Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 45

In liquid, cooperative based organisations, several times I am experiencing that consensus is some how imposed by multiple factors (charisma, money, experience, money, power, money, factions, money, strategy) and forking is seen as a failure, ostracised or at least kept as last bullet.
What I am becoming conscious of, is that the ability of forking and most of all to manage forks and connect back together is a thermometer of the maturity level of any communities

I am considering implementing all the decentralized ways to distribute my blog I can get my hands on. Onion Service, obviously; DAT; IPFS/IPNS; Zip+torrent/webtorrent...

So, two questions:

1. Any other decentralized distribution channel I should consider?

2. Tracking how much interest there is in what gets published is easy on plain old web; it's way trickier on the decentralized side of things. Yet I'd like to know if the decentralized channels are actually being used. Suggestions?

I want a revolution where everyone begins stealing proprietary source code and releasing it online.

#ForThePeople #FreeThePeople

https://thenextweb.com/security/2018/08/07/hacker-swipes-snapchats-source-code-publishes-it-on-github/

Why do news websites only display the first two or three paragraphs of an article now?

I was so confused the first time I saw it, but now everyone is doing it. Do they somehow make more ad revenue by getting two page views per article?

I usually just stop reading then and leave. If you don’t want to show me the whole article then I’ll just go to a website that actually displays their content.

Next time you're in Athens, don't miss the #anarchist paradise in Exarcheia
http://geo.coop/story/mecca-anarcho-tourism

Eric Meyer published an article about how HTTPs disallows the caching that enables internet access in places that depend on satellite internet. It's yet another unforeseen consequence of choices made that aim to make the web safer and why diversity matters in tech.

In addition, I've always felt that this new push for HTTPs only depends on a free service - Let's Encrypt, and that's inherently problematic. What if LetsEncrypt shuts down? (SPOF)

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2018/08/07/securing-sites-made-them-less-accessible/

so uh

if we don't do something about the environment we're all gonna die

just fyi

My new story for #EmotionalAnarchism blog: "How do we undo our personal traumas while we also undo the oppressive social structures that inflicted them?"

#radical #cuddles #mindfulness #selfcare #therapy #metamoderna

http://emotionalanarchism.com/being-sweet-to-yourself/

Interesting.

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier for verifiable, "self-sovereign" digital identity. DIDs are fully under the control of the DID subject, independent from any centralized registry, identity provider, or certificate authority. DIDs are URLs that relate a DID subject to means for trustable interactions with that subject. DIDs resolve to DID Documents — simple documents that describe how to use that specific DID.

https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-spec/

@dansup I think @prismo is imolementing them too

"This was a group of so-called alt-right protesters who decided that a socialist bookshop, which stocks radical literature and working-class history titles and provides stalls for national trade union conferences, was a legitimate target for violence."

If this kind of shit doesn't wake up people, then nothing will. Fascists attacking books is the last step before fascists attacking people.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/06/far-right-target-books-alarm-bells-bookmarks-donald-trump

Anyone know a source for information (in English) about how Barcelona en Comú is addressing runaway tourism?

Any other groups addressing the same issue elsewhere?

#municipalism #tourism

As a product developer that wants to develop an alternative business model, based on solidarity and co-op values, I should rather think to my end users as network of communities I want to be part of, and customise the product to suit their specific needs, rather than develop a tool for generic customers pools.