Notices by Ecologia Digital (josemurilo@mato.social), page 3

"In #Taiwan, a key techno-political challenge in the last decade has been to respond to Chinese propaganda. In Taiwan, the public and government both now view the threats to trust posed by #disinformation as existential threats from China and the government has responded with a ‘whole of society’ approach.
The Taiwanese response to disinformation also involves an active role played by the state and raises questions about the appropriate #RoleOfGovernments."

"The rise of #disinformation online and its impact on deliberative democracies is among the more consequential socio-political and technological problems of our times. However, a government-controlled body [in #India] that acts as the primary arbiter of online news about itself is prima facie an act in bad faith, where the government can unilaterally determine what online content about it should be available."
https://www.techpolicy.press/india-and-taiwans-divergent-paths-to-combat-online-disinformation/

"While the size of #Musk's contribution is particularly egregious, he is not alone in attempting to buy this election," Sanders continued. "Other billionaires are also playing a significant role—in both political parties. Oh, I know...here goes #BernieSanders again about #CitizensUnited and the role of money in politics.
Let's be clear. Why should a tiny clique of people should have incredible wealth and power while most people have none."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-donald-trump

"Two of #SiliconValley’s famous venture capitalists make the case for backing Trump: that their ability to make money is the only value that matters.

The irony is so obvious it’s almost embarrassing to point it out. Andreessen says he is upset that #BigTech is too powerful, but he opposes #antitrust action because that blocks a route for #VCs to exit."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

#CrowdStrike #BSOD
"Is the #cybersecurity industry really aware of its weaknesses, or are they fooling us with marketing and off-shelf products, keeping the door closed to 20 years of innovation on E2EE, #decentralization and #resilience?"
@jaromil

https://medium.com/think-do-tank/worldwide-outage-2024-early-reflections-on-the-crowdstrike-bsod-ded6725c992f

"The largest servers are the easiest for nasty billionaires to buy out, which puts the network as a whole at risk. By staying spread out on many servers, you are helping to protect the network from anyone taking it over.
#MastodonSocial is by far the largest server now. It’s not a question of absolute numbers but of percentages: if most of the network is on one server, then that server effectively controls the overall network."
https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/

@manualdousuario

Alô Rodrigo!
Ótima sua colocação.
Me permita entender que você descreve situações em que os admins não são legais, em contraste com a situação do #mastodondotsocial em que o admin tem sido bem legal — e faz sentido.
Mas na perspectiva do ecossistema, entendo que faz sentido promover a saída da grande instância para instâncias menores, até para aprofundar a experiência de gestão da infra — importante para compreender a cultura do Fediverso. Que acha?

"Some instances are already blocking #Threads, and if #Meta becomes too much of a problem, then others would likely do so as well.
And while some had predicted that Meta would never actually embrace Threads, it keeps turning on more functionality, bit by bit. The latest functionality is that users on Threads can now see likes and replies from the wider #Fediverse."

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/27/meta-moves-to-more-directly-connect-to-activitypub-but-is-it-really-open/

Although AT is not decentralized..
"Both #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol developers are receptive to making the 2 better at communicating with one another, and independent projects like #BridgyFed, #SkyBridge, #RSSParrot and #Mastofeed are already letting users get the best of both worlds.
Today a growing number of projects speak both #protocols, along with older ones like RSS."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/whats-difference-between-mastodon-bluesky-and-threads

"Yesterday, the fediverse celebrated a victory against a head technology executive working on an “#AIpowered #socialnetwork” who decided to “ingested about 1,120,000 posts from Mastodon”.
#maven
…a company with an alternative take on social media without likes & followers that just raised $2 millions wanted to join the #fediverse by, in technical terms, adding official #ActivityPub support, much like Meta is doing with Threads."
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-be-a-good-fediverse-citizen/

"The #TwitterMeltdown made me realize something important: I’m a seriously prolific content creator. And I’ve been giving away all that content free to a platform that not only profits from it but treats me like garbage/unfairly…
When I downloaded my #TwitterArchive, it hit me like a ton of bricks that most of that content was not sitting in my website, so they could just disappear if a billionaire decides to cut me off from the platform." #POSSE
@liztai
https://elizabethtai.com/2023/07/02/posse-and-pesos-better-ways-to-publish-content/

"When the web – and its #browsers – were a big, contented, diverse, competitive space, it was harder for tech companies to collude to capture standards bodies like the #W3C to secure even more dominance. As the web turned into Tom Eastman's "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four," that kind of collusion became much easier."
#UserAgents
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/

#TikTokBan is all about #Gaza:
"A discussion between Blinken and Romney over the weekend included what one critic called an "incredible mask-off moment," with the two officials speaking openly about the US gov longterm attempts to provide PR work for #Israel in defense of its policies in the occupied Palestinian territories—and its push to ban TikTok in order to shut down Americans' access to unfiltered news about the Israeli assault on Gaza."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mitt-romney-tiktok

"What if your computer made a little noise each time it sends data to #Google?

It's not only about the data transfer itself. Imagine the amount of network traffic required when this happens to everyone active online. And the storage and CPU power required to process it all. Yeah, you get it."
#privacy #transparency

https://axbom.com/the-creepy-sound-of-online-trackers/

"#ActivityPods is a combination of two #W3C standards: #ActivityPub, and the #Solid specification. The first standard is for data federation and networks, the second is for data storage and access. The ideals of both projects put together create a compelling vision: data control, across user applications, in service to communication across the web."

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/activitypods-federated-solid-pods/

“In a dream world, every national library would have enough funds to bring on an amazing team of people. Governments often don't have that” says professor Ian Milligan, who is writing a book on the #InternetArchive’s origins.
The Internet Archive has not previously acted as custodian of a country’s whole collection, although it has worked with a number of national and regional #libraries around the world."
#digitalmemory
https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-backed-up-aruba-caribbean-island/

"What if #generativeAI could let you chat with doppelgangers of brilliant people, in their words, at any time? And what if those brilliant people were alive and had no say in the outcome?

A few months ago, my colleague Phelim Kine and I learned about something both exciting and unnerving: a bot built entirely around one man’s personality, based on his writings, originally without his consent."

#clonebot

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/30/ai-psychologist-chatbot-00132682

"We 1st discuss the current state of #platform #governance scholarship, followed by background on #Mastodon. We then explain #covenantalfederalist political theory, followed by an examination of Mastodon’s #covenant. Such an approach will clarify an alarming case in Mastodon’s history: the intrusion of the alt-right platform Gab into the Mastodon. We conclude with critiques of Mastodon’s covenantal approach and calls for further research."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2147400

"…a lot of people have been disabled in quite a short period of time. I just think there is a general lack of empathy. If you've lived a healthy life,you can't imagine your life suddenly being put on pause or stopped. And I'm trying to make that clear to people by saying, 'Take your friendships, take your social life, take all things you love, and remove that. Now what do you do?."
#LongCovid
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-27/long-covid-mecfs-health-damaging-relationships-crisis/103205564

An informative conversation of @aral with an inspired @dsearls about the idea of #smallweb :
"what if each one of us had our own place, our own address, a small place on the web, and we could be publishing whatever we want, and people would be able to follow you.. but you could also be private, and i mean.. really #private not Facebook-private, but #endtoend encrypted. The small web is in fact a #P2Pweb."
https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/753