I'm looking for examples of platforms where privileges or memberships of users expire after a term or some inactivity threshold. I'm thinking it could be a useful feature to have in forge platforms (like #forgejo, #gitlab or #github) and seek design inspiration. Any ideas? @douginamug @ntnsndr
#digitalGovernance #commons
I'm looking for examples of platforms where privileges or memberships of users expire after a term or some inactivity threshold. I'm thinking it could be a useful feature to have in forge platforms (like #forgejo, #gitlab or #github) and seek design inspiration. Any ideas? @douginamug @ntnsndr
#digitalGovernance #commons
'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.'
From 'Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons' https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470#GenAI #commons#DigitalCommons
"A web that you don’t understand is one that’s not user-driven, or driven by user utility. It’s one where people don’t have agency over the technology they depend upon, and where changes aren’t contrived to address a specific user need.
At the risk of sounding as conspiratorial as the author of the original Dead Internet Theory, I believe the emergence of this incomprehensibility was borne of deliberate decisions made by people at the very top of Big Tech. Furthermore, I believe these people are profoundly anti-person, and see people as resources to be tapped rather than collaborators within a vast, global digital ecosystem.
In many respects, I think this phenomena is down to two things: first, many of the tech products we use were founded by people who were still in the throes of youth, and became billionaires and global tech icons before their brains were even fully developed. They’ve been insulated from people from a young age, never lived a normal life, and they’ve been told — repeatedly — that they are geniuses and visionaries. While I don’t think this explanation excuses any of their behavior, I also think it goes some way into explaining the scarcely-disguised antipathy these people show for their fellow humans.
(...)
The other factor behind this phenomenon is that many of the people running these companies are former management consultants spawned from hell (read: McKinsey) and then set loose on what amounts to “essential infrastructure” for the digital age. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, is a former McKinsey consultant. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Chief Operating Officer of Facebook was one, too.
Management consultants have one job — it’s to recommend strategies to cowardly CEOs that they probably thought of themselves, but are too chicken to put their name behind themselves, that invariably screw over employees, consumers, and the planet."
https://whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-died
#DeadInternet#Commons#DigitalCommons#OpenWeb#SocialMedia#AISlop#AI
'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.'
From 'Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons' https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470#GenAI #commons#DigitalCommons
Ich arbeite mit dieser Arbeit gerade einige Lücken in meinem Wissensschatz auf
Es wurde 2023 Publiziert betrachtet aber einen Zeitraum ab 1990 bis jetzt.
Ist unter CC BY
und kann man hier runterladen anschauen.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5354-0/konviviale-technik/
"A web that you don’t understand is one that’s not user-driven, or driven by user utility. It’s one where people don’t have agency over the technology they depend upon, and where changes aren’t contrived to address a specific user need.
At the risk of sounding as conspiratorial as the author of the original Dead Internet Theory, I believe the emergence of this incomprehensibility was borne of deliberate decisions made by people at the very top of Big Tech. Furthermore, I believe these people are profoundly anti-person, and see people as resources to be tapped rather than collaborators within a vast, global digital ecosystem.
In many respects, I think this phenomena is down to two things: first, many of the tech products we use were founded by people who were still in the throes of youth, and became billionaires and global tech icons before their brains were even fully developed. They’ve been insulated from people from a young age, never lived a normal life, and they’ve been told — repeatedly — that they are geniuses and visionaries. While I don’t think this explanation excuses any of their behavior, I also think it goes some way into explaining the scarcely-disguised antipathy these people show for their fellow humans.
(...)
The other factor behind this phenomenon is that many of the people running these companies are former management consultants spawned from hell (read: McKinsey) and then set loose on what amounts to “essential infrastructure” for the digital age. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, is a former McKinsey consultant. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Chief Operating Officer of Facebook was one, too.
Management consultants have one job — it’s to recommend strategies to cowardly CEOs that they probably thought of themselves, but are too chicken to put their name behind themselves, that invariably screw over employees, consumers, and the planet."
https://whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-died
#DeadInternet#Commons#DigitalCommons#OpenWeb#SocialMedia#AISlop#AI
Social experience design and the intrinsic value of #Humanity.
https://discuss.coding.social/t/sx-power-of-humanity-gratitude-and-gifting/673
#SX#SocialCoding #ReimagineSocialNetworking#Commons#Collaboration#GiftEconomy
Initiatives like the L’Atelier Paysan cooperative in France and Farm Hack in the USA empower communities of farmers, engineers, makers and enthusiasts to manufacture technological solutions tailored for low-intensity, small-scale, resilient farming. Further, they rigorously document their solutions, create designs and manufacturing guides that are made globally available as digital #commons.
(Thread 2/3)
"In the digital sphere, practices of commoning have been expanding from knowledge and information, to software, and technological design, collectively created and maintained by globally distributed communities, through shared infrastructures and organizational practices."
(Thread 1/3)
A great conversation, well worth a listen.
#FrontiersofCommoning , with David Bollier: Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath: How Network #Protocols Enable Digital #Commons & Open Marrkets
Episode webpage: https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/rabble-evan-henshaw-plath-how-network-protocols-enable-digital-commons-open-marrkets-PtH3_vfS
A great conversation, well worth a listen.
#FrontiersofCommoning , with David Bollier: Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath: How Network #Protocols Enable Digital #Commons & Open Marrkets
Episode webpage: https://david-bollier.simplecast.com/episodes/rabble-evan-henshaw-plath-how-network-protocols-enable-digital-commons-open-marrkets-PtH3_vfS
People specialize. There are countless 'tip of spear' #Activism pieces of the puzzle and even more 'part of the shaft' #Solution pieces. All in a chaotic pile, still in the box, seeking connection.
We need a flat organized underground where with patience and creativity puzzle piece connectors put them together, an united #commons to let a new picture appear until the puzzle is complete and - to step out of the analogy - we moved post- #hypercapitalism as a species.
One can hope. And #dream. :D
People specialize. There are countless 'tip of spear' #Activism pieces of the puzzle and even more 'part of the shaft' #Solution pieces. All in a chaotic pile, still in the box, seeking connection.
We need a flat organized underground where with patience and creativity puzzle piece connectors put them together, an united #commons to let a new picture appear until the puzzle is complete and - to step out of the analogy - we moved post- #hypercapitalism as a species.
One can hope. And #dream. :D
> A viable community is where enough of its members care enough for its continued existence.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/object/57a3b83c62f3337725b3002710163485
> A viable community is where enough of its members care enough for its continued existence.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/object/57a3b83c62f3337725b3002710163485
Just heard in #ActivityPub related chat (because I typed it) ..
> Btw, the ad-hoc code-first show-dont-tell mentality is an interesting social dynamic in FOSS, but esp. in the AS/AP open standards based ecosystem, a chaotic grassroots #commons.
> And it is an understandable dynamic.. devs have invested much time to 'eat' their way through the complexity of building federated apps, and afterwards when they are unlocked, gained the expertise, they want to focus on their app. They are likely to even resist major changes to the spec, even if they'd be ultimately beneficial to them.
This pragmatic approach that often works very well for individual #FOSS projects, is detrimental to formation of healthy #commons.
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/layered-activitypub/5449/6?u=aschrijver
Just heard in #ActivityPub related chat (because I typed it) ..
> Btw, the ad-hoc code-first show-dont-tell mentality is an interesting social dynamic in FOSS, but esp. in the AS/AP open standards based ecosystem, a chaotic grassroots #commons.
The researchers were surprised to find that the loss of #water on the continents has grown so dramatically that it has become one of the largest causes of global #SeaLevel rise.
Moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans.
#extractivismo #capitalism #degrowth #commons
https://www.propublica.org/article/water-aquifers-groundwater-rising-ocean-levels
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