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rwg

@rwg@aoir.social

Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University.

Currently writing a book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Ethical Social Media" for Oxford University Press.

Been on the fediverse since 2017. I'm now helping set up AoIR.social

he/him

Trans rights are human rights. I boost #BlackMastodon and #MutualAid posts. I also call for alt text for accessibility.

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rwg, to random
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the spiders are in the plane, aren't they?

rwg,
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yes!

amyfou, to random
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๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘‘ ๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘‘ ๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘‘

Wow apparently 1977 Arizona was full of these old timey weirdos with cows in their back seats and their cheeks way too full of chaw

rwg,
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@amyfou not unlike today

rwg, to random
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I remember the White Stripes used to put something to the effect of "this album was made without any digital tools" in their liner notes.

How long until an author writes "this book was written with no assistance from generative AI" in the preface?

(maybe I should do this for the next book)

rwg, to bluesky
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Latest post: "Decentralization or Noncentralization, Bluesky or the Fediverse?"

https://fossacademic.tech/2024/04/30/DecentralizedNoncentralized.html

In which I contrast decentralization with noncentralization by looking at 's approach versus that of the .

[Responses to this post will appear as comments on my blog unless you set privacy to followers-only or higher]

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What i want to know is what these university administrators think happens after they let the bullies get their way

(Bullies, famous for being like, we're good now, and just going home)

Capitulation is thus incompetent as well as cowardly

rwg,
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@inquiline My experience? They get promoted

edit: @LinuxAndYarn basically beat me to it

rwg, to fediverse
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Latest : "Reading the Online Harms Act with my Fediverse Admin Hat On"

https://fossacademic.tech/2024/04/10/Online-Harms-Act.html

In which I discuss Canada's proposed from the perspective of a . While I understand the reason for the Act, I also note it could likely put a burden on fedi admins. And the big question I have is: how will the Act define the fediverse?

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"Any dietary restrictions?"

"Well, I don't like squash. And I hate stinky cheese."

"So... no gourds, no Munsters?"

rwg, to Canada
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Greetings from the edge of the eclipse. I'm in Ottawa -- just got out of a Senate roundtable on the future of news in . Rest assured, when folks talked about the problems posed by , I spoke up in favor of Canadians using the instead.

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I think we all know who the monsters are in this movie

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These spies were born in barns, since they don't close doors as they do their capers

rwg,
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@amyfou is that the idiom? I've always said" born"...

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Who wrote this crawl? Donald Trump? It's full of Arbitrary Capitalizations

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There go all the Frame Stampings

rwg, to mastodon
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I don't know if folks are comfortable answering this:

If you have experience running #Mastodon or other federated software on a #Tor #onion, would you be willing to share about your experience?

I've tried to follow people via a .onion link and have had no luck. I'm curious to see how effective such a system could be.

rwg, to random
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A while back I wrote a blog post about universities losing the internet, and this analysis of the British Library hack hits on many of the same themes:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/03/19/the-british-library-hack-is-a-warning-for-all-academic-libraries/

It's a discussion of how IT knowledge is outsourced to the point that academic/library institutions are highly vulnerable.

Here in Toronto, the public library is only now recovering from a hack that kept many services offline for months.

My blog post is here: https://fossacademic.tech/2023/11/10/HowUniversitiesLostIT.html

rwg, to random
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How many people who have joined Mastodon.social because it is big will jump ship to Threads because it is bigger?

vantablack, to bluesky
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i'll admit, i was a bit taken by the hype (and, before that, speculation) surrounding in the years before its release

but the moment i saw they decided to not ban nazis, and just give you an option to hide them algorithmically, i was done with that platform

that's a social media experience with no goddamn teeth or grit or courage

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@vantablack I like to call the former the 'covenantal fediverse' for the reason you're stating -- instances banding together through their shared ethical values, summed up pretty well with the server covenant

Which is not to say that people all AGREE on how to implement ethical standards. (the disagreement is part of the... fun)

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I think my Home timeline on Mastodon has reached the tipping point of being too fast for me

quick, someone make an algorithm that sorts it so that I only see What's Relevant To Me (TM) and thus I won't be challenged by all the different ideas I'm seeing

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If I may interject, it's GNU/Frankenstein's Monster

rwg, to mastodon
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I hope someone at the reads this:

https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastodon

It's a clear explainer of , and the . It makes the case for public media to join the network. It mentions running a server versus joining an established one.

And above all, it's a public broadcaster walking the walking instead of just griping about X and then going back to X.

rwg, to web
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I have a question for folks who know about , particularly self-hosted

I have a Wordpress blog that has been pretty low-traffic for years, but recently has seen a spike in traffic. Looking at the logs, the traffic is coming from places in Europe and New Zealand. Each visitor visits a single page, does not go anywhere else, and leaves. It doesn't look like human traffic.

This strikes me as bot-like. Given Wordpress vulnerabilities, should I be worried?

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@vegos_f06 Thank you!

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Latest post: Researching the fediverse from the perspective of individual or instances. In which I draw on an article Christina Dunbar-Hester to talk about researchers' perspectives on the , including my own.

https://fossacademic.tech/2024/03/14/Instances-and-Individuals.html

[replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog, unless set to followers-only or more private. CWs will work]

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@inquiline @mel_hogan @stefanlaser @luis_in_brief @ntnsndr @signalapp @rra

Yep, @Aepasek is a key figure here

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Here's a totally wonky, ultranerdy piece of evidence for folks who want to argue that doesn't operate in good faith. It's based on a chapter of my book about the Dark Web (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262038263/weaving-the-dark-web/).

A thread... ๐Ÿงต

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(updating to add: maybe like courting one project, like , while blocking mentions of another, like )

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