Notices by switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at), page 35

@Doudouosm @feynman

It's owned by Microsoft and does all kinds of stuff with people's personal data.

@Magess

"netflix for books" = a library 😁

You can borrow ebooks from public libraries, and from Open Library.

@gueorgui @jofazepa

By the way, there is a project to provide open firmware for Kobo devices:

https://github.com/ccoffing/OcherBook

@gueorgui

As far as I know, no.

Kobo is a "least worst" alternative, which is unfortunately a very common phenomenon when it comes to hardware.

The GPL version of Cervantes was mentioned in this thread and earlier threads, but it doesn't seem to be available any more.

@jofazepa

Yeah, obviously that would be the best option, but AFAIK you can't buy the GPL version of Cervantes any more?

I've updated the "Alternatives to Amazon Books" page to make it clearer.

If you're looking for alternatives to Amazon Books, or Amazon's book-related properties (Kindle, Goodreads, Audible), here are some suggestions:

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-amazon-and-goodreads/

#Amazon #DeleteAmazon #Books #eBooks #Audiobooks

More #Alternatives:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/alternatives

Did you know you can subscribe to #PeerTube channels from #Mastodon?

Just paste the PeerTube channel's address into the search box on Mastodon, click search, then click follow.

Here are some examples:

@chrisweredigital - Popular tech-themed video blog by Chris Were

@animation - Creative Commons Animations

@documentaries - Creative Commons Documentaries

@blender - Official Blender channel

@ajroach42 - Old public domain films and serials

More #MastoTips:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/mastotips

@BadAtNames @ajroach42

Here you go, this should work if you're looking for Manos:

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/2f7f8203-349e-4292-82ec-cd19e77a8817

@BadAtNames @ajroach42

Here you go, this should work if you're looking for Manos:

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/2f7f8203-349e-4292-82ec-cd19e77a8817

Did you know you can subscribe to #PeerTube channels from #Mastodon?

Just paste the PeerTube channel's address into the search box on Mastodon, click search, then click follow.

Here are some examples:

@chrisweredigital - Popular tech-themed video blog by Chris Were

@animation - Creative Commons Animations

@documentaries - Creative Commons Documentaries

@blender - Official Blender channel

@ajroach42 - Old public domain films and serials

More #MastoTips:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/mastotips

@feynman

There was one in development last year (called Cloutstream) but development was abandoned.

I'll boost this in case anyone knows of another.

@dredmorbius

If you try to tag a post that isn't public, Mastodon already has a warning pop up straight away telling you that people won't be able to find it.

@Blort

Yup. These techniques existed already, but it seems social media combined with hypertargeted ads are removing all the friction which kept them somewhat contained in previous decades.

@Blort

Some of these manipulations are diabolically cunning:

A supposedly left wing (but secretly right wing) campaign where men were encouraged to not vote and instead they should "let women take the lead".

As these campaign ads were only shown to liberal men, all it really did was reduce the overall number of votes that liberal candidates recieved. :blobfacepalm:

@nik @Gargron @Tchambers

That's an interesting idea, it fits in with the "humane scale" concept.

I guess this comes down to self-control vs platform design, but it's more difficult to keep self-control if a platform is designed to provoke you (as Twitter and FB are).

@Blort

"These are techniques that actually work *best* when people believe they don't."

...and as Goebbels noted, propaganda is most effective when people don't know it is even being political 😟

If we want to stop the manipulation, we first of all have to admit we are all vulnerable to being manipulated. Not everyone is willing to admit to this though 😞

Then, once people have been conned, they are even LESS likely to admit to being manipulated :blobfacepalm:

@Tchambers @nik @Gargron

It's interesting to hear about that kind of experimentation. I guess it is difficult to know where the best balance between discovery and friction is, so diversity in approaches is really good.