Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Bluesky and enshittification; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Bluesky and enshittification; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…
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Cory Doctorow
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Next weekend (November 8-10), I'll be in Tucson, AZ: I'm the Guest of Honor at the Tuscon science fiction convention:
tusconscificon.com/
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Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & Horror
Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & HorrorCory Doctorow
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Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11341347…
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Cory Doctorow
2024-11-02 12:59:04
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Vanishing Culture blog.archive.org/wp-content/up… (h/t Chris Freeland)
* The Rookie: W. Kamau Bell on Olivia Rynberg-Going of the DOJ washingtonpost.com/opinions/in… (h/t thepublicdomain@mastodon.sdf.org)
* Hey Brendan Carr, Next Time Link To Our Article That Proves You’re Full Of Shit, Coward techdirt.com/2024/10/24/hey-br… (h/t Gregory Charlin)
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Hey Brendan Carr, Next Time Link To Our Article That Proves You’re Full Of Shit, Coward
TechdirtCory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Diebold voting machines hacked web.archive.org/web/2004110208…
#15yrsago Newspaper columnist quits over paywall nytimes.com/2009/11/02/busines…
#15yrsago Congressional record exposes military officers to identity theft, covers up web.archive.org/web/2010050612…
#15yrsago Hallowe’en night out as floppy disk and XKCD Cory flickr.com/photos/24876360@N03…
#15yrsago Mechanical computer uses matchboxes and beans to learn Tic-Tac-Toe shorttermmemoryloss.com/menace…
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Look, it's Michael Geist!
FlickrCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Elegy Beach: sequel to Ariel, a sword-and-sorcery post-apocalyptic adventure story about the reinvention of software in the age of magic memex.craphound.com/2009/11/02…
#10yrsago UK cultural institutions leave their WWI cases empty to protest insane copyright web.archive.org/web/2014110505…
#10yrsago FBI secretly seeking legal power to hack any computer, anywhere theguardian.com/us-news/2014/o…
#10yrsago 42 rich white people account for 1/3 of Super PAC spending thenation.com/article/archive/…
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FBI demands new powers to hack into computers and carry out surveillance
Ed Pilkington (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Philadelphia schools have $5/student/year for supplies salon.com/2014/11/01/we_must_s…
#10yrsago Mechwarrior dad/baby costume youtube.com/watch?v=QIln1LTtvz…
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We must still hate our kids: Philadelphia and "education reformers" fight demented war on elementary schools
Salon.comCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Shifting $677m from the banks to the people, every year, forever; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11340806…
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Cory Doctorow
2024-11-01 14:02:37
Cory Doctorow
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My latest nationally bestselling novel is "The Bezzle," an ice-cold revenge story of high-tech finance crime starring the forensic accountant Martin Hench:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
Signed copies from Chevalier's Books:
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Signed copies available from Book Soup:
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Both are national bestsellers!
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* TusCon (Tucson), Nov 8-10
tusconscificon.com/
* International Cooperative Alliance (New Delhi), Nov 24
icanewdelhi2024.coop/welcome/p…
* ACM Conext-2024 Workshop on the Decentralization of the Internet (Los Angeles), Dec 9
conferences.sigcomm.org/co-nex…
* IA et “merdification“ d’internet: peut-on envisager un nouveau web? (Remote), Dec 12
unige.ch/comprendre-le-numeriq…
* ISSA-LA Holiday Celebration keynote (Los Angeles), Dec 18
issala.org/event/issa-la-decem…
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Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & Horror
Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & HorrorCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Cloudfest (Europa Park), Mar 17-20
cloudfest.link/
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cloudfest_official
cloudfest_officialCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification Was a Choice (SOSS Fusion)
youtube.com/watch?v=KCSelmMUO0…
* Maximum Iceland Scenario (@TWiT)
youtube.com/watch?v=P5MkCwktKz…
* Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow (@digitaliafm)
digitalia.fm/744/
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Speciale intervista a Cory Doctorow (#744) | Digitalia - Notizie di tecnologia
admin (Digitalia - Notizie di tecnologia)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Next weekend (November 8-10), I'll be in Tucson, AZ: I'm the Guest of Honor at the Tuscon science fiction convention:
tusconscificon.com/
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Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & Horror
Sci Fi Conventions | TusCon 51 | Science Fiction | Fantasy & HorrorJonathan Lamothe
in reply to Cory Doctorow • •@Cory Doctorow Well said (written?)
This is the exact reason I'm not interested in Bluesky (though I might use Friendica's bridge). I've made that mistake before, and I'm not about to make it again.
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Jorge Candeias
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@me I keep hearing of that friendica's bridge, but I'm on friendica (other account) and I can't find anyone in bluesky from there.
The only bridge I've seen working so far is brid.gy. That one works fine. Friendica's is a mystery to me. A bit like Santa. I hear about it. Never seen it.
Suzanne she/her
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Patrick Leavy
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •EXCELLENT article!
Have you had a look at #Nostr too? It can be bridged with #ActivityPub and it appears to be totally resistant to #enshittification by design.
A little bitcoin-bro heavy in these early days, but it can outgrow that I think.
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Cavyherd
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I've been feeling the pinch of enshittification. The majority of my crew seems to have landed on Bluesky, & I keep thinking about joining them over there.
And then I hear about some fresh nonsense that the people in charge decide to perpetrate.
It's colossally frustrating, bc that's also where most of my brain trust is. I NEED to be able to ask them for questions & advice—and I can't. I feel like I'm trying to function in this world with half my brain tied behind my back.
John Deters
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •This is not the case. BridgyFed mirrors your Mastodon profile on Bluesky, and vice versa. Functionally, it's like another Mastodon instance (except every user has to opt-in to federating with it, and sometimes there's a delay).
@snarfed.org would you like to weigh in?
T_X
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Whenever you take a measure during a moment of strength that guards against your own future self's weakness, you enter into a Ulysses Pact – think throwing away the Oreos when you start your diet."
This reminded me of a construct some initiative came up for houses here in Germany: Mietshäuser Syndikat ("apartment-house syndicate"). It prevents the privatization of a house. You manage your house but the syndicate can veto selling it.
syndikat.org/en/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mietsh%C…
privately held company
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Jari Pennanen
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I don't think it's a single server anymore, they seem to have a lot of 'federated' self-hosted PDS though. Story isn't fully complete on all details, like OAuth, alternate UIs etc, but that data part is federated I think.
You can browse through self-hosted PDS via this: pdsls.dev/
If you click through those instances, data comes from *their* servers and not Bluesky's. You can check Chrome/Firefox network tools.
PDSls
pdsls.devNafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
Unknown parent • • •@shonin @jorgecandeias @me I'm a bit confused. What exactly are you thinking they would do? Moderation on Bluesky is based on labels. Anyone can set labels on any content and anyone can filter based on said labels. Individual services can mandate the use of certain labelers (for legal reasons).
If you're commenting over Brid.gy, your PDS (think "personal webhost that hosts your posts") is their PDS. Are you thinking they're going to deindex Brid.gy? Or special-case you?
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
in reply to Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦 • • •Bill Bereza
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
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