is important that we embrace technology that reflects such aspirations as well.
Not sure the panel recording will be public, so here are my notes in a long 🧵 thread:
▶️ The DSA is rather good at respecting #freedom of expression, it gives platforms some new tools to carefully consider and improve their moderation practices and users to defend their rights. [1/8]
▶️ On top of that, free expression in the EU would hugely benefit from more #competition in social media and that can only be effectively achieved through its #decentralisation. The way it’s done by #ActivityPub-based services in the #Fediverse. That’s of course not something the #DSA can achieve alone (the #DMA could have with social media #interoperability), but it’s a worthwhile political goal that needs both legislative and #funding support. [6/8]
Just a reminder: it is possible to track you on #ActivityPub / #Mastodon because most of your data are public (messages posted, followers and following lists) . I have the feeling that not everybody realise that. We can tell a lot on who you are just with your following list.
Some data are private to your server (IP address, connection time - which can more or less be deducted from your public activity -, devices used), but a lot is public.
and your server IP address is known, if you self-host your server IP is known (if you are hosting at home, that means your IP).
Of course this is the same for any service you self-host.
Collective and ethical hosting by associations, foundations, local groups, etc. are the way to go, as long as we can export/remove data and change service at anytime.
I am waiting for #gitea#forgejo to implement support for #ActivityPub. Once that is available and every ActivityPub account can open issues without needing to open a local gitea/forgejo account, I will spin up my own instance of forgejo to host my git repos. Moar #decentralisation :) (I have already moved my repos from GitHub to #CodeBerg a year ago)
"The Big Web is the centralised web; it is a web in the sense of a spider’s web [...] The Big Web has “users”": one "can fit thousands of users into a single server and Megacorps “scale” to run thousands upon thousands of servers in their farms" [1]
"On the Big Web, you never own your own home. You must rent your home from Megacorps. Most often, you don’t have to pay for your home using money" [1] #decentralisation
As we speak, InstallNet is still humming along nicely, and we’ve already drawn some useful lessons from it, tested some assumptions, and made plans for improvements. The current iteration is really to test the safeup process that @ChrisO has been putting together to automate the installation of safe client, safenode and...
It seems that all centralized social media platforms are resorting to desperate measures these days. This trend started with significant cutbacks last year, and now we're basically witnessing some sort of rift between the platforms and their users.
I believe that decentralized social media platforms will attract the majority of social media users sooner than we anticipate.
THREAD: I made a series of images for an Instagram post I made about migrating to the fediverse. I figured I'd share with anyone else who wants to use, so I included some blank template versions too. DM if you'd like the Adobe Illustrator file so you can make your own edits. And please,comment if I got anything wrong so I can correct it.
Safe Network Dev Update June 22, 2023 (safenetforum.org)
As we speak, InstallNet is still humming along nicely, and we’ve already drawn some useful lessons from it, tested some assumptions, and made plans for improvements. The current iteration is really to test the safeup process that @ChrisO has been putting together to automate the installation of safe client, safenode and...