Bring back that janky web
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Website League looks interesting.Website League looks interesting. And it made me realize, the best way to fight back against Meta's definition of the social web is to simply make things that stand opposed to it.
The Website League
The Website League: it's like a confederation of independent websites in here.
(websiteleague.org)
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Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86 – The Fediverse Report:Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86 – The Fediverse Report:
"A 15 minute delay is a long time in microblogging, and significantly impacts things like breaking news, and live-posting sports events. It also meaningfully impacts the ability to have a back-and-forth conversation with people in a comment section."
The fact that this was first reported by #TechCrunch but you wouldn’t know it because they burried the lede under rosy coverage. https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/
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Funny thing is #Meta can't stop being a cartoon villain character long enough for the #socialweb guys to defend themselves.Funny thing is #Meta can't stop being a cartoon villain character long enough for the #socialweb guys to defend themselves.
They're like, "#Threads isn't so bad you guys, they actually--" BREAKING NEWS ZUCKERBERG CAUGHT FUELING AI SUPER COMPUTER WITH BABY ORANGUTANS
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The way this Tech Crunch article is phrased, you'd might walk away thinking that the Ford Foundation's "large grant" made up a lion's share of the #SocialWebFoundation's financial support.@omz13 I didn't see any mention of Social Web Foundation or Exchange Point in the team section of the submission.
And Summer of Protocols isn't listed as a partner on the SWF website.
Too much money to keep track of. They should really get a spreadsheet going.
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The way this Tech Crunch article is phrased, you'd might walk away thinking that the Ford Foundation's "large grant" made up a lion's share of the #SocialWebFoundation's financial support. -
The way this Tech Crunch article is phrased, you'd might walk away thinking that the Ford Foundation's "large grant" made up a lion's share of the #SocialWebFoundation's financial support.Sources:
As the open social web grows, a new nonprofit looks to expand the 'fediverse' | TechCrunch
A new project launching today aims to capitalize on the momentum seen within the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which describes
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Awarded grants - Ford Foundation
We are committed to our mission of advancing equality and justice around the world. Over the years, our grantmaking has evolved to meet the challenges facing our society.
Ford Foundation (www.fordfoundation.org)
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The way this Tech Crunch article is phrased, you'd might walk away thinking that the Ford Foundation's "large grant" made up a lion's share of the #SocialWebFoundation's financial support.The way this Tech Crunch article is phrased, you'd might walk away thinking that the Ford Foundation's "large grant" made up a lion's share of the #SocialWebFoundation's financial support.
But only $50k of the One Million Dollars in funding for the #SWF came from The Ford Foundation, back in February of this year.
The other $950,000?
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Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis? | The New Yorker:Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis? | The New Yorker:
"Haugen, who also released thousands of the company’s internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and to the Wall Street Journal, claimed that the company knew about the harmful effects of social media on mental health but consistently chose “profit over safety.”" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/07/social-media-mental-health-suicide-crisis-teens
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I keep thinking about this thread, and have a theory:I keep thinking about this thread, and have a theory:
The general lack of privacy controls across decentralized systems are not an oversight, but a calculated omission.
When the tech gods descended from Mt. Allbirds to anoint the #OpenSocialWeb movement, they sold it as their atonement for the sins of Web 2.0.
But there's a type of pretexting happening here where we're being conditioned to view our privacy as public domain🧵
From: @jenniferplusplus
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It's interesting the lengths #Meta goes to explain the risks of the #Fediverse, but does not mention that #Threads posts are indexed by Google, thus part of a web with a greater reach than the collection of #ActivityPub instances.It's interesting the lengths #Meta goes to explain the risks of the #Fediverse, but does not mention that #Threads posts are indexed by Google, thus part of a web with a greater reach than the collection of #ActivityPub instances.
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I'm so tired of reading takes on moderation that begin and end with "decide what content I see". That's not even half the question.@jenniferplusplus This reminds me of Google+ and its Circles feature. Not sad that a Google-lead social product died, but they were onto something.
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A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:The one thing about white Twitter spaces that always baffled me was how often their approach to Black liberation was simply to ignore Black liberators.
I don't mean metaphorically. I mean how Academia Twitter, intellectual twitter, journalist Twitter, all, would just straight up ignore Black activists in the comments.
Tell a predominant white academic that their worldview is incomplete, and doesn't consider people of color, and its crickets 🦗. Always.
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A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:And Twitter? Well, we all know what happened there, right? White supremacy found a crack and exploited it.
Because its never, ever, enough to simply call out cartoonish forms of racism. It’s the insidious kind that always gets us.
It thrives in environments where we falsing believe that our political ideologies exempt us from rasicm. It scans the corners of the web that willfulling ignore the absence of certain people.
The #Fediverse is not exempt. In fact, those cracks are well established.
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A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:And when white supremacy finds a sufficiently sized crack, which is never as big as we’d think, it pushes through until that crack is a gaping chasm of rushing water.
History confirms this narrative— Punks, wellness, cottagecore, furries—all well-meaning, predominantly white spaces that didn’t deal with the hums of anti-Blackness until it was too late.
They chose to get defensive instead of introspective.
#SocialWeb #Fediverse #IndieWeb
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A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:It's this festering insecurity that makes communities vulnerable to infiltration of the more caricaturized form of racism. 
Explicit expressions of white supremacy are often forced to live in the margins of polite society. So, it must hide in coded language and micro-aggressions.
But that's not where WS wants to be. It wants to live in the sunlight, out in the open for all to see. So, WS is constantly scanning for cracks in societal norms.
#Fediverse #IndieWeb #SocialWeb
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A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:There’s a specific flavor of aggression that comes from non-conservative, predominately white digital spaces. I think it draws from insecurity, almost like a projection.
#Twitter had it, to an extent, in the 2010s. As liberal-leaning as the hell-site was, there was always an unsettling presence of anti-Blackness. It was never overt, at least in the more liberal corners.
It was more like the persistent humming of an air conditioner— easy to tune out, but if you listened you could hear it.
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A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:
More than even the threat of #Meta, if the #Fediverse does not address its anti-Blackness in the general populace, it will rot the community from the inside out.
You can hate me for mentioning it if you want, but you know it's true. Deep down, you can feel it, too. Sometimes, we’re afraid to admit a problem we don't immediately know how to fix.
And that's fine—it's human. But history is clear about what happens if we don't figure this out.
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Platforms have become commodities.The #SocialWeb is not a single protocol or cloud service provider. It's us. It's people.
We do not get to lead self-determined digital lives with #Meta pulling all of the levers under our platforms.
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Platforms have become commodities.In a scenario where complicated US regulation forces small, independent platforms (like Mastodon instances) to migrate to Meta infrastructure, we lose the #indieweb.
The US government has historically monopolized critical infrastructure. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 gave us Comcast.
We are seeing it again with KOSA and Meta pivoting to cloud services.