• Sans titre
    https://bsky.app/profile/gorekhaa.bsky.social/post/3lfijamtlnc2z

    Merci !
    Depuis mon arrivée ici (grégaire mais séditieuse), je n’arrête pas de dénoncer cette escroquerie d’abord intellectuelle et assurément idéologique, qui s’avèrera inique au final.
    Une alternative existe, non-capitaliste, décentralisée, libre et modérée éthiquement :
    #MASTODON
    joinmastodon.org

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  • Sans titre
    https://bsky.app/profile/gorekhaa.bsky.social/post/3lfgppbi3522c

    Moi :-BS sera aussi capitalo-inique qu’X
    BS fan :-Décentralisé
    –Financé par des trumpettes
    –Décentralisé
    –Sur X modération=censure
    –Centralisée
    –Ici modération gratos via des « listes » de délation
    –Décentralisée
    #MASTODON 👇
    l’original, décentralisé, opensource et modéré par des gens désintéressés...

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  • #HelloQuitX - MANIFESTO HelloQuitteX
    https://helloquittex.com/MANIFESTO-HelloQuitteX.html#

    À l’heure où #X/Twitter est instrumentalisé jusque dans l’#algorithme par Elon #Musk à des fins politiques, X est devenu dangereux pour les démocraties. Il est temps de changer, HelloQuitteX a un plan.

    HelloQuitteX est un mouvement transpartisan et apolitique qui aide les citoyens à se réapproprier des espaces numériques compatibles avec des démocraties fonctionnelles.

    #Agir collectivement pour nos #espaces_numériques
    Les réseaux sociaux tirent leur puissance de conventions : on veut y être parce que beaucoup y sont. À l’heure où X/Twitter est instrumentalisé jusque dans l’algorithme par Elon Musk à des fins politiques, X est devenu dangereux pour les démocraties. Il est temps de changer de convention.

    Changer de convention au niveau mondial est un événement majeur. Par définition, personne ne peut le faire seul. Quand les Suédois ont décidé de changer de sens de circulation en 1967, tout le monde a changé de sens le même jour, le Dagen H, avec l’accompagnement des autorités.

    L’élection de Donald #Trump a été un électrochoc. C’est une opportunité unique de faire notre Daguen H numérique : un changement global de convention vers l’utilisation de réseaux sociaux à même d’atténuer la désinformation, la polarisation croissante de la société, les manipulations globales d’opinion.

    #20Janvier
    Nous avons une date : le 20 Janvier 2025, jour de l’investiture de Donald Trump. Après le 20 Janvier, de facto, Elon Musk n’aura plus de compte à rendre à la justice. X, en tant qu’écosystème numérique, sera alors plus dangereux que jamais pour la santé mentale de ses utilisateurs et pour la démocratie.

    Nous avons un plan : aider les utilisateurs de X dans leur déménagement numérique vers des espaces plus sains.

    Le 20 Janvier 2025, des outils de migration permettront aux utilisateurs de X de déménager leurs données et leurs audience de X vers des réseaux sociaux qui respectent les principes de base d’une liberté numérique : maîtriser ses données, maîtriser son audience, maîtriser son fils d’actualité. Chacun retrouvera ainsi automatiquement et sans effort l’ensemble de ses followers qui auront également enménagé sur BlueSky ou Mastodon.

    Jusqu’à Janvier 2025, HelloQuitteX informera les utilisateurs de X des étapes de la migration et mènera une action globale d’éducation aux médias.

    Après le #20 janvier 2025, HelloQuitteX aidera tout le monde à se reconnecter sur #Mastodon et #Bluesky et vous pourrez décider en toute connaissance de cause de garder votre compte X ou non. Les informations et les tendances seront façonnées ailleurs que sur X.

  • Linux #mastodon App #Tuba Adds Post Scheduling, Drafts + More
    https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/linux-mastodon-client-tuba-update-drafts

    A new version of Tuba, the open-source Mastodon client for Linux desktops, is out – and it’s a whopper! Tuba 0.9.0 delivers a wide array of new features, enhancements, and general finesse touching nearly every aspect of the client’s top-tier Fediverse experience. Chief among the highlights for is the addition of support for scheduled and draft posts. Posts can be scheduled from the composer, and a list of scheduled (not yet shared) posts can be accessed from a new sidebar entry, where scheduled posts and be edited/amended. With no official draft posts API to use, Tuba instead uses scheduled posts […] You’re reading Linux Mastodon App Tuba Adds Post Scheduling, Drafts + More, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without (...)

    #News #App_Updates

  • Mastodon Quick Start Guide

    This guide was first developed and published in October 2023 and then updated and re-released in November 2024 by rOpenSci and The Carpentries to help break down barriers for our community members interested in adopting Mastodon as a social media platform. It offers tips to help get started and is not meant to be a comprehensive overview of the platform. Therefore, it includes other trusted resources where you can learn more. We welcome feedback on this guide by emailing info@ropensci.org or community@carpentries.org.


    https://zenodo.org/records/14170125

    #réseaux_sociaux #mastodon #guide #manuel #how_to

  • Linda Yaccarino’s Open Letter to Advertisers | Shelly Palmer
    https://shellypalmer.com/2024/08/linda-yaccarinos-open-letter-to-advertisers


    Voilà une déclaration de guerre d’une fraction de la classe capitaliste (on ne me contredira pas, il s’agit d’Elon Musk et de ses sbires.) contre une autre. C’est toujours comme ça que ça se passe. On verra où tomberont les obus. Pourvu qu’on soit assez éloigné sur nos territoires #seenthis et #mastodon.

    Every day, hundreds of millions of people come to X to be part of the only global, real-time conversation. They come to share their thoughts and hear others. To share their content and see more. To debate and be debated. To entertain and be entertained. To inspire and be inspired. There is no substitute for X.

    The power of this community to bring global conversations to life was the reason I was so excited to join X as CEO in June 2023.

    After a career in media and advertising, I thought I had seen everything. Then I read the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s report entitled “GARM’s (Global Alliance for Responsible Media) Harm” last month. The report disclosed that their investigation had found evidence of an illegal boycott against many companies, including X.

    As their report found: “Evidence obtained by the Committee shows that GARM and its members directly organized boycotts and used other indirect tactics to target disfavored platforms, content creators, and news organizations in an effort to demonetize and, in effect, limit certain choices for consumers.”

    The consequence – perhaps the intent – of this boycott was to seek to deprive X’s users, be they sports fans, gamers, journalists, activists, parents or political and corporate leaders, of the Global Town Square.

    To put it simply, people are hurt when the marketplace of ideas is undermined and some viewpoints are not funded over others as part of an illegal boycott.

    This behavior is a stain on a great industry, and cannot be allowed to continue.

    That is why, today, X has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), and GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever. This is not a decision we took lightly, but it is a direct consequence of their actions.

    The illegal behavior of these organizations and their executives cost X billions of dollars.

    Since arriving at X, I made it my mission to continue to build a platform where people, brands and advertisers can thrive in our unique, dynamic and safe environment.

    And because of this commitment to our users, even despite the boycott, usage has reached all time highs. Using a Twitter legacy metric, user active minutes, in August 2022, people spent 7.2 billion active minutes on the platform. Today, that number is more than 9 billion, a 25% increase.

    The same is true for video – even compared to last year, daily video views are up 45% to 8.2 billion. X is innovating and growing.

    We have met and surpassed the requests made by advertisers and groups such as GARM for new tools, both to improve advertiser controls and the effectiveness of our products to drive increased value for our customers.

    We have proven our platform provides advertisers a way to showcase their brands and reach their target audiences safely, efficiently and effectively. That’s why I’ve worked in good faith with marketers across the globe to showcase our innovations and allay any concerns with brands whom I’ve partnered with for decades. The unfortunate reality is that despite all our efforts, hundreds of meetings and research to the contrary, many companies chose to dismiss the facts.

    To those who broke the law, we say enough is enough. We are compelled to seek justice for the harm that has been done by these and potentially additional defendants, depending what the legal process reveals.

    It’s also clear that there are likely others who suffered at the hands of this activity. This case is about more than damages – we have to fix a broken ecosystem that allows this illegal activity to occur.

    We will continue to innovate and ensure X has a vibrant future while the courts will hold accountable those who engaged in illegal behavior.

    To all of you who have been part of the transformative journey we are on, thank you. Rest assured, we will not stop defending our global town square.

    Linda

    #capitalisme #justice #USA #multinationales

  • #Mastodon #alt_text
    Un témoignage très intéressant d’une personne aveugle et de sa possibilité de « voir » les images grâce à cet outil de Mastodon :

    As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn’t experience. If you’re wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.

    https://mas.to/@ChanceyFleet/112906727542341272
    #cécité #réseaux_sociaux #images #légende #description #texte #description_textuelle

    • How do I make posts more accessible to blind people on Mastodon and the #Fediverse?

      Blind and partially-sighted people on Mastodon and the Fediverse use special apps called “screen readers” that read text out loud, so they can tell what is on the screen.

      There are many things that sighted people can do to make their posts more accessible to people using screen readers:

      - Add text descriptions (“Alt Texts”) describing the visuals to images and videos you’re posting. To do this, click on the “edit” or “caption” button (or write directly on top of the image on some apps) and then add a text description of what is visible. Read it to yourself afterwards, and see if you are able to imagine the important parts of the picture from what you have written. When you’ve finished, remember to click the “Apply” button if if necessary.
      - If you forget to add a description, you can go back and edit the post to add a description.
      - When posting hashtags, use CamelCase (where each word begins with a capital letter), for example #DogsOfMastodon instead of #dogsofmastodon. The capital letters allow screen reader apps to separate the words correctly and read the hashtag out loud properly. This also makes the tag easier for sighted people to read!
      - Don’t do that “sarcastic text” thing where you make fun of someone by having random letters as capitals, because random capitals prevent a screen reader from working properly.
      - If you’re sighted and you see the hashtag #Alt4Me underneath an image post, it means a disabled person wants someone to write a description of the image. Reply to the post with the tag #Alt4You and a description.
      - Also, if you’re a sighted person and you see a remarkable image that doesn’t have a descrption and no one has requested one yet, you can be be pro-active and reply with a description using the tag #Alt4You.
      – Don’t use long strings of emoji, as these sound really annoying when read out loud by screen readers. It’s okay to use emoji, it’s just the huge groups of emoji all bunched together that cause problems.
      - Don’t use deliberately obscure characters for your username, these can sound like gibberish when a screen reader reads them out (click here for an example ⧉). Standard characters work much, much better with screen readers.

      How do I remember to add descriptions to my media posts?

      There is an automatic reminder service called #PleaseCaption which will remind you by DM if you forget to add an alt text description.
      Should I be criticising people who haven’t added alt text?

      It’s important to add descriptions to images so that they’re accessible, but it’s also important not to criticise those who are unable to add alt texts due to their own disability. If someone has written #Alt4Me alongside the image that means they cannot add descriptions themselves. Don’t criticise them or comment on the lack of description, just help them out by replying with an #Alt4You post which includes your own alt text for the image.

      If there’s no #Alt4Me tag on the undescribed image, it’s still worth being polite as no one wants bad feelings generated around the topic of descriptions. You might want to just reply with a description and #Alt4You tag, and if they’re abled they will hopefully get the message that descriptions are preferred.
      How do I fit the image descriptions into my post without breaking the character limit?

      As long as you’re adding the description in the image’s own Alt Text section, it will not count towards your main post’s character limit. There is a much larger limit for descriptions, so you shouldn’t run out of room.

      https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-make-posts-more-accessible-to-blind-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediv

  • #Bluesky and #Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
    https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-

    Software developer Ryan Barrett found this out the hard way when he set out to connect the AT Protocol and #ActivityPub with a bridge called Bridgy Fed.

    The conflict harks back to blogging culture in the early 2000s, when people worried about their innermost thoughts and feelings being indexed on Google. These bloggers wanted their posts to be public, so that they could try to form communities with like-minded people on platforms like LiveJournal, but they didn’t want their intimate musings to accidentally fall into the wrong hands.

  • #ateliers #Solarpunk-UPLOAD : c’est parti !
    https://framablog.org/2024/01/16/ateliers-solarpunk-upload-cest-parti

    — De quoi ? Qu’est-ce que c’est que ce truc ? — Si vous avez raté le début, l’article qui explique le contexte et le cahier des charges de participant⋅es a été publié hier ici… Mais déjà les participations sont lancées sur … Lire la suite­­

    #Communs_culturels #UPLOAD #Ccompiègne #cours #étudiant⋅es #Fictions #LowTech #mastodon #UTC

  • L’arrivée de #meta sur le fédivers est-elle une bonne nouvelle ?
    https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/08/09/larrivee-de-meta-sur-le-fedivers-est-elle-une-bonne-nouvelle

    Le fédivers (de l’anglais fediverse, mot-valise de « fédération » et « univers ») est un ensemble de médias sociaux composé d’une multitude de plateformes et de logiciels, où les uns communiquent avec les autres grâce à un protocole…

    #Censure #Données_personnelles #Surveillance #facebook #fédiverse #interop #mastodon #régulation

  • Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t
    https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

    28 July 2023 - After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of being able to learn anything useful from people on other, less ideologically correct networks. Instead of telling him to go fuck himself, I went to talk to about fedi experiences with people on the very impure Bluesky, where I had seen people casually talking about Mastodon being confusing and weird.

    My purpose in gathering this informal, conversational feedback is to bring voices into the “how should Mastodon be” conversation that don’t otherwise get much attention—which I do because I hope it will help designers and developers and community leaders who genuinely want Mastodon to work for more kinds of people refine their understanding of the problem space.
    what I did

    I posted a question on Bluesky (link requires a login until the site comes out of closed beta) for people who had tried/used Mastodon and bounced off, asking what had led them to slow down or leave. I got about 500 replies, which I pulled out of the API as a JSON file by tweaking a bash script a nice stranger wrote up on the spot when I asked about JSON export, and then extracted just the content of the replies themselves, with no names/usernames, IDs, or other metadata attached. Then I dumped everything into a spreadsheet, spent an hour or so figuring out what kind of summary categories made sense, and then spent a few more hours rapidly categorizing up to two reasons for each response that contained at least one thing I could identify as a reason. (I used to do things like this at a very large scale professionally, so I’m reasonably good and also aware that this is super-subjective work.)

    None of this is lab-conditions research—sorry, I meant NONE OF THIS IS LAB-CONDITIONS RESEARCH—and I hope it’s obvious that there are shaping factors at every step: I’m asking the question of people who found their way to Bluesky, which requires extra motivation during a closed beta; I heard only from people who saw my question and were motivated to answer it; I manually processed and categorized the responses.

    I didn’t agonize over any of this, because my goal here isn’t to plonk down a big pristine block of research, but to offer a conversational glimpse into what real humans—who were motivated to try not one, but at least two alternatives to Twitter—actually report about their unsatisfactory experiences on Mastodon.

    Lastly, I’ve intentionally done this work in a way that will, I hope, prove illegible and hostile to summary in media reports. It’s not for generalist reporters, it’s for the people doing the work of network and community building.

    A note on my approach to the ~data and numbers: It would be very easy to drop a bunch of precise-looking numbers here, but that would, I think, misrepresent the work: If I say that I found at least one categorizable reason in 347 individual replies, that’s true, but it sounds reassuringly sciency. The truth is more like “of the roughly 500 replies I got, about 350 offered reasons I could easily parse out.” So that’s the kind of language I’ll be using. Also, I feel like quoting short excerpts from people’s public responses is fine, but sharing out the dataset, such as it is, would be weird for several reasons, even though people with a Bluesky login can follow the same steps I did, if they want.
    got yelled at, felt bad

    The most common—but usually not the only—response, cited as a primary or secondary reason in about 75 replies—had to do with feeling unwelcome, being scolded, and getting lectured. Some people mentioned that they tried Mastodon during a rush of people out of Twitter and got what they perceived as a hostile response.

    About half of the people whose primary or secondary reasons fit into this category talked about content warnings, and most of those responses pointed to what they perceived as unreasonable—or in several cases anti-trans or racist—expectations for content warnings. Several mentioned that they got scolded for insufficient content warnings by people who weren’t on their instance. Others said that their fear of unintentionally breaking CW expectations or other unwritten rules of fedi made them too anxious to post, or made posting feel like work.

    Excerpts:

    Feels like you need to have memorized robert’s rules of the internet to post, and the way apparently cherished longtimers get hostile to new people
    i wanted to post about anti-trans legislation, but the non-US people would immediately complain that US politics needed to be CWed because it “wasn’t relevant”
    I don’t know where all the many rules for posting are documented for each instance, you definitely aren’t presented them in the account creation flow, and it seems like you have to learn them by getting bitched at
    Constantly being told I was somewhat dim because I didn’t understand how to do things or what the unwritten rules were.
    I posted a request for accounts to follow, the usual sort of thing, who do you like, who is interesting, etc. What I got was a series of TED Talks about how people like me were everything that was wrong with social media.
    sooooooo much anxiety around posting. i was constantly second-guessing what needed to be hidden behind a CW
    the fact that even on a science server, we were being badgered to put bug + reptile stuff behind a CW when many of our online presences are literally built around making these maligned animals seem cool and friendly was the last straw for me

    What I take from this: There obviously are unwelcoming, scoldy people on Mastodon, because those people are everywhere. I think some of the scolding—and less hostile but sometimes overwhelming rules/norms explanation—is harder to deal with on Mastodon than other places because the people doing the scolding/explaining believe they have the true network norms on their side. Realistically, cross-instance attempts to push people to CW non-extreme content are a no-go at scale and punish the most sensitive and anxious new users the most. Within most instances, more explicit rules presented in visible and friendly ways would probably help a lot.

    In my experience, building cultural norms into the tooling is much more effective and less alienating than chiding. The norm of using alt-text for images would be best supported by having official and third-party tools prompt for missing alt-text—and offer contextual help for what makes good alt text—right in the image upload feature. Similarly, instances with unusual CW norms would probably benefit from having cues built into their instance’s implementation of the core Mastodon software so that posters could easily see a list of desired CWs (and rationales) from the posting interface itself, though that wouldn’t help those using third-party apps. The culture side of onboarding is also an area that can benefit from some automation, as with bots on Slack or Discord that do onboarding via DM and taggable bots that explain core concepts on demand.
    couldn’t find people or interests, people didn’t stay

    A cluster of related reasons came in at #2, poor discoverability/difficulty finding people and topics to follow, #4, missing specific interests or communities/could only find tech, and #7, felt empty/never got momentum. I am treating each group as distinct because I think they’re about subtly but importantly different things, but if I combined them, they’d easily be the largest group of all.

    It’s probably a measure of the overall technical/UX sophistication of the responding group that several people explicitly referred to “discoverability.”)

    People in the “poor discoverability” group wrote about frustration with Mastodon features: how hard it was to find people and topics they wanted to follow, including friends they believed to already be on Mastodon. They frequently also said they were confused or put off by the difficulty of the cross-server following process as secondary reasons. Several people wrote about how much they missed the positive aspects of having an algorithm help bring new voices and ideas into their feeds, including those that they wouldn’t have discovered on their own, but had come to greatly value. Another group wrote about limited or non-functional search as a blocker for finding people, and also for locating topics—especially news events or specialist conversations.

    The “missing specific interests or communities” group wrote about not finding lasting community—that the people and communities they valued most on Twitter either didn’t make it to Mastodon at all, or didn’t stick, or they couldn’t find them, leaving their social world still largely concentrated on Twitter even when they themselves made the move. Several also noted that tech conversations were easy to find on Mastodon, but other interests were much less so.

    The “felt empty” group made an effort to get onto Mastodon, and in some cases even brought people over with them, but found themselves mostly talking into a void after a few weeks when their friends bailed for networks that better met their needs.

    Excerpts:

    For me, it was that Mastodon seemed to actively discourage discoverability. One of the things I loved most about Twitter was the way it could throw things in front of me that I never would have even thought to go look for on my own.
    I feel like every time I try to follow a conversation there back to learn more about the poster I end up in a weirdly alien space, like the grocery store on the other side of town that’s laid out backwards
    It seemed like it needed to pick a crowd, rather than discover new ones. Fewer chances at serendipity.
    I also remember trying to follow instructions people posted about “simple” ways to migrate over your Twitter follows/Lists, & none of them really worked for me, & I got frustrated at how much time I was spending just trying to get things set up there so I wasn’t completely starting from scratch
    Mastodon was too isolating. And the rules made me feel like the worst poster.
    Quote-replies from good people giving funny/great information is how I decide are important follows.
    Discoverability/self promo is limited & typing out 6 hashtags is annoying. # being in the actual posts clutter things (unlike cohost/insta).
    Difficulty in finding new follows was high up for me. But even once I got that figured out, it was a pain to add new people to follow if they weren’t on my instance.
    finding people you want to follow is hard enough. Adding in the fact that if you joined the wrong server you might never find them? Made it seem not worth the trouble.
    I couldn’t really figure out how to find people and who was seeing what I posted; I was never sure if I had full visibility into that
    the chief problem was an inability to find a) my friends from Twitter who were already there and b) new friends who had similar interests, both due to the bad search function
    Just didn’t seem active enough to feel worth learning all the ins and outs.

    What I take from this: Mastodon would be much friendlier and easier to use for more people if there were obvious, easy ways to follow friends of friends (without the copy-paste-search-follow dance). Beyond making that easier, Mastodon could highlight it during onboarding.

    Making it easy to search for and find and follow people—those who haven’t opted out of being found—would also be tremendous help in letting people rebuild their networks not just when coming from elsewhere, but in the not-that-rare case of instances crashing, shutting down, or being defederated into oblivion, especially since automatic migration doesn’t always work as intended.

    Missing replies also feed into this problem, by encouraging duplicate responses instead of helping people find their way into interesting conversations and notes—a social pattern that several people mentioned as something they prize on more conversationally fluent networks.
    too confusing, too much work, too intimidating

    The next big cluster includes group #3, too confusing/too much work getting started, group #5, felt siloed/federation worked badly, and group #7, instance selection was too hard/intimidating.

    A lot of people in the responding group found the process of picking an instance, signing up, and getting set up genuinely confusing. Others understood how to do it, but found it to be too time-consuming, or too much work for an uncertain return on investment. A couple of people had so many technical errors getting signed up to their first instance that they gave up. Several mentioned that they were so flooded with tips, guides, and instructions for doing Mastodon right that it seemed even more confusing.

    Many found the idea and practice of federation to be confusing, offputting, or hostile; they cited difficulties in selecting the “right” instance and shared stories about ending up on an obviously wrong one and then losing their posts or having migration technically fail when they moved. Several explicitly used the words “silo” or “siloed” to describe how they felt trying to find people who shared their interests and also, I think crucially, people who didn’t share special interests, but who would be interesting to follow anyway. (This is obviously intimately tied to discoverability.)

    Several brought up patchwork federation and unexpected or capricious defederation. Side conversations sprang up over how difficult people found it to pigeonhole themselves into one interest or, conversely, manage multiple accounts for multiple facets of their lives.

    Excerpts:

    My Twitter friends joined various Mastodon servers that didn’t talk to each other and I gave up on trying to figure it out.
    I’m tech savvy and have found mastodon simply opaque. I’ve set up 4 accounts, each on a different server, and don’t know how to amalgamate all the people I’m following everywhere (assuming all those servers federate with each other).
    It was the thing where people had to make whole twitter threads just to explain how to sign up
    the federation model is a mess and it’s impossible to use. i’ve been using computers all day every day since the 90s and mastodon makes me question whether i’m actually good at them
    discovered I was on some kind of different continent from my friends, and could not follow them, nor they me. Immediately felt frustration and disgust and never looked back.
    I’m tech savvy and have found mastodon simply opaque. I’ve set up 4 accounts, each on a different server, and don’t know how to amalgamate all the people I’m following everywhere
    I was told picking a server didn’t matter. Then it turned out it actually mattered a great deal for discoverability. Then I’m told ‘migrating is easy’, which is just a straight up lie.
    Just 100 tiny points of friction for little return

    What I take from this: I agree with these people, and I think all fedi projects meant for a broad audience should focus on fixing these problems.
    too serious, too boring, anti-fun

    People in this category talked about a seriousness that precluded shitposting or goofiness, and a perceived pressure to stay on topic and be earnest at all times.

    It felt like the LinkedIn version of Twitter - just didn’t have any fun there
    It feels overly earnest and humorless — I don’t consider myself a particularly weird or ironic poster but I want some of those people around saying funny stuff, you know?
    And in the occasional moments where I do feel like being a little silly & humorous, I want to be in a crowd that will accept that side of me rather than expecting a constant performance of seriousness!
    it just didn’t have as much fun or joy as early Twitter and Bluesky
    ultimately, I just bounced off of the culture, because it wasn’t banter-y and fun. It feels too much like eating your vegetables.

    What I take from this: Honestly, I think this is the most obvious culture clash category and is less something that needs to be directly addressed and more something that will ease with both growth and improved discoverability, which will help people with compatible social styles find each other. I think the other piece of this is probably the idea of organizing people into interest-based instances, which I think is fundamentally flawed, but that’s a subject for another time.
    complicated high-stakes decisions

    There’s a meta conversation that is probably unavoidable, and that I’d rather have head-on than in side conversations. It’s about what we should let people have, and it shapes the discourse (and product decisions) about features like quote posts, search, and custom feeds/algorithms—things that are potentially central in addressing some of the problems people raised in their replies to my question on Bluesky.

    Broadly speaking, in the landscape around and outside of the big corporate networks, there are two schools of thought about these kinds of potentially double-edged features.

    The first, which I’ll call Health First, prefers to omit the features and affordances that are associated with known or potential antisocial uses. So: no quote-posts or search because they increase the attack surface afforded to griefers and nurture the viral dynamics that drive us all into a sick frenzy elsewhere. No custom algorithms because algorithms have been implemented on especially Facebook and YouTube in ways that have had massive and deeply tragic effects, including literal genocide affecting a million adults and children in Myanmar whose lives are no less real than yours or mine.

    The second, which I’ll call Own Your Experience, states that people, not software, are responsible for networked harms, and places the burden of responsible use on the individual and the cultural mechanisms through which prosocial behavior is encouraged and antisocial behavior is throttled. So: yes to quote-posts and search and custom feeds, and just block or defederate anyone using them to do already banned things, like harassment or abuse or the kind of speech that, given the right conditions, ignites genocide.

    A thing I think about all the time is the research showing that people would literally rather self-administer painful electrical shocks than be bored. You can make the most virtuous and intentionally non-harmful network in the world, but if it doesn’t feel alive, most people will pick something worse instead.

    At their simplest, I don’t like either of these positions, though they both get some things right. The Own Your Experience school doesn’t really grapple with the genuinely terrifying dynamics of mass-scale complex systems. And I don’t think the Health First school has come to terms with the fact that in an non-authoritarian society, you can’t make people choose networks that feel like eating their vegetables over the ones that feel like candy stores. Even most people who consciously seek out ethically solid options for their online lives aren’t going to tolerate feeling isolated from most of their peers and communities, which is what happens when a network stays super niche.

    From where I stand, there are no obvious or easy answers…which means that people trying to make better online spaces and tools must deal with a lot of difficult, controversial answers.

    If I had to pick a way forward, I’d probably define a target like, “precisely calibrated and thoughtfully defanged implementations of double-edged affordances, grounded in user research and discussions with specialists in disinformation, extremist organizing, professional-grade abuse, emerging international norms in trust & safety, and algorithimic toxicity.”

    If that sounds like the opposite of fun DIY goofing around on the cozy internet, it is. Doing human networks at mass scale isn’t a baby game, as the moral brine shrimp in charge of the big networks keep demonstrating. Running online communities comes with all kinds of legal and ethical obligations, and fediverse systems are currently on the back foot with some of the most important ones (PDF).
    this post is too long, time to stop

    Right now, Mastodon is an immense achievement—a janky open-source project with great intentions that has overcome highly unfavorable odds to get to this point and is experiencing both growing pains and pressure to define its future. If I were Eugen Rochko, I would die of stress.

    I don’t know if Mastodon can grapple with the complexities of mass scale. Lots of people would prefer it didn’t—staying smaller and lower-profile makes it friendly to amateur experimentation and also a lot safer for people who need to evade various kinds of persecution. But if Mastodon and other fedi projects do take on the mass scale, their developers must consider the needs of people who aren’t already converts. That starts by asking a lot of questions and then listening closely and receptively to the answers you receive.

    #Mastodon #réseaux_sociaux #internet

  • #David_Revoy, un artisteface aux #IA génératives
    https://framablog.org/2023/07/02/david-revoy-un-artisteface-aux-ia-generatives

    Depuis plusieurs années, Framasoft est honoré et enchanté des illustrations que lui fournit David Revoy, comme sont ravi⋅es les lectrices et lecteurs qui apprécient les aventures de Pepper et Carrot et les graphistes qui bénéficient de ses tutoriels. Ses créations … Lire la suite­­

    #Communs_culturels #Enjeux_du_numérique #Logiciel_libre #Traductions #AI #Apprentissage_automatique #Art #art_libre #ArtStation #Bande_dessinée #Création_numérique #creative-commons #DavidRevoy #DeviantArt #IArtistes #jeu_de_données #licences_libres #mastodon #Peinture
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