Is anybody publishing #APnative content?
I just had the thought that maybe accounts like @NewYorker could try it. Use the article object type. How would my @Mastodon server and @moshidon app process it? But maybe more importantly, could my reader app @wallabag be made to work with it? I thought […]
Anything established in the public interest, that imposes any cost on the wealthy, will be constantly undermined and under attack. Big money will pressure the public and politicians to cut funding and then claim the government is bad at that job (cause they don't have the money to accomplish the […]
Trump isn't president without the corporate algos.
But also I think the US government would have looked a lot more like Europe over the last century without the corporate mass media that has dominated here.
We've allowed capitalism to overwhelm our democracy via our very profit oriented media […]
The US gave weapons to both sides during the 1980-88 #Iran Iraq War, where more than 450k people died. After helping end their democracy in 1953 and supporting the resultant dictator who had democracy activists tortured and killed for 25 years.
But most Americans don't know this history. The […]
The #DemocracyOfReach vision is that creators control their own work, we consume it any way we want, collectively the work gets attention based purely on human sharing and we support the creators by paying them directly what we can afford based on our time with their work.
All of this is being […]
If what Elon is doing on #xitter by pushing junk is only bad because you don't like the content, then you're just arguing for oligarchs you like owning the social media platforms. You understand such influence is happening but just want it deployed in your interests.
And I also don't accept […]
@masnick.com @kateruane.bsky.social
230 is fantastic except for this aspect. Supporting such a use of algos allows it to go beyond enabling a wider access to speech for everyone, to giving the wealthy vastly more power to determine reach. This has always been an issue in media. The […]
"Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to speak about #DemocracyOfReach and the #SocialWeb?"
“I’m not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they’ve just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that...” #BobDylan
Watching the #PearlJamTwenty documentary (again) and they spliced in this quote from 1967.
What if we decided what was mainstream news? We kinda […]
@nachristakis.bsky.social
we must create a movement that frees us from their control once and for all. I call it #DemocracyOfReach and would love to talk to you about it.
https://liberal.city/@wjmaggos/116148792254327206
I hate calling it all "social media". The problem is corporate platforms with algos they control. Where they abuse us for their profit. This kind of curation should void #Section230 protections the rest of us need.
So I agree but fear a failure to make this distinction, and see a motivation for […]
The Three Attention Eras
mass media meant cultural dominance by people who could own a big outlet or pay them for ads.
algo media means the rise of content (and their creators) that appeals to our lizard brain for long enough for the algo to know and then push similar stuff at us and people […]
@wedistribute.org
imo it's not microblogging but a social news feed. so what I want out of #ghost and #wordpress (and I guess leaflet) is to be able to boost the article itself, with all the comments attached to that item. And I want no third party able to interfere with whether an item goes […]
@rushkoff.com
but virality doesn't require the corporate platforms or algorithms. our attention will always be taken up by something made by someone. and before social media, big money and advertisers pushed us around using mass media.
the better response to their attempted manipulation of us […]
Breitbart said "politics is downstream from culture".
Maybe today we should say "civics is downstream from attention". That's the power of Trump and his media CEO sycophants. He says and does crazy shit and they make sure most people are bombarded by coverage of it. They both get paid.
The […]
The duopoly leads people to think that our problem is that the wrong team is winning elections. We think that because we tend to line up on one side or the other, we should focus our attention on doing politics. Helping "them" win etc.
But above that is civic understanding, the public getting […]
It's not a podcast if it's not RSS but why do we care?
Cause that ensures the medium is decentralized. That anybody can create a podcast using whatever tech they want and anybody can consume it using whatever tech they want. And that locks in independence for creators. There is no third party […]
Corporate media will never tell you that wealth inequality is a problem.
#DemocracyOfReach
@masnick.com @quillmatiq
I don't think this is ideological purity.
#DemocracyOfReach
https://liberal.city/@wjmaggos/116125985827842101
You mostly have free speech. You can post almost anything on your own site. What you lack is #DemocracyOfReach because basically everybody is still entrenched in systems where some people have a lot more power to get attention than others. The pipes we direct at our heads are controlled […]
Social media is having a huge effect on our lives today. It changes how the world is understood and thus who has power. I think most people still don't know or accept that, obviously especially those who don't use it or don't engage with it in a civic minded way.
Until this changes, until […]
I fight for decentralized social media cause I believe that the current structure of our info ecosystem allows capitalism to corrupt democracy. That people cannot properly advocate for themselves in the political arena cause they are biased by the ability of the wealthy to influence what info […]
We need rich people to fund technology that will liberate us from the power they hold over us. Mostly by making it so that wealth can't be used to buy attention. [By displacing the traditional mass media structure that meant owning certain companies ensured a huge audience. And replacing the […]
media decentralization is job one in the fight for a workable democracy/economy.
every outlet should be essentially an equal node on a flat network. attention only allocated by social media boosts by humans. money allocated from each of us based on how much we can donate and then divided by the […]
Email newsletters exist because RSS never hit critical mass. Somehow podcasts did. They are both decentralized media that are great for us but that corporations hate. The same is true of #ActivityPub and the fedi. The same fight is happening with video and music. We need to understand that we're […]
@evan
the potential of AP to provide #DemocracyOfReach for even journalists like @mondoweiss is so important.
imo you can only want an algo here if you fail to understand the value of this place. decentralized social media fixes the problem of mass media by letting us collectively determine what's worth our attention. #DemocracyOfReach
without that conception of what we're doing here, it becomes a toy […]
Why fedi matters.
#isegoria #SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach
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The rich have reshaped society to favor their interests over ours yet we can't fix that till they no longer dominate the public conversation.
#DemocracyOfReach
