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

The one thing about white Twitter spaces that always baffled me was how often their approach to Black liberation was simply to ignore Black liberators.

I don't mean metaphorically. I mean how Academia Twitter, intellectual twitter, journalist Twitter, all, would just straight up ignore Black activists in the comments.

Tell a predominant white academic that their worldview is incomplete, and doesn't consider people of color, and its crickets 🦗. Always.

#Fediverse #IndieWeb

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The older I get the more I realize just how common talent is in the world. Knowing that doesn't make talent any less impressive, just that it makes you appreciate how rare opportunity is.

You know how email is walled off to the control of like four mega corporations?

Well, we were thinking social media doesn't suck enough, so...

#threads #fediverse

Technocrats are using the language of revolution as a means of winning hearts and minds.

Lower-level fiefdoms are perhaps sincere in their attempt to make a better web. But mostly, we are witnessing a Potemkin revolution by the same folks who made their fortunes off our data and content.

Jack Dorsey is not a revolutionary. Mark Zuckerberg is not a revolutionary. Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, and Steve Huffman are not revolutionaries.

They are the old lords of the new #socialweb.

The Verge published the most spammy article they could write, including AI-generated content, to prove how broken Google search truly is.

The article currently ranks number 1 for the key phrase "best printer"

Lol, lmao.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

@BeAware @Twitter_expat maybe instead of misrepresenting peoples arguments you can take a moment and listen to concerns of people who don't look like you.

Not everyone has the privilege or the means to live up to your puritan ideology of what the fediverse should be. Some of us are in the unfortunate position of considering how interpolating with a hostile corporation will affect others.

@Twitter_expat @BeAware ah we are in the "characterize all dissenters as crazy” phase I see. 👍

@mcfly The Data Transfer Initiative, funded by Meta and Google, is a less messy method for Big Tech to compare notes on our data. Same idea though.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/01/13/threads-now-lets.html

Just learned you can download the entire Wikipedia site for offline use. It's about 100gb compressed, media included. 🤯

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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