#disintermedia — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disintermedia, aggregated by home.social.
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A bit slow off the mark, but for the first time in a couple of months (see my thread earlier today about the hell of burnout), here's a new #Disintermedia blog post;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/nz-music-month-interview-on-deep-insessionz/
This is basically a shameless self-promotion for my interview on Deep INsessioNZ about the.socialmusic.network, which dropped last Friday. As a bonus, you get a related piece connecting the social music ideas to independent music-making and discovery in Aotearoa. 2 for the low, low price of no dollars!
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A bit slow off the mark, but for the first time in a couple of months (see my thread earlier today about the hell of burnout), here's a new #Disintermedia blog post;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/nz-music-month-interview-on-deep-insessionz/
This is basically a shameless self-promotion for my interview on Deep INsessioNZ about the.socialmusic.network, which dropped last Friday. As a bonus, you get a related piece connecting the social music ideas to independent music-making and discovery in Aotearoa. 2 for the low, low price of no dollars!
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New #Disintermedia blog post, using the metaphor of a cafe to tease out different aspects for running a platform cooperative using Free Code software;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/from-competing-digital-cages-to-cooperative/
Well, another recycled one really, this one a couple of times now. It was originally published on the archived CoActivate version of the Disintermedia blog, then reposted on the Bridge Seat Co-op. It's the final repost in a series of 5 posts related to Bridge Seat (see links).
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New #Disintermedia blog post, using the metaphor of a cafe to tease out different aspects for running a platform cooperative using Free Code software;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/from-competing-digital-cages-to-cooperative/
Well, another recycled one really, this one a couple of times now. It was originally published on the archived CoActivate version of the Disintermedia blog, then reposted on the Bridge Seat Co-op. It's the final repost in a series of 5 posts related to Bridge Seat (see links).
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New #Disintermedia blog post, an open letter version of the text I wrote in support of the KeepAndroidOpen.org campaign, and posted via the Goggle developer registration survey linked on their page;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/android-time-to-stop-hunting-the-replicants-decker/
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New #Disintermedia blog post, an open letter version of the text I wrote in support of the KeepAndroidOpen.org campaign, and posted via the Goggle developer registration survey linked on their page;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/android-time-to-stop-hunting-the-replicants-decker/
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New #Disintermedia blog post, this one another repost from the Bridge Seat Co-op newsletter on SubStuck, about how migrating from DataFarming platforms to community-driven social networks is a group activity;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/into-the-woods-we-go/
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New #Disintermedia blog post, this one another repost from the Bridge Seat Co-op newsletter on SubStuck, about how migrating from DataFarming platforms to community-driven social networks is a group activity;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/into-the-woods-we-go/
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First new #Disintermedia blog post for 2026!
https://disintermedia.net.nz/in-defence-of-servers/
Well ... kind of new. This is the first of 3 posts I wrote for the Bridge Seat co-op blog, which I'm reposting so I can stop sharing links to SS.
This one is about why geeks need to stop questing for the Holy Grail of pure P2P networks, and embrace a vision of servers as community-scale infrastructure, run by and for the people using them.
A vision of server admin of the people, for the people, by the people.
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First new #Disintermedia blog post for 2026!
https://disintermedia.net.nz/in-defence-of-servers/
Well ... kind of new. This is the first of 3 posts I wrote for the Bridge Seat co-op blog, which I'm reposting so I can stop sharing links to SS.
This one is about why geeks need to stop questing for the Holy Grail of pure P2P networks, and embrace a vision of servers as community-scale infrastructure, run by and for the people using them.
A vision of server admin of the people, for the people, by the people.
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If anyone is wondering why they're getting a bunch of notifications about posts featuring #Disintermedia blog pieces, I just edited them to replace the SS links with links to my Ghost instance at disintermedia.net.nz.
#HatTip to @lightweight for providing hosting and a huge amount of handholding to help me get this off the ground.
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If anyone is wondering why they're getting a bunch of notifications about posts featuring #Disintermedia blog pieces, I just edited them to replace the SS links with links to my Ghost instance at disintermedia.net.nz.
#HatTip to @lightweight for providing hosting and a huge amount of handholding to help me get this off the ground.
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If you'd like to follow the #Disintermedia blog from your fediverse account, I just set up an actor for my blog that you can follow from both the fediverse and the ATmosphere;
I'm hosting the blog on Ghost, which I thought was federated out-of-the-box. But it turns out I need a separate ActivityPub module to plug my Ghost instance into. As a stopgap, I can use BridgyFed for this.
#HatTip to the #BridgyFed team at @anewsocial for making this possible.
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If you'd like to follow the #Disintermedia blog from your fediverse account, I just set up an actor for my blog that you can follow from both the fediverse and the ATmosphere;
I'm hosting the blog on Ghost, which I thought was federated out-of-the-box. But it turns out I need a separate ActivityPub module to plug my Ghost instance into. As a stopgap, I can use BridgyFed for this.
#HatTip to the #BridgyFed team at @anewsocial for making this possible.
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New #Disintermedia blog post, on the way that online tools that are superficially similar can be based on very different political-economic models, with very different social outcomes;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/crowdsourcing-or-outsourcing-who-benefits/
This is a repost of a piece I wrote a decade ago. At the time this was a fairly edgy analysis, and I'm quite proud of how it's held up.
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New #Disintermedia blog post, on the way that online tools that are superficially similar can be based on very different political-economic models, with very different social outcomes;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/crowdsourcing-or-outsourcing-who-benefits/
This is a repost of a piece I wrote a decade ago. At the time this was a fairly edgy analysis, and I'm quite proud of how it's held up.
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New #Disintermedia blog post!
After months of inactivity, I've decided to declare the Bridge Seat project a success and close up shop. Thanks to everyone who backed the vision and tried to help us realise it. Honourable mentions in the blog post;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/a-bridge-too-far/
The way I worded this announcement might be a bit confusing. If I’m declaring it a success, why am I closing up shop? I explain this at some length in the blog post.
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New #Disintermedia blog post!
After months of inactivity, I've decided to declare the Bridge Seat project a success and close up shop. Thanks to everyone who backed the vision and tried to help us realise it. Honourable mentions in the blog post;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/a-bridge-too-far/
The way I worded this announcement might be a bit confusing. If I’m declaring it a success, why am I closing up shop? I explain this at some length in the blog post.
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@internetarchive is there a way I can get a full copy of data from the WayBack Machine? I'd like the most recent version of the Disintermedia project at;
This was my virtual office, until the site went down unexpectedly and never came back.
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@internetarchive is there a way I can get a full copy of data from the WayBack Machine? I'd like the most recent version of the Disintermedia project at;
This was my virtual office, until the site went down unexpectedly and never came back.
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If anyone is trying to look at blog.disintermedia.net.nz tonight, you might stumble into a construction site. All going well, it will all be tidied up and back to BAU by tomorrow morning (Aotearoa time).
Details for the curious:
We're tweaking the DNS. Mainly to deprecate the URL redirection at the domain registrar, and point disintermedia.net.nz at the About page of Ghost. Also to make the base domain name the root of the HTTPS certs, rather than the blog subdomain.
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If anyone is trying to look at blog.disintermedia.net.nz tonight, you might stumble into a construction site. All going well, it will all be tidied up and back to BAU by tomorrow morning (Aotearoa time).
Details for the curious:
We're tweaking the DNS. Mainly to deprecate the URL redirection at the domain registrar, and point disintermedia.net.nz at the About page of Ghost. Also to make the base domain name the root of the HTTPS certs, rather than the blog subdomain.
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I still need to finish hanging the curtains and arranging the furniture in the new space, but the #Disintermedia migration from SS to Ghost is complete!
Here's the first blog post I can promote using the Disintermedia domain name, telling the story of why and how I finally made the move;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/ghosting-substack/
You can follow the blog using RSS;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/rss
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I still need to finish hanging the curtains and arranging the furniture in the new space, but the #Disintermedia migration from SS to Ghost is complete!
Here's the first blog post I can promote using the Disintermedia domain name, telling the story of why and how I finally made the move;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/ghosting-substack/
You can follow the blog using RSS;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/rss
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Finally, a bit of blatant self-promotion;
I'm now in the process of moving the #Disintermedia blog from SS to Ghost (watch this space!). So as soon as I carve out time to finish the migration and hang the curtains, Disintermedia will be published from a community-hosted instance, right here in Aotearoa.
Thanks to @lightweight for supplying a test server and walking me through a Ghost set-up, and to Prodigi.nz for agreeing to sponsor some dogfooding services under disintermedia.net.nz.
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Finally, a bit of blatant self-promotion;
I'm now in the process of moving the #Disintermedia blog from SS to Ghost (watch this space!). So as soon as I carve out time to finish the migration and hang the curtains, Disintermedia will be published from a community-hosted instance, right here in Aotearoa.
Thanks to @lightweight for supplying a test server and walking me through a Ghost set-up, and to Prodigi.nz for agreeing to sponsor some dogfooding services under disintermedia.net.nz.
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As promised a week ago, hot off the press, here's a new #Disintermedia post on why it's so difficult to replace FarceBook with ethical services;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/farcebook-one-thing-to-rule-them/
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As promised a week ago, hot off the press, here's a new #Disintermedia post on why it's so difficult to replace FarceBook with ethical services;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/farcebook-one-thing-to-rule-them/
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New #Disintermedia blog post about my recent health scare (see pinned post) and the implications of #Ghost 6.0 hitting its official release milestone;
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New #Disintermedia blog post about my recent health scare (see pinned post) and the implications of #Ghost 6.0 hitting its official release milestone;
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On the subject of the ongoing enshittification of GritHub, we've been here before. From a post on my #Disintermedia blog in its early days;
"SF.net has since reimplemented its stack in Python, beginning in 2009 as a new free code project called Allura under the Apache 2.0 license, and in June 2011, a piece was posted on the SourceForge blog which finished off, 'pull up a chair, because we’re here to stay'."
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On the subject of the ongoing enshittification of GritHub, we've been here before. From a post on my #Disintermedia blog in its early days;
"SF.net has since reimplemented its stack in Python, beginning in 2009 as a new free code project called Allura under the Apache 2.0 license, and in June 2011, a piece was posted on the SourceForge blog which finished off, 'pull up a chair, because we’re here to stay'."
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New #Disintermedia blog post, and a new entry in my ongoing Indymedia stories, this one about valuing our contributions to public interest work.
Most of us feel like an imposter sometimes. Your work is more valued than you know. Rate yourself.
https://disintermedia.net.nz/indymedia-stores-4-valuing-our-contributions
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New #Disintermedia blog post, and a new entry in my ongoing Indymedia stories, this one about valuing our contributions to public interest work.
Most of us feel like an imposter sometimes. Your work is more valued than you know. Rate yourself.
https://disintermedia.net.nz/indymedia-stores-4-valuing-our-contributions
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New #Disintermedia blog post, on the challenges of keeping communications private in networked software;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/get-a-room
As I say at the outset, I am not a security professional, and this is not security advice. I’m just an old school Direct Action activist and indymediatista, with some information to add to the mix. Add a grain of salt and stir well.
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New #Disintermedia blog post, on the challenges of keeping communications private in networked software;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/get-a-room
As I say at the outset, I am not a security professional, and this is not security advice. I’m just an old school Direct Action activist and indymediatista, with some information to add to the mix. Add a grain of salt and stir well.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the blogosphere ...
2 new #Disintermedia blog posts to celebrate the southern, seasonal new year. One a sort of state of the blog update;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/guess-whos-back-tell-a-friend
... and another Indymedia Story about my experience with a police informant who spent a decade spying on activist groups, including many I was involved in;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/indymedia-stories-3-rob-and-me
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the blogosphere ...
2 new #Disintermedia blog posts to celebrate the southern, seasonal new year. One a sort of state of the blog update;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/guess-whos-back-tell-a-friend
... and another Indymedia Story about my experience with a police informant who spent a decade spying on activist groups, including many I was involved in;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/indymedia-stories-3-rob-and-me
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New Disintermedia blog post, on 25 Years of Indymedia.org and the Independent Media Centres, and what it suggests about independent media in the fediverse and beyond;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/indymedia-stories-2-another-anniversary
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New Disintermedia blog post, on 25 Years of Indymedia.org and the Independent Media Centres, and what it suggests about independent media in the fediverse and beyond;
https://disintermedia.net.nz/indymedia-stories-2-another-anniversary
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So I'm on the hunt for a new blog host for Disintermedia.
I'm living on a disability benefit, so I can't really afford to pay. But I'm happy to volunteer as a quid pro quo, and promote your service (if I didn't dig it, I wouldn't use it, which is the other reason I want to leave SubStack). Or you might just dig what I do, and want to support it.
Bonus points for a blogging engine that publishes over ActivityPub too, so people can follow it with their fediverse account.
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So I'm on the hunt for a new blog host for Disintermedia.
I'm living on a disability benefit, so I can't really afford to pay. But I'm happy to volunteer as a quid pro quo, and promote your service (if I didn't dig it, I wouldn't use it, which is the other reason I want to leave SubStack). Or you might just dig what I do, and want to support it.
Bonus points for a blogging engine that publishes over ActivityPub too, so people can follow it with their fediverse account.
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Just over a year ago, in a piece I wrote for the #Disintermedia blog, I said of TVNZ;
"If left to limp along as a for-profit, the few really useful things it still owns (free-to-air broadcast infrastructure, studios, etc) are at risk of neglect and asset stripping."
https://disintermedia.net.nz/reimagining-public-media-in-aotearoa
Called it.
This is what happens when you corporatise public infrastructure. The professional-managerial class run it into the ground.
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Just over a year ago, in a piece I wrote for the #Disintermedia blog, I said of TVNZ;
"If left to limp along as a for-profit, the few really useful things it still owns (free-to-air broadcast infrastructure, studios, etc) are at risk of neglect and asset stripping."
https://disintermedia.net.nz/reimagining-public-media-in-aotearoa
Called it.
This is what happens when you corporatise public infrastructure. The professional-managerial class run it into the ground.
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"If videos don't load, it's becuase Youtube partly blocked me. This is a depressing day."
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=CrGHGwH2wlg
Official statement from the Disintermedia DataFarming Abolition Committee.
For immediate release.
Disintermedia spokeshuman Danyl Strype says "F%&k this shit."
Ends.
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"If videos don't load, it's becuase Youtube partly blocked me. This is a depressing day."
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=CrGHGwH2wlg
Official statement from the Disintermedia DataFarming Abolition Committee.
For immediate release.
Disintermedia spokeshuman Danyl Strype says "F%&k this shit."
Ends.
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Heavily updated (recent) #Disintermedia blog post entitled 'Invasion of the MOLE Trainers'. Enjoy!
https://disintermedia.net.nz/invasion-of-the-mole-trainers/
Anyone who’s talked to me over the last couple years about the technological flea circus the impressionable SillyCon Valley business press have been calling "AI", will have noticed that I pointedly refuse to call it “AI”. Instead I refer to it as “MOLE” and talk about “MOLE training”. I thought it was about time I wrote about why, in some detail.
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Heavily updated (recent) #Disintermedia blog post entitled 'Invasion of the MOLE Trainers'. Enjoy!
https://disintermedia.net.nz/invasion-of-the-mole-trainers/
Anyone who’s talked to me over the last couple years about the technological flea circus the impressionable SillyCon Valley business press have been calling "AI", will have noticed that I pointedly refuse to call it “AI”. Instead I refer to it as “MOLE” and talk about “MOLE training”. I thought it was about time I wrote about why, in some detail.
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#Disintermedia supports the open letter from Petites Singularités callling on the EU to keep funding Next Generation Internet (NGI):
https://disintermedia.net.nz/open-letter-the-european-union-must
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#Disintermedia supports the open letter from Petites Singularités callling on the EU to keep funding Next Generation Internet (NGI):
https://disintermedia.net.nz/open-letter-the-european-union-must