Notices by Ecologia Digital (josemurilo@mato.social)

"Let me be crystal clear before we begin: I say all of the below with love for #thefediverse.. Deep, stubborn, open-source-loving, billionaire-eschewing love. I want the #OpenSocialWeb to win. But wanting it isn’t enough. If we want this thing to thrive we have to face the #userexperience sins head-on—and maybe even laugh at them a little along the way."
@tchambers
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

"At the heart of these alternative apps lies #theFediverse platform — a portmanteau of "federated" and "universe" that represents a radical reimagining of how social media can work. Unlike traditional platforms where users are locked into isolated ecosystems, the Fediverse operates as an interconnected network of independent servers that communicate with each other through a standard protocol called #ActivityPub."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/2025/01/25/open-source-and-ethical-tiktok-whatsapp-and-instagram-alternatives-could-transform-social-media/

"In addition to the way servers communicate with each other across the Fediverse, #ActivityPub also defines a “Client-to-Server” API.
This #API is mainly designed to allow apps and clients (such as mobile apps) to publish content to a Fediverse server.
In the future, this could open up interesting possibilities for #WordPress — for example, allowing WordPress to act as a bridge or proxy, making it easier to bring in and federate content from other tools or platforms."

https://activitypub.blog/2025/06/11/our-2025-roadmap-building-the-future-of-wordpress-federation/

Pessoal, recomendo muito assistir e divulgar o recém-lançado vídeo #IntroduçãoaoFediverso: uma nova era das #mídiassociais", que tem uma duração de 4 minutos e apresenta uma boa argumentação sobre os elementos centrais das redes sociais descentralizadas e do #Fediverso com legendas em #português. Uma iniciativa da @rede #Alquimidia do @skarnio e parceiros.
https://alquimidia.org/introducao-ao-fediverso-uma-nova-era-das-midias-sociais-de-elena-rossini.

"Federating #Ghost means publishers no longer have to choose between owning their work and reaching an audience. You post once, on your own domain, and it travels everywhere.
While centralized networks are coming apart as battles rage between the most powerful people on earth who own them, #thefediverse represents an #alternative path.
It's an answer to the question: What if nobody owned this? The same question that #TimBernersLee posed to the world, 35 years ago."

https://activitypub.ghost.org/ramping-up-for-expansion/

I've been warning about #Telegram for a long time. I think the app is even less trustworthy than anything from #Meta. New research proves this.

https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-the-middle

"Younger people will have trouble picturing this, but #Google used to nurture an image of being the “good one” among megacorps; they championed #openstandards (except when they didn’t), supported #opensource projects (until they backstabbed them), and used language that corporate wasn’t supposed to use, like #dontbeEvil (until they,in a true dark comedy move, retracted that motto).
I was always an anarchist, abstractly, but in many ways Google was my political awakening."
https://wordsmith.social/elilla/deep-in-mordor-where-the-shadows-lie-dystopian-stories-of-my-time-as-a-googler

@skarnio @uira @laurenshof.online
Não consigo curtir o #ATverso. Até tento.
Interessante que eu vi do Laurens foi a reflexão sobre o fato da importância do aspecto de #descentralização estar sendo relativizada entre bluskyers, diferentemente do que acontece com a turma do #ActivityPub.
De minha parte, prezo a possibilidade de inovação com baixo custo, algo que parece distante com o #Atproto.
From: https://mato.social/@josemurilo/114539728965583585

"No ambiente em formação que é o #Fediverso, duas propostas concorrentes polarizam os interessados: #Mastodon e #Bluesky. Embora ambas aplicações prometam #controle aos usuários, a forma como os serviços foram constituídos contam histórias muito diferentes, o que pode determinar #futuros distintos para seus participantes."
https://josemurilo.com/2025/04/23/a-rede-social-que-nao-pode-ser-vendida-porque-mastodon-e-nao-bluesky/

Será que #oFediverso é mesmo uma resposta a questões como discursos de #ódio, #bullying e garantia da #privacidade?
🔴Assista!
👉🏽 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnU_eeaOGro
Convidados
✅ @ninadhora - cientista da computação, pesquisadora e ativista brasileira conhecida por seu trabalho em tecnologia, justiça racial e ética digital.
✅ @thiago - produtor multimídia e fundador da Alquimia Digital, associação cultural dedicada ao fomento do fediverso.
🔊 Apresentação: Sousa Jr

"We need to #deanthropomorphiseAI. Now. Strip it of its human mask. This should be easy. Companies could remove all reference to emotion, judgement or cognitive processing on the part of the AI. In particular, it should respond factually without ever saying “I”, or “I feel that”… or “I am curious”.

Will it happen? I doubt it. It reminds me of another warning we’ve ignored for over 20 years: “We need to cut CO₂ emissions.”"

https://theconversation.com/we-need-to-stop-pretending-ai-is-intelligent-heres-how-254090

"O #Mastodon—desenvolvido por uma empresa #semfinslucrativos e formado por comunidades com admins independentes—tornou-se essencialmente imune ao conhecido padrão de #enshittification da #socialmedia.
O #Bluesky, apesar de sua tecnologia inovadora e das boas intenções,é construído sobre a mesma fundação das #BigTech, apoiado por #venturecapital.
O Mastodon—apesar de mais desafiador para começar—representa nossa melhor chance de construir uma #opentownsquare na internet."
Https://phillipjreese.com/the-social-network-that-cant-sell-out-understanding-mastodon-vs-bluesky/

"#fakeAIslop is #profitable, and there are countless users doing the same thing. There’s absolutely nothing to stop them.
That is: the #Instagram platform doesn’t just enable this behavior, it rewards it. On Instagram & TikTok, #FutureRiderUS’s top hits are from #fakeLAfires. None are clearly labeled. #Disasterporn is just another kind of #content.
It doesn’t really matter what that content is: as long as it is ‘content that grabs attention,’ #bothsides can make money."
https://www.404media.co/inside-the-economy-of-ai-spammers-getting-rich-by-exploiting-disasters-and-misery/

"#Mastodon—built as a #nonprofit and run by independent communities—has essentially made it impossible for itself to fall into the familiar pattern of #socialmedia “enshittifiction".
#Bluesky, despite its innovative technology & good intentions, is built on the same #venturecapital-backed foundation.
Mastodon–despite being slightly more challenging to get started with–represents our best chance at building a truly #opentownsquare of the internet that benefits everyone."
https://phillipjreese.com/the-social-network-that-cant-sell-out-understanding-mastodon-vs-bluesky/

"A #ANPD (Autoridade Nacional de #ProteçãodeDados) instaurou processo contra a #RaiaDrogasil, pioneira no uso do histórico de compras para vender anúncios.
O órgão viu indícios de "#perfilização comportamental a partir de dados pessoais sensíveis, sem o devido amparo legal, a fim de ofertar #publicidadedirecionada com contrapartida financeira".
Empresa diz que 97% de suas vendas são identificadas com #CPF, permitindo o armazenamento do histórico de 50 milhões de pessoas."
https://tab.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2025/04/17/uso-de-dados-pessoais-de-saude-para-publicidade-se-espalha-em-farmacias.htm

@CleoMenezesJr @manualdousuario
O #meaculpa do Rodrigo, ao final do post, demonstra o grau de dificuldade não só de instituições, mas de todos, em lidar com o atual cenário de captura pelas corporações anti-democráticas. Mas concordo que cabe a governos induzirem a mudança positiva.

Posso dizer que os #museus brasileiros estão fazendo a parte que lhes cabe. Os consultores estão contratados, e as primeiras conversas são promissoras!

https://brasiliana.museus.gov.br/construindo-pontes-dos-museus-para-o-fediverso/

O #Tapestry indica um caminho interessante para apps de #redesocial descentralizadas. Compõe a timeline com um mosaico de diferentes "feeds", de Mastodon, Bluesky, Tumbler, RSS [olha que massa!!], e outros. A nova versão implementa filtro para não mostrar posts duplicados.
Já testou? É o futuro chegando..
E incorporando o leitor de #feedRSS!
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/08/tapestrys-app-can-now-de-dupe-your-social-feeds/

"This week on #ReimaginingTheInternet, Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr) explains how poor democracy on major social media platforms has eroded our actual democratic governance, and how practicing democracy in everyday ways can teach us how to practice it well again.

Nathan Schneider wrote the fantastic #GovernableSpaces, out now on UC Press and freely available online."

https://publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/110-nathan-schneider-governable-spaces/

"#Manus, the viral AI #agentplatform from Chinese startup #ButterflyEffect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another #AItool called #BrowserUse.
Browser Use, which aims to make websites more accessible for agentic applications that perform tasks on a user’s behalf, has experienced explosive growth in the past week. Daily downloads more than quintupled from around 5,000 on March 3 to 28,000 on March 10, co-creator Gregor Zunic told TechCrunch.@

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/browser-use-one-of-the-tools-powering-manus-is-also-going-viral/

"#OpenAI wants the US government to ensure it has access to any data it wants to train #GenAI models, and to stop foreign countries from trying to enforce #copyright rules against it and other American AI firms."

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/openai_data_copyright/