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"We are at a unique moment when we can re-envision an open society that works for everyone." Given what's going on in the world, @mmasnick is very brave in stating this -- about centralized technology in this case, but it could apply much more broadly. Well, given what is going on the world, **what else** can we do than to re-envision a much better world? Count me in. https://ffdweb.org/digest/decentralization-in-all-the-things/ https://www.threads.net/ is badly messed up right now for me. Nice to see that big companies with gigantic budgets can screw up their sites badly, too :-) "Cognitive liberty". I like it. Read about this value and many other interesting decentralization subjects in @mmasnick's new D-Web magazine. https://ffdweb.org/digest/terminal-values-cognitive-liberty/ So the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web lists no decentralized social media icon on its website, only Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. No Fediverse that I can find. (But they have at least a Bluesky account; yes, not decentralized yet but one can hope) It would be so nice if everybody actually practiced what they preach. Reply with a screen shot of your first code editor or IDE. (Copied from a thread on Threads...) @J12t I don’t actually know which one I used first, maybe Commodore 64 ROM BASIC, but I think I did most of my early learning in GW-BASIC on DOS  If you are Spotify, what do you need 9000 employees for? What do they all do? https://www.npr.org/2023/12/04/1216950219/spotify-layoffs-17-percent-tech  @J12t Furiously attempt to erect enclosures around the #OpenWeb and turn back the clock by a few decades? https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/24/sometimes-open-systems-beat-those-who-try-to-lock-them-up-spotifys-podcast-colonization-flops/ @J12t there is at least one movie about a cat from outer space - https://movies.disney.com/the-cat-from-outer-space Have you watched the cool #fediverse software demos from #Fediforum? Online at https://fediforum.org/2023-09/ Fascinating how professional fact checkers check websites … which is largely different from how you and I and everybody else usually do it. Was shown this job ad on Reddit: “Join the best offensive and adversarial security engineers in the world”. Ahem. Just who exact are those guys recruiting for?   Hmmm … and it wasn’t just one ignorant guy in one country. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/30/paraguay-official-resigns-agreement-fictional-country "If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem." https://despair.com/products/consulting h/t @doc Q: Who are the biggest skeptics of the #fediverse, and what are their arguments? Anybody have any pointers?  From my brief foray onto bsky … the whole instances thing. Picking one, being bound to one, viewing or suffering fights between them, not knowing what’s going on with replies, followers etc. Basically it’s technical overload for doing what’s now a basic everyday task: connecting over social media. More eloquently, @vicki said the Fedi puts independence over connectivity/engagement when people actually prioritise the other way (paraphrasing). Now listening to the second episode of @mike's Dot-Social podcast, this time with @evan, author of the #ActivityPub protocol. They start off by discussing the history of the W3C's ActivityPub standardization effort. @mike asks @evan: why is social software important? Evan: it's not just Twitter and Facebook etc. Social connections are the very heart of our lives: how we connect with friends, find jobs, interact with others and many others. He says he tried to walk away from social software multiple times in his life, but somehow always returns to it because it's so important. @jsmarr You should really get Triller into the Fediverse :-) Would be much easier to share your https://trillercorp.com/the-role-of-ai-in-the-relationship-economy-from-trillers-joseph-smarr/ piece that way ... Using #AI to deal with message overload. I can see this could be useful. https://trillercorp.com/the-role-of-ai-in-the-relationship-economy-from-trillers-joseph-smarr/ |