But they spend quite a bit of time running Awoo.space, one of the original Mastodon instances. On Awoo, Shork is known by their shark avatar, a cartoon rendering of the Blåhaj toy sold by Ikea. They promise to post “obsessively” about “weird old electronics,” and they certainly do – Shork’s timeline is full of pictures of old cell phones and proto-smart watches....
While I think this form of caring too much will always be present on the fediverse, I find some wisdom in noncentralization....
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Other interactions took their toll. Ro would call out racism among white trans women and would face bigotry as a response. Marcia, who is currently finishing her PhD thesis on decoloniality, would call out anti-Blackness among Latino/a people and face recriminations for doing so. As American Studies scholar Christina B....
Instead, SocialWG members could explore more philosophical ideas about the meaning of sociality. And this resulted in interminable debates: each of the factions could, if they wish, poke holes in each others’ ideas and claim their own approach is best. This led to participants having “trouble keepin’ it cool!”, as Wilkie told me....
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As should be clear, this genre of science fiction is “an uprising of hope against the daily despair that these times bring.” It’s unabashedly about porvir otimista – an optimistic future where inventors and activists work together to create independent, sustainable communities that aren’t bent to the will of global capitalism....
As should be clear, this genre of science fiction is “an uprising of hope against the daily despair that these times bring.” It’s unabashedly about porvir otimista – an optimistic future where inventors and activists work together to create independent, sustainable communities that aren’t bent to the will of global capitalism....
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
Activists who have pushed back against naive openness have produced a new form of alternative social media: a noncentralized, covenantal fediverse....
Mastodon and the fediverse are the most recent – and in my view, most important – attempts to make something better than corporate social media....
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Observing fediverse members’ disdain for unethical research and the contentification of social media posts, I sought consent from fediverse members. In the case of interviews, I have engaged in standard institutional review procedures for informed consent and drew on Internet research ethics guides....
Observing fediverse members’ disdain for unethical research and the contentification of social media posts, I sought consent from fediverse members. In the case of interviews, I have engaged in standard institutional review procedures for informed consent and drew on Internet research ethics guides....
As Sunbeam.city’s admin Wakest puts it,...
The ability of Mastodon and the fediverse to absorb the 2022 Twitter wave was a sociotechnical achievement, a potent mixture of social practice with technical infrastructure....
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I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow.
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