Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub
This is just a hypothesis, but I believe that one of the roots of the problem is a lower ability to retrieve information, caused by increased exposure to advertisement.
I'm not sure I follow where you're coming from here. Is the idea that over-exposure to advertisement is processed the same as being provided general information, reducing people's inclination to seek out information independently, despite the fact that advertising is only the provision of specific, narrow information?
Yeah, some interfaces have somehow contorted themselves to being utterly inaccessible in efforts to be maximally accessible.
Whether that's removing any immediately visible buttons whatsoever, only displaying vague icons (with no text labels) only to be seen in that software, or weirdly expecting a certain degree of old/new tech familiarity that may be too old for younger people or too new to make sense for many to be that familiar with yet.
On one hand, I appreciate this a lot as it's been baffling to me that this aspect of Zot wasn't adopted during development of ActivityPub. On the other, I kind of feel like some of this forgets or overlooks the benefits of running fully separate identities.
I recognize that the article points to this easing that process in a way, but it's pointing more to facets of a single identity, which benefits from some degree of interchangeability depending on those facets. This is clearest in the notion of retaining one's connections with minimal disruption should one facet's instance/host go offline for some reason, but also in it being relevant to maintain the same content between facets.
This has sort of also been the issue some see with the idea of federation and the fediverse itself. Some people enjoy the different styles of posting and interaction across different non-federated/linked sites/platforms, yet in some ways federation tends to blur or break those distinctions and try, sometimes clumsily, to blend it all together. For those all in on the idea, that's a major bonus, but for those not sold on it, it's a major pitfall.
In some respects I think this may kind of help those wanting to maintain different identity facets around here, but may also create a potential tripping point for those trying to more easily maintain distinct identities depending on implementation.
Thought this was interesting coverage of a mix of different issues from inattentiveness, prompt resignation at slight effort, and tech and media illiteracy. It's difficult to determine what all the contributors to these behaviors are across different age demographics, as you see it both with the young and the old in different forms.
There's a sort of expectation from some of both to operate software more like simple machinery (appliances, more than applications) where you tap or click the buttons and it promptly and predictably responds (ideally), and when it doesn't...To simply give up and try to find a different app that works as desired, or a person to help them.
This is only somewhat related, but posting without a language selected may help across Lemmy at least. Defaults should allow seeing all languages, but for those trying to curate their feeds more to the languages they know, having a language selected that they're filtering out means lower visibility for your posts.
Also, at least in this post's case, the language selected doesn't match, so it doesn't make much sense anyway. 😅
More to your point, however, I honestly don't know. There has to be an interest from those for a different community/online space to go to, and then it has to meet whatever they're interested in posting and discussing. I kind of think more topic-focused or themed communities/instances might have more of a draw for some people, as something more open-ended may leave them at a loss of what to post about and discuss. Whereas, something a little more focused that they may know about, want to discuss, or ask and learn about, might provide an easier orientation/onboarding experience.
Simple examples being like communities related to sports, games, tv/movies, books, music, events related to each like upcoming sports events, concerts, awards shows, etc. Keeping in line with what I mentioned above, you might make these related to those in your country, letting federation take care of seeing and keeping up with international sports, media, and events, providing your instance with more of a distinct local feed that is genuinely local.
Barring weight and health concerns?
The dream buffet is the dream buffet, so absolutely!
How do you stay in the know about this kind of stuff? I’m curious about all the cool stuff out there I wouldn’t even know I’m curious to find.
I was going to mention YaCy as well if nobody else was, so I can chip in to this somewhat. My method is to keep wondering and researching. In this case it was a matter of being interested in alternative search engines and different applications of peer to peer/decentralized technologies that led me to finding this.
So from this you might go: take something you're even passingly interested in, try to find more information about it, and follow whatever tangential trails it leads to. With rare exceptions, there are good chances someone out there on the internet will also have had some interest in whatever it is, asked about it, and written about it.
Also be willing to make throwaway accounts to get into the walled gardens for whatever info might be buried away there and, if you think others may be interested, share it outside of those spaces.
As I understand it so far:
I'm still not sure what I think of this to be honest, but I appreciate some more detail on how this is designed to operate on the frontend and the backend, e.g.
In the AT Protocol network, various services, such as the PDS, Relay, and AppView, have ultimate discretion over what content they carry, though it's not the most straightforward avenue for content moderation. Services that are closer to users, such as the client and labelers, are designed to be more actively involved in community and content moderation.
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Infrastructure providers such as Relays play a different role in the network, and are designed to be a common service provider that serves many kinds of applications. Relays perform simple data aggregation, and as the network grows, may eventually come to serve a wide range of social apps, each with their own unique communities and social norms. Consequently, Relays focus on combating network abuse and mitigating infrastructure-level harms, rather than making granular content moderation decisions.
(Emphasis mine.)
Not worked overnights, but had close to'em, so I know the feeling. Here's to hoping you find time for yourself after the errands are done!
Locking this for similar reasons as I did another recent post, except this one is explicitly encouraging violent action. Further, MasterBlaster420, you seem unable to have this discussion without resorting to insulting people left and right.
See the following:
With this in mind, it would probably be wiser to permanently ban you from this community, but instead I'm giving a temporary ban. I'd encourage you to reflect on how you approach discussing this subject. Rather than suggesting general violence for enacting change, read further on the histories relating to the subject and really engage with them.
Recognize why there's an aversion to violence, who takes advantage of it to subvert its aims, and whether it may be better to help and organize those that align with you, than repel them into the arms of those you oppose.
You might want to try cross-posting this to !anime@ani.social for more responses.
In the meantime though you might check out Boogiepop Phantom and Robot Carnival on Retrocrush. Boogiepop's a show, while Robot Carnival is an anthology movie.
OP mentioned TiddlyWiki, which I think is a good option if you're wanting to keep everything together and in a pretty longlasting format, plus there's a small but creative community that's made all kinds of interesting plugins for it.
However, if you're looking for something very small and similarly flexible, there's also Feather Wiki. Outside of these two, another person already mentioned it but there's Zim, which may feel a little more comfortable to use as it's separate desktop software from your browser.
I've not made anything with Feather Wiki, but I've dabbled with TiddlyWiki and Zim and liked both for different reasons. TW for possibility of sharing/publishing in a nice looking format, and Zim for linking together different offline notes and files (it can also export to bare html which you may then make look nicer with some CSS).
Lastly there's also Zettlr that I've only just started playing around with. I think it may work a little better than Zim in terms of handling offline note sorting and linking files, but I'm not sure yet.
Despite its name, Bookstack isn't an ebook organizer or ebook organizing server software, it's more in line with a wiki or personal knowledge organizer software.
I inadvertently found myself coming across software you might sorta like @Spiffyman@slrpnk.net in the form of Zettlr. It's FOSS, uses Markdown formatting, and is able to export to a variety of different formats.
Downsides are that there's currently no mobile app, nor plugin/extension support, so the base software is what you get. Nevertheless, it's a very fully featured piece of software from what I can tell and has pretty good documentation to help learn your way around it. Bonus as well is that it's cross-platform, so you can run it across different OSes on desktop.
Edit:
Also OP, if you're really fond of TiddlyWiki but want more guidance on making it more structured, you might look through these notes. TiddlyWiki is really cool, however it certainly takes some getting used to with its style.
For sure, and I'm kinda hopeful too, for more personal sites of all sorts in general tbh.
It's that technical part though that I think remains the big barrier for many, at least for those that want to more fully hold the reins over their online space.
Blogs are cool.
The whole setting up a website and justifying the cost for a public log/journal...Not so much. It's still clunky and costly enough that it pushes people to platforms handling all the tech backend for them, whether nonprofit or for profit. I think if enough of the technical side were made less cumbersome (and this is from someone that's okay with tech jank), then the financial costs wouldn't be as much of a factor for many since for modest sites they're already rather low.
Although if I'm overestimating site setup stuff, I'd love to read how. All the research I've done has been somewhat discouraging when it comes to handling hosting a site yourself (i.e. security concerns, traffic handling, etc.).
Roleplaying as Decronym bot for a moment:
Konala, from reviewing prior posts/comments, I think you mean well in terms of environmental conservation and being more cautious with technology, and so I'd like to advise you away from any groups regarding Ted Kaczynski fondly. I imagine you must be aware of what he did, and I don't get the sense you align with his violent actions.
Unfortunately the NoSurf communities aren't very active here yet, but I think they may be a little more in line with where you're coming from in terms of moderating technology use. You might look to the subreddit version as well in the meantime to get a sense of how others are trying to approach this.
There is also !luddite@lemmy.ml, which may be somewhere in line with what you're interested in.
All this said, tread carefully as you try to find your way in these spaces and avoid being taken advantage of. I realize you're not a bot and I don't think you're looking to find/join some violent group, but I'm going to lock this thread as it's not very clear what you are looking for.
I don’t know why you would say this. Here is a screenshot I took yesterday.
Mainly because I'm one of the moderators of the community, and so can see some more detail on what happened. I wasn't aware that AutoMod is set to notify people when their posts/comments have been moderated, which is why you received that message.
As you can gather, AutoMod isn't something community moderators have deployed themselves (which is why I'm as unaware as you are of some of its functions), but is something from the admins in an effort to help moderate the instance as a whole.
Did you miss the interview linked in the article? They interviewed Mike Macgirvin a few years back, and it goes into some of the background you're wondering about.