@aral Closed as completed? Looks like a won't fix to me.
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 21:33:34 JST Chris Gioran ๐
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 21:33:32 JST Chris Gioran ๐
Google: Here's a proposal to DRM the entire web.
Everyone: We don't want you to DRM the entire web.
Google: The proposal is not final so you cannot judge it as an attempt to DRM the entire web. -
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 18:19:37 JST Chris Gioran ๐
@aral It's a small thing, but it caught my attention that this is under the repo of an individual contributor, not an "official" google account.
Shameful? I think so.
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 19:03:09 JST Chris Gioran ๐
We are not three bunnies in a trenchcoat.
I. I am not three bunnies in a trenchcoat. I want to make that clear.
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 03:50:57 JST Chris Gioran ๐
@aral This hits incredibly close to home for me.
That's exactly why i quit my job. I want to build _something_ that gives people the opportunity to be creative without being beholden to an exploitative system rotten to the core.
I think it's possible. Perhaps i want to believe it's possible. But if its not, then it's still worth doing.
I am so fucking pumped to be in these conversations. โ
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 23:38:22 JST Chris Gioran ๐
@aral Huh, that's an excellent point.
I had never thought about it, but if I, in the position of privilege that i am, notice something as being systemically bad, then imagine how many other, less privileged people have been impacted by it, for who knows how long.
And, not the most important bit, but kind of telling that we claim the discovery of it for our own by making up words for it. We really should check first if the most affected by it already have a term for it.
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 18:33:06 JST Chris Gioran ๐
Absolutely. I am not under any illusion that people will jump on a standalone piece of software just because of the morals it supports.
But a free, decentralized, anti capitalist software movement requires a lot of effort and moving pieces. And if we don't put in the work, then it will definitely not happen.
So i want to try, even if the odds are massively against me. At least i am having fun while doing it ๐
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 18:13:51 JST Chris Gioran ๐
@mike805
The problem i am identifying is not technical, but political. It's about what are the intentions behind the infrastructure we develop, and my position is that we need to encourage a new wave of free software built specifically against centralization.So yeah, we have the tech today to build small sites. SQLite is an excellent example of that. What we need is a widespread, explicit movement against big tech.
Shout out to @aral and @laura who (AFAIK) spoke about this idea first.
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 18:13:51 JST Chris Gioran ๐
[...] a massively decentralized Internet, consisting of a huge number of small communities, requires database management systems that are built from the ground up for the purpose.
The systems available today are built to support massive, centralized, owned datasets, at immense complexity and cost, with intentions that go against the principles of a free and open Internet.
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jun-2023 18:03:24 JST Chris Gioran ๐
@aral I want to believe. I really do. I can see that people increasingly see guillotines as the correct answer.
The only thing that keeps me from being optimistic is that too many people take the fascist route and side with the rich folks, wittingly or not. Look at Greece and the last election there.
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 20:25:44 JST Chris Gioran ๐
This is exactly the risk faced by instances that are big enough to draw the attention of surveillance capitalists.
They are a weakness in the system, because they are such a ripe target for acquisition and abuse. That's always what happens when a player accumulates power. And that's not a technical issue - it's a policy problem.
For example, if there was an agreed policy that no instance should be bigger than 1000 members (or it gets defederated) that's wouldn't be an issue.
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Chris Gioran ๐ (chrisg@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 00:29:16 JST Chris Gioran ๐
Binding compensation and raises to "performance" is abhorrent and morally reprehensible. It is a step further along the journey of wage slavery. It signals not only that you have to work or face starvation and homelessness, but also that you need to give your best self or else. I look forward to not have to participate in discussions like these.