We need to accelerate work on a few things at once:

• Find ways to leverage and improve the current prototypes for mutual aid, organizing, and counter propaganda, hate, and information overload
• Help people move from corporate social networks - without losing their support networks, ties to communities, and connections with friends and family.
• Build whatever comes next. Structurally, and in terms of applications, what will decentralized social networks, designed from the margins using design justice principles look like?

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#organizing #fediverse #ATmosphere

Just to offer this up, suggestion that the fedi's failure to meet this moment with viable facilities for Groups organizing could turn out to be one of the worst in its history. In retrospect, the emphasis on building "more twitters", replicating surveillance-capitalist functionality, and dreaming of world-conquering universal networks has turned out to be badly short-sighted. The footnote in the "Notes" post that mentions the Mastodon project *receiving a grant* to implement Groups years ago, then not bothering to use it, is galling.

It's easy to be a back-seat driver; but it can't be overstated how important it is for developers to perceive the fedi as a field of opportunities for imaginative killer apps the capitalists can't or won't provide, rather than just a fallback for fleeing refugees with replicated functionality

ottima panoramica dei nuovi social!

E' rimasto qualche "Dalla Bianca" 😁
e gli utenti di bluesky sono molti meno, ma a parte questi refusi per il resto è scritto benissimo! 👍

il codice di mastodon è libero, non ha padroni, il fediverso non ha padroni, non è sotto il controllo di qualcuno che può sbatterti fuori, gli account non sono di un padrone, puoi trasferirli e migrare ovunque.
Si ci sono i fornitori di servizi che hanno istanze ma su mastodon sono l'equivalente delle compagnie telefoniche, usi quelle che vuoi, e ti sposti dove vuoi, non c'è un padrone.

C'è differenza fra monetizzare con pubblicità e fare raccolta fondi per l'hosting.

Beh, di tutti i servizi del fediverso, Mastodon è uno dei più centralizzanti a causa del costo delle risorse (e delle competenze tecniche) necessarie ad eseguirlo su un server. A sua volta le grandi istanze non sono esenti da problemi, sia di privacy, che di convivenza.

Se ti può interessare, ne ho scritto qui, analizzando #Snac una delle alternative più leggere ed economiche da amministrare per piccole comunità:
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si tecnicamente l'hosting è un problema, in quanto sono loro i veri proprietari di tutta l'infrastruttura, a differenza di Facebook che possiede i propri server.

Quindi un hosting può chiuderti l'istanza in qualsiasi momento per violazione delle regole o per un seguestro giudiziario o anche perchè banalmente stai ritardando un pagamento.
Quindi si, se non si ha un server in salotto si è dipendenti da terzi ma puoi estrarre i backup e muoverti quando vuoi se vuoi essere sicuro

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#fediverso #Mastodon #SocialNetwork #BigTech

@wonkothesane I'll be real with you: this platform needs both better tools for those with large accounts and it needs a culture which isn't quite so trigger-happy to push popular accounts off the platform.

There are frictions here which are very hard to understand for the majority of its users.

I'm fairly certain this video will not affect the level to which we think you are cranky 🤠

I'll watch it later with my wife, thank you

"--that this is no doubt going to be the most crochety, Old Man Yells At Cloud video I've ever released, and I won't hide from that."

I, like many others, am here exactly for this energy. Just because a thing is new doesn't mean it's automatically good!

@wonkothesane

Just went to a bluesky "tweet". Couldn't see it because it requires you to have an account on BS.

How does anyone push accounts off a federated system?

No more a crank than the whole lot of us who are kinda fed up with everything man.

Thanks for the videos.

thanks for the video today! finally got around to creating a mastodon account.

keep up the good work!

Watched this video through #invidious because #YouTube managed to cripple #FreeTube ( a Free / #libre youtube app which does not have recommendation algorithm ) but the only live invidious instance was able to circumvent the issue and now it sort of works.

If Technology Connections will start a #PeerTube I would be so happy.

@wonkothesane

Little confused when you say culture that isn't trigger happy to push big creators off the platform.

So from my perspective, I have shared your video in two places and star'd the post.

I don't have optics on any aggressive actions towards you, but I'm also not looking THAT hard. In what ways are people trying to push you off?

My problem with YouTube's subscriptions page is that it appears to have no control over marking whether you are done with something or want to leave it in the list for later (if it's something you need to be in the mood for).

RSS readers can do this easily, and I use that to 'triage' my lists all the time. YouTube's way of displaying whether things have new content seems really arbitrary and unhelpful.

But that's probably in the bit you cut for time.

With a one minute timer (and no specialized knowledge), I managed to get as far as the model 15, knew I was in the right ballpark because it had the same footprint but a different faceplate, but I unpaused the video to check if you were going to provide the answer to the "quiz" before allotting any more time to that rabbit hole (which you did).

And after listening to that preface, I had a feeling that you were going to express an opinion that I agreed with (which is one of the reasons I'm on this platform).

> I don't talk about things I don't understand.

I cannot count how many people have gotten upset at me for saying I don't have an opinion on something.

If I don't possess enough knowledge about something to have an *informed* opinion on something, I don't have an opinion on it at all. So many people in this "New World" have difficulty understanding that.

> Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.

Not here, I don't think. If anything you might be preaching to the choir, but I certainly forgive you.

If nothing else, I'm going to be able to use the posted opinions on this thread as a vetting tool to further expand my follow list.

Oh, brother, your video gets into exactly my gripes with today's internet, apps and AI, saying more in half an hour than I could explain in 4 hours.

Day-by-day, the Internet is becoming less about surfing it or sailing it, but more like a lazy river where people simply lie back and are taken by the current, being told what to be interested in.

It's why I'm on #Mastodon to begin with. And thanks for the Canada shout-out against these BS annexation threats.

#Fediverse

I'll be one more voice thanking you for continuing to be here, even if not as actively, despite the FediKaren HOA.

I am clearly naïve because I thought that the subscription view would be the most popular path to watching your videos. Not all or even most videos, but at least yours!

Are your videos available anywhere else than YouTube?

Have you looked into PeerTube?

nice to see the callout to the YouTube subscription feed. If you turn your watch history off on YouTube, it'll completely disable the home algorithmic feed.

With a few unofficial mods you can nuke shorts too!