Notices by Mayel - sunny side punk (mayel@sunbeam.city), page 18

@bhaugen @strypey @mayel I'm no expert, just looking for the most achievable way to connect all the diverse social movements. ActivityPub seems like the right wagon to ride at the moment.

@strypey @mayel @matslats

While they are not sufficient, I would emphasize a bit more that open protocols are necessary.

I don't think it is possible to get where I think we want to go using one platform where everybody needs to use the same software and host. Doesn't allow enuf room for variation or local creativity. And the singular platform will always get too big to understand.

But boots on the ground organizing live people are also necessary and more important.

is there a book like "History of the Fork: an A to Z of famous forks that caused good things to come-into-being"

Amazon eliminates monthly bonuses and stock grants after minimum wage increase

Amazon warehouse workers have reported that they will make less as a result of the tradeoff.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/3/17934194/amazon-minimum-wage-raise-stock-options-bonus-warehouse

Really love it that the state and market have transformed ecology into a stick with which to beat and shame low-income consumers

Be the decentralized open source solar punk that you want to see in the world.

@mayel Walkaway by Cory Doctorow. :3

thesis: drawing a strong distinction between client and server probably has caused many of our social technical ills

Evolution of Facebook's privacy of your data, from 2005 to 2010 onwards.

@bob it's so frustrating to me that many people who think that blockchains are the only distributed system these days don't know about the actor model

@phoe Yes, that's a threat. So we need to be aware of the "cute cat theory of digital activism". Our p2p system needs to be good enough that people will use it for regular things, which can protect against making it illegal.

VPNs hide your traffic, but are too popular with biz for the gov to make them illegal. etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_activism