cosmo_bird @smith_ai@mastodon.social
COOPON welcome : https://cosmobird.me
#coop #p2p #anticap #leftstanding #antifa #antiuid #indieresearch #commons #HAMVU3YGG
@tshrinivasan You can check the status of instances from here https://instances.social/ and as @prassee suggests, I also support we start the first mastodon instance in India and we shall reach out to first the FOSS communities, Regional communities like writers, poets in tamil and bring them into it. But like https://social.coop we should look at managing and funding the platform as a #cooperative
me getting to work in the mornings
#mastodon #fediverse பற்றி தமிழில் யாராவது ஒரு கட்டுரை கணியம் இதழுக்காக எழுத இயலுமா? இதைப் பற்றி நன்கு பரப்புரை செய்ய வேண்டும்.
@prassee Thanks. will install for kaniyam and freetamilebooks sites.
அறிவியலும் தொழில்நுட்பமும் நமக்கு எதிராக பயன்படுத்தப்படும் அதே வேலையில், அவற்றை மாற்றத்திற்கு பயன்படுத்தும் போக்கும் முறையே நடைபெற்று வருவதும் மகிழ்ச்சியளிக்கிறது.
#p2pfoundation - https://p2pfoundation.net/
#Shareable - https://www.shareable.net/
#CommonsTransition - http://commonstransition.org/
போன்ற சமகால செயல்பாடுகள் ஊக்கமளிக்கிறது. நம் நேரத்தை இவற்றை புரிந்துக் கொண்டு செயல்படுத்துவதிலும் செலுத்துவோம்.
network.bepress.com
Next in the line of open access and federated hosting of scientific works and knowledge with power review.
Do publish ur next paper, article, thesis, dissertation, etc... In digital commons network.
I Use sci-hub network to access denied journals and burst open the paywalls. Are you ?
Also don't forget about academic torrentz. That is another great way for science distribution and consumption through torrent medium.
At the time when TBL was creating the web in the early 1990s what were called "fat clients" were still quite new. Before then it was mostly just dumb terminals connected to a single computer. Servers powerful enough to host platforms the size of Facebook didn't exist until the 2000s.
So the hardware limitations did to some extent constrain the type of architecture which as possible during that decade there was a growing but mostly decentralized web, with some exceptions like Compuserve.
A really good example of that was the Personal Democracy Forum earlier in the year, sponsored by those companies and promanently fearuring Google and Facebook speakers. It's hard to discuss what democracy means, or should become, in the internet era if Facebook is dominating the narrative.
One of the factors here is the desire to have the biggest number of followers. Celebrity status is something which people seek after, even if it's just being famous for being famous or where half of your followers are bots. The silo systems understand the gamifying nature of this - how people get fixated on numbers and scores - and there's a whole dubious economy of buying followers.
It's a difficult problem to tackle because shallow celebrity is a hegemonic part of the culture generated and promoted by the mainstream media. The more "reach" you have the better, according to this kind of thinking.
using NSA10 for the first time
If money really originates as a representation of labor time, or the ability to command labor, then we need dispersed labor rather than the concentrated labor of Sillicon Valley startups. Those startups really just piggyback upon the dispersed social labor time of thousands of FOSS developers worldwide.
Maybe this is where some kind of cryptocurrency needs to exist. A commons currency, or something like that. It would need to be something which doesn't easily concentrate and so isn't attractive to venture capitalists.
Going back into the history of labor there was once also the idea of "labor notes". Usually dismissed as an archaic concept. Probably the closest which exists today are time banks. Perhaps a FOSS time bank could be what's needed.
But of course I don't have the answers here. These are stupendously difficult problems and I'm just throwing ideas around.
Blog post: Why ActivityPub is the future https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the-future/
In order to spread the cultural habit of growing together, we should develop, spread and play more and more games that promote collective interests and induce the idea of sharing, treating resources as commons and to become commoners.
One such game that we found out recently was commonspoly.cc The goal of the game is to stop your fellow players from acquiring public resources as private assets, i.e privatization
The games design files are distributed under #creativecommons
FOSTA calls into serious question the legality of online speech that advocates for the decriminalization of sex work, or provides health and safety information to sex workers.
Because of the critical issues at stake, we are asking the court to declare that FOSTA is unconstitutional and that the government be permanently enjoined from enforcing it.
For more information on the case, visit https://www.eff.org/cases/woodhull-freedom-foundation-et-al-v-united-states
Every Android Device Since 2012 Impacted by RAMpage Vulnerability
which means we can download and print out the game board ourselves in a paper and stick it them to old cardboard boxex which is DIY.
I will be playing with @smith_ai @demonshreder @maniraj this weekend. 😉
‘Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are paying big money to kill a California privacy initiative’
“The campaign to pass the California Consumer Privacy Act is almost wholly funded by Bay Area real estate developer Alastair Mactaggart… He started working on the initiative about four years ago, after hearing a Google engineer say the public would be frightened to learn how much data the company holds on consumers.”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/15/17468292/amazon-microsoft-uber-california-consumer-privacy-act
Also on our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/amazon-microsoft-and-uber-are-paying-big-money-to-kill-a-california-privacy-initiative/2194
installed beaker.
#dat.
