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Jeff Jarvis

"After a month on Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
by @malwaretech

escapingtech.com/tech/opinions

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Pilotredsky - Groundhog EP youtu.be/WxHfPY0NZj8

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Stephanie Zvan

"This happens because Twitter can only, in the end, dispense justice on an individual basis. Occasionally this takes a benevolent form. Money for a GoFundMe, a Nazi loses their job, a jailed democracy activist becomes a hashtag, a victim of police brutality isn’t forgotten. But that logic cuts sharply the other way too: vast structural problems are reduced to individual agency, and the only way to fix them is by policing individual sins."

wired.com/story/twitter-virali

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Bobby Brown

Just a few more old PCs to go before I get to the laptops and Macs… had enough yet?? twitch.tv/bobbyd0g

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I am repeatedly shocked by the experiences some people describe of their entry to the Fediverse. Maybe moderating huge instances is just too difficult and they *necessarily* can't meet everyone's needs. Every advantage of this network is enhanced by the proliferation of smaller instances, especially those of moderation. There are complications right now -- the first major hurdles before us are to make administration more accessible, and improve collaboration (not automation) for moderation work.

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Live now -- let's play Descent on authentic hardware twitch.tv/bobbyd0g

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers

Twitter was not invented by hotshot entrepreneurs. It was modeled on TXTmob, a tool activists designed for the protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Real innovation comes from participatory experimentation, not profiteering.

Billionaires ruin everything they touch.

crimethinc.com/TwitterBought

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Mike Sheward

In today's episode of 'everything you put on the internet is there forever', note that if you have deleted a tweet (or all of them), any attached media is still present on Twitter's infra.

To see this in action, if you've downloaded your archive, open it up and go to data > tweets_media.

Every file in this directory has a name like "tweet-id-photo-id.jpg", simply take the photo ID and shove it into your browser thus:

pbs.twimg.com/media/$photo-id.

it's still very much there in my case - hopefully, they get batch purged at some point, but doubtful.

#infosec

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Bobby Brown

I just wish all this crazy stuff would have been happening at a time when I have more energy and less other stuff to do!!

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Gonna stream 6-12PM EST -- just another dozen computers to go until PHASE 2! Then putting on Wipeout or Unreal or Mechwarrior or something. You can follow now and hit the bell for a ping when it starts! twitch.tv/bobbyd0g [PeerTube simultreams coming back soon]

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nev

I wish we could rely on governments or companies or other institutions to be there for us. But increasingly we will not be able to. *We have to do it ourselves.*

Housing, community safety, cyclist/pedestrian infrastructure, local journalism, education, preventing drug overdoses, running social media…It is all up to us. There is no one else.

It's a dizzying realization. It's terrifying…but also incredibly empowering.

Does anyone else feel this way?

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The research fairy

:LeVarDislike: "Leave the big instances"

:LeVarLike: "Big instances should close their registrations, work on getting their shit together and in the meantime redirect new people to smaller instances that aren't terrible"

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In other words, this whole thing is great, here, but not only are we not done, we have barely even begun: we need to TAKE TRULY POPULAR CONTROL of this network and GUARD IT JEALOUSLY because otherwise corporations will gladly use their overwhelming resources to snatch it away.

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LB: This is another reason we have to build this network as horizontally as possible -- as decentralized as possible -- and build an ethic of curating politically- and economically-acceptable connections that will categorically reject these types of actors. It can be difficult to accurately anticipate them, when you have a corporate silo like Tumblr getting involved right now and it looks fine, but circumstances always evolve, with factors, potentials, and motives you can't always see.

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Śéáń

Risks to Mastodon with increasing popularity 

Interesting comment on Hackernews regarding a possible scenario/long term risk should Mastodon threaten the corporate sphere of social media.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

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Bobby Brown

Anarchism! Anarchism! My kingdom for an anarchism! 🐴

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There's nothing less collaborative or helpful than showing up here and immediately painting the whole network with undescribed, inactionable first- and second-order sociopolitical conclusions when the fact is we need to either work together in earnest to accomplish literally anything here, or turn cold shoulders at each other like children and scuttle the promise of this space. I'm fully aware that some folks out there really suck, but *what* are they doing and how do you propose we resolve it?

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Ika Makimaki

#BlackFriday is a trap.

It is designed to push your buttons and trigger your FOMO.

The idea is to make you buy more than you need, to keep enriching the already wealthy at the expense of our wounded planet.

You are so much more than a consumer.
Say No.
Exercise your willpower.
Buy Nothing.

#BuyNothingDay

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Evan Prodromou

You have to take care to recognize all the other software and protocols in the fediverse. You can't just call it all "Mastodon".

1396 people · Nov 24, 2022, 02:39
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Cory Doctorow

If you were unfortunate enough to e-file your US #tax using HR Block, Taxact or Taxslayer, your most sensitive financial information was nonconsenually shared with Facebook, where it was added to the involuntary dossier the company maintains billions of people, including people who don't have Facebook accounts.

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