#democracyofreach — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #democracyofreach, aggregated by home.social.
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Influence is unavoidable. We only know about the world and what opinions and art exists because others tell us. We make choices re who to listen to and they make choices re what to say etc.
The question is whether that influence will be imparted upon us in good faith or in a selfish effort to manipulate us. And with most media, the money involved means it will be the latter. Only the #SocialWeb enables worldwide virality because a web of unpaid people chose to share it.
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Influence is unavoidable. We only know about the world and what opinions and art exists because others tell us. We make choices re who to listen to and they make choices re what to say etc.
The question is whether that influence will be imparted upon us in good faith or in a selfish effort to manipulate us. And with most media, the money involved means it will be the latter. Only the #SocialWeb enables worldwide virality because a web of unpaid people chose to share it.
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Influence is unavoidable. We only know about the world and what opinions and art exists because others tell us. We make choices re who to listen to and they make choices re what to say etc.
The question is whether that influence will be imparted upon us in good faith or in a selfish effort to manipulate us. And with most media, the money involved means it will be the latter. Only the #SocialWeb enables worldwide virality because a web of unpaid people chose to share it.
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When you maximize the ability of humans to determine what info, ideas and art gets the most attention, I think you better society as quickly as possible. I trust us to collectively manage our selfish incentives well when power is widely distributed. Fully connected while not allowing anyone to be harassed into silence, must be our goal.
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When you maximize the ability of humans to determine what info, ideas and art gets the most attention, I think you better society as quickly as possible. I trust us to collectively manage our selfish incentives well when power is widely distributed. Fully connected while not allowing anyone to be harassed into silence, must be our goal.
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When you maximize the ability of humans to determine what info, ideas and art gets the most attention, I think you better society as quickly as possible. I trust us to collectively manage our selfish incentives well when power is widely distributed. Fully connected while not allowing anyone to be harassed into silence, must be our goal.
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There's so much distrust cause #advertising pervades everything. #Marketing may serve your short-term interest but it creates a never ending and expanding race to top others in #attention and exaggeration. Not in quality but #manipulation. What began small now makes the entire culture feel fake. We've given up demanding any kind of #integrity and now judge intelligence and competence based on how well their reality distortion field seems to work on others.
This has to end. #DemocracyOfReach
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There's so much distrust cause #advertising pervades everything. #Marketing may serve your short-term interest but it creates a never ending and expanding race to top others in #attention and exaggeration. Not in quality but #manipulation. What began small now makes the entire culture feel fake. We've given up demanding any kind of #integrity and now judge intelligence and competence based on how well their reality distortion field seems to work on others.
This has to end. #DemocracyOfReach
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There's so much distrust cause #advertising pervades everything. #Marketing may serve your short-term interest but it creates a never ending and expanding race to top others in #attention and exaggeration. Not in quality but #manipulation. What began small now makes the entire culture feel fake. We've given up demanding any kind of #integrity and now judge intelligence and competence based on how well their reality distortion field seems to work on others.
This has to end. #DemocracyOfReach
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and let's go further. decentralized media is one third of what I call #DemocracyOfReach, the other two being the social news feed (my perhaps better term for microblogging) and automatic/direct financial support.
anybody should be able to create the content however they want and anybody should be able to consume it however they want, no middleman. then it goes viral based on human boosts. then we pay creators what we can for time spent with it.
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did you guys do a write up about posts here actually being the full article somewhere? I think it's a huge part of the puzzle. I remember a podcast talking about moving in this direction with @johnonolan.
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We could beat #substack if everybody worked together.
Publish anywhere as #APnative so that it auto shares on fedi, not just a post linking to it. Bookmarking it means it queues up in our chosen reader app. Then we scroll or use TTS to have it read to us while we do chores etc. The creator and time spent is reported to our bank and used monthly to divide up and distribute an amount we choose. And we can boost the article.
Read/play, attention, support. All decentralized.
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I understand how people are coming to think of a podcast as just a talk show. But what's special is the distribution. That no corporation has to be dealt with to make them available to the world. That both creators and consumers have total choice in apps and services. This is already possible with video and getting better with text and music. And with fedi, we don't need them for attention. Next, auto/direct support.
cc @acedtect
#podcasting #peertube #owncast #DemocracyOfReach #PublicPatron
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thanks for saying this. the next step is leading a movement away from the services using these algos. I know YouTube algos are helpful to you but they are ultimately bad for society. help us build and grow alternatives. people are already doing the work, they just need more attention, money and users. please.
#SocialWeb #peertube #owncast #DemocracyOfReach #PublicPatron
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Is anybody publishing #APnative content?
I just had the thought that maybe accounts like @NewYorker could try it. Use the article object type. How would my @Mastodon server and @moshidon app process it? But maybe more importantly, could my reader app @wallabag be made to work with it? I thought we'd have #ghost and #wordpress doing it by now. Maybe they do.
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I call it #DemocracyOfReach. No algos, no ads, no corporate control. We're all using decentralized social media and all the works are #APnative. We boost the stuff we like. Sometimes it goes viral. Hopefully it can all be open access and we pay creators what we can afford, based on our time with their work.
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I'd love to talk to you about what's possible with decentralized media. People are building alternatives to all the big services and the fedi lets us democratize attention instead of being stuck with what corporate owners, advertisers and algos push. The last piece would be getting independents paid directly, perhaps via amounts we're each comfortable with that gets divvied up based on time spent with their work.
#SocialWeb #peertube #owncast #DemocracyOfReach #PublicPatron
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media decentralization is job one in the fight for a workable democracy/economy.
every outlet should be essentially an equal node on a flat network. attention only allocated by social media boosts by humans. money allocated from each of us based on how much we can donate and then divided by the percentage of our time we spend with their work.
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fighting it is why I want the fedi to win. media decentralization (ala podcasts etc) solves their control over distribution, while social media decentralization gives us a real alternative to their influence over what gets attention. our boosts let us decide together what goes viral. no corporate ownership decisions over what's available, and no or algos. if we can figure out the funding.
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I'm haunted by the dream of finding a way to democratize attention and support artists without corporations involved, because I grew up at the "wrong time" with divorced parents. My formative years were when both the internet and alternative music were taking off, and I had the opportunity to immerse myself in them. A computer job paying me enough to see a ton of concerts. So I believe in that better world. Those possibilities are etched in my soul.
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I haven't given up on the ideal, which is why I'm on fedi and working towards the decentralization of all media and finding a way to pay creators what we can afford for time spent with their work, instead of having corporations continue to dominate public attention and take a piece when we want to support artists. please help.
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Digital Detox Is Urgently Needed
Fighting #fashionistas with fashion. We have an app outline for that: iPhone or android. Not as a lifestyle tweak, not as wellness branding, not as another individual “better habits” story. These proposed apps and the wider projects have nothing to do with self-optimisation, productivity hacks, or personal purity. Framing it that way is already defeat - that’s #stupidindividualism doing the work of the #dotcons for them. What we’re facing in our digital mess isn’t only a failure […]https://hamishcampbell.com/digital-detox-is-urgently-needed/
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"Everything is available to everyone, which means the only scarce resource is people’s time and attention."
Being an aggregator matters now cause it's how people are currently getting paid and attention is managed. Both could be decentralized. All video hosted on creators' sites, made freely available and played in any app we chose...if we used our social graph for recs and paid creators directly for time spent with their work.
#DemocracyOfReach #PublicPatron #Netflix
https://stratechery.com/2025/netflix-and-the-hollywood-end-game/
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A new narrative is coming...
It will be the argument of the establishment, that we need to return to a few trusted sources. That all decentralized #SocialMedia should be thought of as #AlgoMedia, where the business model pushes the worst stuff to go viral. That basically the fedi, podcasts and blog/newsletters should not exist. They are not properly vetted.
While they are right about big tech, they are wrong about us. Trust the people. Fuck their money. #DemocracyOfReach
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What a stupid corporate tyranny we live under.
More than anything else, what people call microblogging is actually a social news feed. The public collectively deciding what info, ideas and art deserves attention. Connected to reader, podcast, video, radio and music apps. Paid for by everybody donating as much as they can, automatically distributed based on percentage of time spent with their work.
#SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach #PublicPatron
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/23/2025/cnn-drops-out-of-apple-news-feed
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imo it just seems so obvious/inevitable, in a world fully online.
If you're a creator, your work should live on your website but be universally accessible. If we spend time with it, you should get paid a portion of the money we can afford to allocate to digital media for the month, based on our percentage of time spent on it. If we like it, we should boost the work itself, helping it go viral.
How do I help get this built without being a developer?
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Most of the money that gets donated to political campaigns, gets spent on advertising. Getting people off media distribution systems with ads and instead funding the work directly, would do so much to fix our political process.
It's a huge part of why I want the #SocialWeb and #WebMonetization to win.
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I want #RankedChoiceVoting and #DemocracyOfReach and a better UN because I believe in #LiberalValues. I think we get the best outcomes for everyone when everyone gets an equal say.
I recognize individual ignorance and bias. I think fascism and the excesses of capitalism come down to concentrated power and people thinking they are smarter or more righteous than others. I can't understand thinking you were born into the best ethnicity or can somehow better discern the voice of the supreme being.
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We need to somehow get #CenkUygur #KrystalBall #KyleKulinski and so many other alternative media personalities to understand that being on YouTube etc is no protection from the crackdown. We need an alliance between people with lots of followers and people developing decentralized FOSS media services/apps. No matter their politics. Like yesterday. #SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach
https://pca.st/episode/3823d9c1-c9aa-4a32-b7d4-df2e4eab93c8 -
Over time, people figure it out. We just usually hate admitting we were wrong to people who disagree with us.
So the best (only?) thing we can really do is build systems that encourage everyone getting a variety of info and perspectives to speed it along. Cause the sooner minds change, the less unnecessary pain we'll experience.
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"Over the last 3 or 4 years, the algorithms have driven everything. You know it used to be about follower count and likes and now, it's consumption and how does the algorithm drive that. Can you reverse engineer the algorithm and that's as much of a skill as anything else. Mr Beast, if you talk to him, he'll tell you that's his greatest skill, reverse engineering the algorithms." #MarkCuban
what a stupid culture.
punk today is rejecting that. media decentralization. #DemocracyOfReach
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Got an email from #CarsieBlanton today complaining that the algos don't like her talking about #Gaza etc. Exactly what I've been saying. If you love independent artists that challenge the status quo, you need to advocate that everyone move to decentralized social media without algos. Otherwise culture is just gonna get more corporate and totally suck. #DemocracyOfReach
https://www.instagram.com/carsieblanton/reel/DJjoZjlOQSD/