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Clay Shirky was explaining why moderation can work far better in decentralised social networks than it can in centralised social platforms almost 20 years ago. When social media was only just emerging as a medium. The fundamental reason is that moderation doesn't scale. It always works better in a Cheers-sized online community, one small enough that everybody knows your name (or at least your handle).

#moderation #decentralization

One reason we've become so obsessed with making every piece of networked software scale is centralisation. If people using my app can only talk to other people using... my app, then I'm going to want as many people using my app as possible. So I'm forced to design for scale.

If I make a fediverse app and only a dozen people use it, that's fine. There's millions of people using other fediverse apps, and the people using my app can potentially interact with any of them.

#decentralization

#Decentralization #TechnologicalResistance #Encryption #P2P: "This book brings together voices from various fields of intellectual inquiry, based on the idea that technological, legal and societal aspects of the information sphere are interlinked and co-dependent from each other. In order to tackle the existing gap in shared semantics, this glossary converges the efforts of experts from various disciplines to build a shared vocabulary on the social, technical, economic, political aspects of decentralised, distributed or sovereign technologies: artefacts which seek to challenge the techno-social status quo by, for example, circumventing law enforcement, resisting surveillance, or being participative.

The idea ofthis glossary arose from the need for a workable, flexible and multidisciplinary resource for terminological clarity, which reflects instead of denying complexity. Situating the terms emerging through technology development in the wider context of multidisciplinary scientific, policy and political discourses, this glossary provides a conceptual toolkit for the study of the various political, economic, legal and technical struggles that decentralised, encryption-based, peer-to-peer technologies bring about and go through.

Choosing relevant technology-related terms and understanding them is to investigate their affordances within a given ecosystem of actors, discourses and systems of incentives. This requires an interdisciplinary, multi-layered approach that is attentive to the interlinkages between technological design nuances and socio-political, economic implications."

https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/log-out-a-glossary-of-technological-resistance-and-decentralization/

The #XMPP Newsletter for August '23 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

https://xmpp.org/2023/09/the-xmpp-newsletter-august-2023/

#jabber #xep #interoperability #federation #decentralization #chat

Ian Clarke Explains the Next Generation of Freenet

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=yBtyNIqZios

#freenet #decentralization #futo

Join us at the Power, Purpose and Pay Conference: Ways to decide about money together and unleash the potential of Self-Organization and decentralization of new economies.

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#neweconomies #decentralization https://t.co/jyF3Y46OiP

@Green_Footballs

ideally #twitter would be a genuine social commons

and although we're all familiar with the usual tragedy of the commons, we got hit by a new one: the plutocrat edgelord manchild #elonmusk who giggles his way into taking the whole thing over

the problem is #centralization (of money in real life and the tech design)

#mastodon is #decentralization, and an antidote to both problems

let mastodon be the new #socialmedia commons, let it grow to a billion people, and let's work (code, content) to make it the new unbreakable standard

14 Million!!!1 😃😃

📢🎆🎉🍆 #Xodus 🎉🎊🎇🧨🎉 #decentralization #TwitterExodus 🍆🧨🌞🔥⚡️🎊⚡️#TwitterMigration #Fediverse 🥳 #Mastodon ❤️ #ThanksEnshittification😺 👍

via @mastodonusercount

https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/111008417937099428

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Not a new blog post, but a recent poll by @vkc made me think it would be timely to re-post the latest blog entry on the #tilvids blog, because it talks a lot about the future direction I want to take TILvids in. Worth a read if you want my take on how I'm hoping to navigate #decentralization & #federation while also attempting to build a community that is scalable, ethical, and as fair as possible to everyone involved.

Feel free to ask questions! Let's learn together!

https://blog.tilvids.com/TILvids-Update-July-2023/

»“Decentralization” is one of the foggiest, most often abused concepts in political language…Taken in a literal sense, […it…] means undoing the process of becoming central.…Which centers are the important ones? The question is too seldom asked.… In all discussions of centralization and decentralization, one needs to begin by specifying which kind of activity or influence is problematic.«

»Decentralization Clarified« by Langdon Winner, 1986

#decentralization

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Una lista di caratteristiche utili sui vari messenger.

https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

#chat #messenger #privacy #security #decentralization #communication #freedom #liberty

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Heard of matrix - the encrypted chat equivalent of the fediverse - but no idea how to get started? Here's a simple intro I just stumbled on:

https://joinmatrix.org/

#HatTip to @austin who created it.

#decentralization #federation #chat #matrix

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@tigerdaz @Radical_EgoCom
You are probably thinking of Valve Corporation, for one example. They moved to a flat, non-hierarchical organization and it's been interesting to watch. Still a capitalist corporate entity though.

A syndicate is a self-organized group for conducting a particular business or production. It can be the Mob or Lloyd's of London insurers or a worker's collective.

#Syndicalism is kind of the more radical side of international trade unionism. #AnarchoSyndicalism takes the self-organizing principle farther as a replacement for capitalism rather than as a balancing factor, and philosophizes about the nature of property and industrialization.

Interest in the area seems to be skewing into #solarPunk territory which seems like a natural progression to me.

The #fediverse is a fine case study for how difficult and amazing decentralized and federated social institutions can be. Here we are, working out some of the necessary skills for #Transition communities, including the economics.

It's complicated stuff and still just nascent, but look at the crazy complexity of the laws in nation-states, civil powers, municipalities. We will improve on that by removing economic and moral compulsions.

#directAction #decentralization #liberation #IWW

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