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erlend

@erlend@writing.exchange

Bullish on kindness.
Founder of Spicy Lobster studios and Commune.
https://blog.erlend.sh/assembling-community-os

Formerly VP of Community / Product Manager at Discourse.

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mmasnick, to random
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I recognize lots of folks here don't trust Bluesky, but I actually find a lot of what they're doing really, really interesting and worth watching, including their experiment with "composable moderation." https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/20/bluesky-plans-decentralized-composable-moderation/

erlend,
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@mmasnick I’m a big fan of what’s happening at ✨

It’s effectively the web3 alternative to . It’s a good North Star for the fediverse to aspirationally build towards.

But I’m only interested in BlueSky insofar as it interoperates with the existing .

And I think they recognize that the the fediverse movement & community would turn on them if they cannibalize the existing network instead of adding to it as a friendly & compatible node.

erlend,
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@mmasnick @cdp1337 the web3 aspects of it are things like UCAN identity/login, which is more focused on the p2p and offline-first aspects of web3.

feditips, to random
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The official Mastodon app is doing something new which is potentially very dangerous to the existence of Mastodon and the Fediverse.

The official Mastodon app now prompts users to join mastodon.social by default, when previously it prompted them to pick a server. If you're new this may sound harmless, but let me explain.

The entire point of this place is to be a social network spread out on as many servers as possible (the reasons are here: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers/).

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erlend,
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@feditips Important topic! I’ll try to write a blog response later to do it justice, but in short:

I support Mastodon’s move here. The risks you mention just aren’t the same with open source software.

If this change led to Mastodon having 100 million users this year, that’d still be a net positive for the fediverse and the open web, in spite of Mastodon’s non-ideal outsize influence.

At the slightest hint of bad practice on Mastodon’s end, we could switch clients, move, or fork.

cwebber, to random

The Verge has a new article about ActivityPub. And it's pretty damn good: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

There's a number of quotes from me in there. I enjoyed being interviewed for this: David Pierce was a very thoughtful interviewer.

I have more comments than that, but I'll put them in a followup in this thread. In the meanwhile, go read the piece. It's nice to read some well informed journalism.

erlend,
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@cwebber might the history bits and other outtakes be posted in a subsequent post(-thread) somewhere? Sounds really interesting!

anildash, to random
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Back in the late 20th century, a lot of folks used to worry about "selling out". I thought that people who don't remember that era well might find it useful to have a refresher on the concept, as well as a look at how it's been reinvented (and... improved?) in a modern context. https://www.anildash.com/2023/03/14/what-was-selling-out/

erlend,
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@codinghorror @anildash @JasonPunyon I think we need an update to @creativecommons licenses with extra protections against AI.

BY credits: Only for use in AIs with transparent training data with proper accreditation of used works.
SA share alike: Only for use in fully open AI systems (no black boxes).
NC non-commercial: Only for non-commercial AI applications.

Happy to share my data with any AI that participates in the Creative Commons.

erlend, to random
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If you ever get tired of GDP shills professing endlessly about all the “progress” we’ve made in the last several decades, feel free to direct them to this chillingly timeless screed by Arthur Jensen, the embodiment of big business in The Network (1976):

https://youtu.be/V9XeyBd_IuA

Our woeful status quo remains the same.

“You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it, is that clear?! You think you have merely stopped a business deal—that is not the case!”

erlend,
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“The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians. There are no Arabs! There are no third worlds! There is no West!

There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of DOLLARS!”

erlend,
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“petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars!, Reichmarks, rubles, rin, pounds and shekels! It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet! That is the natural order of things today! That is the atomic, subatomic and galactic structure of things today!

And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?

(pause)“

erlend,
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“You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen, and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state—Karl Marx? They pull out their linear programming charts (…) and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do.”

erlend,
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“We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business.”

erlend, (edited ) to internet
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https://blog.erlend.sh/web-of-the-people

In the right hands – the hands of the netizens – yesteryear's technologies of social coordination remain as revolutionary as ever. We just never got to experience these tools as magical extensions of our humanity.

In the current paradigm, the social media platforms strictly use and abuse your attention to amass centralized power and deepen their moats.

Inspired by @pluralistic @Rushkoff and @ethanz to name a few.

erlend, to opensource
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https://blog.erlend.sh/weird-web-pages

Websites as the atomic matter of the internet

“Once you wanna go past the observer (READ) level to the contributor (WRITE) level as a netizen, you’re gonna need a material web-persona to make yourself known.”

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