https://youtu.be/elr0JmB7Ac8

ever heard of the Internet Identity Workshop? Very interesting event where people have been talking about this stuff for decades… I went once in 2018 I think. We should be able to solve this stuff anonymously and without blockchain, for sure.

to be honest? I don’t actually think that is a bad thing. This is how we used to do it back in the day with cough non-official cough raves. You couldn’t get address details without being vetted and approved by existing network members.

I mean, do we even want exponential growth in the Fediverse like every fucking techbro has been brainwashed is The Way? I don’t think we do. We want genuine interaction. We aren’t trying to get rich, we aren’t wanting to IPO and exit… we just want to communicate with real humans that share our interests?

maybe… that is indeed possible.

every LLM attack of this kind has a human writing a prompt to create it. I wonder where the origin of these are: is it just the usual trope of teenagers in basements doing it for the lulz, or could it be funded by big tech, who in some way genuinely are threatened by Fedi (given their response with Threads and assumedly other private discussions on the threat of attention being diverted from their walled gardens)?

Thanks for the mention of Fluxer! That sounds like a great option for some communities I’m on on Discord that might be open to moving away from US hosted, as in one they recently had one member have a giant issue with an account that got hacked. I can’t imagine anything much worse than Discords current management tbh.

are you trying to avoid cliches

definitely a better situation than depending on global servers. But if you think you’re likely to suffer censorship even within your country, or power outages etc, it’s good to look at alternatives that you control the hardware and power sources for yourselves.

good start! but when internet gets turned off, anything using tcp/ip stops. look for coop cloud, Reticulum, LoRa radios if you can get them. you can build your OWN local area internet to communicate with your friends.

I also think this is fair comment, but it also kindof misses a bigger point: and that is that the experience of media in our lives before social media kindof conditioned us all to separate ourselves into the categories of performer and audience, with the publisher in the middle with the power: and media has always laid the power in the hands of content publishers vs content consumers.

I loved early social networks pre-Facebook (newsgroups, messageboards, LiveJournal) as power was not yet consolidated in the larger publishers. The clever publishers always saw this potential to consolidate power and control media consumers more than ever before. Which has happened, as we’ve been trained for so long to be passive consumers.

The most important element of Burning Man culture for me was the focus on participation: no spectators. The media world wants the opposite and always has.