ingoberlab (ingoberlab@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 03:30:37 EDT
ingoberlab« {..] El término «hacker» aparece por primera vez a principios de los sesenta en el MIT. No tendrá un significado social real hasta los 80 cuando el boom de los ordenadores personales y las primeras herramientas de conexión entre ellos y los grandes ordenadores públicos y corporativos se conviertan en un elemento de subversión en el que todavía era un mundo tremendamente jerarquizado. [..] »
in a nutshell, it's about autonomy. it's about social media autonomy for every person on the planet. all 7.6 billion of us. nobody else telling us to do, what to say, and nobody else forcing us to see things we don't want to see.
this means Pleroma is being built for an entirely new scale of fediverse: one with billions of nodes. it's also why Pleroma supports alternative transports such as TOR and I2P out of the box.
it also is a major differentiator between Pleroma and Mastodon. in the Mastodon model, there's maybe a few million islands which host a few thousand people each. to contrast, in our model, everyone who wants to host their own instance does so. that means everyone can choose to have total social media freedom.
but it's not just social media, we also intend to use the same underlying tech to enable real-time communications with the same capabilities as the social media side of things.
and it's universal: different frontends for different preferences. like Mastodon but don't have the resources to run it? use Pleroma with Mastodon frontend and apps. like GNU social? Pleroma's default frontend was modelled after it. like diaspora* but want to talk to your fediverse friends? use Feather. like the alternative Mastodon frontends like Pinafore and Brutaldon? they work too.
hate spam and harrassment? we have a mostly as yet untapped framework called MRF which can be leveraged to automate moderation of an instance.
want to modify it? drop by #pleroma on freenode and we help with that too.
« [..] así, el espíritu que caracterizó a la escena háztelo-tu-misma de las últimas décadas, y su pasada efervescencia, se encontraba moribundo, o al menos se había retraído a lugares menos visibles.
Los pesimistas lamentaban la muerte de las comunidades hacker, en una proliferación de deserciones individuales. [..] » https://gnusocial.net/attachment/1159464
« [..] #hacking, en su forma más pura, no es una cuestión de ingeniería: se trata de aprovechar las dinámicas de poder, cortocircuitando la tecnología. Es una forma de acción directa para el nuevo mundo digital en el que todas vivimos.[..] »