Notices by Aaron Wolf (wolftune@social.coop)

A great proposal for social media that I'd wish to also see in #mastodon

https://nickpunt.com/blog/deescalating-social-media/

@snowdrift @SeaGL

My talk on #restorativejustice and #transformativejustice will be particularly relevant to issues around Mastodon communities such as @SocialCoop which I use.

I appreciated this as a way to hopefully wake up people about invasive tracking: https://stealingurfeelin.gs/

(it's a public awareness video that does live tracking to demonstrate it to you)

@codewiz @lightweight @snowdrift

I support reasonable regulations on ads. And yes, blocking the advertising of some of the worst things is good. But it's sorta like my quip elsewhere in this thread about social-investing.

Yes, we should ban marketing of prescription medication directly to consumers. But that's just a start.

I do find far more sympathy with arguments that maybe bans and regulations won't work or will have unintended consequences. I don't sympathize as much with "ads are fine"

@codewiz @lightweight

I didn't say whether outlawing ads would work (it's not politically possible). I just said ads are bad.

Also, jobs aren't an end in themselves. If jobs that produce zero or negative value disappear, that's good and there's no need to replace them. There's more to do in the world than people to do it. Not all of that is a "job" per se. See #bsjobs (Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber)

Anyway, Sao Paulo outlawed *outdoor* ads, and it was great in every way.

@codewiz @lightweight @snowdrift

In a world without all the harms advertising supports, all the people who struggle to keep LWN going could be better off and not need as much direct income.

If Apple/Microsoft/Google ads disappeared, it would be easier to get GNU messages to people's attention. If LWN had 100× audience size, they could have at least 5× subscribers.

Snowdrift.coop and crowdmatching aims to increase the portion of readers who donate too.

I'm not pushing unilateral disarmament

@codewiz @lightweight

From @snowdrift take on ads as a funding model:

https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/existing-mechanisms#third-party-ads

I saw some news about a backlash over a capitalist brand piggy-backing on a social justice movement.

I expected to read critiques of their exploitation of the movement for profit, undermining the integrity of the cause.

Instead, I nearly gagged as I read that the massive backlash was actually just regressive people complaining about the brand's support for social justice.

Ugh

@strypey

I still think the best compromise is simply AGPL and then using crowdmatching via @snowdrift and enterprise-focused solutions like https://tidelift.com and other approaches to get funding…

Learned today that google scans receipts sent to gmail addresses to identify all your purchases (and shows users) see https://myaccount.google.com/purchases if you use gmail

I don't use social media much, but I hear people share images as memes or something, so here goes… (note: tried and failed to determine conclusively the origin of this pic)