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While many fediverse members engage in mutual aid and support one another, while server costs can be offset, and while artists might be able to promote themselves to audiences, the specter of burnout constantly haunts the […]
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Even that reveals something important, however: the activists, technologists, and ordinary people making alternative social media aren’t giving up just because these systems aren’t as popular as corporate social media […]
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Above all, however, I agree with the observations of the Systerserver collective, a group that operates on the fediverse: the covenantal fediverse is comprised of instances-as-communities that “depend on each other […]
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This brought me to another question: Why do this? Why keep giving? “Rage, hope, anger, optimism,” Ro answered....
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Like any good procrastinator, Guy was surfing the web, looking for something else to be doing. Specifically, “I was poking around on the W3C website,” they told me. The W3C – the World Wide Web Consortium – is the […]
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When Rochko started Mastodon in 2016, he had a humble goal: to make an alternative to another already-existing Twitter alternative called GNU social....
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Most importantly, Mastodon bought Lemmer-Webber and her collaborators (Jessica Tallon, Amy Guy, Evan Prodromou, and Erin Shephard) valuable time to complete ActivityPub....
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Growth, it seems, is an unadulterated good. Economists who study the life cycle of corporations argue there is a “growth imperative,” where, to put it bluntly, the organizations must endlessly grow or they will die […]
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Exacerbating his feeling of burnout, the existence of surveillance capitalist, for-profit social media gives Rochko a vision for how things could have been otherwise....
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As should be clear, this genre of science fiction is “an uprising of hope against the daily despair that these times bring.” It’s unabashedly about porvir otimista – an optimistic future where inventors and activists work […]
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When people face an uncertain future, they often long for the past. In the case of social media, there is nostalgia for a time when influential people were on Twitter, and when Twitter was fun. Some of the people who have […]
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People have used corporate social media to promote themselves. This includes artists, writers, musicians. They post notices about their work and engage with their fans. While this is a form of advertising, it is not the […]
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As I discussed in chapter 6, arguments about openness to a for-profit corporation – and how fediverse data are simply open to Meta to exploit – replicate arguments about the inevitability of capitalism, particularly […]
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Marginalized people involved in both technology conferences and online code collaborations have called for – and won – inclusion of codes of conduct in these spaces, but not without a struggle. This took place in the […]
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GNU social isn’t the only federated social media system that actively shuns the use of codes of conduct. Pleroma, another Twitter-like microblog which runs on ActivityPub and is thus part of the fediverse – capable of […]
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Facebook and Twitter want users to be able to log on and infinitely scroll and post at any time. To achieve such reliability, however, requires massive amounts of energy and hardware – they regularly cycle through hardware […]
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Covenantal federalism has three main features: noncentralization, the consent of the governed, and federal liberty. Noncentralization is a core organizing principle: it means that the network of groups is designed so that […]
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In fact, millions of people did ultimately join Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse in the wake of Musk’s takeover, indicating that this wave of discontent could result in long-terms shifts in how social media is done […]
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Joining Mastodon...
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Meta’s entry and the #fedipact highlight conflicting perspectives. One possible result is that the fediverse will fragment along the lines Evan Prodromou has identified as “Big Fedi” and “Small Fedi.” Big Fedi, Prodromou […]
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Looking over the discussions that have taken place on the fediverse, on blogs, in tech reporting, and across the wider internet, there are many arguments offered in favor of Meta joining the fediverse and against the […]
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If the ActivityPub-enabled fediverse is a network of tens of thousands of instances, many of them community-run, what holds it together? Arguably, the answer is technical: the ActivityPub protocol itself provides the […]
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People responding to Dorsey’s tweet posed a variety of suggestions', " but many asked him to improve Twitter's current status quo for handling harassment. The company recently took baby-steps in this regard; pushing new […]
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People are using the fediverse in ways that deny corporate social media as the only possible way of socializing online....
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Will people keep using Twitter, even after Musk’s takeover – even after he changed its name to “X”? Is this time different? As of this writing, that remains an open question. One thing distinguishes the 2022 Twitter wave […]
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Unlike corporate social media and the infinite scroll, the fediverse is open for experimentation. There are innovations possible with fediverse technologies that are not possible on corporate social media. This is a strong […]
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GNU social isn’t the only federated social media system that actively shuns the use of codes of conduct. Pleroma, another Twitter-like microblog which runs on ActivityPub and is thus part of the fediverse – capable of […]
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Ehmke is a coder as well as an accomplished musician, part of a group called NOSIGNAL, posting videos of her music production to YouTube. In one video, Ehmke wears a Sex Pistols t-shirt and plays a black electric guitar […]
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There is a significant batch of material I’ve drawn on that is not readily accessible unless one pays for it. I have had the privilege of generous research funding in the past few years. Such funding allows me to buy books […]
