Blogueuse. Usages du syndicalisme et des logiciels libres contre le terrorisme d'État. Conscience de genre et solidarité de classe. Ségrégation raciale, salariale, et surproduction de masse.
Dans la même veine, on n'a pas ce problème sur Mastodon mais pourquoi croyez-vous que Twitter affiche l'ancienne TL pendant quelques secondes avant de se mettre à jour ? Pour rendre ses utilisataires plus impulsif·ves. Le même phénomène est noté sur « les réseaux sociaux » (de manière un peu vague) ; ce déplacement de la fenêtre d'Overton – de cette fenêtre d'acceptation de technologies abusives – resserre l'emprise des réseaux sociaux sur leurs victimes.
Et je suis persuadée que le modèle du microblog spécifiquement vise sciemment à couvrir le plus grand nombre de cas d'usage possible, le plus mal possible. Il a sans doute été conçu pour ça et ce n'est même pas très compliqué à faire, c'est même le fonctionnement de base de bullying, faire croire à un·e élève désespéré·e qu'à force de subir des humiliations iel pourra s'intégrer à un groupe.
- l'IRC, - les tildes, - Diaspora*, - Emacs (et lem.el, Nyxt – voir à ce sujet la planète Emacs et Irreal), - les flux RSS (Elfeed, Newsboat…), - Gemini, - bloguer (par exemple sur Plume, Write.As, ou Ghost – voir, à ce sujet, le défi #100DaysToOffload), - Org-mode, - des générateurs de sites web statiques comme Hugo, Pelican, ou haunt, - denote/notion/obsidian/logseq/roam-research…
Bref, on peut socialiser, publier, enregistrer/organiser/hiérarchiser ses idées, etc. avec des solutions alternatives aux réseaux sociaux, et à chaque fois d'une manière bien plus efficace. De bon·nes créataires de contenus sont sur Instagram, Mastodon, etc. mais ça ne les rend qu'accidentellement utiles (et, en fait, malgré eux)
J'ajouterais que des solutions alternatives existent. Contrairement à une conception intuitive de notre addiction aux réseaux sociaux (on a eu, ou on a d'autres addictions, qui ne se résolvent pas aussi facilement), il suffit de remplacer leurs cas d'usage par autre chose et paf, l'addiction s'envole.
« Nom d'une pipe, je croyais vraiment que la base de données de Recall, [le service de captures d'écran et de recherche d'usages passés de son ordinateur par IA, de Microsoft,] serait, tu sais, sécurisé. En fait il semblerait que Microsoft ait fait à peu près ce que j'ai blogué à propos de WindowsApps, à part que tu dois trouver un WIN://SYSAPPID à la place. Donc pour court-circuiter la sécurité tu dois juste obtenir un jeton pour le processus AIXHost.exe, puis te faire passer pour ce dernier et tu peux accéder à la base de données, sans droits d'administration. Ou, puisque les fichiers sont détenus par l'utilisataire, tu peux simplement récupérer l'accès en utilisant icacls etc. :D »
« Oui, bien sûr que j'ai la carte d'identité, par contre c'est écrit “Mme ********”, il a eu un problème administratif à sa naissance et est considéré comme une femme alors que c'est un homme, il est encore en cours de procédures pour changer ça…
- Oh mon Dieu, ça doit être difficile pour lui, le pauvre… »
@mekkaokereke@stux Honestly speaking as a social media abuse survivor – as a survivor of abuse by these very social media platforms, by their interfaces, by their affordances, by their (deliberate) limitations – all things that can be called “dispositives of power”, following Michel Foucault's theory –, I can tell you without a shadow of doubt that Mastodon makes people more violent and that other social media platforms like Diaspora* are, at worst, sponging negativity coming from other social media platforms, including Mastodon, as well as other forms of AFK oppression.
I do not meant that there would be no racism problem over here, or that it would boil down to an attempt at open sourcing tobacco. There's a lot of important stuff to be said about it, about the whiteness of the communities involved on Mastodon, including the open tech community and unfortunately too many activist, antifascist circles. But I also notice that the perpetrators – who could be prosecuted according to the French law – are themselves stuck in echo chambers, in a form of double exploitation as makers and consumers of assets, in a mostly closed circuit, isolating them from a differentiated society that would therefore fit into Erving Goffman's theory of “total institutions”. This is the result of deliberate design decisions from Twitter, but also from Facebook and Instagram, of which Mastodon, as a Twitter clone nostalgic of the “good old times”, isn't sanitized (and isn't meant to be).
As a result, many Mastodon users are disenchanted toward open tech because they expected this pile of glittery poop to save their lives, whereas it's doing too little for them, and often begrudgingly. This is why we should all, including white people, put more attention and funding into Aer0h's work on Fipamo.
Sel sur ma régie immobilière, caps« Bonjour, je m'appelle Océane ******, j'ai un problème de boîte aux lettres… - Bonjour, vous êtes locataire ou propriétaire ? - Je suis locataire au 13a, rue des pivoines - Ma collègue est partie, veuillez la rappeler demain »
OH BAH C'EST PAS GRAVE, C'EST JUSTE UNE HEURE AVANT LA FERMETURE, J'IMAGINE QU'ELLE DEVAIT AVOIR PONEY
eng., caps lock, salty about the French press crisisAnd then there are of course other ways to fund a mostly publicly accessible news org, e.g. frustrationmagazine.fr has several tiers with physical rewards and a bimestrial topical print for the highest tier, while the entire website stays public. Frustration has set a strong brand on the French web so people can hope that their comrades will notice their high-quality print as any fandom member would notice a rare collectible item. They're also transparent about their funding because, well, collaboration, so whenever their funds are low people help them reach an equilibrium.
This model lets them post public, high-efforts contents and thus to have decent standards with their staff, so French leftist media are still among the highest quality contents that are available for free on the web ; they might be lacking funding but merely because their niche is poor instead of a mere lack of trust from the public. On the other hand I really wouldn't mind Marie Claire going bankrupt.
eng., caps lock, salty about the French press crisisAnyway, the main takkeaway here is that people won't throw you under the bus if your business is collaborating with them, rather than commodifying them.
I'm not being judgmental here with people poorly managing their Patreons, I'm just saying they lack some community management skills.
For example, I've complained yesterday about having been thrown under the bus by carnists (meat eaters?) by a student NPO, while my vegan comrades were supporting me. But I was utterly incompetent about the stuff I was advocating for as a paranoid person; I was just asking for a conversation about accessibility (to which I was entitled). I'm not defending productivism but even in the context of the sharing economy, or in the context of a neurodivergent, mentally ill white trans woman facing transphobia and mobbing by an anticapitalist org, we need to live with the fact that our society is productivist, and that if I can't elevator pitch my comrades about free software, my paranoia and I can fuck off.
Another example is the lack of adoption of the Bépo layout because the official website hides resources in a spaghetti of a wiki, there's no straightforward, interactive way to learn it as on [Ergol][ergol.org), it's a mere improvement over Azerty instead of a truly ergonomic layout, the brain doesn't feel relieved while looking at the layout so people will just move along. It's kinda pointless to insist on other people to use your stack while it's only properly implemented for niche use cases with software baring the marks of a huge, huge UX debt (looking at you, Emacs).
And then, honestly I'm sorry for excellent journalists over here merely discussing the press crisis, I don't mean to tell them that they would deserve it or be responsible for it. I'm just saying that our news orgs are completely rotten, that their entire model is broken, that people are distrusting the press, and that we need to spin-up our own (which is easier said than done, but unskippable).
eng., caps lock, salty about the French press crisisAfter setting up a Ghost instance at web.domain.tld, the second thing I'm going to do will be to implement the server infrastructure that will complement the technology that I'm recommending to my readers (e.g. an RSS feeds reader pre-configured for Elfeed, or an IRC bouncer).
I'm going to provide them with a cool shared Unix server and listen to feedback from my community because I'll afford it BECAUSE I WILL BE PAID FOR IT.
Zero ads. GDPR-compliant metrics, thanks to @plausible. In-depth blog posts about complex issues, that will be fed from my Zettelkasten thanks to Denote.
And I'm committed to keep as few actual blog contents from the public – i.e., I'm not going to tease them for a life-saving paywalled blog post.
(And what about teenagers, what about abuse victims you absolute garage builder?)
Some of my work will be gatekept for my paid readers but I really want this to be technical work, deploying free software implementations of public domain standards instead of pathetic attempts at not subconsciously sabotaging my public blog posts quality to keep the good stuff for my paid readers…
eng., caps lock, salty about the French press crisisDo you want to get more funding? Pay a psychologist, pay a sociologist IDC, to build an intentional community of readers.
An intentional community is literal a community whose members willl defend the community's interests along with their own selfish ones. (That's directly, but fortunately tendencially only conflictual with mental illness because in my fresh, and not humble enough opinion mental illness is characterized with self-centeredness. A high potential person might be neurodivergent but as soon as they start making it all about it a form of mental illness, neuroses or something else joins the party.)
Everyone has neuroses. Make communities that heal. Make communities that people will think are good, because it will be good to their (mental) health.
Sorry for the rent.
Mediapart is highly successful not only because they provide paywalled contents, but also because they provide blogs (that will give more exposure to their readers), a solidarity pricing, and they're discussing every suggestion they get, including private RSS feeds.
They make two public streams per week where they present their work and answer to questions. And this is how you build a successful media with an 8-figures/year budget.
eng., caps lock, salty about the French press crisisJFC yes, there's a press crisis; yes, unpaywalled media are underfunded. But who would pay for that ChatGPT-grade garbage?
And anyway, with my adblocker disabled I get about 8 ads in a single page, with an autoplay video, and a consent request to send me notifications (for ads redirecting me to literal ChatGPT-generated articles, directly suggested “from Marie Claire”. I understand times are hard but I promise you that whenever there's a gleam of cooperation with an actual human people suddenly get all cooperative and wouldn't consider stealing e.g. an NPO or a cooperative. That's how NVC works!
So good luck with your “press crisis” – built on decades of SEO optimization – I guess
Idem en ce qui concerne les conditions mêmes de partage de ces informations, c'est une chose de débattre du trotskisme en réunion syndicale (c'est-à-dire, au mieux un gigantesque hors-sujet), c'en est une autre de transmettre une ligne politique claire à la télé. (Et pas « lisez Léon Trotsky », mais plutôt « vous dites ça mais dans tel livre publié en telle année, le programme de Léon Trotsky en faveur de la jeunesse et des femmes, patati patata, fin de la parenthèse ».)
Donc je m'égare désolée, mais partager des informations publiquement documentées sur les votes de tels partis politiques sur tels projets de lois et dire que d'un point de vue stratégique, voter pour n'est pas une très bonne idée ne me paraît pas aussi déconnant à l'ère du numérique qu'au début du XXe siècle.
