Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 31

80% of what I want from a "social network" I had 10 years ago. Mastodon barely gives me 40%, but at least it's better than Twitter and Facebooks 10%.

I am so fucking tired of open alternatives "copying" the designs optimised for capitalism, and just saying "this is what we want, just freeeee".

This whole model of everything centered around a constantly updating stream of "content" with no regard of topic or context is designed for and by capitalists to maximize surveillance potential.

I liked this paragraph too much to split it up into multiple toot-quotes

And yes, I don't think Kropotkin or Goldman anticipated this. Even now, as this very "Quantified Self" that they speak of, I don't know how to stop it or opt out of being "a system-being which is itself part of an ensemble of complex information systems"

I find this stuff chilling and fascinating and I love/hate it

https://anticapitalist.party/media/eSD9Gko_y883A-dxsGY

@mooncake For me, reading Foucault helped with the "no escape" dilemma. The concept of biopower as a form of resistance, not just control in particular

Seeing as how they're up in our bodies and our minds, or even body/mind itself (like the quote says), we all can use that together to turn the tables

Happy New Years Yall! https://a.weirder.earth/media/VWPqeRNG4bYtNuGZ8J4 https://a.weirder.earth/media/1Ew917_RQMh-jWcPebc https://a.weirder.earth/media/e_55hDTHegdL3Wkqx0w

I think it will be interesting to see where Mastodon goes in the coming year. As other people have noted, it feels like we have something pretty special.

I look upon all the good people and places I know here as a sort of family, and with a feeling of a kind of shared pride in what we have created and are continuing to create, and all of the experiences we have shared so far, and the ways that we support and strengthen each other.

Here's to 2018. :orc: