Notes

internet users en masse being siloed by unnecessarily proprietary platforms and non-interoperable data formats

freedom of movement in ‘fediverse’ and similar ecosystems

internet platforms as compared to physically isolated locations

boundaries, entrance, mediated communications

affiliations, groupings, territory

metaphors for these spaces

Mentions

“Since the introduction of timeline, one might see Facebook as a passport to participating in the most prevalent form of capturing, mediating, and archiving personal life accounts.”

“Facebook locks the subject into a specific techno-economic regime of navigation through mediated memories. There is a contract and transaction written into every passport. In return for the right to freely cross borders, the authority has right to control this mobility, while acquiring insight into the subject’s personal information.” -> ⤴️

Notes

I’ve witnessed and been a part of a variety of digital communities but have no sociological framework to see how and why some work better than others

There are increasingly now paid roles in digital community building, moderation, support, etc

so there must be a developing ‘best practice’ etc

Incredibly subjectively, neocities feels like how tumblr used to feel (in early to mid 2010s)

I’ve seen people describe TikTok like early YouTube

wikipedia, wikihow, open source

open and closed discords, discord for tech

streaming communities

tiktok niches

comments

on foss supremacy

Holding FOSS as an ideal is not incompatible with respecting the pervasiveness of non-FOSS tech. There are those who are foss-or-nothing, which is fine on an individual/niche community basis, but wider communities will prioritise whatever is usable and accessible, or whatever they already understand, or whatever has a nice interface. The ethos of transparency, tech freedoms and open access is more important than idolising specific stacks, specifications, infrastructures or organisations.

“While I care very much about “free software” (the name is confusing, it refers to freedom rather than price), I don’t share the same perspective as most “fossbros” and organizations like the FSF. Software freedom is important because it gives people agency instead of delegating control to an authority; it’s not valuable in and of itself, and promoting a “FOSS” alternative that has vulnerabilities and accessibility issues is sometimes counterproductive. I think that simply meeting GNU’s definition of free software isn’t enough: it’s one of multiple requirements for software to avoid the possibility of user domestication.” - seirdy

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