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Mathieu Lefebvre :cursor_move:

We’re exploring what a truly ethical, open, and human-centered social platform could look like — and your voice matters.

Whether you’re a creator, a casual scroller, or just curious about alternatives to Big Tech — we’d love to hear from you.

tally.so/r/nWQREv

Let’s rethink social media together 🌱

Tally Forms🧠 UX Survey – Exploring Ethical Social Media PlatformsMade with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
#uxresearch#fedisurvey#openweb
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stackdpodcast

The wait is over! #76: Shiny Objects that People Like to Chase is out!

@kito99, @dhinojosa, and Ian start out the new year with #WebAssembly, #SemanticWeb, and #AI guru @bsletten. They talk about #WebAssembly, #LLMs, edge computing, and open source hardware. The crew also discusses how theory of mind relates to #AGI, #DeepSeek, #OpenWeb, #Fediverse, #ActivityPub, Interplanetary File System (#ifs), and more. pubhouse.net/podcast/title-shi

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Hamish Campbell

From unstoppable slop, to #enshittification the #FT on the internet mess

#Mainstreaming talk about the internet so often completely misses the point, yep, it’s the FT so no surprise there. The actual internet, the one we built before the takeover, is a culture of #4opens protocols, stitched together with moth-eaten mythologies and messy traditions. It was never clean or pure, but it was ours. What this guy in the article is describing isn’t the internet, it’s the #dotcons layer that’s been built on top of that original infrastructure. Worse, it's one we […]

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hamishcampbell.comFrom unstoppable slop, to #enshittification the #FT on the internet is adding to the mess – Hamish Campbell
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"From unstoppable slop, to “enshittification”, to a digital world peopled by automatons, all of these ideas have a useful explanatory power. None, on its own, sufficiently captures the problem. The internet suffers from a cluster of disorders, some with overlapping symptoms and causes. I’m interested in uniting them all under a bigger tent, one that accounts for their similarities and for the role of human decision-making in bringing us to our current predicament.

Borrowing from the world of public architecture, I think of it as the “hostile internet”. Through deliberate choices, and some unintended consequences, the architects of the current consumer internet have created a thoroughly commercialised, surveilled and authoritarian space where basic functions are seconded to the extractive appetites of the monopolies overseeing the system. And it’s making us miserable.
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Like the Moynihan Train Hall, today’s internet isn’t really designed for us, but rather to elicit certain responses from us, responses which, to put it loftily, are hostile to human flourishing. The tech companies’ growth-at-all-costs mentality has scaled their products’ flaws and vulnerabilities — and their second-order social effects — in proportion with their billion-person user bases. The hostile internet is a witch’s brew of explanations for how one of humanity’s most important inventions has produced so much simultaneous prosperity, inequality, disruption and social upheaval.

The result is that today’s internet seems to, if not make us actually crazy, make many of us seem crazy. Always connected, always posting and consuming, we resemble madmen now, giving voice to thoughts that are normally the province of the eccentric ranting on a street corner."

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#AI#GenerativeAI#AISlop
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Hamish Campbell

Messy language feeds back into our culture

The #blocking of current action, the constant stalls, confusion, and fragmentation, has a lot to do with the mess our language makes. And the deeper issue is how this messy language feeds back into our culture, which then loops back to make the language even murkier. It’s a feedback loop that clouds meaning, erodes trust, and paralyses collective action. The last 40 years of postmodernism and neo-liberalism have made this worse. #Postmodernism chipped away at the idea of shared reality, […]

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hamishcampbell.comMessy language feeds back into our messy culture – Hamish Campbell
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#blocking#deathcult#dotcons
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MidniteMikeWrites

Has anyone worked out an #althistory where TCP/IP and/or HTTP(s) were proprietary? Could the internet meaningful exist in such a world?

Working through some reflections on progress and private property for my blog Misaligned Markets and this topic came up with friends.

Maybe the question just boils down to what size network effect do you need for the internet to facilitate communications and commerce and does fragmenting it change that?

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