.@Blender's videos on #YouTube have now come back, but they are also being told by Google/YT that they HAVE to monetise them. #Blender are considering refusing, which presumably would mean the videos being taken down again:
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/
Whatever they once stood for, #Google's aim now is exploiting their users' content for maximum profit.
If you don't want your videos to be exploited, it is important to switch to an independent alternative:
I'm an advocate of self-hosting, but I also think supporting a form of "delegated identity" would be more inclusive and slightly more user-friendly (like for example OpenID did, where you could configure your personal domain name to indicate what OpenID provider you're using, and can switch at any time) so users can both self-host and move their identity between providers
The #Coop brewery network in the US is rumbling about starting up a yearly conference/gathering.
There are two #CoopBreweries in #Minneapolis, so thinking of trying to align it with the #CoopPrincipal inter-club gathering that sounds like it will be taking place there the weekend of October 6-7, as well as with the #blackonomics conference.
I'm pretty confident that whatever web 3.0 is, it's going to be a lot more decentralized, most likely with a mixture of client/server and mesh. It won't be merely a return to Web 1.0 because we've learned a lot in the intervening time.
This morning we reached 42%, now we've just raised over the 50% bar! Y'all are wonderful! \o/
Keep sharing and talking about #PeerTube: together, we have 15 days left to make it happen!
https://frama.link/joinpeertube
@bhaugen My 1st experiment was #scuttlebutt, after @richdecibels promoted it last new year. It wouldn't work for me, I was invisible it seems? Chatty and casual, knowable community? Mastodon is 2nd experiment. Noisy wider environment (tells me why I never wanted to use #birdsite) and very noisy web interface. Actually, #loomio was 2nd experiment (thanks again rich), and like it very much. Want to discuss, engage, do joint work, not very interested in broadcasting sound bites. Mastodon is minor.
I asked you this question before, maybe in scuttlebutt, when I noticed you were tasting the various decentralized social networks. But now it looks like I see you much more in mastadon, so I assume you like that better?
I'm tasting, too, but probly have different reasons and comfort zones.
Lotsa sorta interesting comparisons in SSB about Mastadon. Not so may re SSB here, which figures, Mastadon is hugely more popular.
I don't yet have a pithy diff. If you ever do...
Another great episode of Upstream. It discusses the coops of Mondragon, and the challenges they faced as they got bigger and brushed up against the global capitalist system. And discusses Cooperation Jackson and their learnings from Mondragon. Emphasises the need for strong political direction in addition to forming coops.
I like the metaphor of islands of coops forming in the sea of capitalism, and eventually they all join up.
Check out my home page http://matslats.net to see what I'm about.
"we're not just trying to build cooperatives for cooperatives' sake. We're trying to build vehicles, very explicitly and very intentionally, of social transformation."
Nice Q&A with Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson.
New blog post/video exploring the gap between small scale deliberation and large scale democratic transformation.
cc: @Loomio@twitter.com @sanfudai@twitter.com @UsePolis@twitter.com @audreyt@twitter.com @iacocoba@twitter.com @MattCropp@twitter.com @ntnsndr@twitter.com https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/towards-a-politics-of-listening-ff5173f35260
Just launched the new https://www.drutopia.org ! which runs on ... #Drutopia
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a #cms for grassroots movements, organized as a #platformcoop
#dogfooding
#latenightdeployments
#freesoftware
#opensource
#Drupal
As an aside to other things I've been talking about lately, I do have thoughts on what good governance may mean and it's been on my mind lately regardless of other conversations happening on the fediverse. I thought about starting a thread but I didn't really want to get pulled into debates about a project that isn't mine... I don't think that's necessarily helpful.
But maybe I'll write up something soon. Governance in free software is a tough subject, but one with much history to learn from..
Wondering whether the #platformcoop mvmt should be looking hard at https://www.daemo.org/home as a potential chunk of digital infrastructure on which to build fair work platforms?
It's official, #GetTogether now supports ActivityPub!
https://gettogether.community/activity_pub/events.json
This is my first attempt at AP/AS, so somebody please let me know if I'm doing it wrong.
@sivy UPDATE: GetTogether has an ActivityPub feed now: https://gettogether.community/activity_pub/events.json
