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mick

@mick@cosocial.ca

Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario.

Collector of various nerdly interests.

Into #running, #books, #chess, #videogames.

At least a little bit #buddhist. Trying to lead an examined life.

I believe that we have the right to safe digital spaces where we can build communities free from corrosive capitalist influence.

Working to build a sustainable, non-corporate web as a volunteer with #CoSocialCa

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mick, to random
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mick, to random
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Somehow the Venn diagram of people who believe that social networks violate the “free speech” rights of conservatives and people who believe that books about gender, sexuality or race issues should be banned from libraries is a perfect circle.

Stupidest timeline.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

A pretty disingenuous comparison between Nostr, Bluesky, and “Mastodon”.

Sure, “anyone” can generate a public/private key. Now how many people will actually do that? And how many will use the public/private key to port their account to a different device?

Moreover, choosing a server is not a requirement for “Mastodon”—and now Mastodon itself pushes a default.

Do I like default servers? Not at all. But that’s another matter entirely.

https://protos.com/comparing-nostr-to-social-media-alternatives-bluesky-lens-and-mastodon/

@fediversenews

mick,
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@atomicpoet @fediversenews ah yes, if only signing up for Mastodon were as easy for non-technical folks as checks notes generating a key pair…

evan, (edited ) to random
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Which makes a better liberal democracy?

mick,
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@evan I thought we were an autonomous collective.

mick, to fediverse
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Trying out @MonaApp on the and one of the little details I like is that when you’re looking at the local and federated feeds, it refers to what are often referred to as “servers” or “accounts” by other clients as “communities.”

This is subtle, but captures a key feature of the - your server doesn’t have to be just the place where you access the network, it can also be a community that you are a part of.

EricCarroll, to random
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I used to be able to find stuff I wanted to buy on Google.

Its now just all ad placement. Ads I don't need for stuff I don't want.

When did this happen?

mick,
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@EricCarroll classic “” cycle, as described by @pluralistic

The value of Google used to flow to the users, who benefited from high quality search results.

Then to advertisers, who could buy the attention of users with well-positioned ads.

Having become the only real game in town, now all the value is extracted by Google, pitting advertisers against one another in a race to the bottom.

See also: <gestures broadly at the entire corporate Internet>

mick, to fediverse
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Having a pretty weird time here.

Big tech's social media came to be such an exploitive, awful space that I just stopped participating.

Learning to be a bit vulnerable on the web, again. Express ideas, share opinions.

Day-by-day a bit less worried about random drive-by trolls and the tilt of the algorithm.

Feeling less on-guard. More myself.

Weird, but nice.

#cozyweb #fediverse #mastodon

mttvll, to random

Reading long threads on Mastodon sucks, but it really shouldn't.

The next @woollyapp update will provide a dedicated screen to comfortably enjoy lengthy threads.

video/mp4

mick,
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@mttvll @woollyapp

shut up and take my money GIF by Product Hunt

mick, to fediverse
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@evan do you have a favourite explainer (or explainers?)

mick, to random
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May I ask you a question?

mick, to random
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Good morning !

Good Morning GIF in which a cat emerges from under some blankets, adorably.

mick, to mastodon
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By way of , I’m Mick, and I am old enough to remember when the Internet was made up of small communities built and supported by their members - before the phrases “attention economy” and “surveillance advertising” were a thing.

I have been missing the fun, chaos and collaborative spirit of that early ‘Net, and I think is a way to reclaim the space that was taken from us.

Volunteer member of hoping to be at least a little bit useful around here.

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