#reintermediation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #reintermediation, aggregated by home.social.
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Reintermediation: humans over algorithms, restoring the web we lost
We swapped human curators for a profit-seeking algorithm. We replaced the independent record store manager who knows exactly the right tune to play at this moment, the video store clerk who's watched 10,000 films, the magazine racks at the giant bookstores where you could spend a day ploughing thru with a coffee. We swapped them for some code owned by a company legally obliged to make as much money for shareholders as possible. But what if we could bring it back? Re-intermediation is the recovery of this layer at network scale. The surprising thing is there’s already millions of people developing and using a system that does this. It’s challenge is it’s still being built, so it’s often not as user-friendly, and there’s a fair chance ‘your people’ aren’t there yet. But if anything is going to bring back the best of what we’ve lost, we’re betting on this… -
"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-trackeran article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" https://www.natashadowschull.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SocialResearch-2019.pdf#concentration #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #selfRegulation #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #selfConfidence #dataDon #Schüll #quotes
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"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-trackeran article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" https://www.natashadowschull.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SocialResearch-2019.pdf#concentration #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #selfRegulation #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #selfConfidence #dataDon #Schüll #quotes
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"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-trackeran article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" https://www.natashadowschull.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SocialResearch-2019.pdf#concentration #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #selfRegulation #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #selfConfidence #dataDon #Schüll #quotes
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"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-trackeran article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" https://www.natashadowschull.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SocialResearch-2019.pdf#concentration #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #selfRegulation #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #selfConfidence #dataDon #Schüll #quotes
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"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-trackeran article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" https://www.natashadowschull.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SocialResearch-2019.pdf#concentration #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #selfRegulation #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #selfConfidence #dataDon #Schüll #quotes
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‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’
an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/
#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon
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‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’
an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/
#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon
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‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’
an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/
#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon
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‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’
an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/
#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon
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‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’
an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/
#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon
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If you are sad that the term #enshittification has escaped the lab and is now used to mean everything and nothing, try the term #reintermediation and see if it captures it better and is more resilient to mutation.
It's boring and it's already a financial term that banks unashamedly think is a good thing, but I don't think #ReUnDisintermediation stands a chance, even if I'd like it to.
Maybe #CaptiveReintermediation retains more of that sinister tone.