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smallcircles

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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

Previously at: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech

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smallcircles, to Bulgaria
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#ChatControl the saga continues.. ๐Ÿ˜ซ

Read @echo_pbreyer latest article on this nightmare:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/

#EU #EUCommission #Privacy #Dystopia

smallcircles,
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@Mehrad @echo_pbreyer

#Panopticon the supermaximum security society dystopia..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

smallcircles, to Signal
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Meredith Whittaker president of @signalapp on #Xitter announces #Signal will leave #EU market if #ChatControl regulation by @EUCommission comes into effect.

MEP @echo_pbreyer for a long time is raising awareness of the pervasive #privacy-eroding nature of this regulation, which won't have its intended effect of protecting children.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40551260

#EUCommission is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in how good regulation is followed by dystopic stuff, eroding trust.

smallcircles,
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Also see the same announcement made on the by @Mer__edith

https://mastodon.world/

@signalapp @EUCommission @echo_pbreyer

smallcircles,
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@gabriel

Yes, I think they have. Not broadly, as the average person isn't aware of this stuff. But there's a large body of organizations that continues ringing the alarm bell each and every time #ChatControl rears its ugly head again.

These rather dystopic overreaching regulations are lobbied for by state actors (e.g. anti-terror). Strategy seems to be to wear out opponents until some form of the regulation is passsed. Then the next one follows, etc.

@signalapp @echo_pbreyer @EUCommission

smallcircles, to fediverse
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe!"

liaizon, to random
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playing with https://app.diagrams.net which is quite nice. cool that it uses all open formats

smallcircles,
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@liaizon yes, and like Excalidraw it also allows embedding of the drawing within an exported image of your diagrams so others can immediately open and modify for their purposes.

UCPH_Degrowth, to academia
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We had a great time yesterday at our session on "Mobilizing academia for just post-growth futures" at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance conference at the University of Copenhagen.

Through panel and small group discussions, we explored how academics are helping to bring about major transformations in society, in ways that go beyond the conventional realm of the academe. We realize that research is critical, but so too is the mobilization of power wielded by academia today in the struggle to push power holders in spheres of decision-making towards social and ecological justice.

We discussed different ways in which academics can step beyond their conventional activities, together with our wonderful panels: Linda Luciani ( Copenhagen), Vasna Ramasar (Collective against environmental racism), Line Marie Thorsen (Klima- og Omstillingsrรฅdet) & Laura Horn (Scientist Rebellion).

Special thanks to Rebecca Rutt and Fernando Racimo for organizing this session, to the UCPH Degrowth Network and Degrowth Copenhagen, and to the Wellbeing Economy Alliance for letting us hold this wonderful session!

The audience listening to the panel
The panel discussing how academics can step beyond their conventional activities.
One of the panelists explaining how academics are engaging in civil resistance to push for social and ecological justice

smallcircles,
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@UCPH_Degrowth

The Wellbeing Economy Alliance has a nice-looking website with interesting content.

Yet I can't help but notice that it loads 14 trackers by default, and when disabling in the dialog ALL trackers, it first goes back to 8 trackers and then reloads the page taking the count back to 13 trackers.

To me both the trackers and all the corporate social media channels are hallmarks of surveillance capitalism and undermine the story that the alliance is telling us on their website.

smallcircles, to foss
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Advocating for to adopt a OSS-first approach and use as their example of a secret store integration in upcoming RFC implementation..

https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud/issues/2190#issuecomment-2141124236

@linuxfoundation projects are already seen as overly corporate, and sticking as much as possible to at least and preferably even in docs + elaborated examples would help to not further reinforce that notion.

baldur, to random
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โ€œGoogle wonโ€™t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation - The Vergeโ€

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/28/24166177/google-search-ranking-algorithm-leak-documents-link-seo

> suggests that Google hasnโ€™t been entirely truthful about it for years

So this is what the SEO types have been shouting about

smallcircles,
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@baldur I liked a comment someone made on HN:

> "Quick, have a LLM read it as that magically removes copyright"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40505310

smallcircles,
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@baldur

HN also mentions another article with more of a deep-dive on what is in the leaked docs:

https://ipullrank.com/google-algo-leak

weareopencoop, to random
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Badges.community got a little update. This URL is a great place to start if you're getting into and or : https://badges.community/

smallcircles,
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@weareopencoop

Tiny nit.. OSN is mentioned twice in "Involved communities".

koen, to random
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Arrived at where my change would cost 21 minutes. The sign says +10 in red so plenty time to get a coffee.

Sign that shows the train will be 10 minutes late.
Overview of the platforms with a coffee stand at the very end of one (not the one that the international train leaves from.
Entry gates of the station where the machines watching us are still clearly present.

smallcircles,
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@janvlug @koen

Talking about .. it is great how Dutch Railway started indicating train length on their signs.

There's skill and knowledge and even psychology tricks involved to maximising the chance to get a seat in busy hours. This gives more people fair chances to compete with the experts ๐Ÿ˜›

baldur, to random
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So, yesterday I wrote a bit about how my experience with social media has been changing:

"Social Media."

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/social-media/

> I decided to lean into that and rely instead on something much simpler: Text files.

I also finally remembered to add a link to my Bluesky profile to the site footer.

smallcircles,
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@rysiek @baldur

I feel the problem is likely unavoidable if you engage in "global public square" type social networking. The default set of features in Mastodon, esp. with large follower count, do not give you much control of "personal social networking".

I took notes on Reply Guy anti-pattern the other day, suggesting a rename to Reply Sigh. It is expectations at both ends that are off, leading to a lose-lose situation where everyone is frustrated.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/wiki-for-sx-anti-pattern-reply-sigh-aka-reply-guy/530

smallcircles,
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@rysiek @baldur

Btw, the "punishment" side of Reply Guy is imho often as detrimental to healthy social networking as the unwanted reply. There's a whole subjective grey area between "obvious reply guy" who should not have posted, and "post okay" replies. There's a value judgment on whether to reply or not, and that also requires social skill.

Does me replying to this thread make me a reply guy? I don't know. It was on-topic imho, but maybe not wanted by you both.

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@baldur @rysiek

Yes, in original fediscussion on the example other flaws in my analogy were pointed out. My description may have been a bit over the top (apart from that analogies almost always fall short).

It just struck me that there are broader dynamics than the reply guy being at fault, and how they lead to this lose-lose situation.

What is interesting in making analogies to offline situations is realizing how different the situation is online based on these imperfect tools we wield.

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@baldur @rysiek

Just take the follower/following relationship. It is so poor.

I think many reply guy occurrences aren't coming from a boost, but seeing a "friend" (a follower) reply on particular topic. Then opening that discussion thread, and seeing that the slightly tangential reply is best attached to a different branch.. where it is perceived as the anti-pattern, esp. if I use the communication style I use with my friend with whom we share a certain community unbeknownst to the recipient.

smallcircles,
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@baldur @rysiek

Of course there's also a lotta boost-type reply guy triggering.

But who is at fault? The person receives your post in their personal timeline. It is an invitation to muse about the subject and react. But maybe in the wrong mood, or not as intellectual as expected on this particular occasion.

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@baldur @rysiek

There's the "celebrity bias" (I dunno the correct word).

Suppose there's someone who on one hand creates shitposts with a certain kind of humor, and OTOH engages in deep serious discussion threads.

Through boosting or following or whatever you get exposed to that person for a long time, and start to think you know them, while they don't know about you.

Then in your reply you may assume that familiarity, may adopt the shitposting style. Yet it is received as inappropriate.

smallcircles,
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@baldur @rysiek

I will stop now, but these dynamics endlessly fascinate me.

The notes I took on the forum, are some beginnings of an exploration on Social experience design or , starting with sort of a pattern library, but with aims to explicitly design for social interactions that are desirable in specific contexts.

(And I should add that I'm just in here as a complete noob. I'm no social scientist. But is social science finding its way into social networking well enough?)

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@baldur @rysiek

While I agree, I think that the totality of the problem statement in the anti-pattern needs to be considered. Which is partly independent of the tool itself.

There are people wrongfully accused of being assholes, which may stem from wrong expectations of the social dynamics that the tool or protocol facilitates.

And while the tool is still imperfect there may be behavioral changes, habits, tool best-practices, that help mitigate frustrations that occur on all sides.

seav, to Tokyo
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Did you know that there is a 1:1 scale replica of the world-famous #Shibuya Scramble intersection that can be rented by TV and film productions located 80 km northwest of Tokyo in the city of #Ashikaga? The real intersection is so busy that nobody can close it down for controlled filming.

This set was notably used in the hit Japanese TV series Alice in Borderland.

Location in OSM: https://osm.org/go/7Q9Mdm_mk?m=

#DYK #Tokyo #Japan

smallcircles,
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@seav @moonwalkerwiz

Very nice! I would expect those green screens to be higher, since e.g. the heads of the pedestrians stick out above it in various camera angles.

smallcircles, to privacy
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ClosedSource OpenVibe

Complete with surveillance capitalist privacy policy granting you precisely the amount of your government has carved out for you.

Welcome to the Modern Fediverseโ„ข

smallcircles,
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OpenVibe.. newspeak.

smallcircles,
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@madargon bit of a personal rant. Just me being not too enthusiastic on new entries to the fedi. In this case taking openvibe.social as example.

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