Notices by Adonay Felipe Nogueira (adfeno@ecodigital.social), page 63

I missed that Palantir basically tried to say « it's a political issue with the tools we make, not our fault ». This is ridiculous.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/policy-decisions-should-be-made-by-elected-representatives-not-silicon-valley/2019/09/05/e02a38dc-cf61-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html

A core assumption of #democracy is that governments and "experts" can be wrong, that laws and policies sometimes need to be overturned. Discovering when that's the case absolutely depends on the ability of fringe groups to express and campaign on dissenting views, all of which will seem abhorrent and obviously wrong to *someone*. Governments forcing monopolistic #datafarm platforms to censor fringe views is a threat to an emerging global democracy. We must prevent this, not applaud it.

#Mediawatch on #RadioNZ interview folks from #InternetNZ about the dangerous precedent created by ISPs censoring the net, after the mosque shootings in #Christchurch:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018713324/mediawatch-for-15-september-2019

RT @felipeneto@twitter.com

Quando me perguntam pq estou apoiando causas das quais eu não faço parte, só consigo responder com esse poema de Brecht.

Lembrem-se daqueles que ficam em silêncio.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/felipeneto/status/1170740832804200449

#activitypubconf dinner at Kavarna Klubu Cross. Fantastic setting! Cherry on top of a very welcoming and enthusiastic conference.

I'm so excited to present my work on #Fediverse-wide hashtag federation, search, and subscription at #ActivityPubConf.

The recording will be available later, but if you're interested in enabling a global consistent view on hashtags, know stuff about DHTs or #ActivityPub relays, you can have a look at the paper: https://git.orlives.de/schmittlauch/paper_hashtag_federation/src/branch/master/paper_hashtag_federation.pdf

Please contact me about any questions, remarks or other feedback!

So here's a TL;DR:

Think Privacy

Data never dies

#APConf

Good morning from the Datamaze exhibition at DOX.

Malicious attack on Wikipedia—What we know, and what we’re doing at https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/09/07/malicious-attack-on-wikipedia-what-we-know-and-what-were-doing/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/m8auwxt0ny #freepost

As a non-coder who tries to be a helpful user and support rather than demand (hopefully I succeed more often than I fail), I feel like there's a need to for users to organize ourselves, and train ourselves in how to file useful bug reports, help efficiently with triage, make feature or UI requests and take part in roadmap planning more diplomatically and in the right place for a project's workflow (eg the user support forums instead of the bug tracker) etc etc.

TL;DR the desire to contribute (both time and money) is there, but it needs to be channeled and focused.

Also many people think they *are* contributing by haranguing devs about their particular school of identity politics and whatnot. Don't get me wrong, some great non-coding contributions are made in making free code projects/ services more inclusive etc. But I've seen people in the fediverse going about that in the most toxic ways. I really feel for the lead dev of Mastodon in particular, who seems really well-meaning and cops far more of that than anyone deserves.

People running commons projects are asking their users/ audiences to buy them a coffee once a month, and fair enough. We deserve that. It's so little, right? But imagine if you tried to give that much to every piece of software you use (including all the dependencies), every net service, every blog you read, every activist org you support etc etc. I can now afford to donate a bit (unlike the 20 years I was on welfare), but I'm paralyzed trying to figure out where to start.

People are saying the burnout is about a lack of funding but I'm not so sure. Maybe in some cases. But I suspect it has more to do with the increasingly stressful (even toxic) experience of being in the community. The culture wars for example. But also a massive increase in users getting involved (which is good) but being pushy and demanding instead of collaborative and diplomatic.