Posts by robin@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #APb8B7qkhXIDwA5YGW by robin@mastodon.social
2022-11-12T16:41:16Z
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GDPR friends, has anyone written a guide to running a compliant Mastodon instance? I reckon it's probably relatively easy, but it would help people thinking about setting up. See discussion between @wblau and @blaine below. https://mastodon.social/@wblau/109331454902564443
(DIR) Post #APmIst2OGpan1Hb4nA by robin@mastodon.social
2022-11-20T00:22:59Z
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@tiago @estebanmoro That's a fair question but keep in mind that the same is true on Twitter. Something like 10% of users produce 80% of the tweets. We might see a flatter distribution here if it's the most vocal twitter users who migrate (as one could hypothesise), but lurkers gonna lurk anywhere!
(DIR) Post #AQg7yRuVmsGgu7wlo8 by robin@mastodon.social
2022-12-16T19:09:52Z
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As you may recall:• The W3C is in part hosted by MIT but MIT intends to withdraw on Dec 31.• A new W3C nonprofit needs to take over on Jan 1.• MIT needs to transfer assets (member dues, contracts, IP…) to the new W3C for it to operate.• I was elected to the W3C Board and am part of the negotiations.We're two weeks away from cutover and the negotiations are going… poorly. 🧵
(DIR) Post #ASJPpqxyD49OUk5zAe by robin@mastodon.social
2023-02-03T19:30:31Z
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@TedUnderwood I have noticed the same, similar proportions. And I've found it true for both serious long-form and dumb jokes or cats.
(DIR) Post #ATKH7Zkf6SfI2is04u by robin@mastodon.social
2023-03-06T03:19:20Z
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@alex @joshsternberg @mimsical E2EE won't address the overwhelming majority of the data those companies collect.
(DIR) Post #ATMIDD1D1exjXrmOwa by robin@mastodon.social
2023-03-06T02:49:13Z
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It's the pleasant bureaucrats who justify authoritarianism and make it tick, every single time. "My research suggests that across Europe and North America, centrists are the least supportive of democracy, the least committed to its institutions, and the most supportive of authoritarianism." https://nyti.ms/2x9q5GM
(DIR) Post #ATNbkXbZbCfhEjM8cC by robin@mastodon.social
2023-03-07T17:54:58Z
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@signalapp Amazing write-up, thank you.
(DIR) Post #AUWLegGmqDQEshpSqW by robin@mastodon.social
2023-04-10T20:54:35Z
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This joke is from 1974 (in *Computer Lib*). It only took 50 years to build.
(DIR) Post #AWrYJCpOlaVwKZQr9U by robin@mastodon.social
2023-06-19T20:26:33Z
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I will only use instances that refuse to federate with Meta. There is simply no version of reality in which they can do good by connecting to something.Live in the walled garden, die in the walled garden. https://fedipact.online/
(DIR) Post #AaTd3FMiUwaMHgnWXA by robin@mastodon.social
2023-10-06T00:42:34Z
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@tiago @academicchatter Bluesky feeds are also used a lot for academics to anchor communities.I agree that QTs are a major limit for quality discourse, you can't boost and add. Another thing that doesn't help is the mansplaining culture on Mastodon.That said, I'm not convinced that AP federation has stronger decent properties. It's basically email and email is captured. So it might not be a major issue?
(DIR) Post #Ac5dnR7hsKUhbtkz3o by robin@mastodon.social
2023-11-23T00:37:29Z
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Argentina, now the Netherlands... 💔 The fascist wave will continue until we build new institutions that can deal with the complexity of the world we've created, that are powerful enough to counteract these novel concentrations of power and the inequalities they support. 🌳✊🏻
(DIR) Post #AcFKSrWKa4ZVqlLkY4 by robin@mastodon.social
2023-11-23T03:04:19Z
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@J12t Well, the philosophical project is in https://berjon.com/internet-transition/. Details and theory of change in the process of being worked out but it's vast, I'm not sure how to handle the scope.
(DIR) Post #AhoLumHvAz3f3gXaMa by robin@mastodon.social
2024-05-02T19:11:11Z
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As closing arguments of the Google Search trial proceed, there are two things I would like to flag.First, the way in which search works on the web is stuck in the 90s. We need not stay there and can imagine alternatives (that aren't crappy AI): https://berjon.com/fixing-search/.
(DIR) Post #AhoLumsQzEGUsvckHA by robin@mastodon.social
2024-05-02T19:11:46Z
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And second, the default slot and royalties deals have a dreadful effect on competition, the web, and society, but some of the money levied that way is deployed usefully and we should preserve that.We can do so by formalizing how that levy works (WIP): https://darobin.github.io/wise/.
(DIR) Post #AhzcuXA7FX8a6cv0bo by robin@mastodon.social
2024-05-04T16:18:25Z
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Hey look, we're in The Guardian with @mariafarrell! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/the-internet-is-in-decline-it-needs-rewilding
(DIR) Post #AiOHMU3159WkVzWC9o by robin@mastodon.social
2024-05-29T16:31:53Z
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The fact that anyone is still using Google Search *at all* is a demonstration of the power of defaults and switching friction. In a competitive market, this joke of a product would just be dead already.https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-overviews-eat-rocks-glue-pizza/
(DIR) Post #Ak3kq0hUp82tLarJCK by robin@mastodon.social
2024-07-16T00:12:23Z
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We often talk about ethics in tech but how much of an impact has that really made? I think that we can do better, but for that we need to give up on useless habits, hone our skills, and focus a lot more on governance.https://berjon.com/ethicswishing/