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monoskop
@monoskop@post.lurk.org  路  activity timestamp 3 years ago

Hi ! we are a #wiki / #library / #catalogue for arts and studies , here to spread the word about recent and historical publications and projects in #experimentalart #permacomputing #lowtech #climateaction #decoloniality #technofeminisms #capitalocene #criticaltheory #shadowlibraries #communityservers www_server #communityradio antenna #everydaytechnology #libreculture #floss unwanted_tux #diwo #care #artistpublishing #soundart #experimentalfilm #arthistory #weird etc.. Thank you @lurk for hosting us on #mastodon and everyone in the #fediverse for believing in it and making it such a welcoming space thinkhappy #introduction boost_ok

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Oliver Sampson
@oliversampson@sigmoid.social  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The article had a provocative title: "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero",

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/

TL;DR: There's some amount of friction in the #marketplace that prevents #fraud and prevents a large amount of non-fraud. Somehow understanding and tuning for that is what can make or break a #business.

I just read #wiki to catch up on #Kickstarter, and there's definitely an optimal amount of how much of a #business platform you can move to the #blockchain, and it's exactly zero.

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Oliver Sampson
@oliversampson@sigmoid.social  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

I'm catching up on @pluralistic 's newsletter and there was a line in https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before that reminded me of an article I read recently:

> So #Kickstarter jettisoned the escrow step, handing campaign creators the full payout and then trusting them not to run off with the dough. The platform understood that this would allow a certain amount of #fraud and failure, but deemed it worthwhile, especially after they took countermeasures to minimize backer losses, such as...

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Oliver Sampson
@oliversampson@sigmoid.social replied  路  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The article had a provocative title: "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero",

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/

TL;DR: There's some amount of friction in the #marketplace that prevents #fraud and prevents a large amount of non-fraud. Somehow understanding and tuning for that is what can make or break a #business.

I just read #wiki to catch up on #Kickstarter, and there's definitely an optimal amount of how much of a #business platform you can move to the #blockchain, and it's exactly zero.

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St茅phane Bortzmeyer
@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr  路  activity timestamp last month

Le wiki de l'orateur, qui illustre son id茅e de jardin num茅rique https://kiwi.mindiell.net/

#PSESQ

St茅phane Bortzmeyer
@bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr replied  路  activity timestamp last month

芦 J'aime bien les choses moches. 禄

#wiki#PSESQ

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ImaCrea
@imacrea@mamot.fr  路  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@LeMuseum national d'Histoire Naturelle propose une r茅sidence de 12 mois 脿 un.e contributeur.ice Wikip茅dia 馃槸

> "Renforcer l鈥檃cculturation 脿 Wikip茅dia et plus largement aux principes de la science ouverte parmi les enseignants-chercheurs, personnels et 茅tudiants du Mus茅um et renforcer la pr茅sence dans Wikip茅dia de contenus (textes, visuels) issus de la recherche, des collections et de la vulgarisation scientifique qui sont au c艙ur des activit茅s..."

馃憠 https://recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-detail.html?id_job=1249

#jerecrute #wiki

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