@chronolink@chrono.tilde.cafe Replies are not part of the original twtxt format. They were added later as an extension by Yarn.social: https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twtsubjectextension.html (only the section “Machine-Parsable Conversation Grouping” is used these days)

It’ll track a bunch of finger(1) endpoints and let you see what’s new. Very early draft. Not actually a social network, more an anti-social network for ‘80s CompSci transplants. :-)

A read-only, finger(1)-based social network, maybe? http://txtpunk.com/fingers/

Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter For $41 Billion
Billionaire Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for about $41 billion, just days after rejecting a seat on the social media company’s board. From a report: Musk’s offer price of $54.20 per share, which was disclosedin a regulatory filing on Thursday, represents a 38% premium to Twitter’s April 1 close, the last trading day before the Tesla CEO’s more than 9% stake in the company … ⌘ Read more

third, let’s look at daygame. if you ask someone out in a social circle/hobby group, that leaves residual social cruft lying around: awkwardness & mutual avoidance. the whole thing is not Done the way it is when you get cleanly rejected on the street. (online dating has a similar quality of Doneness to it, I think, but matches might stack up and old leads might spring to life sometime, but that’s the same with DG).

the only relief i currently have is that the number of not-completely-autistic hot women in the bayrat/ea communities is very low, so we can’t be that deep into social bullshit yet

Social Networks & Ending the Pandemic with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Nicholas Christakis ⌘ Read more

@benk@kwiecien.us https://yarn.social/ has support for fetching feeds over gemini since a few minutes back! Not serving them there that I know of, but that’s just a matter of pointing your gemini server to the twtxt.txt file.

@tamer@twtxt.net We’re not trying to compete with anything… If you’ve read About Yarn.social – In a nutshell I want to create an open, transparent social platform that respect’s folks privacy and freedoms. It must also be easy to use and down-to-earth where human interactions actually matter. None of this rubbish of manipulating what you see, driving up engagement numbers to serve your advertisers and all that garbage

First rule of SSB is: be patient - it is meant to move slower than conventional social networks

James Mills - Future of Yarn.social

Some of our most popular technologies are becoming a means of mass coercion that open societies cannot survive. ⌘ Read more

I know I’ve mentioned this in various social media, but I just want to reiterate how much internet reality drama means to me. It’s insanely entertaining.

JavaScript : web apps

wut?! 😳 seriously?! 🤦‍♂️

Python : small tools

Okay 👌

Go: micro services

Umm bad generalization 🤣 – Example yarnd that powers most of Yarn.social 😂

Java: enterprise software

Yes! Oh gawd yes! 🤣 And Java™ needs to die a swift death!

C: crimes

Hmmm? 🤔 I feel this one is going to have some backslash and/or go the way of “Hacker” being misconstrued to mean entirely different/incorrect things as is what’s happening in the media (for various definitions of “media”).

🤔 👋 Reconsidering moving Yarn.social’s development back to Github: Speaking of which (I do not forget); @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com and I were discussing over a video call two nights ago, as well as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org who joined a bit later, about the the whole moved of all of my projects and their source code off of Github. Whilst some folks do understand and appreciate my utter disgust over what Microsoft and Copilot did by blatantly scraping open source software’s codebases without even so much as any attempt at attribution or respecting the licenes of many (if not all?) open source projects.

That being said however, @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com makes a very good and valid argument for putting Yarn.social’s codebases, repositories and issues back on Github for reasons that make me “torn” over my own sense of morality and ethics.

But I can live with this as long as I continue to run and operate my new (yet to be off the ground) company “Self Hosted Pty Ltd” and where it operates it’s own code hosting, servicesa, tools, etc.

Plese comment here on your thoughts. Let us decide togetehr 🤗

#yarnsocial #github #opsnsource #copilot #microsoft

Btw… You guys have gotta start posting more pictures/videos a bit more regularly 😂 Every time I show Yarn.social off to a friend to “sell” them the platform and get them off their privacy eroding garbage Facebook/Twitter/etc) The no. #1 question I get asked is:

Oh is this only comments/text

🤣 Let’s show off the platform as a whole a bit eh? 😅

Hmmm so… We seem to have a few pods offline in the network 😂 Also 😢

• @jlj@twt.nfld.uk’s twt.nfld.uk => 504 Gateway Time-out
  
• @adi@f.adi.onl’s f.adi.onl => 200 OK but doens’t appear to be a pod anymore?! 🤔
  
• @eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com’s personal pod => offline due to lack of Solar/Battery power? 😅
  
• @lohn@tw.lohn.in’s personal pod => 503 Service Unavailable
  

It’s a bad day for Yarn.social 🤣

Good thing it’s all decentralised 😉

Oh man this is my first real social weekend in a long time. Thanks to COVID it’s like I’m flexing disused muscles.

Bookmarked : Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+ - The Atlantic
My colleague Adrienne LaFrance has named the fundamental assumption, and danger, of social media megascale: “not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size.” Technology platforms such as Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people—and then excuse their misdeeds by noting that effectively controlling such an unthinkably la … ⌘ Read more

Fediverse : Trump’s “new” social media platform “suspected” as disguised fork of href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23Mastodon”>#Mastodon** ⌘ Read more

An estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded across India by 2030 because of the persistent use of selective abortions, researchers estimate. — The Guardian

And from the same article:

India’s skewed ratio of men to women – currently between 900-930 females per 1,000 males – reflects India’s ingrained attitude towards girls. Boys are seen as breadwinners while girls are seen as a burden across every social class. Boys are more likely to receive more nutritious food and better medical care than girls.

That is just beyond sad.

How to Launch a Social Token ⌘ Read more

New plan! 1) Running in the rain, 2) researching the social lives of honey bees. Do they have night clubs? Let’s find out!

Traffic Jam’s on Highway’s and Roads emerge from users, not highway or roads infrastructure. #sarcasm href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23disinfo”>#disinfo** ⌘ Read more

Request for proposals: Defining standardized GitHub metrics
The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines. ⌘ Read more

I’d love to see a resurgence of twtxt, but not in a way that attempts to replace social media. Something different.

Neil deGrasse Tyson & Richard Dawkins On Science Communication, Social Media, and Persuasion ⌘ Read more…

musical experience that involve harvesting, farming, growth, and caretaking of virtual musical creatures with personality. creatures would socialize with eachother and their interactions would change the overall musical sounds implicitely. #halfbakedideas

ancestral social environment probably most comparable with today’s high school – everybody is very near each other a lot of the time, high amounts of common knowledge. differences: existence of age gaps in AE, more common tasks

Github Social Impact: How we’re driving change with social sector organizations ⌘ Read more…

Bookmarked : LibreSocial: A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Online Social Networks ⌘ Read more…

Reading now : To fix social media we need to introduce digital socialism ⌘ Read more…

How to Perform a Social Media Autopsy - Galaxy Brain ⌘ Read more…

The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.

At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more

Pinboard describes itself as “Social bookmarking for introverts”. Maybe txtxt is social networking for introverts.

I keep going back ‘n’ forth on whether to experiment with Pleroma on my Pi. :-) A Tildes post on the sad news that Feneas is struggling has rekindled the fire, oddly. I just like knowing, first-hand, what’s involved in running these services; I feel it makes me a better yarn.social advocate. ^⨰^

2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there’s relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.

I think I’m done trying to be social on twtxt. This is too hard. Enjoy my read-only feed?

xn–dw9h.social is taken :-(

🧶.social

How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science ⌘ Read more…

Slavoj Žižek: We Need a Socialist Reset, Not a Corporate “Great Reset” ⌘ Read more…

The Social Sector is Contributing to the Broader OSS Ecosystem ⌘ Read more…

@prologic @darch Thank you for making twt.social etc:) I don’t think I have been this involed in a open source project before.

“is socially constructed” is socially constructed

On the blog: The Parler Problem https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/17/social-media.html #socialmedia

Signaling/countersignaling are nuclear weapons for nerdy thinking: they explain 99% of social behavior in an easy, slightly demeaning way.

En ce qui concerne les matières sociales, j’ai constaté que le fédéral est bien plus déconnecté des réalités de terrain que les régions, c’est comme si le fédéral découvrait la crise sociale. ⌘

interesting read : How democracies can claim back power in the digital world ⌘ https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/1009088/democracies-power-digital-social-media-governance-tech-companies-opinion/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

We still need to unlock the web by @benwerd@benwerd ⌘ https://werd.io/2020/we-still-need-to-unlock-the-web

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social There was. New watches and non-pro iPads.

dokieli - dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions. ⌘ https://dokie.li/

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social What are you doing to have wikilinks in Hugo?

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social is there anything else than death metal? 🧐

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social rebel.

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social are you using emacs as twtxt client or something? does it render the org markup for you into links?

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Final Thoughts https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/18/thoughts.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - And the Rest https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/11/rest.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #okuna #bitnation #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - gitgeist https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/04/gitgeist.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #gitgeist #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Matrix https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/28/riot.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #riot #matrix #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - twtxt https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/21/twtxt.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #twtxt #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - RetroShare https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/14/retroshare.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #retroshare #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Pump.io https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/07/pumpio.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #pumpio #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Libertree https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/29/libertree.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #libertree #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - ZeroNet https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/22/zeronet.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #zeronet #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Twister https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/15/twister.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #twister #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Friendica https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/08/friendica.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #friendica #socialshowdown

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Minds https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/01/minds.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #minds

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Scuttlebutt https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/01/25/scuttlebutt.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #diaspora

Reading https://medium.com/@anildash/the-lost-infrastructure-of-social-media-d2b95662ccd3

Reading https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-07-08-returning-original-social-network.html

The #XMPP Newsletter is out! Read the latest news from the XMPP/Jabber communities: articles, events, software releases with servers, clients/apps, and services… https://xmpp.org/2019/10/newsletter-01-october/ #social #instantmessaging #chat

statically generated my twtxt feed here: https://pbat.ch/wiki/twtxt.html. learning how to be social on this thing comes next.

Hello, Marhabaan, Hallo, Salut, Merhaba, שלום, qavan, Hola, 你好, Ciao, Alô, Hej, ハロー, Ej, Alla, Grüzi & Namaste Fediverse! (Das Bild ist eine abgewandelte Version von switching.social) ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/p/58d

Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/viruses-have-a-secret-altruistic-social-life-20190415/

I think DEVO might have got their math wrong in We’re Through Being Cool. Have I met 2 dozen members of any social group? That’s like 20% of my dunbar allocation.

Webcomics: an oral history - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media

The essays I’m considering writing are all somewhat clickbaity: “A libertarian case for social justice”, “Anarchy needs rules”…

The Deep Social Justice Roots of The Twilight Zone | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/28/the-deep-social-justice-roots-of-the-twilight-zone/

A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/automated-instagram-influencer-bot-free-meals?utm_campaign=The%20Interface

School harem-comedy anime is TV’s last bastion of psychological realism: it portrays a world where teenagers are dumb and socially awkward, and emotions come through on their faces but nobody notices.

Cybernetics Conference Library https://cybernetics.social/

The Social Construction of Emotions - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQUnddM5Vg

Band name of the day: the social factory

Individualism is not a sufficient foundation for social life | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/individualism-is-not-a-sufficient-foundation-for-social-life

why are there so many decentralized social media projects that aren’t well known and haven’t been worked on in a few years

Society for the Promotion of Describing Social Constructs as ‘Eldrich’ and ‘Uncanny’

Too Many Requests https://old.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/aqsej3/errors_of_scale_in_social_media_design_thinking/

Editions https://qz.com/1533143/the-best-way-to-use-social-media-is-to-act-like-a-19th-century-parisian/

Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.

The New Social Media – nadreck.me https://nadreck.me/2019/01/the-new-social-media/

How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere https://kottke.org/19/01/how-to-fix-social-media-by-injecting-a-chunk-of-the-blogosphere

josef: “biggest problem with computers is they’re still d…” - Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@jk/593197

Social networks, the old way - enpo.no https://enpo.no/2019/2019-01-10-social-networks-the-old-way.html

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

The year social networks were no longer social – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/23/the-year-social-networks-were-no-longer-social/

Elon Musk is the first influencer CEO - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/21/18150813/elon-musk-influencer-ceo-social-media-tesla-spacex

Your New Social Credit Score - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WByBm2SwKk8

We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.

The Fun Is Back in Social Media…Again! https://kottke.org/18/12/the-fun-is-back-in-social-mediaagain