Maybe this is the real spark that ignites in people. It's not so much that they care about being tidy, it's that they are sick of performative passion, but instead seek permission to pursue joy.
Wikipedia and Google delude many into thinking all human knowledge has been made available to our immediate access. This is a dangerous lie. Any scholar will tell you of the vast amount of documents and artifacts completely unavailble online, or indeed impossible to easily scan or study online. And this silent wealth pales before the oral and analog culture which, in a McLuhanian dimension, can not be simply digitized and maintain integrity.
It may be useful for folks to know that mastodon.social has closed registrations and is now invite-only.
(This is not an official announcement or statement of current or future policy, I just thought folks might like to know. I'm disabling notifications on this because I don't really want to have a conversation about it.)
One last observation, as it occurred to me that some vendors may seek to exploit consumers very legitimate concerns about mass surveillance: if you are dealing with a loss of trust between people and government an appropriate response cannot be primarily technological. It must necessarily be social and political.
@philippemargery@61@Purism OWS has had a contentious relationship w/ FOSS devs who want alt. clients/forks of Signal that interop w/ OWS network
From the OWS perspective, it's important to keep the UI/UX consistent; alternative clients degrade the user experience for everyone on the network, and use expensive resources. Security and QC are impossible to verify for apps out of OWS control
The FOSS-y arguments are familiar, and include the fact that centralization is dangerous for freedom. 2/2
OpenWhisperSystems / the devs behind Signal made the choice to centralize the service and build identity around the phone number system, instead of doing the federated / decentralized approach.
They did this consciously to encourage widespread adoption without the traditional difficulties associated with a decentralized, multiple-client approach.
That makes it different from approaches by Matrix.org, XMPP, and so on. 1/2
@nextcloud When will y'all post FIRST from Mastodon then share out to silos / non-open platforms like Twitter instead of providing the sporadic broken links?
Getting into InfoSec is like looking under the hood of a car for the first time and expecting to see an engine but finding chickens on treadmills and a guy making "vroom" noises whilst posting disparaging remarks about women on Twitter.
all those twitter bots posting sensitive shit. all those users who don't respect CWs that involve your triggers. Viewed at your discretion when you're mentally prepared. It'd be neat.
Berne just about guarantees you *always* need a license.
It's just that FOSS licenses are so easy to deal with in comparison, especially for users all the way downstream who need only freedom 0 & so don't even need to worry about copyleft incompatibility.