#peoplenotusers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #peoplenotusers, aggregated by home.social.
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#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
The #fediverse is a consensus between app #developers on the app #features they want to spend time on to connect with the next app.
Taking care of their own herd, the users that flocked to their platform, they form narrow #interoperability bridges, so a user may graze a bit of the grass in the adjacent meadow that is owned by a fellow dev.
Until now this #app-centric land ownership model works quite well, as a recent #poll with delightful outcome among the lifestock has shown. And for every new land owner we can just build exponential more bridges to connect them all. Right?
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#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
The #fediverse is a consensus between app #developers on the app #features they want to spend time on to connect with the next app.
Taking care of their own herd, the users that flocked to their platform, they form narrow #interoperability bridges, so a user may graze a bit of the grass in the adjacent meadow that is owned by a fellow dev.
Until now this #app-centric land ownership model works quite well, as a recent #poll with delightful outcome among the lifestock has shown. And for every new land owner we can just build exponential more bridges to connect them all. Right?
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#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
The #fediverse is a consensus between app #developers on the app #features they want to spend time on to connect with the next app.
Taking care of their own herd, the users that flocked to their platform, they form narrow #interoperability bridges, so a user may graze a bit of the grass in the adjacent meadow that is owned by a fellow dev.
Until now this #app-centric land ownership model works quite well, as a recent #poll with delightful outcome among the lifestock has shown. And for every new land owner we can just build exponential more bridges to connect them all. Right?
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#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
The #fediverse is a consensus between app #developers on the app #features they want to spend time on to connect with the next app.
Taking care of their own herd, the users that flocked to their platform, they form narrow #interoperability bridges, so a user may graze a bit of the grass in the adjacent meadow that is owned by a fellow dev.
Until now this #app-centric land ownership model works quite well, as a recent #poll with delightful outcome among the lifestock has shown. And for every new land owner we can just build exponential more bridges to connect them all. Right?
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#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:
The #fediverse is a consensus between app #developers on the app #features they want to spend time on to connect with the next app.
Taking care of their own herd, the users that flocked to their platform, they form narrow #interoperability bridges, so a user may graze a bit of the grass in the adjacent meadow that is owned by a fellow dev.
Until now this #app-centric land ownership model works quite well, as a recent #poll with delightful outcome among the lifestock has shown. And for every new land owner we can just build exponential more bridges to connect them all. Right?
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If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.
Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.
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“The fundamental reason for the
study of #group psychology is that no one can give us democracy, we must
learn #democracy. To be a democrat is not to decide on a certain form of human #association, it is to learn how to live with other men.”
Mary P. #Follett, 1919⸺
#neighbourhoods #community #organizing #peopleNotUsers #meta #federatedNotDecentralized #FediverseCollectives #decisionMaking 🧐#sharedGovernance 🏠#powerSharing #cooperation 🧩#orgGovernance 🧱#orgDesign 🧩#communityGovernance -
@kenny @cjordahl @Sheril
Other #FediverseCollectives have warned of limiting and then blocking mastodon.social and #mastodon.online.
What it does: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/moderation/#limit-user
This happens because too many people there bullying said #neighbourhoods.
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The governance of #Mastodon has been a heated subject for a long time: here is an excellent article by Ana Valens (dated 2019) on the power plays in Mastodon development: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/mastodon-fediverse-eugen-rochko/ #benevolence #power 🌈#alphabetMafia #networkPolitics #devGovernance #longread #peopleNotUsers
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#benevolentDictator #EugenRochko #Rochko #leadership #security #moderation #MastodonHistory #governance #protection 🌱#dataProtection #dataPrivacy #privacy (to be continued: 👇🏾) -
{About #MastodonForks; #installment 1}
I have a hint that a conversation on the #governance of #Mastodon flavours would be useful. Here is a #longThread 🧶
Let us talk about the struggle between creator and #community. This time we include newly arrived people.
I will propose how to alleviate with shortcuts.
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@aral agreed! There's something wholesome about thinking "hmm, I wonder how many people are peopling this instance?"
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@aral @ferreiros Hi there. Agreed. 💯 I love this too. 👍
#peopleNOTusers should become trending. I also like #PeopleNotProfit
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@ferreiros May I just say that I love the hashtag in your bio. Welcome to the fediverse! :)
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@aral
I fully support your proposal of #PeopleNotUsers even if you would not been the original thinker 🙂I am also a big fan of #REScoops (Renewable Energy Sources Cooperatives) where people are not just consumers but citizens taking energy production into their own hands. We can do way more ourselves than companies and vested interests want us to believe!
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@aral I love this idea! I'm adding #peopleNotUsers to my bio
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Here’s an idea: let’s call people “people” on the fediverse instead of “users” whenever we can.
Compare:
“There are 42 users on this instance.”
vs
“There are 42 people on this instance.”
Which acknowledges our humanity more?
Language matters. We don’t need to perpetuate mainstream technology’s othering/colonial framing of “us” – designers/developers/other “clever folks” – and “them” – the users (usually one step removed from “dumb user” and usually the ones who get used).