@BeAware we had to shut down the two instances we had been running for 5 years because of this "shouting into the void" issue. its getting much worse, yes I understand It's still better than the #dotcons, but it's a very real issue if you have been her since the beginning #OMN
@serapath that's an interesting one as torrents still technically work, and the infustrcurtue is still online, though riddled with ads and SPAM. So while technically this is still functioning, it is socially degraded and pushed into the shadow by the #dotcons like Netflix and Amazon Prime etc.
"* #p2p was the poster child of the era of the #openweb it was caught in the quicksand of legal issues, the shadow that was left was eclipsed by "free to use" #dotcons Now finds it hard to come back due to mobile devices not having an IP address, thus most people not actually able to use p2p reliably."
An example of this, my torrent client is regularly blocked by my mobile internet provider - I live on a boat, and yes I do get round this but most people would stumble when this happens.
#NGIForum23 The is no way to edit or remove questions. The is no way to talk to anyone... A normal #NGI "trust" #4opens fail, except this time it is a hardcoded due to the use of this CMS for the event. Before this we used #FOSS with #BBB which worked well, then #dotcons silos that worked after a fight each time to get chat turned on, now we are here #blocking, every #EU tech event has pushed this "control" mess over the public. What are you guys in "control" going to do to stop this.
At another #Oxford event "How can we build the sustainable economy?' with Dieter Helm & Dimitri Zenghelis" let's see if this steps out of the pointless #mainstreaming path of the last 3 events #oxfordmartinschool
My question led to a very reactionary answer on social actavisam, a complete dismissal of #mainstreaming politics and a clear democratic rejection of #dotcons billionaires.
The is no agency for the needed change challenge he argues for, a bureaucratic plan with no path to implement it. Very #Oxford
12 day to get from the UK to Sydney ... Very unlikely ... This is outrageous ... The reason they do this, is because they are a-holes ... Royal mail told me it flew out on the 12th Oct ... Auspost holds the parcels because they can
The problem we face on the #fediverse is the "shouting into the void" that the #mainstreaming brings with it. This is affecting all new social networks, the signal to noise is degrading everyone's #openweb experience. I think in part this is a failure of copying #dotcons that we need to move past soon #OMN#OGB#makeinghistory#indymediaback
They've reportedly fired half of the staff at #Bandcamp, that sucks absolute ass.
Do not, my friends, become addicted to VC money, for it will forever leave you open to being fucked over either by them directly or by whomever you get bought out by.
Sadly normal bait and switch, they are all #dotcons in the end. We do need to stop feeding this mess and feed the #openweb instead, it's basic change and challenge #fluffy activism and kinda "common sense" #KISS
Yes, well, we kinda fucked it up before #failbook came along. The #ossification of #indymedia network from my memory comes to mind. Technology as individualism over technology as social, the blogging revolution and years of pointless #encryptionists projects are good examples. Then the #dotcons puts shiny on their poison pill, and we all swallowed heaps of “social media” and here we are deep in the #deathcult with a vernier of the #openweb on the edge #OMN
Most of you will have seen recent news media reports of an Hamas attack on Israel, resulting in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issuing a formal declaration of war:
It doesn't change much on our side. The #dotcons stoke division, manipulate democratic discourse, suppress #democraticMovements and #antiwar voices etc, but we wonder whether it is possible to consolidate corporate power without #politics of #division and #repressing democratic processes.
#socialhub it's the normal #FOSS feudalism we need to move away from. Mess making is a problem with this stage of any grassroots movement. There is not much left of any "group" much more like cats it's individuals dressed as grassroots, human being are social, as is social media, we are still stuck in #dotcons headspace with current "personal" mess making.
Enshittification isn’t things that were not shit becoming shit; they were always shit, you just didn’t feel it.
Surveillance capitalism isn’t some horrible corruption of capitalism, it’s just capitalism in the age of the ubiquitous digital network.
The problem isn’t things that were good becoming bad. The problem is things that have always been bad finally negatively affecting even those with bucketloads of privilege who are now attempting to explain away why they were ok with it all before.
Enshittification is not something that was not shit becoming shit. Enshittification is you becoming aware of something being shit that was always shit.
Every new venture-capital funded startup is shit. The shit just happens to be covered in a thick layer of chocolate. That’s what they feed you. Until the chocolate runs out and, well…
@thenewoil@GhostOnTheHalfShell
As #RichardStallman eloquantly explains in an interview on #RT, just breaking them up isnt enough either. If the broken pieces still collect data, share and abuse it alongside repressive forces, we're no better off.
Empowering tools such as those at 'switching.software' are most helpful. Eg. #XMPP over #I2P isnt difficult to setup.
There is apparently a democratic layer to this #FOSS and #grassroots governance in general that still needs to be coded as part of #OGB. So if you are a skill programmer, take a look.
We wonder if the (#)fediverseIcon project is worth bringing up at OGB?
@witchescauldron
One thing that we meant to ask about. What in your opinion makes FOSS similar to feudalism? If anything proprietary software and services are feudalism, but maybe you liken the #dotCons more to #fascism?
It looks like the #dotCons are going down the partisan path. So DogCoinPusher will do the Fox side and BlueSky will do the CNN side and togather they will continue the old #divideAndRule, bi-partisan model. Toxic. Time to move to federated.
If interested, here's a fediverse icon (and repo) anyone may use (and/or mirror) on Codeberg :) Its more accurate to say Fediverse over Mastodon.
20 years of #dotcons selling us libertarian individualism to push aside collective support of the "revolutionary" #openweb which is when we last had left tech power.
For this 20 years we have had #geekproblem pushing #closedweb as left tech, this is OBVIOUSLY a disaster we can't keep doing. Yes, let's not get into a prat fight, this is needed as a supplementary.
#Lemmy and #kbin are clones of #Reddit, a libertarian individualist codebase built to feed from our "communities". In this Lemmy etc are good #4opens step away from the #dotcons but not radical left project beyond this first needed step.
Capitalists must always seek to maximize differential profits—they have to collect more profits than their competitors.
Because you can reinvest those profits in buying up more revenue generating assets, you can expand your business and grab more market share. Or, like when Microsoft bought Nokia to grab the patents Nokia held, you can invest in blocking your competitors from expanding.
If your share of the market falls so far that you can’t make payroll or pay your creditors, you go out of business. Your capital is seized and sold off, and you become just another worker, subject to the whims and commands of capital owners.
So capital owners in competitive markets must always try to grow at a rate faster than their competitors. If they stop, if they take a break, if the global ecosystem collapses, then so does capitalism.
Yep, we have had 20 years of #dotcons selling us libertarian individualism to push aside collective support of the "revolutionary" #openweb which is when we last had left tech power.
For this 20 years we have had #geekproblem pushing #closedweb as left tech, this is OBVIOUSLY a disaster we can't keep doing. Yes, let's not get into a prat fight, this is needed as a supplementary.