Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 19

@winniehell I've been curating a list on the Disintermedia wiki, but sadly the service that hosts us has been offline for a few weeks now. Here's an archived version from late last year:
http://web.archive.org/web/20190921180502/https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/for-profit-freedom-forges

Note there are a few things that need updating when I find a new wiki host (eg the status of BuckyBox).

@winniehell I'm not sure what size Mistpark is, but what about #NextCloud, #Loomio, or #JMP? There's also companies like #RedHat, which are technically support contractors not software creators, but they make a lot of upstream contributions to the software they use. Conversely, here's an example of a startup that failed to fund their team using a proprietary model and decided to free their code (although it didn't save their business):
http://blog.buckybox.com/2018/07/reduced-service-announcement/

"A recent report from the #Stanford University School of Medicine documents 124 distinct [#COVID19] interventions that #Taiwan implemented with remarkable speed. Many of these interventions bubbled into the public sector through community initiatives, #hackathons, and digital deliberation on the #vTaiwan digital democracy platform, on which almost half the country’s population participates."
- #JaronLanier and #eGlenWeyl
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/2020-03-20/how-civic-technology-can-help-stop-pandemic

This is unintentionally hilarious. A #libertarian explaining why #DemocraticSocialism be an improvement on the unregulated capitalism of #Steem:
https://busy.org/@free-being/trending-page-haejin-and-berniesanders-and-what-it-exposes

"What I really hope to see is a day when a lot more effort is put into spreading the value around as many people as possible instead of having it concentrated around a few, who tend to abuse it. If a lot more people had [money], we would have a much better voting spread that even fraudsters wouldn't even be able to game."

One problem with putting experimental #SocialMedia platforms on the net is that there is a high risk of the #DarkPatterns of usage that have emerged in existing platforms, spreading to the new platforms, even if they're thoughtfully engineered to avoid generating them. New social media platforms have to be engineered not only to avoid generating dark usage patterns, but to actively discourage or ideally disrupt them. This has to be as central to the design as decentralization, efficiency etc.

Companies who do this get neither the benefits of being fully proprietary (full asset value of "IP" on your books etc), nor the benefits of being fully #FreeCode (community goodwill, volunteer contributions etc). Why do they keep doing it? Probably for the same reason other projects are using proprietary #SourceAvailable licenses. Because #VentureCapitalists think its a good idea.

#Mistserver is a #Livestreaming server package which, like a bunch of other projects (notably #GitLab), make some of its source code available as a hobbled "open source edition", lacking features present in a "pro" version:
https://mistserver.org/opensource

On this topic, I'd like to add more detailed descriptions of the #blockchain social apps listed here:
https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/blockchain-social-apps

If anyone has used any of these, I'd really appreciate your feedback on them.

"Accounts cannot be deactivated or deleted, since they are permanently stored on the Steem blockchain. In order to reduce spam, new account creation requires an email and phone number, and must go through a review process."
- #jaygraber

This seems like a bad design decision.

#SocialMedia is a different story, at least when it comes to works like long form articles, music, or films, which take some work to produce and often require the creators to spend money to produce them. As Jay Graber says in her article, #blockchains don't seem like the best solution for storing this sort of media, something like #IPFS (or #SAFE, or #Holochain), is probably a better way of distributing these. But using blockchains as a distributed monetization layer for them could work.

It seems to me that trying to monetize #SocialNetwork posts is solving the wrong problem. The only reason money needs to be involved in social network platforms is that servers have to be paid for. Get rid of servers with a pure #P2P network (even one with #supernodes) and money doesn't need to be involved at all. This seems to be working pretty well for #Scuttlebutt and #Aether.

"... a downside I’ve observed in social networks where content is monetized is that user behavior becomes transparently driven by monetary incentives in ways that feel less genuine. This applies to influencer culture on Instagram as well, but cryptocurrency social networks bake it in from the start. This may be the inevitable result of replacing intrinsic with extrinsic motivations, or there may be an incentive structure that strikes the right balance that has not been achieved yet"
- #JayGraber

"Most #blockchains behave like expensive, slow databases that sacrifice efficiency for immutability and global consensus. Blockchains are logically centralized, exerting great effort to make many untrustworthy computers behave like one computer. Even if next generation blockchains become much more scalable, they still seem ill-suited to store social media content which is mutable, ephemeral, and does not require global agreement on its state."
- #JayGraber

@rune it's pretty standard to use virus DNA in genetic modification, especially in #transgenics. What I'm wondering is, did nature figure this out a long time before us? See:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/103908841354173404

#ShowerThoughts 'Mah Nà Mah Nà' is the original Trololol.

@bamfic still, good progress. I might set up a page on the fediverse.party wiki tracking AP C2S implementations.

@ademalsasa wow! #OCR is an incredible thing for a mobile app to be able to do. I hope it's compatible with #Android 4.x so I can try it out.
@IzzyOnDroid @fdroidorg @schestowitz @claudiom @jartigag @alcinnz @mmu_man @redstarfish @freedcreative

@sheogorath you're right, that's a huge trove of data by current standards. But it's broken up into a number of collections, each of which has a team looking after it. Could it be that each team is responsible for making sure there are offline backups of the collection they look after? That would break the problem into more manageable chunks.
@tomosaigon

Just to clarify, I identify as a writer, and I don't agree with that copyrightist argument. As I said recently about the medical patent system, any industry that depends on the engineering of artificial scarcity is obsolete and if it can't escape that dependence, it deserves nothing more than to collapse in a screaming heap.
@wizzwizz4 @Matter

I found this after idling wondering if the illness associated with "seasonal" colds and flu's could be the result of a compromised or over-reactive immune system having a bad reaction to a virus with a symbiotic function, like triggering the DNA that prepares our bodies to cope with a change in climate.