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 :-(

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.

Western culture has a very unhealthy attitude towards sleep in general. There is only one socially accepted sleep pattern: Eight hours a night, in one block, starting at between 10pm and 11pm and ending between 6am and 7am. This “early-bird” rhythm is celebrated in to the point of fetishisation and held up as the goal to which all productive adults must aspire. To behave otherwise is to be lazy, slothful, and not putting forward your all It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming | Hacker News

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? 🧐

Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN | Hacker News

@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?

The social status of computer scientists is zero. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) | Hacker News

the Stainless Steel law: “the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net

The Iron law: “The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net

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

1. don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’

Let’s be real, here. Approximately zero of you on this social network are not also on tumblr. (And, I am cross-posting this to several social networks.) The culture isn’t gonna change much with a post-tumblr exodus.

Social Media Consciousness https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/07/social-media-consciousness/

Five Geek Social Fallacies http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

Up and running (plodding?) now on twtxt. Another day, another federated social network…

Hot take: social constructs are notoriously difficult to build universal theories about, because belief is fickle and eldrich. Talking or thinking about social constructs is liable to make them change

Science Fiction Is Not Social Reality - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pxjd/science-fiction-is-not-social-reality

Bad idea of the day: a social network where post literally fade because the contrast is computed with the inverse of time. A spinoff where bugs slowly eat away at posts.

Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.

In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.

Better metaphors for community management than ‘social engineering’: ‘social gardening’, ‘social pickling’, ‘social brewing’, ‘social stewing’, ‘social mixtaping’