One drawback of POSSE is that you’re bolstering the value of the silos. Instagram grows more powerful with your pictures on it and GitHub thrives on your repos.
Sandra, I'm really glad I had the opportunity to catch your review, or rather, observation of POSSE, especially the long term ramifications from the PoV of #DeSoc.
For quite some time now, I've been advocating for something that describes a not so dissimilar modus operandi for extricating subjugated chattel from that of the #Borg_Collective.
POSSE has merit, being a partial design for disrupting the deprecated monolithic silos, but IMO actually falls short by only seeking to coexist with it, instead of completely obviating them.
As a dedicated FOSS and Privacy Advocate, here's my take on how we can follow a best practices modus operandi, achieving what can eventually relegate today's monolithic silos into the marginalized zone, sending them into the abyss of downtrodden insignificance.
The model can work from any Fediverse platform, but platforms that support a rich feature set with longform authoring capabilities work best, having the greatest impact. For those stuck using masto for the time being, their impact will be less dramatic, but nonetheless still valid.
The model I've been advocating goes like this:
1. ) Create original content on Fediverse enabled properties you own, or cite (link to) content NOT residing in the deprecated silo space (Twitter, Medium, TikTok, InstaSPAM, YouTube, Faceplant, Reddit, Linkedin, Etc.). You can do this from pretty much any Fediverse platform - even masto, with its paltry 500 character limit. A paragraph or so as a rule of thumb, just a teaser/headline to create interest for the reader to follow the link. 2. ) Optional: For added impact and if you have any, from your traditional silo account(s), as well as from less capable clones like masto, offer up a teaser, perhaps a paragraph or so, with a link to the URL of this original content. 3. ) If you're merely pointing to an article or resource created by someone else that exists independently, that's it. Well done! If you created your original content in long form on a more capable Fediverse platform than masto - there are many excellent Fediverse platforms for doing this. A few of those are:
4. ) Endeavor to never publish any actual content (articles, news, photos, videos) on platforms in the deprecated monolithic silo space. Instead, it is preferable to publish your photos, videos on demand, and textual content on a Fediverse Platform well suited to this. i.e., PeerTube for VoDs, Pixelfed for images, and one or more of the platforms mentioned above for textual or multimedia based content such as news articles, HowTo's, tutorials, recipes, Etc. 5. ) Occasionally, you may find it necessary to link to content in the deprecated silo space - a video on YouTube, for example. You may be able to clone videos (depending on licensing) to a PeerTube server, but if not, then make sure you sanitize those videos by using tools such as Invidious that shield the viewer from tracking and other privacy disrespecting constructs built into those silo systems.
The philosophy here is to ensure that anything posted into the deprecated monolithic silo space entreats the reader/viewer to leave that space in order to consume the content.
This practice insures that the consumer of that information does so in a protected, privacy respecting place, presumably built on FOSS, and in the Fediverse. It further serves to familiarize the consumer in an easy and unassuming way, with Fediverse platforms that do not track them or mine their privacy.
For the Fedizen however, it provides a one way transit - anyone seeing a teaser/headline/intro on say, Twitter or Faceplant, is immediately catapulted away from those denizens of commodification that packages and inventories the consumer as the product for sale, depriving those platforms of the necessary revenue that sustains them - death by atrophe. No blissful coexistence, every single post inside the deprecated monolithic silo space is in fact an egress point bringing the consumer into a free and privacy respecting environment.
Obviously, an article on the New York Times website isn't ideal, but it isn't strictly one of the monolithic silo systems listed above either. In this case specifically, it's a walled garden however, so you're directing the consumer to a place where they'll be privacy mined anyway, which offers three other possibilities:
- You can, and should unless you feel you absolutely must, elect not to send someone to that resource - You can, under certain circumstances, copy that data verbatim elsewhere and provide a link to that place where you copied the data. - You can also probably check with the AP, since we're talking about a newspaper outlet, most of which actually pull their news from the Associated Press and other similar networks that provide free access, which you can link to instead.
There's simply no way to completely ensure being so mindful of your consumers without precluding yourself from linking to some forms of interesting content - but the point here is that almost without exception, you're not sending anyone into the deprecated monolithic silo space - you're sending them into the Fediverse, where they'll begin to become comfortable with, eventually creating their own accounts here.
I recently had some discussions with a few folks who completely turned their back on things like Twitter, which is good because it is one of those social networking systems that engages in tracking and privacy mining. Those individuals have made it easy for themselves by simply putting the existence of those privacy disrespecting resources completely outside the real of consideration - it's not like anyone is going to suffer because they didn't visit Faceplant. They may suffer a bit of withdrawals, but bear the following in mind:
There are liquor stores on virtually every corner in the real world. They sell booze at liquor stores. An alcoholic must come to terms with this and learn to live with this fact, making a conscious choice to buy, or not to buy booze in those stores, or even go outside where the temptation is even greater.
That's not the greatest metaphor I know, or maybe I just didn't deliver it well. Either way, I hope that in understanding this death by atrittion model, that people can make better informed decisions about privacy for themselves and others.
I'd love to hear your comments and thoughts on the matter, and any tools that help assist folks in addressing privacy concerns. Please feel free to share this by boosting to raise awareness within the Fediverse (and beyond) of all the excellent platforms available to everyone in the Fediverse. I realize I left out large sectors of the Fediverse that can be factored into this formula - the link aggregators and forums like #NodeBB, #Lemmy, #Kbin, #Mbin, #Discourse, and more. I didn't even directly address the purpose built single user instance platforms. Maybe we can give them some coverage in a later edition :)
Sandra, I'm really glad I had the opportunity to catch your review, or rather, observation of POSSE, especially the long term ramifications from the PoV of #DeSoc.
For quite some time now, I've been advocating for something that describes a not so dissimilar modus operandi for extricating subjugated chattel from that of the #Borg_Collective.
When you load a URL into the htmz iframe, the onload handler kicks in. It extracts your destination ID selector from the URL hash fragment and transplants the iframe’s contents (now containing the loaded HTML resource) into your specified destination.
htmz only runs when you invoke it. It does not continually parse your DOM and scan it for special attributes or syntax, nor does it attach listeners in your DOM.
Swedish gov’t want DST all year round. That’s less bad than falling back and springing forward every year but what I really want is for 12 AM to be noon and 12 PM to be midnight. (Or abolish timezones entirely, beats style.) DST is the “wrong” time.
Since May, uBO has been in a cat-and-mouse game with YouTube. And they’ve shown incredible resilience, especially when you consider that there are only two people on the uBO team dealing with YouTube.
A 2012 study found that wind projects kill 0.269 birds per gigawatt-hour of electricity produced, compared to 5.18 birds killed per gigawatt-hour of electricity from fossil fuel projects.
Perhaps there is something to it, but perhaps there simply issomething to writing hypertext. Alone.
I mean I don’t just make internal links. I link to other people and to Wikipedia. Ideally the entire web is one big web. “Wiki” was invented by Ward to make web quickly. Wiki means fast or quick.
I forgot to say that I'm super fascinated with BuJo culture; I started a Techo Weeks this Monday actually! But no-one is ever gonna see that. It's just for me. 🤷🏻♀️
Email is very far from being the securest thing out there right now. That’s not what I’m contesting at all.
My problem with this widely quoted and self-contradictory essay is that they have driven a lot of otherwise very smart people to give up on making email the best it can be.
And there are plenty of things where email is still the best thing around. It’s a miracle that a world-writable fully federated inbox system is as good as it is. Fedi is a spam pit, IRC a harassment nightmare, email is at the forefront of fighting those things. Of course we want encryption on that.
Email is very far from being the securest thing out there right now. That’s not what I’m contesting at all.
My problem with this widely quoted and self-contradictory essay is that they have driven a lot of otherwise very smart people to give up on making email the best it can be.
And there are plenty of things where email is still the best thing around. It’s a miracle that a world-writable fully federated inbox system is as good as it is. Fedi is a spam pit, IRC a harassment nightmare, email is at...
It’s a mandate for human oversight and judgment. There is a lot of tech and automation that has existed throughout the past decade that doesn’t fulfill that mandate. Scripts are fun but we’ve got to check the work.
And the risk isn’t primarily “Skynet” or “Reign of Steel” or “Matrix”. It’s that we leave ourselves vulnerable to other humans who can wield their machines more effectively and wield our machines against us.
It’s not written for the day job. It’s not written to see the light of day at all. It’s not written to be looked at and scrutinized by anybody. It’s intimate and personal, it’s messy and buggy. To take a look is to transgress.
That is absolutely how I feel. But I’ve gotten better at releasing libraries, tools (like 7off), plugins that can be more polished part of the system. It’s just that the glue code of things with all its hardcoded URLs and hacky tags is… uh…
It’s not written for the day job. It’s not written to see the light of day at all. It’s not written to be looked at and scrutinized by anybody. It’s intimate and personal, it’s messy and buggy. To take a look is to transgress.
That is absolutely how I feel. But I’ve gotten better at releasing libraries, tools (like 7off), plugins that can be more polished part of the system. It’s just that the glue code of things with all its hardcoded URLs and hacky tags is… uh…
Here in Sweden, these ISO week numbers were super popular with the older generation who were constantly pushing them and referring to them, much to the confusion of us in the younger generation. (I'm old now, but this was in the 90s and 00s.) A shop clerk or gov't employee or parent would suggest a date like "how about week 43?" and I'd have to go "uh… and what date does that week start on?" and they then would go look it up or I'd have to do it.
I've noticed that this isn't as much of a problem anymore, maybe because smartphones and internet aren't set up around this kinda weekly date. My parents' generation, my teachers, people calling from the hospital, or postal deliveries etc would all say "how about Thursday in week 43?" instead of what's more common now, which is "how about October 26th? That's a Thursday."
But maybe I should bring week numbers back into my life? GTD works well on a week-by-week basis (and I'm experimenting with switching back to paper; I first switched to digital in February 2010), and so does my roleplaying group.
(One thing that doesn't work well on a week-by-week basis is my hair; untangling & cutting the split ends every sixth day is OK but seven days is pushing it. Twice a week would be great but seven is a prime 🤦🏻♀️.)
Here in Sweden, these ISO week numbers were super popular with the older generation who were constantly pushing them and referring to them, much to the confusion of us in the younger generation. (I'm old now, but this was in the 90s and 00s.) A shop clerk or gov't employee or parent would suggest a date like "how about week 43?" and I'd have to go "uh… and what date does that week start on?" and they then would go look it up or I'd have to do it.
@Sandra another place where the week numbers were extremely useful to me were the university lectures, some of which took place only on even-/odd-numbered weeks.
I'm not studying any more, yet I still always turn week numbering on, I just like the way it looks :)
When I am writing prose in Emacs and I have sprawlbrain, I usually type one or more spaces at the end of all the places I know I need to continue writing or editing, and they’ll show up because of how show-trailing-whitespace is on.
So I can write a few words about things I need to remember to address without losing my place. It helps me “bookmark” what I’m doing.
Pretty much the only reason I have w3m installed (but it’s a banger of a reason) is so I can pipe web output to stuff. 99% of the time I use wget (or curl, when I can remember curl’s flags) but sometimes I want to pipe the page rather than the source of the page.
We were talking the other day about decimal time (a day is divided into a thousand 刻 or "beats", and there are no time zones, it's the same time all over the world).
Now, with timezones, obviously the date line ends up on the opposite side of the Earth from UTC.
And with decimal time (w/o time zones), no date line is needed.
The puzzle for y'all is: if both systems are used in parallel, where on Earth should the "decimal time" thousand "beats" or 刻 start in order to minimize* "what day is it"–type confusion? I know it ain't Biel, but where is it? 💁🏻♀️
*: As in: the fewest people confused for the shortest time at the least inconvenient hours. Zero if possible 💁🏻♀️
Math nerds of Fedi, hark!
We were talking the other day about decimal time (a day is divided into a thousand 刻 or "beats", and there are no time zones, it's the same time all over the world).
I used to feel like our FOSS battles were pretty much over. The “downhill battle” era. The “year of the Linux desktop”. Fewer and fewer .doc and .swf files littering our drives.
Anything they would write, we in the FOSS world could clone better; and we also had our own ideas and our own apps which were pure fire magic. Compilers, wikis, milters, httpd, rsync, blender, gigs of .oggs—we had it all.
Then three calamities struck. Silo sites, miniaturization, and DRM.
I used to feel like our FOSS battles were pretty much over. The “downhill battle” era. The “year of the Linux desktop”. Fewer and fewer .doc and .swf files littering our drives.
Anything they would write, we in the FOSS world could clone better; and we also had our own ideas and our own apps which were pure fire magic. Compilers, wikis, milters, httpd, rsync, blender, gigs of .oggs—we had it all.
I’ve said before that Gemini doesn’t make the web less complicated or remove any cruft from the web (since the web is still there, with all it’s diamonds and rust); it only adds to what the web can do. But what it adds is something pretty nifty: living the semantic dream. Simple text expressed simply.
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