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Aral Balkan  

Here’s the video of my talk “Beyond surveillance capitalism: alternatives, stopgaps, Small Web, and Site.js.” from Creative Mornings Istanbul on Friday.

Edited to fix the audio sync issue, add captions, chapters, and links to all the mentioned tools, etc.

Enjoy + please share! :)

small-tech.org/videos/creative

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Matt Panhans  

@dansup You’ve been working on so many new features! Any idea when you will release the next version?

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Matt Panhans  

@PixelDroid @FediFollows got it, thanks!

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Matt Panhans  

@FediFollows @pixelfed @PixelDroid Great project. Are there specific obstacles faced to also developing an iOS version? Most if not all of the users on my instance are on iOS

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Strypey  

A bit of federated media history. The "fediverse" was coined to describe the OStatus network (anything compatible with GNU social), as distinct from "the federation" (anything compatible with Diaspora). Once the ActivityPub spec was finalized, and everyone announced plans to implement it (except Diaspora), "fediverse" started to be used to describe any app implementing OStatus, Diaspora, ActivityPub, or Zot. That's the definition we currently use for @fediverseparty party

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Matt Panhans  

@pixelfed Hi, I've just set up a PixelFed instance. What do I need to do to enable Import on my instance? I tried adding IMPORT_INSTAGRAM=true to the config file, but that didn't seem to do it.

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Matt Panhans  

@fedilab@toot.fedilab.app Is there any scope to develop an iOS version of Fedilab? Are there any specific obstacles to doing so?

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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻  

John Oliver shares a powerful example of what is wrong with the attitude towards #privacy and security in Silicon Valley. Don't give #GAFAM your data. It isn't safe.
youtube.com/watch?v=jZjmlJPJgu

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Mr. Matt :fedora: :linux:  

John Oliver succinctly explains why facial recognition software is so insidious, and why combined with widespread surveillance is so dangerous, even if you "have nothing to hide"

youtu.be/jZjmlJPJgug

@techit

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～cadence  
Everything wrong with Discord in 5000 words or less. https://cadence.moe/blog/2020-06-06-fuckdiscord

Please boost. Please move off Discord. Please take your friends with you.

I can make edits upon request.
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Steven Roose  

Is anyone aware of plans for a way to run a single #ActivityPub server that can serve both #PixelFed and #Mastodon frontends? It seems that PixelFed and Mastodon both could be like a plugin to a standard AP server.

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Bram 🦝  

Adorably annoying job

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Strypey  

Remember when WeWork bought MeetUp.com before their real estate scam of a business model imploded? Zebras Unite are agitating for WeWork to sell MeetUp to its members, making it a platform cooperative:
medium.com/@sexandstartups/mee

#WeWork #Meetup #ZebrasUnite #PlatformCooperative

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Matt Panhans  

@humanetech@mastodon.social Great, thanks for this info!

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Sean Tilley  
Is anyone working on a libre / fediverse replacement for #Giphy yet? I've had a passing interest in creating GIF reactions that don't exist yet.
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Strypey  

"Think of us as venture capitalists with a radical social mission: to lend people the tools to democratically build lasting wealth for themselves, their businesses, and their communities. The Working World is a non-profit organization that provides investment capital and technical support for worker cooperatives using an innovative finance model."
theworkingworld.org/us/what-we

#TheWorkingWorld #Cooperatives #funding #DemocraticFinance

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Matt Panhans  

@pioneer I totally agree, this would be a huge game changer. I think with some sort of single sign-on, a lot of people would see a huge value-add in Fediverse.

If you haven't seen, this conference panel from last year has Christopher Lemmer Webber talking about protocols already in ActivityPub that could be used for this. Starts at (24:00):
archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedu

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Matt Panhans  

In this panel, Christopher Lemmer Webber discusses ActivityPub's server-to-client and server-to-server protocols, and how they could be used to allow people to use a single account to log in to many Fediverse clients. This seems like an immensely useful feature, that could offer enough ease of use to entice people to join the Fediverse. Are there projects working on this?

Relevant discussion starts at minute 24:00:
archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedu

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Matt Panhans  

@strypey I think your analysis is spot on. Mirowski sure is always thought-provoking to hear though. He gave a recent interview about how COVID-19 crisis was more of an opportunity than a threat for the neoliberal project. You might find it interesting if you haven't seen it: soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/

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Strypey  

"Hence, when it came to the simple matter of bamboozling the masses with ripping tales of government as the very embodiment of evil, as Friedman did, there were never any qualms expressed about their simultaneous drive to take over the Republican Party, and then the U.S. government, in order to impose a strong state and an even stronger set of state-instituted novel markets."
- # PhilipMirowski
americanaffairsjournal.org/201

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