Notices by neville park (nev@social.coop), page 58

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Mastodon was mentioned on #NPR today!

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/01/607321023/would-we-be-better-off-if-we-didnt-rely-on-1-social-network

Thought: why aren't more instances co-ops? Often it's one or two mods just running stuff cuz.... they just are... but what if cybre.space or wxcafe or any other major instance decided to institute some sort of shared ownership or at least shared governance structure? I feel like we're all "oh yeah co-op instances are cool" but then just kinda leave things in our current way which is like... mostly a semi-feudal system

Twitter: increasingly draconian attempts to wipe out third-party app ecosystem

Mastodon: someone made an app for mid-00's PDAs https://github.com/NattyNarwhal/PocketToot (source: https://cronk.stenoweb.net/@calvin/99937490127548729)

Police confirm at press conference that 9 people are dead, 16 injured. They do not take questions and tell witnesses to call CrimeStoppers.

Makers and tinkerers: anyone have experience with Sugru? Is it all it's cracked up to be?

I may use it to make a custom macro lens thing for phoneography.

I feel like there's a lot of leftists who should be smarter than this, but they're supporting Putin and Assad and opposing any aid or intervention for Venezuela out of some reflexive off-on "anti-US, therefore good" binary, and calling it "anti-imperialism".

Like you know maybe the Islamic State is bad but Assad is also bad?? Or yes US intervention in Latin America has been ruinous but we still shouldn't let people starve?

Like, OK, with Facebook check-ins and news livetweeting, we've seen how social media has become a kind of public utility. Except it's not public. And what with many countries' governments and police, it probably *shouldn't* be publicly owned. But it should be *controlled by the people who use it*. Hence the co-op model.

Obviously the co-op model is just one of many possible ways of running your own social media, but it's one I personally like~

#socialcoop #anniversary

Happy first birthday, #SocialCoop! #anniversary 🎂