Koven! @5easypieces@social.coop

‘The many deceptions of Mark Zuckerberg’

“With 2 billion users and counting, Facebook is unavoidable, and it’s growing more influential by the day. It’s vital that we understand what Zuck is actually up to, especially since he didn’t reveal it in his testimony. A number of media sources have helpfully corrected his inaccurate claims.”

https://creativegood.com/blog/deceptions-of-mark-zuckerberg/

Also on our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/the-many-deceptions-of-mark-zuckerberg/2125

This interview with the author of #Zot & #Hubzilla has some interesting criticisms of #ActivityPub:
https://medium.com/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-45287601ff19

"The W3C editors haven’t provided a level playing field and I truly believe the specification is now worthless as a unifying force for the free web. [...] Any opportunity for free web unification using a common stack has probably been lost. Ironically, I believe this was ActivityPub’s primary goal, and that makes the specifications [...] flawed — critically."

HT @strypey

This morning I'm also #reading

Ruth Kitchin Tillman. “Overview of Mastodon & Why I Like It.” Ruth Kitchin Tillman (blog), November 14, 2017. http://ruthtillman.com/mastodon-overview/.

which I highly #recommend for anyone new to (or thinking about joining) the #Mastodon #fediverse.

#GettingStarted
#metadon

via @platypus

https://www.zotero.org/users/465/items/QUZQKF8B

I posted this the other day and someone asked me to post it boostable so here ya go. This post will be public, the rest of the thread unlisted.

There was a whole thing about DMs being readable, and the counter argument was that every person behind FB or Twitter could also read your DMs.

While that is true, the situations are vastly different.

1/5

ICYMI: Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth's internal memo calling platform growth by any means "*de facto* good" is quite a read. https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data

Through their actions, and now their words, the top brass behind our leading social media infrastructure have demonstrated that their only core value is making their platform larger, no matter the cost to users.

It's not that Facebook and platforms like it have failed their users -- it's that they were never even trying not to. #deletefacebook

I've updated my Brief Introduction to Mastodon to include alt-text on images and common Masto etiquette: https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969

DuckDuckGo's running a fundraiser until April 10, aiming to raise $500k for a slate of organisations committed to keep privacy strong, including Let's Encrypt, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the Tor Project:

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-privacy-challenge-2018/

#privacy #DDG

"In FOSS commons, groups of people act collectively to produce a public good (the software), rather than overappropriate the resource (e.g., Hardin 1968). In other words, the challenge
in FOSS commons is how to achieve collective action to create and maintain a commons or public good rather than the issue of protecting an existing commons from destruction (a public bad)"

#foss #commons

Today in “Reasons Why Mozilla Is My Favorite Organization”: they just released a new Firefox extension that isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your browsing. https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/

I support #deletefacebook as much as the next netizen, but in my view, steps like these are the ones with the greatest potential to change the future of the web. So much respect for Mozilla.

@zacchiro
« #Wikipedia’s biggest asset is its willingness as a #community and website to “#delete” […] it might be time for major #platforms to get over their fear of the delete key »

#BigPlatforms are lazy and happy about their many #copyright infringements. Their #AI need not only data, but also training — by the unpaid #DigitalLabor of users signalling unwanted content.

#Wikipedia's not for #profit and democratoïd #community are unwanted features to those serial #FreeRider of the #commons

Do you use ImageMagick for rote processing tasks? I'm collecting scripts to help #digipres folks by adding a new section to ffmprovisr! Do you have anything to share? (Or share this?)

"We’ve adapted our entire culture around Facebook. That makes 'just quitting' easier said than done."

This is very true and it's actually fairly disturbing to know there are sites that require Facebook as the only way to register an account. Why would you tie your business model to a separate entity? Why would you not, at a minimum, allow normal email + password signups?

https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/22/17146776/delete-facebook-difficult

#DeleteFacebook

"Back to the Blog" - a reflection on what those of us interested in "re-decentralizing" the web are up against.

https://dancohen.org/2018/03/21/back-to-the-blog/

#deletefacebook #blogging #openweb