Not linking directly because I don't want to shit on projects I believe are genuinely trying to make the web better, but every time I see a post about "the small web" or a more "humane" web or whatever that includes phrases like this about content: "created without the motivation of financial gain" I sigh so deeply lol
I am begging ethical web enthusiasts to understand what an extreme privilege it is to spend time working on something without worrying about money
Not a feature, but an interesting post by Jay Graber, the CEO of #Bluesky.
How involved was #JackDorsey before he left the board? Not that much, it turns out.
It has always been misleading to present Bluesky as the “platform of Jack Dorsey”. It’s also sexist, as once again, the work of a talented woman was wrongfully attributed to a very mediocre man. The tech version of the Matilda effect.
Jack Dorsey (co-fondateur de Twitter) a enfin quitté le board de Bluesky. Ça faisait longtemps qu’il n’y mettait plus les pieds, ça faisait plus d’un an qu’il avait supprimé son compte, mais des gens passaient encore leur temps à reprocher à Bluesky d’avoir ce mec à leur board, vraiment un argument bien éclaté au sol qui disparaît…
…et ironique quand on sait qu'un autre co-fondateur de Twitter (Biz Stone) est désormais au board de la fondation Mastodon aux US 😅
@Signez@renchap (Je partage tout ce que vous dites l'un et l'autre. J'ajoute que présenter Bluesky comme "le réseau de Jack Dorsey” est aussi un argument fondamentalement misogyne : on prend le travail d'une femme talentueuse, Jay Graber, et on l'attribue à un homme d'une insondable médiocrité. L'effet Matilda en somme, mais appliqué au secteur de la tech plutôt qu'à la recherche scientifique.)
@tshirtman Sauf que je n’avais pas l’URL, c’est pour ça que j’ai dû fouiller la déchèterie qu’est son profil pour vérifier si l’impression d’écran que j’avais vu était réelle 🥲
Me, feeding 2 people and 2 cats on a 60k EUR salary without benefits (because technically self-employed), reading those comments that claim a 501(c)(3) is some kind of nefarious scheme to hide money 😐
#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:
Considering #Threads is run by the same people, I'm increasingly convinced that #Meta will use Threads to exploit the free labor of creators in the same way it does with Instagram.
I have seen this discourse from time to time on here: people being horribly condescending about "content creators".
What this condescending tone utterly fails to capture is that many of these "content creators" are independent workers trying to use social media to make a living.
Meta is not their employer. But they are extremely dependent on the decisions Meta takes. And the power relationship between creators and Meta is, by a wide margin, in favor of Meta.
There is an army of content creators out there. If one gives up, Meta doesn't really care: there is now enough "content" for Instagram to push it to lurkers and "regular" users. Next to ads.
This is why the power dynamics is so tilted in favor of Meta.
Content creators can't even unionize. There is actually very little they can do.
Why do you think Meta is trying to distance itself from news and politics?
It's probably not financially interesting, for many reasons.
But there may be another issue at play: power. Media are big corporations. Politicians have power. They can fight back, and inflict real damage to Meta.
Indie photographers or writers? What can they do, except, and I quote, "cry"?
Interesting Safari fun fact I just discovered: If you name a bookmark folder with only an emoji and no text, the Bookmark Bar will hide the folder icon beside it, making for nice compact drop-down menus.
Now, if there was just a way for me to use SF Symbols.