For all the infuriating difficulty they endured while producing it, Guy, Prodromou, Lemmer-Webber, Tallon and Shephard’s ActivityPub protocol has helped bring about such a transition....
Federated social media is a radical departure from corporate social media. While big companies like Google and Microsoft produce email servers that can intercommunicate with hundreds of other providers, in the world of social media, cross-company communication is largely unheard of....
Mastodon is alternative social media – indeed, it is the most important example of this type of media I have found in my research career. As I have shown elsewhere, alternative social media are built in relation to corporate social media in a process of critical reverse engineering. Mastodon is no different....
With the conflict between the different working group factions seemingly resolved due to the decision to produce as many standards as possible, there should have been a clear path for what would become ActivityPub, the federated social media standard....
joene 🏴🍉
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Consumer debt is the lifeblood of our economy. All modern nation states are built on deficit spending. Debt has come to be the central issue of international politics. But nobody seems to know exactly what it is, or how to think about it.
-- David Graeber
Consumer debt is the lifeblood of our economy. All modern nation states are built on deficit spending. Debt has come to be the central issue of international politics. But nobody seems to know exactly what it is, or how to think about it.
-- David Graeber
Here is yet another facet of the “alternative” in “alternative social media”: alternative economies that eschew surveillance capitalism....
Chip Butty
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And Sharkey says: Lights! Camera! Action! TIMBER!
At the beginning of the movie, they know they have to find each other.
But they ride off in opposite directions.
And Sharkey says: Lights! Camera! Action! TIMBER!
At the beginning of the movie, they know they have to find each other.
But they ride off in opposite directions.
Angela Antunovic
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"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
But from the perspective of the digital covenant, defederation is entirely justifiable because it protects the integrity of instances-as-communities. There’s no reason an instance must federate with another if they are both ethically incompatible....
Andrew Wooldridge 🎆
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ActivityPub (and all the other standards created by the SocialWG) had zero input from social media corporations. This is extremely non-standard practice. On the Internet, standards are fundamentally important. Every connection between a computer and the vast network of billions of computers on the Internet is governed by standards. Email is governed by SMTP....
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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