Notices by Doug Webb (douginamug@mastodon.xyz)

#CapitalistRealism 🤝 #ImplicitFeudalism

"‘capitalist realism’: the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it."

— "Capitalist realism", Mark Fisher, 2009

"implicit feudalism, the dominant design pattern for online spaces, in which all power derives from founders and admins, and most users lack opportunities for direct, instrumental effective voice"

— "Governable spaces", @ntnsndr, 2024

Tell me:

Is there any FOSS contact app that has a map view for all contacts with addresses?

As an extroverted and forgetful traveller this would be incredibly helpful!

@kaia u should be kaisa

Expand the #commons! Lend money to buy out k21 if you can. (Free space in Germany dedicated to radical change (the good kind))

https://k20-projekthaus.de/k20-erweiterung/

(Although I wasn't there, I have enough secondary connections to trust them sincerely.)

@nemobis oof... firstly, that's a real rough handling of Arrow's Impossibility theorem and secondly his point is pretty much the generalization that "you can't make everyone happy" 😓

But thanks for giving me some things to think about, I'll see how I might weave it in.

Do you have a history with meatballwiki?

how do we tell the story that the fediverse is complex web of instances, and that that is desirable?

(e.g.there is a direct link between the search not returning every result -- independent moderation -- isolating instances of abuse)

this is critical for helping people exit the hegemonies, because there are desires learned from being there that we can't & don't want to recreate

@rysiek do you have a recommendation for facebook too?

It is time for me to completely delete my twitter and facebook accounts ⚰️ 🥀

For years I was just squatting, but now just having those accounts feels like party membership...

Tips on how to exit with maximal earth scorching?

@kaia u wot m8

@ntnsndr I would add this to the Wikipedia article if you can ref me

@jwildeboer thanks for your thoughts. Curious what the discussion was - on fedi?

I am very skeptical that The Bad People will be put off anyone's code based on license: they typically have the money to reimplement or legally battle their way. This understanding informs my pragmatic support for Foss/public domain.

(Feels like a good place to mention the Telekommunit Manifesto though, which makes a strong case for "non-free" licensing https://networkcultures.org/blog/2010/10/21/the-telekommunist-from-dmytri-kleiner-is-out-now/ )

@ntnsndr what is a "blue sky-related social media cooperative"?

@nemobis thanks so much!

I sadly have to be honest with myself, that I should probably just do it all manually, once, and afterwards most new pages will be given categories as they are written 🤷 it is only about 100... https://wiki.kanthaus.online/Special:AllPages?from=&to=&namespace=0&hideredirects=1

@nemobis haha, if you tell me how, I'll try!

Say you have a #mediawiki with a lot of uncategorized pages.

How can you batch add/edit categories without going page by page?

Playing around with cat-a-lot, but it seems not possible to use it on Special:AllPages.

@kaia that's pretty morbid, but in a really growthy way

@kaia got that one on my key ring. Seems pretty bullet proof without a case @grillchen

@woodbark well that's a whole thing I'd never heard of!

You heard about Omnivore @maxlath ?

@woodbark