Post 2524478 by jplebreton@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #2514130 by jplebreton@mastodon.social
2019-01-01T14:55:46Z
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2018 was the year I concluded that any system whose purpose is to measure, capture, and monetize human attention is immoral and inevitably leads to the erosion of the commons and society itself. In 2019 I'm committed to helping dismantle these systems by all possible means.Concretely this means supporting nonprofit alternatives like mastodon, blocking all ad tracking (sorry, people whose livelihoods have been captured by that industry), and doing whatever most damages the attention industry.
(DIR) Post #2516625 by m4iler@infosec.exchange
2019-01-01T18:31:05Z
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@jplebreton This post was a 10/10,I would love to read it againHowever, my attention span doesn't go farSo this, for me, is a Tee el; dee arr.In all seriousness though, this is a noble goal.
(DIR) Post #2524473 by mightywomble@mastodon.technology
2019-01-01T20:39:35Z
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@jplebreton I see where your going with this, commend it however you have extrapolated the cause from the root, given enough time even Mastodon will find itself heading down the same path as Facebook, Google or Twitter (never say never) I'm pretty sure the current extrapolated result of each of these was not the dream or the original elevator pitch. What would be far more adventurous to the industry would be how do you stop a Mastodon becoming a Twitter ?
(DIR) Post #2524474 by lesbianhacker@mastodon.social
2019-01-01T20:53:04Z
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@mightywomble @jplebreton It's impossible for Mastodon to become like Facebook or Twitter, but it *is* possible for Mastodon to become like email with Google and Microsoft having a large chuck of the userbase.But then, it is still possible for various Fediverse services to become consumed by the Data Mining motivation, but because of ActivityPub as a back end I would hope it would be more resistant.
(DIR) Post #2524475 by jplebreton@mastodon.social
2019-01-01T22:35:20Z
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@lesbianhacker @mightywomble This is why I think the real goal should be to invalidate and uproot the entire adtech business model, anything people create the big companies would be able to coopt and extinguish (XMPP).
(DIR) Post #2524476 by lesbianhacker@mastodon.social
2019-01-01T22:52:49Z
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@jplebreton @mightywomble Convenience often is more important to people than security. Of course, I think that it's pretty simple to mine data from ActivityPub services. You might not get as much data (IP addresses, emails) but all this information is Out There
(DIR) Post #2524477 by mightywomble@mastodon.technology
2019-01-01T22:57:45Z
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@lesbianhacker @jplebreton in most cases I think your absolutely right, convenience wins, I am back on WhatsApp because trying to have my family understand the implications of using it was like herding cats.. life's just too damned short.I also think that mastodon is now and has the future potential to end up just like twitter/Facebook neither of those were datamining the way they do now for a long time, it's investor driven.
(DIR) Post #2524478 by jplebreton@mastodon.social
2019-01-01T23:06:59Z
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@mightywomble @lesbianhacker We'll always be fighting a losing battle against the Facebooks of the world - and convincing their users, eg our non technical family members etc - in terms of consumer convenience. We have to frame it in terms of ethics. These business models are unethical and do real damage to society; they are the fossil fuels of social communication (and thus social change) processes.