Irgendwelche Technik-Journalierende, die süffisant meinen, dass wenn das Fediversum sich nicht den großen Playern öffnen will, müsse es halt unter sich bleiben.
Richtig, liebe Journalierende. Es mag euch äußerst seltsam vorkommen, aber es gibt viele wunderbare und sehr kluge Menschen, die auf die riesigen Internetkonzerne keinen Bock haben, sich bewusst für ein freies soziales Netzwerk entscheiden und sich darin sehr wohl fühlen. Für euch sind diese Menschen wie Außerirdische, nicht wahr? ;-)
Ironically, Mastodon, which boasts of being free and caring for freedom, often ends up being fundamentalist. Herd thinking is inevitable when thousands of people identify with some. It seems that if non-free or centralized networks are on one political side, then Mastodon automatically has to be on the other side.
The biggest problem is not the algorithm or the advertising, it is not the surveillance. The problem is that we are the same ones who go from one network to another carrying and migrating our data and with them our biases.
I see people trying to make this place a kind of refuge from the burning world, but they bring the fire in their backpack when they come.
The main reason I joined was to follow programming and hacking people and topics, but then I met autistic people and people who are almost philosophers.
It's inevitable, we are like that. But it would be interesting to remember that the restrictions, aggressiveness and turbulence that keep us away from other platforms must be left there.
Maybe no one cares, but I still wanted to say it.
In der Diskussion um die #Chatkontrolle heisst es auch immer wieder Apple hätte #CSS aufgrund des Gegenwinds aus der #digitalrights Szene zurück gezogen.
Das ist nicht der Fall, das Problem liegt auf der technischen Ebene, der Mythos von „We only need to nerd harder“ ist in diesem Zusammenhang quatschen.
Das stellt auch Apple klar:
“We concluded it was not practically possible to implement without ultimately imperiling the security and privacy of our users.” https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/
Is there an alternative fitness tracker solution that is better about data collection? I like the idea of tracking heart rate, steps taken etc, but I don't like what happens to that data once fitbit, samsung, or whoever get hold of it.
I love it. There’s a poll ongoing about whether folks would ban a Meta (Instagram/Facebook) instance and people are like “well, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt.”
I really have no words.
Is it learned helplessness? Stockholm Syndrome? Masochism? Something else?