Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 14

"If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault"

This is from 2011 but seems pretty apropos still about the need for proactive community moderation.

h/t to @ton

https://anildash.com/2011/07/20/if_your_websites_full_of_assholes_its_your_fault-2/

@dtluna True, more of a skills thing than a financial thing here. Most people just want to login to an account, they don't want to think about servers and hosting.

@stragu Radix's is pretty good: https://radix.one/en/code-of-conduct/

This is kind of implicitly assuming that everyone *needs* a home on the web. That is certainly a debatable point. It is definitely becoming more of a part of the fabric of everyday life, and you could argue that it shouldn't be.

I vacillate on this a bit but overall I tend to think that the benefits can outweigh the negatives, once it has a social motive and not a profit motive.

I mean municipal more in the sense of libertarian municipalism, self-determination and federation of villages, towns, cities.

Obviously access to physical housing is a mess, at least where I'm currently living, so maybe not the best reference point. But I'm finding it an interesting framing.

Every Facebook or Twitter profile is currently a home on the web, and it's as if billions of people all have the same corrupt landlord.

Not talking about a StateBook - if the state has any function in it, I think it should be regulating for open protocols and standards, or even just bare minimum access to data and data portability (https://newsocialist.org.uk/do-we-really-need-a-statebook/).

I'm thinking more like Indienet - (https://indienet.info/) - the project in Ghent (coordinated by @aral) to provide each denizen with their own connected node in a wider p2p/federated network.

Been thinking lately that it could be a good municipal function to provide people with access to an 'online home', analogous to ensuring provision of physical homes.

In the same way it could be social, affordable, in a co-op, heck even (hopefully not) private/rented. The municipality provides some infrastructure and regulations to make sure there's a home for everyone, but equally you can build your own home or move into an intentional community if you want, and have the wherewithal to do so.

Much easier than regulating to break up Facebook, just regulate to force them to make an API for us to get data in and out. We can break them up ourselves once we have that.

They used to have one, and IndieWeb was doing pretty well with that until FB decided to turn it off. Now *that's* monopolistic behaviour and anti-trust.

I think this is a really smart aim of Zap:

"We've tried very hard to ensure that this software will run on commodity hosting platforms - such as those used to host Wordpress blogs and Drupal websites."

https://framagit.org/zot/zap/blob/master/install/INSTALL.txt

@dthompson @jakob Hey thanks for sharing your haunt source both - we've used haunt for a site we set up recently (https://evalapply.space) and having example sites are super helpful

(apologies for the blatant look'n'feel rip off @dthompson , promise we'll differentiate a bit once we get the hang of it more!)

(oh yeah and thanks for making haunt!)

@jakob How are you sending webmentions by the way?

@jakob Ooh, is that possible? You mean pull in the webmentions from webmention.io when you build the site?

@raucao @cstanhope If you're ever in London, have a wander around Elephant & Castle... loads of little shops selling them there, and X250 as well.. I think they get them in bulk from businesses.

@raucao @cstanhope Pretty big market of refurbed Thinkpads, too. I got a T450s recently for £240, couldn't be happier with it.

Ooo – a website built with Haunt (Guile Scheme static site generator) that is making use of some IndieWeb building blocks.

https://git.sr.ht/~jakob/blog/tree/master/haunt/jakob/builder/outbox.scm

Very relevant to my interests!

@jakob

@Vault @cassidyjames Seconded. A 2nd hand X250 (or even a T450s, slightly bigger 14.1 inch display) would fit the bill. These older Thinkpads are great machines. I got a T450s for £240 recently.

I just watched The Great Hack (documentary about Cambridge Analytica and the misuse of Facebook data).

It's OK.  If you already know the story, there's nothing much new.  I guess it's good to keep the story alive, and maybe introduce it to people who missed it when it happened.  I found it a bit heavy handed, and the focus on Brittany Kaiser as an individual a bit distracting.  I guess it gives the story a hook though.

Moral of the story: don't do data, kids.

If you're looking for things to watch...

cinema politica
https://www.cinemapolitica.org/on-demand

"committed to supporting alternative, independent, and radical political film and video, and the artists who dare to devote time, passion and resources to telling stories from the margins."

thought maybe
https://thoughtmaybe.com/

"A library of films to inspire critical thinking and direct action"

@clayton We had a brief period where the sites were going down for short periods overnight.
GreenHost said it was another user of the shared hosting who were hammering the servers at certain times. I'm not too happy about that as a reason, but I guess it happens on shared hosting? Anyway GreenHost asked the rogue site to fix it or they would terminate their service, and we haven't had a problem since then (about a week ago).

@clayton

Support response time is medium-ish I'd say so far, via email. I haven't had to contact them in an emergency. They're helpful enough. You usually correspond to the same people each time which is nice.

Shared hosting supports ssh'ing in and has basic stuff like git installed. They support ed25519 which is good, surprisingly not all hosts have.

Hard to beat them on ethics, full package of giving a shit about both the environment and digital rights.