Hamish Campbell
@info@hamishcampbell.com  ·  activity timestamp last week

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What should be closed? And what should never be?

A conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. Let’s start with a basic liberal framework:

“Most social interactions should happen in the open. Some personal interactions should remain private.”

Seems reasonable, right? That’s the position many of us think we agree on. Yet when we look at how our technology, and by extension, our society, is being built, that balance is totally out of whack. Today, more and more of life is CLOSED:

Closed apps.

Closed data.

Closed […]
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last week
@silentexception
> in the name of decentralization, a small group of people, that have not been elected, decided that nothing could be deleted online (because they let GAFAMs scrap their data while being against it????)

What are you talking about? This smoothie of confused claims has nothing to do with anything in that screenshot.
Nicolas MOUART
@silentexception@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week
@strypey Dennis Schubert and the like, decided that "public is public", allow search engines to crawl public posts -by design-, and thus all these posts go to Google search and other search enginers, in a distributed environment, where nothing can be deleted or with extreme difficulty, including diffamatory comments. Where posts trending on #Diaspora; based on hashtags come on up on top in google search results, this is harassement, this bullying, this unacceptable, this is not democratic. #GDPR
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last week

While looking for something else, I just found a blog post about Diaspora I wrote in 2012;

archive.is/3X1NM

But what I was really pleased to stumble upon is the post I wrote in 2019 about replacing FarceBook;

archive.ph/L74hs

This one is definitely going to get an update-and-repost on the new Disintermedia blog.

EDIT: replaced links, hopefully this won't slashdot archive.today sites ...
Nicolas MOUART
@silentexception@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

There is no mention of me being a geany pig or a lab rat on my French passport... #France#EU

So basically, in the name of decentralization, a small group of people, that have not been elected, decided that nothing could be deleted online (because they let GAFAMs scrap their data while being against it????). That's called democracy? I don't think so. #Diaspora #fediverse#GDPR#rightToBeForgotten #threads#Meta#FB#X ...

And Dennis Schubert is interviewed by Ars Technica, is this a joke?
Nicolas MOUART
@silentexception@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Mozilla is pro-Ai, there is an AI chat on the web browser now, and this guy Dennis Schubert, the techlead of #Diaspora, is working at #Mozilla as far as I remember. And he is so against deleting anything, leaving all public "public is public", and against blocking GAFAMs' scrapers?? (he was in 2017, 2018, ... I remember)..

(Mozilla which actually helped this project.)

So I am pretty sure, there is a real problem here with conflict of interests..

#ethics #fediverse #dataharvesting
Nicolas MOUART
@silentexception@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

There is no mention of me being a geany pig or a lab rat on my French passport... #France#EU

So basically, in the name of decentralization, a small group of people, that have not been elected, decided that nothing could be deleted online (because they let GAFAMs scrap their data while being against it????). That's called democracy? I don't think so. #Diaspora #fediverse#GDPR#rightToBeForgotten #threads#Meta#FB#X ...

And Dennis Schubert is interviewed by Ars Technica, is this a joke?