"Freedom of the press" anymore is not an important argument. Freedom of the internet is the only argument that is happening today that reflects the old struggle against the powerful who'd suppress the words of the powerless. "The Press" is no more. https://medium.com/@toholdaquill/surveillance-isnt-about-watching-a65b5eaadaf0
"Yes, and..." is a good rule that should transcend improv theatre and impact more interactions in collective life.
The struggle to wean myself off of the birdsite is real ... in tech addiction, one needs to reminds oneself that recovery isn't a straight & upwards road. There aren't 12 steps that make sense for everyone to universally follow. You have to find your own.
I think sometimes we're all LARPing and when we talk of experience, what we're saying is this is the bit of my LARP that I take really seriously
"It seems strange to have to assert that increasing access to knowledge is more likely to present benefits to society than not, but that appears to be the state of the debate in 2017. The shock of the Trump vote, and the Brexit vote, has produced an understandable hunger for explanation, accompanied by a crisis of intellectual confidence." http://limn.it/the-logic-of-leaks-reconsidered/
There is no shame in slacking off sometimes.
It is no longer rare or precious to be able to look into the future and divine truth. Every person I know has these flights of fancy into the imaginary on the regular. We throw so many balls into the air, it's not surprising one in a hundred land in the hoop. What is the new fortune telling?
I am watching a giraffe give birth on live cam right now.
Twitter sued Customs and Border Protection for trying to unmask one of their pseudonymous alt agency accounts. Within 24 hours of Twitter filing the lawsuit, the government withdrew its subpoena. What happened here?
I explain it all: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/alt-twitter-account-trump-customs-lawsuit
Mastodon's federation introduces UX challenges.
One that worries me a lot is about message forgery. Anyone can forge a twoot, even cross-server.
Whereas Twitter Inc might be trustworthy enough to not forge transcripts. Anyone can run a Mastodon server and might want to abuse it to influence people (see Russian troll campaigns).
Should Mastodon "home servers" cryptographically sign updates? Should there be end-to-end signatures? Anyone has thoughts on this?
Here is an in-depth area where I need development/knowledge help, for a feature that would make Masto even better/more reliable in terms of timelines sorting: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1059 I've been researching it for a while and wrote down all my findings.
Practice makes perfect! Perfect is a mathematical illusion!
@whatthegeek Yeah... i'm just throwing the idea out there. Personally, the sure number (millions of fake bots) on birdsite run by blackhat marketers to do their bidding contributes to the overall spam noise
I'm struggling very hard not to engage with the birdsite right now because Kendzior is writing a novella of United States history in threaded tweets in real time while the kings of late-stage capitalism consolidate power. Read it and weep: https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/849964969429012480
I was wondering how long it'd take for a corporate entity to set up their own private Mastodon instance.
Looks like French tech news site Numerama has now done so. You can find them at @numerama -- now to wonder about my other question, that is: how many other instances will blacklist it?
To attract users, new Mastodon instances could advertise they wipe their logs ever week. Or at the end of a Mastodon day. Maybe we can redefine the length of a day so as to account for all timezones. Why do we cling to things we don't need about the past?
I do not like the idea of topic-centered instances, because its too restrictive in the sense that people have more than just one interest. Maybe its just me, but I wouldnt like to center my MA experience to just one especific hobby.
:eye_in_speech_bubble: this one is prob one of my fav emoji, honestly
have I mentioned how much I love the emoji design on here? where are these from, the faces are like. flat apple but idk who did that... it's defo not microsoft default, which is also well designed imo
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- Similarly, I have no good way to link to a particular toot in a way I could mention out of band, and then take that link and view it in such a way I can easily interact with it.
- No lists, so no lower-volume views of subsets of the social graph.
- DMs are another selective/lower-volume view. Putting them in-band with other notifications makes them get lost more easily. A long-standing group DM has mostly moved back to Twitter for the moment.
