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J12t

@J12t@social.coop

Technologist, founder, organizer.

Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.

Check out my home page for more info and links.

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J12t, to Futurology
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Who needs embrace and extend if:

users will be able " ... to import existing account info and posts from other servers, meaning someone could, say, move all their content from into Meta's app."

https://mastodon.social/@alexeheath/110596226686316769

J12t, to random
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Twitter, the far right platform.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/elon-musk-ron-desantis-2024-twitter/674149/

J12t, to fediverse
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What's a app that is as unlike Mastodon as possible?

Something that uses but is as far away from as one could think of?

J12t, to random
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Really hard to make reasonable product suddenly embarrassing. Elon managed. https://slate.com/technology/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-blue-checkmarks-verification-lebron-james.html

J12t, to fediverse
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I don't think too many people in the Fediverse know of the groundbreaking, but quite accessible research Elinor Ostrom did on the Commons, which eventually won her the Nobel Price.

Commons = a resource shared by a group and that together manages that resource for the good of all.

The is a , but as it is today it isn't very good about several of the success criteria that identified. E.g. look at the list at the bottom of:

https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons/index.html

Can we do better?

J12t, to fediverse
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Here's an interesting question. To me, anyway :-)

As the grows, and an ever-broader set of apps talks and extensions to , how do we ensure that the overall architecture of the system remains consistent?

Example from the past: WebDAV used HTTP extensibility as it was intended, but arguably they deviated from the architectural principles. (A consequence: it remains a niche and many apps that could've used it don't)

Who else is worrying about things like that?

J12t, to random
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ActivityPub mentioned in Thoughtworks’ Technology Radar:

“We expect ActivityPub will play a significant role in [social media interop], but … we’re intrigued by the possibilities beyond the obvious use cases in social media. An example is ActivityPub support for merge requests, recently proposed for .

They got that right!

https://www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/thoughtworks/documents/radar/2023/09/tr_technology_radar_vol_29_en.pdf

J12t, to reddit
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There's a real war going on between moderators/users and Reddit the company. I'm hearing of subreddits marking themselves as NSFW, to reduce Reddit advertising revenue, and Reddit overriding the designation and forcibly removing moderators doing this.

I'm just observing this on a high level, I don't know what all the details are, but WOW.

It's been a long way from "user-contributed content" and "Web 2.0" vibes to this, which sounds more like a class war between overlords and serfs.

J12t, to twitter
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The Twitter-to-Mastodon migration looked like a one-off.

Until the Reddit-to-Lemmy migration. Which makes it two now.

I am sure our favorite cloud overlords are watching very closely.

Who is next?

J12t, to fediverse
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Another interesting tidbit from the thread which may well also apply to other software:

"This also is a rich target IMHO for very, very large organizations, such as the US federal government and the States, which consists of various departments, ... and partners that ...need separate control over instances but need ...controlled collaboration across them."

That kind of thing was one of the original uses cases @evan had been working on back in the days, right?

J12t, (edited ) to BayArea
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Bay Area peeps, request.

Since the smoke came in a couple days ago, I’ve been feeling more tired, somewhat not quite healthy, less able to focus. Family says the same. So: is it the smoke or something else?

If you are in the : same for you, or no difference? (Don’t count the annoyance, the and bad sure is.)

I’d love to get a bunch of responses, so please reshare if you can. If other observations, please comment.

J12t, to opensource
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“companies located in the EU invested around €1 billion in [open source software] in 2018, which resulted in an impact on the European economy of between €65 and €95 billion.” According to an EU-funded study. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and

J12t, to fediverse
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Remember The Well? Pioneering on-line community, still around after almost 40 years.

This week and next, it will host an on-line discussion on the and .

Glad to be part of it, together with @evan, @manton, @KevinMarks and @herestomwiththeweather. It's hosted by Jon Lebowsky, best known (to me at least) by doing the annual State of the World panel, also on the Well, with @bruces.

I'll post a link once the thread is public. With these panelists, it should be interesting!!

J12t, to random
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@evan asked the best question: "Does implementing [the CSAM] tools actually reduce occurrences?"

Answer from @alex: "people are still trading CSAM, but their ability is greatly reduced.... perceptual hashing is absolutely an effective solution"

That's good to know.

https://github.com/swicg/meetings/tree/main/2023-08-04

J12t, to fediverse
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If you were to write an "analyst report" and you had three short bullet points to explain "why the , and why now?", what would you write?

J12t, to fediverse
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"Meta is talking to celebrities like Oprah and the Dalai Lama about being early users. ‘We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run,’ a top exec told employees."

This is how you do marketing, take notice. We need to get our act together, otherwise Meta will be the default marketing department for the Fediverse, and that would be ... suboptimal.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754304/instagram-meta-twitter-competitor-threads-activitypub

h/t @jdp23

J12t, to fediverse
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Wired article on the today, discussing the pros and cons of 's connecting or being blocked by the rest of the fediverse.

With quotes from a few people including @dmitri and myself.

https://www.wired.com/story/metas-threads-could-make-or-break-the-fediverse/

J12t, to fediverse
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So Twitter is off the deep end. Reddit is trying real hard, it seems, perhaps a different deep end but still.

What an opportunity for the ? How can we actively migrate users at scale? What do we need to do that?

J12t, to climate
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“South Florida ocean tops 100 degrees F” (that’s almost 38 degrees C)

Anybody still think that thing can’t be so bad? Remember this year is going to be a cold year compared to most years in the future.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/25/florida-record-warm-ocean-climate/

J12t, to apple
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“Principles of spatial design.” from Apple’s WWDC. I feel like I landed on a different planet.

Watch this, look at he software around you, and weep.

It’s not the headset that’s disruptive. It’s the possibilities it opens for design.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10072/

J12t, (edited ) to mentalhealth
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Thoughtful post on problems for the people who make the run, by @thisismissem .

Not sure how much of it can be addressed with money, but some of it can. We need to find ways of sustainably funding the existing fediverse, and not just that, all the innovations we need and want in the future. Donations isn’t it. Heroic efforts by individuals who then burn out isn’t it either. Constructive suggestions?

https://medium.com/@thisismissem@hachyderm.io/the-fediverse-has-a-mental-health-problem-4cb4845dfee1

J12t, to random
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"Twitter Fails to Remove Hate Speech By Blue-Check Users: Report" / "If you pay $8 a month, Twitter will boost your tweets, new research found, even if you post about how ‘Hitler was right.’"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-fails-to-remove-hate-speech-by-blue-check-users-says-report-from-center-for-countering-digital-hate

Surprising exactly ... who?

J12t, to fediverse
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This spreadsheet is extremely strong evidence for the amazing amount of innovation that is happening in the .

The variety and choice of apps that we have here is unheard of (and impossible!) in today's centralized social media products. And this is just Mastodon!

Next time you talk about the fediverse, in addition to no ads, no tracking, no crazy billionaires, and all the other points we tend to make, also say: and there's a lot more innovation.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1De5KRwqMIdwEryfoeBLARgxF7QgKkeOQBCilKuIdAXE/htmlview

J12t, to random
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What an amazing opportunity to do the opposite of the shiny new thing called “AI”.

Let’s go.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

J12t, to fediverse
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This may well turn out to be an extremely important article for adoption of the beyond its current niches.

https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/

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