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OK am starting to feel like am trolling "Reimagine the Internet" as its all academic and #dotcons history.
The same people and the same story we have heard for the last wasted 10 years.
Nothing so far touching on the #Fediverse let alone the #openweb.
It's off TOPIC I feel like shouting though out the oneway ZOOM video presentation - you can find their video's on youtube.
After proding they are talking about putting them on #peertube ;)
I showed the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Dilemma to my elderly parents, they were shocked. It's a powerful film with a #mainstreaming ending that is completely irrelevant for a good outcome It's the #dotcons looking at themselves.
Upload a PDF "No, I think not."
Trying to upload a formatted text doc to a #openweb project.
"Needs a settings change, and then its possible. But it is disabled by default, because people might upload malicious PDF’s, so there’s that."
OK that raise the question of what is a good UX safe non #dotcons formatted text document. And why after 20 years of #openweb dev do I have to even ask this question. This second point is likely the more interesting one to try and ansear.
People in tech are rethinking the power and use of "group" we should keep an eye on what's happening in the #dotcons here is a view of #failbooks changes https://www.facebook.com/community/whats-new/new-public-groups-experience-coming-soon-all-groups/
The #dotcons are pure undiluted #deathcult
The #openweb is like herding cats and when you work hard and scratch the surface you find the #deathcult just the same.
We can't keep doing this, please try not to push #mainstreaming agenders as the current outcome is BAD, and we need to try and make things better.
This is a different view of the world https://visionon.tv/video-channels/warszawska.fa@kolektiva.media/videos that you will not see on the #dotcons
It's not just the sprit of the age, which it is, its the sprit of a tiny minority of people that is now grown into a worldwide problem from/for the #dotcons and the alt-tech crew.
There are simple ways out of this mess and the #OMN and #indymediaback are examples of this path that we need to take.
The #fedivers has fallowed this in that it is direct copy’s of existing useful #dotcons - peertube is youtube, pixalfeed is Instagram etc. On balance has been positive, though not without its problems. Has clearly overcome the last 10 years of pointless in #geekproblem alt-tech for now.
#nothingnews is an attempt to overcome the churning of alt tech and #dotcons been doing this stuff for more than 20 years and have seen hundreds of me to/NGO projects grow and fail, rise repeat for ever into a flow of pointlessness. its a BLOCK that we have lived with for way to long.
In resent years the first project to get me motivated was Mastodon and #activertypub as both were based on #nothingew they were evaluations of existing projects and standards - twitter/tweetdeck and atom/pubsubhub
Censorship on the#fedivers is different to censorship on the #dotcons http://hamishcampbell.com/index.php/2021/03/14/censorship-on-the-fedivers-is-different-to-censorship-on-the-dotcons/
Plan is to go back to that stage and take the different path where we did use the #dotcons and instead built out #openweb tech. Almost all contemporary tech and the ideologues' underling it are #techshit that needs composting. The #indymediaback project is based on this SOCIAL understanding.
A post from a few years ago.
The #fashernistas have poised the well of alt-media at many steps I meet defeatism and negativity. Its bad timing as mainstream is stepping away from the #dotcons and need a place to step to.
Yes stupid fashionable ideas have failed agen and agen, This does not mean that the basics no longer work #reboot the #openweb
People worshipped the #deathcult and put their energy into the #dotcons leaving the #openweb to the #encryptionst to dispoal. We need shovels to clear up this mess and composting to make the current tech shit into something useful.
Food for thought today.
Open is life
Closed is death
Are our geeks feeding the #deathcult
10 years ago the #openweb was all about open. Our bowing down to the #dotcons has left everyone pushing for closed.
For death.
Make some compost.
Where is the positive in this mess? I would look at the current healthy #openweb projects. I would strongly advise and incurage people to "use them of lose them" and use a tool like the #4opens to step away from the obvious #dotcons #NGO and #fahernisat pushing. Pick up a #shoval and compost the mess #DIY plant seeds of your own lived life and nurture/water the social gardens with your care.
Don't ask, just do it.
This is an interesting project https://onionshare.org/ worth looking at for "security" beyond the #dotcons and #fashernista "privacy" apps.
The #dotcons keep #churning our communitys playing a part in this is #stupidindividualism self reflection.
#geekproblem created this mess, #geekproblem cannot fix this mess.
The #geekproblem built the #dotcons The #geekproblem played its role in destroying alt-media and the #openweb
The #fahernistas embraced the mess for sugar and spices.
Shovels and composting come to mind - I use the shovel metaphor because its our sweat and work that will get us out of this mess.
The is no magic tech fix, it's a human problem that needs humane crew to solve it.
The #geekproblm blocking humanity.
Most #hashtag usage is a function of #stupidindividualism this is a problem as the is strong #DIY value in hashtags. They are a tool for organizing outside the #dotcons constraints they are not a toy for childish individualism - now that is NOT a controversial thing to say in the #XR era.
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