Posts by daskeit@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #9xkdXs1Jwcs4sVdbd2 by daskeit@mastodon.social
2020-08-03T10:05:09Z
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@judeswae accident, or grim prediction of the future?
(DIR) Post #9xkdXuPV3hOuI4xwau by daskeit@mastodon.social
2020-08-03T16:30:49Z
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@judeswae
(DIR) Post #A36BsZHo1elLetyPom by daskeit@mastodon.social
2021-01-10T10:04:09Z
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the reason why centralised social networks are in a no-win situation is because they're basically utilities, but don't want to be regulated as utilities.imagine one company owning the entire telephone network and being able to control all use of it.that's where we are with each of the big tech services.
(DIR) Post #A36BsZd4kZmCirvOyG by daskeit@mastodon.social
2021-01-10T10:08:51Z
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it's like: you can't participate in conversations on Twitter without Twitter's cooperation.and maybe someone would say, that's okay, there are other services you can use. sure.but everyone's already on Twitter, and Twitter is walled and doesn't interoperate, so you can't reach the rest of your audience if you're not also on Twitter.imagine if everyone you wanted to call was on AT&T. why would you sign up for any other service?
(DIR) Post #A36Bsa0pKGm7uX2MzY by daskeit@mastodon.social
2021-01-10T10:12:36Z
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being in this sort of position is nice: twitter can enjoy all of the benefits and it doesn't have to share.but this exclusivity depends not just on having a walled garden, but on keeping enough people in your walled garden so the network effects become a defensive moat.the main threat to this sort of monopoly is an organised exodus: users leaving en masse to join an alternative
(DIR) Post #A36BsaIuF3EkobUoAi by daskeit@mastodon.social
2021-01-10T10:14:38Z
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but because it's a hassle with an uncertain outcome (i.e. it only works if everyone else does it too), users won't switch without compelling reason. like, say, being convinced that they cannot have good conversations on Twitter, because it is ideologically hostile to them.this is the competitive threat that Parler presented to Facebook and Twitter.which i'm fairly sure is a big part of why it took them so long to deplatform Trump. they didn't want to lose his base as users.
(DIR) Post #A36BsaesvKolulmMQi by daskeit@mastodon.social
2021-01-10T10:20:31Z
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but they can't win, because they're not actually utilities.this is about responsibility: twitter (or any of the other services) can't palm off responsibility for the rules they (don't) make to anyone elseso they take all the blame when someone does something bad with their service, or when people don't agree with the changes they make.(this also applies to Facebook, and YouTube)and this at root comes down to the agency problems inherent when we rely on Other People's Infrastructure
(DIR) Post #A36Bsavtu4QelXjwx6 by daskeit@mastodon.social
2021-01-10T10:25:50Z
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an aside: agency problems are problems that arise when we delegate something to someone else. how do we make sure their incentives are sufficiently aligned with ours?(or: now that we've decided to depend on them to do something for us, how do we prevent them from screwing us over for their benefit?)
(DIR) Post #A4Dj0kSQAOPgm20iTg by daskeit@mastodon.social
2020-08-03T06:34:21Z
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people have moral qualms about doing weapons-related work, but not about working on marketing or advertising, even if the latter is far more impactful and manipulative in everyday life for most of us
(DIR) Post #AA7n0CYZga8DOZk1Oi by daskeit@mastodon.social
2021-08-08T19:15:44Z
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@MatejLach true, but it's still fair to point to possible deployments in other countries because once the infrastructure is built it can be more easily deployed elsewhere.but this of course does not take away the point that this is being rolled out in the US only for now, which raises its own US-specific questions.
(DIR) Post #AA81JjaIVoaegoktFI by daskeit@mastodon.social
2021-08-08T21:56:10Z
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@MatejLach i agree with you, and it's certainly a sort of exceptionalism to imagine that "it can't happen here", or to focus on negative effects in non-US countries.i don't think pointing out potential misuse in the US and elsewhere are mutually exclusive, thoughand the "this is relevant to non-US country X" framing is also actually relevant for non-Americans who do live in X and would be affectedagain, this is not to take away from your point, but only hopefully to add to it!
(DIR) Post #APyCOzpIA7sSU0BOFM by daskeit@mastodon.social
2022-11-25T18:06:54Z
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@coffee the best analogy I’ve come up with so far is that football isn’t just about football, it’s about community. When “your” team wins, it’s not just them that’s winning, it’s you as well, indirectly.That same emotional investment allows for the team’s ups and downs to be enjoyed vicariously. When your team wins, it’s not “they won”, it’s “we won”. Etc.Someone who knows more than me can probably say if it’s a parasocial dynamic, akin to K-Pop fandom.
(DIR) Post #APyCbizW49rk2C2CDw by daskeit@mastodon.social
2022-11-25T18:09:13Z
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@coffee the best analogy I’ve come up with so far is that football isn’t just about football, it’s about community and shared identity. When “your” team wins, it’s not just them that’s winning, it’s you as well, indirectly. The same for their ups and downs.To me it seems very much a parasocial dynamic akin to K-Pop fandom, but that’s for someone who knows this area better than me to say for sure.
(DIR) Post #AQMJhoJ4ZwczjL4Laa by daskeit@mastodon.social
2022-12-07T09:16:53Z
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Just read an industry media sort of article about things professionals need to be aware of as brands go to the metaverse.Has no one told them it’s dead yet?
(DIR) Post #AQMJhok0xmB94tfraC by daskeit@mastodon.social
2022-12-07T09:20:53Z
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This sort of puff piece is supposed to help portray the writers as helpful and savvy guides to the new digital frontiers. All I’m seeing are people who bought into the hype and who can’t tell a marketer’s breathless fantasy from reality. I would be less keen to trust anything these guys say after reading their oh-so-thoughtful piece on tHe MeTaVeRsE
(DIR) Post #AQOfsbMhcbWG5PEn32 by daskeit@mastodon.social
2022-12-08T11:17:47Z
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If we have to have crazy conspiracy theorist wingnuts why couldn’t we get some who think billionaires and the rich are secretly Mammon cultists
(DIR) Post #AYJ9n32mIupF0RQd5E by daskeit@mastodon.social
2023-08-02T03:43:19Z
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@peter @2easteroid @stuartb @ovid @cstross there’s also a fun question of whether the intensity of moonlight affects the intensity of the transformation
(DIR) Post #AYJ9n7JaQMeCFjK6q0 by daskeit@mastodon.social
2023-08-02T03:43:20Z
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@peter @2easteroid @stuartb @ovid @Menhit Imagine how much brighter and more intense the moonlight would be on the Moon itself, and what that might do to a werewolf’s transformation (This would also explain the need for a full moon - that’s when moonlight is strongest, and passes the threshold needed to trigger the change.)
(DIR) Post #AYbehyqfqOrYkxTXhA by daskeit@mastodon.social
2023-08-10T18:20:13Z
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I came across this post and the imagery of spam email (and more generally so much of the immutably junk advertising out there) as capital trying to metastasise caught me and now I cannot unsee it.https://www.tumblr.com/transmutationisms/724652789966487553/spam-emails-are-horrifying-on-an-entirely
(DIR) Post #AYbehzspzqBhxxUmhs by daskeit@mastodon.social
2023-08-10T18:20:14Z
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I mean. It does also make a valid point about the ecological or material cost of spam email but I am totally here for the capital-as-cancer imagery