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As Guy recalls, the problem was that “the goalposts kept moving. Other specs were getting wrapped up, but there was always a new requirement for ActivityPub that seemed to come out of the blue from one of the chairs of the […]
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Even though Mastodon was the first major project to implement ActivityPub, it’s an open protocol, meaning anyone with the technical ability can adopt it. Today, dozens of different projects rely on the ActivityPub protocol […]
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WITH EVERY LIBRARY MY BOOK APPEARS IN I GROW STRONGER
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The lack of profitability is only one part of the answer, however. The other part has to do with a spat between Facebook and Google over open technical protocols. In 2007, Google convened a group of Facebook competitors to […]
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DJ Sundog is a musician living in rural Georgia, USA. Sundog told me that the fediverse has helped change him. When he was growing up, he “had life on easy mode” because “I was a young white man who grew up in the church,” […]
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Overall, 2017 was a heady time for Playvicious. Marcia was leading conversations into complex cultural topics. Ro remained positive about Mastodon and the fediverse. “I love the fediverse,” he wrote on Patreon that year […]
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The approach I took to the fediverse is similar to the approach I took to studying the dark web in a previous book. I relied on a mixture of participant observation, interviews, archival work, and software studies. Much of […]
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Research confirms this observation. Technologists of color, for example, often face obstacles, including the brute obstacle of bigotry: white coders often question the qualifications of their Black peers. This is in part […]
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The admin of the Mastodon instance Fosstodon.org, Kev Quirk, notes that the anti-Meta folks are saying Meta isn’t welcome on the fediverse. But, he notes, “no single person/entity owns the fediverse. So who are you to say […]
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As I write this in March, 2024, Mastodon just celebrated its 8th birthday. Eugen Rochko started it in 2016 as a hobby project, looking to build a better alternative microblogging system than GNU social, but by 2024 […]
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Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse are alternative social media....
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Ro notes that the “just move instances” line, coupled with all the harassment that Marcia identifies, leads to people – particularly Black people – giving up and leaving the fediverse. “It’s really unfortunate,” Ro says […]
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Overnight, while she was sleeping, 2,000 people had requested to join her social media site, Mastodon.art. Mastodon.art is a fediverse instance intended for creative people who want to share their drawings, paintings, and […]
[Daily random quote out of context from my academic book about Mastodon]
As I write this in March, 2024, Mastodon just celebrated its 8th birthday. Eugen Rochko started it in 2016 as a hobby project, looking to build a better alternative microblogging system than GNU social, but by 2024 […]
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Musk’s Twitter takeover prompted Rowbottom to shift to the fediverse. She decided to self-host her own Mastodon server, blop.social. As a queer performer, she chose self-hosting for safety purposes – she didn’t want to be […]
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While many fediverse members engage in mutual aid and support one another, while server costs can be offset, and while artists might be able to promote themselves to audiences, the specter of burnout constantly haunts the […]
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Even that reveals something important, however: the activists, technologists, and ordinary people making alternative social media aren’t giving up just because these systems aren’t as popular as corporate social media […]
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Above all, however, I agree with the observations of the Systerserver collective, a group that operates on the fediverse: the covenantal fediverse is comprised of instances-as-communities that “depend on each other […]
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This brought me to another question: Why do this? Why keep giving? “Rage, hope, anger, optimism,” Ro answered....
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Like any good procrastinator, Guy was surfing the web, looking for something else to be doing. Specifically, “I was poking around on the W3C website,” they told me. The W3C – the World Wide Web Consortium – is the […]
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When Rochko started Mastodon in 2016, he had a humble goal: to make an alternative to another already-existing Twitter alternative called GNU social....
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Most importantly, Mastodon bought Lemmer-Webber and her collaborators (Jessica Tallon, Amy Guy, Evan Prodromou, and Erin Shephard) valuable time to complete ActivityPub....
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Growth, it seems, is an unadulterated good. Economists who study the life cycle of corporations argue there is a “growth imperative,” where, to put it bluntly, the organizations must endlessly grow or they will die […]
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Exacerbating his feeling of burnout, the existence of surveillance capitalist, for-profit social media gives Rochko a vision for how things could have been otherwise....
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As should be clear, this genre of science fiction is “an uprising of hope against the daily despair that these times bring.” It’s unabashedly about porvir otimista – an optimistic future where inventors and activists work […]
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When people face an uncertain future, they often long for the past. In the case of social media, there is nostalgia for a time when influential people were on Twitter, and when Twitter was fun. Some of the people who have […]
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People have used corporate social media to promote themselves. This includes artists, writers, musicians. They post notices about their work and engage with their fans. While this is a form of advertising, it is not the […]
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As I discussed in chapter 6, arguments about openness to a for-profit corporation – and how fediverse data are simply open to Meta to exploit – replicate arguments about the inevitability of capitalism, particularly […]
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Marginalized people involved in both technology conferences and online code collaborations have called for – and won – inclusion of codes of conduct in these spaces, but not without a struggle. This took place in the […]
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GNU social isn’t the only federated social media system that actively shuns the use of codes of conduct. Pleroma, another Twitter-like microblog which runs on ActivityPub and is thus part of the fediverse – capable of […]
