Notices by fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 (fromjason@mastodon.social), page 2

One of the most valuable things about Mastodon is you get to see how people post when gaming an algorithm isn't the primary motivation.

What is your definition of decentralized social media?

Jay Grayber CEO BlueSky:

> If centralized platforms are governed like monarchies, federated networks are governed like little feudal societies. There isn't just one king ruling over the whole network but there are smaller lords who still have absolute power over their domain.

This feels like an unfortunate analogy.

https://protocol.ai/blog/transcription-bluesky-blog/

Protocols, Not Platforms (2019):

"The benefits of building a service as a platform are fairly obvious: the owner has ultimate control over that platform and thus is much better positioned to monetize the platforms via advertising of some form (or other ancillary services). This does, however, incentivize these platforms to acquire an ever increasing amount of data from their users to better target them."

Hypothetically, ... #LinksFromJason https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/09/protocols-not-platforms.html

The reason why #Threads and #Mastodon are incompatible is that Mastodon is a community, and Threads is a market. That's it.

It's not big Fed vs small Fedi. It's not platforms vs protocols.

It's communities vs markets.

Communities are supportive and markets are extractive. Communities answer to those who must live with decisions made. Markets answer to money.

And wouldn't you know it, those contrasting forces influence people's behaviors, goals, and motivations for engaging with others.

We knew #Facebook was spying on competing apps via VPN since at least 2017.

Not only that, FB executives used that data to trick founders into thinking Facebook was interested in an acquisition by inviting them to continuous meetings.

Once Zuck had the info he needed, they cut off communication and copied the app's flagship feature.

But that's definitely not what #Meta is doing with #Mastodon. 🙃

#fediverse #ActivityPub

https://archive.ph/2017.11.27-181620/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-copycats-how-facebook-squashes-competition-from-startups-1502293444

We've made it to this part of the #Meta discourse

Spruced up the ol' blog. Made some design changes and lots of internal updates. Really took advantage of @eleventy global data this go round.

#blogging #11ty #StaticSiteFanClub

https://fromjason.xyz/

Threads, Instagram, & Facebook officially suppressing "political content" which includes "social topics".

It's hard for me to reconcile the people advocating for Meta's integration with Mastodon while also advocating for social justice issues.

This is wholesale suppression of the most marginalized amongst us. It is billionaires taking control of the tools we use to organize, disperse information, and fight narratives that harm us.

You can't be an advocate for both Meta and the marginalized.

@evan @zuck learning that marginalized voices will be suppressed by default on his platforms

In this thread I will explain why "the cloud" is just the privatization of the Internet, and the Internet, as we think of it, doesn't exist anymore.

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The small digital community is an act of defiance. It exists in a web where perpetual growth and relentless extractions are the only pursuits.

#SmallWeb #indieWeb

@killyourfm you might've just inspired me. It'll take a LONG time to cancel but maybe I start now

The federation concept is dope. Big fan. But this emerging worldview that "all connection is good connection" regardless of implementation or even an ounce of thoughtfulness, is bizarre.

To me, it feels like VC growth-at-all-cost religion repackaged. Big Boz memo vibes. It's giving "your safety is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

Where's this weird urgency coming from? What deadline are we trying to meet that demands such thoughtless action, and subsequent unabashed defending?

#fediverse

And don't let anyone go unchallenged who attempts to frame this as a small instance problem.

A mass exodus from small to big servers would weaken decentralization. Who does that benefit?
https://fieldnotes.resistant.tech/what-is-decentralization/

From: @are0h
https://h-i.social/@are0h/111953598989236478

Zuck: we call our interoperable ecosystem the #Metaverse now

#Fediverse: oh hey twinsies

Zuck: we launched a text based app connected to #ActivityPub

#Mastodon: yay we do that

Zuck: we believe in openness now

Openness.org: neato! This is completely out of character but we're convinced

Zuck: we copy platforms so that eventually, they die under the pressure of our competition because this has been our entire business model for a decade

Guy who invented the at sign: fascinating

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses - The New York Times

I keep coming back to this story. #Meta has clearly implemented its own version of “AmazonFC,” but to what end? Is there a University Study behind some paywall that suggests this public relations strategy is viable?

And the scale this is happening on #Threads implies a lot of time and money was invested in this PR push. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/style/amazon-fc-ambassadors.html

@georgetakei I accidentally broke my coffee cup a couple weeks back. Haven't had a chance to get a new one so I use some thermos thing. Don't even know who I am anymore.

Parker Molloy on #Threads screen recorded a Twitter search that appears to show dozens of bots responding to tweets with a boilerplate #OpenAI message.

One user commented:

"The bot activity is coming from inside the house (…) it appears these are stale accounts that were taken back over by XTwitter, turned into Blue Checkmarks and use AI to keep DAU/MAU and other activity metrics higher than they actually are."

None of these ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/09/parker-molloy-on.html

@youronlyone If im not mistaken I believe the #socialweb discussion began about a decade before, in 1996. It was coined by Howard Rheingold, who explored the idea of virtual communities and community centers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070305210323/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985581,00.html