Re-occurring bad gut feeling about IndieWeb: There's a good amount of folks in this community who have a hard time accepting or understanding the learning curve they succeed making, before. The time and effort it took. And maybe the privileges of having been able to take it.
#SocialTechnology
Social media platforms have become central infrastructure for #CivicLife, #PublicDebate, and elections, yet they were never designed to support trust or democratic deliberation.
In a new blog, Liv Marte Nordhaug, CEO of the #DPGA Secretariat, outlines how #SocialTechnology and #DigitalPublicGoods can help countries reclaim healthier digital public spaces.
Read more:
https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/cutting-the-gordian-knot-of-social-media
Conversations lost track. Odd topics, contrasting needs. Torn again between the desire to have lightweight technology and being supportive when it comes to accessible tools. Ones own requirements and privileges, and the loneliness of seeing other demands first and foremost. Too many decisions and most of them aren't pleasant.
Auch, immer wieder: Diskussionen über Plattformen und Technik und individuelle Entscheidungen. Manchmal wird man lauter. Manchmal wird man stiller. Und manchmal fragt man sich, wie man die Prioritäten der Anderen selbst reflektiert, wertet, in sein Leben einfügt. Seltsame Fragen, keine guten Antworten.
#outerworld #concrete city #social technology #where we are not who we are
Audio for the morning:
From the outside, Bluesky may seem like a Twitter clone. But anyone who’s close to the technology — and the team — knows that they’re building something much deeper: they’re rethinking the internet’s architecture to create a more flexible, user-centric web.
I really enjoy listening to these, and come up with a bunch of conclusions. For one, it's incredible and quickly unnerving to see the widespread use of the word "awesome" for virtually everything. Then, Bluesky folks are undisputably great at doing marketing for their brainchild. Which has good and bad sides to it. They don't have solutions to a lot of interesting problems yet, but in a way they seem better at making them transparent and obvious: With all the ActivityPub based Fediverse focused on the individual server, no one (not even conceptually) "owns" things such as bandwidth consumption for communication between these nodes, for data storage costs all across the infrastructure, for resource consumptions on the individual node to handle loads of in- and outbound traffic. The AT protocol model of the world at least has these on the list, plus it seems to strive more for that vote-with-your-feet - idea of you just taking your data (yes /all/ your data) and just switch your provider if the one you're left with isn't feasible for you anymore (a feature I could have direly needed earlier this year in my pixelfed mess). Bluesky is still quite a bit from that and has its own slew of issues to tackle, but I still ... wonder whether it's further from that than ActivityPub is from actually making account data portable in a reliable manner. Or from adding something like distributed moderation with moderators of communities spread all across different instances aren't necessarily the folks to run instances. It will be interesting and somehow I am also waiting for AT to be submitted to a standardization body like the IETF which might be a smarter choice and place than the W3C as a much more "web-centric" entity. And I learnt on the sidenote that Paul Frazee, the guy who did this show on the Bluesky end, apparently worked with the Beaker Browser and SSB community before which also was new to me and seems quite good a reference point to start with. Worth listening, after all, despite way too much commenting on my end having gone on here.
Rebooting the #openweb in a good way
The #Fediverse exists, and more than that, it’s alive and kicking. Sure, it might be a messy, chaotic, a bit fragmented, and yes, still niche. But let’s not underplay it, this is the healthiest corners of the internet we’ve got. Tens of million accounts, hundreds of thousands active people, sometimes talking about how we build our digital spaces from the bottom up. Yep, there are the cat videos, the #fluffys and the #spikys. But also an in-group debate is bubbling away about who […]https://hamishcampbell.com/rebooting-the-openweb-in-a-good-way/
(Also: Shrugging at the idea of people suggesting models to be used as vehicle of creating technological equality because allowing everyone to easily write code at home without depending on others or years of studies all too much and there's so much odd about that claim it's hard to know where to even start and maybe these hours in between the first mugs of coffee aren't a good thing for reading through certain inboxes.)
#outerworld #concrete city #social technology #the hype cycle
Listened to this while cycling to the office:
And so we change this together. The issue is will and the issue is resources. The issue is not ideas right. We're not waiting for one genius to figure it out. We're waiting for a clear map and some space to examine it together and share insights and then figure out how to push forward to a world where it's you know, thousands of interesting projects that are all thinking together about creating much better tech and reshaping the industry and its incentives in order to nurture that.
Meredith Whittaker of Signal talking to Tech Stuff and it's been an inspiring listen, even though gloomy at times. Learnt quite some new things here, and still think she's got a lot things right in what she does.
iheart.com/podcast/105-techstu…
#podcast #morning listenings #meredith whittaker #social technology
🌍 The Agroecological TRANSITIONS program will present their experience integrating digital resources and agroecology. TRANSITIONS’ projects are aiming to improve food security, minimize negative ecological impacts, and foster climate-informed agroecological transitions.
🗓️ Sep 10 (2024)
⏰ 2-3:30pm CET
📽️ Meeting Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83422304958
#agroecology #agroecología #agroécologie #ict4d #socialtechnology
“#SocialTechnology, rather than the discovery of farming, is the key bottleneck of civilization.”
https://www.palladiummag.com/2021/05/17/why-civilization-is-older-than-we-thought/
A great article about the difference between social #techniques and social #technologies, by Ralph Kilmann.
https://kilmanndiagnostics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Kilmann-Integrating-Knowledge-MAPS.pdf
#kilmann #science #sociology #systemsthinking #socialtechnology #orgdev #management
SERTA seeks to expand the work of transformative education networks, agroecological movements and the construction and dissemination of social technologies in the territories. #Agroecology #Agroecologia #Caatinga #SocialTechnology #Agroforestry
https://agroecologymap.org/locais/servico-de-tecnologia-alternativa-serta-unidade-ibimirim-pe
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