Notices by Gorgasbord (geo@social.collectivemoo.net)

Reading The Internet Con by @pluralistic. Great book. A point to dig deeper in, IMO, is how much the Internet could be like a science fiction/fantasy reality with more #interoperability. More than just freedom of social media platforms. A big trope in fiction is that the genius engineer or scrappy wizard can integrate seemingly unrelated things together to create something completely new. This is how universal computers were made to work, and what the Internet could be.

@pluralistic any two computer technologies can interface with each other, limited only by human ingenuity and imagination. Just like magic or science fiction physics. We just live in Internet feudalism where all these barriers are put in place by the rulers, who only get to do so because of favorable policy. IOW the dark wizards have made their magic ubiquitous, mandatory, and unnecessarily difficult to work with to maintain ubiquity.

@dansup @loops what are plans if any for in-app recording? I've added basic implementations to production Android apps before but idk if you plan for it to be basic or have some additional features.

@dansup @loops got it I can continue to make crappy karaoke videos

@dansup I obviously don't know enough about the implementation and current plans to know when one suggestion would be simple and one would be monstrous to implement lol, but in terms of ideals, I like the idea of this being configurable to the local instance. Some communities might want to prioritize long form video essays, while others might want to prioritize frequent short shitposts. Streaks (interpreting as like daily streaks) seems tricky to me to add as a global boost.

@dansup if I understand correctly, the goal is to incentivize higher effort content? It might be worth some added nonmonetary incentives first / in addition to monetary? idk something like badges or achievements, or even just more fleshed out aggregate stats on the performance on your own videos? Stats on which videos are being watched in full / where they are being scrolled past.

@Gargron @Francehelder I read it as Mastodon Augmented Universe ?