Edward L Platt @elplatt@octodon.social
PhD student @ UMSI. Networks, decentralization, civic tech, cats, bad puns. YPSI Arbor SOUP. Past: Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab, i3 Detroit. He/him.
I wrote a thing. "Social Capitalism" https://elplatt.com/social-capitalism
For updates on my projects, talks, and publications: https://tinyletter.com/elplatt
Is there a way to make mastodon posts automatically show up on twitter and/or facebook?
Interesting article discussing limitations of distributed web services by the MIT Civic Media: https://www.wired.com/story/decentralized-social-networks-sound-great-too-bad-theyll-never-work/
Responses:
1. Lame clickbait title. I expect more from that team.
2. All users running servers *is* unlikely but it's misleading to imply that anything less is "not working." Success for decentralized services looks like email: hub and spoke model driven by organizations with IT departments who just aren't willing to hand their data and infrastructure over to an outsider.
Collaborative Tech Alliance: collaborative app devs working together to increase interoperability. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AgD8UlInKdYyusY0Y3yNH4Rxxs3rCf0rQ6SdcGULliY/edit?usp=sharing CC @cwebber
My contribution: Platform-based social change will continue to be risky without progress on evaluation and governance by platform users
I decided to keep mastodon in my email sig. I should probably use it more.
When it rains, my immediate thought is "Ooh, I can make tea and drink it while I watch the rain."
If you don't have anything nice to say, at least give them a good laugh.
Now, on mastodon on a train, doing the mastodon on a train thing.
On a train. Doing the train thing. Got to see some nifty friends during a layover in Chicago.
And, we're back!
A nuanced, critical analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx8sl2uC46A
I've still not figured out how to be social on platforms like octodon or that other one.
I like bagels because they're decentralized
Happy Tuesday, tooters.
If you want a clear description of how very smart people justify bigoted beliefs, these are good ones.
Penguicon (sci-fi and open source con) is having a cultural moment. Two notable attendees are complaining about "SJW"s. While I disagree with them, I find their descriptions of their perspective informative, particularly ESR's.
Here is Jay "Tron Guy" Maynard's original post:
https://medium.com/@jmaynard/mpga-d4b72ec08ed4
And Eric S. Raymond's response:
http://lists.penguicon.org/pipermail/penguicon-general-penguicon.org/2017-May/000135.html
Federation/defederation is massive, because it's actually fulfilling the promise it made- distributed power. Multiple admins threatening to defederate a place can actually force the instance ot get its act together and use the moderation tools/softer power(admin tweets about what's acceptable, call outs, codes of conduct) to change the norms to be inline with the bloc of instances arguing.
If instance admins can listen to their residents (and residents can organise) we have somthing that looks like a usable representive democracy(modulo capital to run an instance, but here that's crowdfunded anyway?)
🚨🚨🚨 Really major Gmail phishing attack going around right now. Do NOT click on an unexpected "Open in Docs" link.
Whether or not you have, now is a great time to review the apps you've authed to your account: https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions
