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- Not Missing Out … We also used to talk about social *software* and not social *networks* and now it's hard to think of the former without them automatically being the latter …
- Another Place … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention Another Place Apropos of nothing, internet friend and now-recluse Robin Sloan wrote down some thoughts about social software . I …
- Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch … When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices . I wrote about this from the point of view of a member of a social network community: how …
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in? … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Fine, Social Networks OK, so part of what my bit of the internet is talking and excited about …
- The Great Social Network Heist … We need to steal some software For us to pull this off at the “posting message social network” level, we’re going to need something better than Mastodon …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … But social. Social is simultaneously difficult and easy, but fortunately easier because danah boyd's new book It's Complicated has come out and if you haven't …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … Carrot Weather, on Apple platforms, is the only software I'm really aware of that is, at the very least, surly. 1.2 A Financial Services Social Network …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … I’ve wondered for years whether the big, centralised social networks were stabilisers (training wheels) for the social web. Just as AoL taught people about search boxes and …
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me … instead of building and maintaining the infrastructure for some sort of social software as well as the attendant problems of there being an audience, why not skip that …
- What Does it Mean to be Friends? … People treat social networks -- the apps themselves -- as different physical places. Certain people (say, software developers and product managers, I guess) see a bunch of inefficiency here because …
- It was only a receipt; It's a social problem, not a technology problem; Stupid smart lights … The other thing that happened was a nice reminder that all software is terrible these days, that software in production is a nightmare of compatibility and if something …
- Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes … Replacing the phrase "social media" with "web forum". Okay fine, feed-based, follower/following-based social media have graph relationships in the way that flat forums don't …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … Darius Kazemi is maintainer of the excellent resource Run your own social . It's ridiculously well-writen, covers why you'd want to run your own small social …
- Peek Mode … In this case, the social good and policy has already been identified - a desire for rehabilitation is validated, ratified and reinforced through a mechanism that enables offenders to …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … Mastodon and Social Networks Edition (In which I demonstrate that I am more than capable of arguing myself out of something I have proposed) Previously: s13e17: A Proposal …
- Alt Text; Reply Management Stickers … It’s great that alt text is now visibly asked for when posting an image to social software! However, it gets super annoying having to describe images all …
- Probably Not Gutless … The joke here is that Swarm, a privately social network for sharing your location with friends, would be a viable replacement for Twitter (a privately run social network …
- Breaking the rules … I guess this is because NextDoor is social? Sure, why not. Anyway. What is Kindness Reminder? It’s a feature to “promote kindness in neighborhoods!”! Who could be …
- QAnon looks like an alternate reality game … And, unfortunately, variably reinforced, like the most addictive casino slot machines and algorithmic social feeds. Because just like in real life, in these games, not every theoretical connection …
- A Different Strategy, The Sanest Choice In An Insane World … Maybe it says something to exactly how much of a social species we are and how much we yearn (or are biologically biased towards?) social connection that we …
- Infinite Canvas; A Stand-Up Deployment?; The Omelas Cinematic Universe; Taxonomies and Online Community … Have you ever wanted to read a software development parody of James Camerons’ Aliens? Are there parts of that film you can quote? If you’re subscribed to …
- Independent Verification and Validation … better software to manage software development? I am fully aware that there is the bullshit version of this which is Yet More Atlassian Plugins, The Acquisition Of Which …
- *gestures at everything* … Who have historically (and still are) been sidelined in technology and the world of software, never mind in how social sciences work collaboratively and productively with technology. Through …
- Adjust Your Register; The Curse of The Next Generation; Some Sort Of Tinkerbell; Your AI Pharmacy … Anyway, there’s a type of posting on social media where you are affecting a careless, sarcastic style in which you use lowercase, might intentionally misspell words, and …
- Mitigation Strategies; The Unbearable Necessity of Portability; Tactical Binding Covenants … But we're not just talking about software interoperability, we're also talking about requiring the absence or explicitly allowing the circumvention of software methods of preventing interoperability …