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Governance & Standards at @protocollabs — Former NYT, W3C TAG, science.ai — Privacy, Web, Science, Politics, Philosophy. (he/him/Ishmael)

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No doubt I'm going to get into trouble again for suggesting a replacement approach for the W3C's Vision document but hear me out.

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Hey! Do you care about the future of the web? Do you have thoughts about where to take it?

Assume everything is an option and you could change anything about the W3C: I would like (in a personal capacity) to hear what your thoughts are!

More:
https://github.com/darobin/w3c-governance-considerations/discussions/1

robin,
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@HTeuMeuLeu points at the web all around

henryfarrell, to random

If anyone has a Bluesky invite in search of a careful owner, I'd be interested.

robin,
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@fabrice @henryfarrell And he's there, thanks Fabrice!

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I wonder if instead of ad blockers we could devise some sort of ad network chaff, that passively produces enough plausible but garbage data as to call into question everything else that gets collected

robin,
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@quinn Helen Nissenbaum and Finn Burton tried that with Ad Nauseam some years ago: https://adnauseam.io/. One idea I had was also to randomly swap tracking cookies with others.

But it's really hard to trick the biggest violators like Google. They have too many redundant ways to the data.

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@quinn There's also stuff in these workshops http://www.obfuscationworkshop.org/

henryfarrell, to random

Just got an incredibly scammy email from "March on PAC," starting with the now-standard personalized guilt trip - "we've noticed that you haven't xxxx," warning of a purported threat to Bethesda Public Library (there isn't one), and asking me to click on a button to indicate how much I care (presumably so as to A/B test for response and then categorize me for future donations). " This kind of shitty and manipulative technique is slash-and-burning the ecology of democratic fundraising.

robin,
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@henryfarrell s/of democratic fundraising// — but yes :)

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A lot of tech is not really about increasing AGENCY but CONVENIENCE, which often means limiting choices to achieve scale which means monocultures (then of course enshittification sets in).

Watch @robin define the web and what’s next: https://youtu.be/s878bm15mrk

Lots in here and looking forward to his next essay!

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@chadkoh Thank you so much!

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@chadkoh @philipp That's why Fission is such a cool place! 😎

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You'd think we'd know what the web is by now, it's been around a while.

But it turns out we've never agreed on what it is and why we're doing it. So I took a stab — LMK what you think!

What Is The Web?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s878bm15mrk&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtQ-TO65P62tqfUM85HCIqSj&index=2

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The "IPFS on the Web" track which @dietrich brought together was awesome. I'm not going to detail all of it, watch it at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuhRWgmPaHtQ-TO65P62tqfUM85HCIqSj.

Feat.: convergence on new primitives that make the web better, great JS things, decent publishing…

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IPFS is a public good. It's important that it stays that way, that it resists capture, and that it have great governance by and for its community.

Which is why we had a full-day Community & Governance track: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuhRWgmPaHtTIFbOVO5YfXkoFg6wIGbBN

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Opening discussion from @boris and yours truly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2qvvQxIdws&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtTIFbOVO5YfXkoFg6wIGbBN&index=1&pp=iAQB

What is it that we're doing here? A short overview of the day.

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@boris What Should We Governance? also from @boris and your humble servant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svqlHO3K_RQ&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtTIFbOVO5YfXkoFg6wIGbBN&index=2

An overview of the challenges we face and how we could fail — with skull and pre-mortem!

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@boris Interplanetary Specifications from @hacdias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVnjEIPuCE&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtTIFbOVO5YfXkoFg6wIGbBN&index=3

A quick overview of the good stuff that recently landed in https://specs.ipfs.tech/ so that we have nicer community-led standards!

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@boris @hacdias Specs & IPIPS — A Year In Review from Lidel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcHlV6sQuDI&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtTIFbOVO5YfXkoFg6wIGbBN&index=4

All the improvement proposals you wanted to hear about!

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@boris @hacdias Starmaps: A Cross-Team Roadmapping Tool by Bastien Dehaynin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HoLDQreF28&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtTIFbOVO5YfXkoFg6wIGbBN&index=5

Check out https://starmap.site/. Using a few basic Markdown conventions you can turn issues scattered across lots of GitHub repos into a roadmap.

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Memory in Uncertainty from Cade Diehm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdiQGXSZmCk&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtTIFbOVO5YfXkoFg6wIGbBN&index=6

This is a presentation of Cade/New Design Congress's recent outstanding research on IPFS, archival, and much more. Don't miss it.

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@aral And yet, that's what we're building.

robin,
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@markhurst It was an awesome talk, I'm super happy with how it turned out and that I got to hang out with Cade!

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The videos are here!

I'm going to be posting a selection. There's just so much good stuff (and so much I haven't seen yet) that my picks are going to be horrendously, unapologetically biased. And I'll forget stuff I like!

Here's the whole list: https://www.youtube.com/@IPFSbot/playlists

robin,
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If you're familiar with IPFS and curious about recent updates of note, the opening keynotes is well-worth checking out: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuhRWgmPaHtRnO5G2EF0RxYebcQzLDf5F
Lots of new implementations, IPFS in space, Impact Awards, Community…

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I've mentioned the IPFS Principles before (https://specs.ipfs.tech/architecture/principles/) — here's the five minute video overview.

☢️ ☣️ ⚠️ WARNING INVOLVES SOME SINGING ⚠️ ☣️ ☢️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI-2SNxz1Gk&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtRnO5G2EF0RxYebcQzLDf5F&index=4

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A whole thread on the full-day Community & Governance track which @boris and I convened: https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@robin/110261326732464244

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@boris Check out IPFS on the Web, the magical place where the future is happening: https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@robin/110261418620206969

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@boris And don't miss: https://elk.zone/mastodon.social/@robin/110261455445851448

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