So on the one hand we can build a matrix here and put visibility or exposure on one axis, and perceived safety on the other, and e.g. place intimacy or torture in various corners, and do the same with other social interactions and so forth. Fine.
And to reiterate: the specifics of this are highly individual. But we'll all be able to make such a personalized matrix, and so can generalize that the extremes on the matrix exist in some form for everyone.
So what this comes down to is that we...
... seek to be able to control where on this matrix we exist.
The paper is quite correct in that mastodon's "blocking" as in blocking out what you see of others essentially misses the point; what people need is the ability to control our visibility or exposure, i.e. what others see of us.
But this isn't about moderation or that paper or anything else. This is about what I like to nickname "the sofa model".
Technical details notwithstanding, all social media fucks with our heads.
Hi there,
my name is Jens; nice to meet you! (Re-#introduction for the newcomers.)
I run a tiny non-profit ( @interpeer@chaos.social ) with the aim of making the internet work for us people again. That means R&D into new protocols and such for the most part. We do this purely as FOSS.
I'm also into #tabletop and #rpg games, and metal music ( #MetalMittwoch ). I live with my family and tortoise in Bavaria, but I'm from up north in Germany.
Fair warning, I enjoy dad jokes and puns.
Tach,
ich heisse Jens, nett Euch zu sehen die #NeuHier seid!
Ich habe eine kleine gemeinnützige Firma ( @interpeer@chaos.social ) die versucht, das Internet wieder mehr für uns zu machen. Das heißt F&E für neue Protokolle und sowas. Wie machen das rein als FOSS.
Ich mag #Brettspiele und #RPG, und metal ( #MetalMittwoch ). Ich lebe mit meiner Familie und Schildkröte in Bayern, aber ich bin halber Schwabe, und halber Fischkopp, und halber Kölner.
Ich mag schlechte Witze. Ihr seid gewarnt.
I don't recall where I encountered this phrase, but I think it should be my motto.
#TerrorizeThemWithQuailty
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The public archive of XHTML starts in 2007, but the private part requires membership.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social I mean, there's also that Mozilla Corporation was launched in 2005, and crypto turd Marc Andreessen decided that was a good moment to heap praise on the new CEO https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1972656_1972712_1974235,00.html
Tumultous times, which weren't all dark. Firefox started making waves after this.
So here's another thing to contemplate.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The last bit of glue, which I can only give you second hand from personal acquaintances I shall not out here, is the frustration in XHTML WG about Google and Apple blocking adoption with ever more spurious reasons.
There's probably an archive of minutes somewhere.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The public archive of XHTML starts in 2007, but the private part requires membership.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xhtml2/
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The WHATWG position paper is from 2004: https://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/papers/opera.html
The working draft cited there edited by Google. Full authors at the bottom:
https://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/
XHTML 2.0 specs have been sitting in decision limbo since 2002, when it was finished: https://www.w3.org/2007/03/XHTML2-WG-charter
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The last bit of glue, which I can only give you second hand from personal acquaintances I shall not out here, is the frustration in XHTML WG about Google and Apple blocking adoption with ever more spurious reasons.
There's probably an archive of minutes somewhere.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social @lisamelton@mastodon.social And then we know how much Google pays Apple yearly since, well... neither 2004, the WHATWG start, nor 2008, the Chrome start, but... did you guess when?
2005.
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-apple-iphone-search-engine-safari-deal-20-billion-2022-2024-5
It's all coincidence until it isn't.
Google's enclosure of the web has over two decades of history, back when their motto was still "Don't be Evil".
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The WHATWG position paper is from 2004: https://www.w3.org/2004/04/webapps-cdf-ws/papers/opera.html
The working draft cited there edited by Google. Full authors at the bottom:
https://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/
XHTML 2.0 specs have been sitting in decision limbo since 2002, when it was finished: https://www.w3.org/2007/03/XHTML2-WG-charter
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social @lisamelton@mastodon.social At any rate, Dave Hyatt was a former Mozilla dev who switched to Apple and started Safari, and so this entire thing.
He was also representing Apple at WHATWG from what I understand.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social @lisamelton@mastodon.social And then we know how much Google pays Apple yearly since, well... neither 2004, the WHATWG start, nor 2008, the Chrome start, but... did you guess when?
2005.
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-apple-iphone-search-engine-safari-deal-20-billion-2022-2024-5
It's all coincidence until it isn't.
Google's enclosure of the web has over two decades of history, back when their motto was still "Don't be Evil".
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social by the way, @lisamelton@mastodon.social might have some views.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social @lisamelton@mastodon.social At any rate, Dave Hyatt was a former Mozilla dev who switched to Apple and started Safari, and so this entire thing.
He was also representing Apple at WHATWG from what I understand.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social As you will note by some research, in April 2005, so before the publication of WebKit, there was already discontent in the KHTML community in how Apple was developing WebKit as a fork.
How can that be? They complied with the letter, but not the spirit of the GPL. https://web.archive.org/web/20050428230122/http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/1001
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social by the way, @lisamelton@mastodon.social might have some views.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The line is straight when you know the route it took, seemingly coincidental otherwise.
But as the HipCrime Vocab defines "coincidence": you weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on.
And, err, though I'm in danger of exhausting my quote quota, the proof is in the proverbial pudding.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social As you will note by some research, in April 2005, so before the publication of WebKit, there was already discontent in the KHTML community in how Apple was developing WebKit as a fork.
How can that be? They complied with the letter, but not the spirit of the GPL. https://web.archive.org/web/20050428230122/http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/1001
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social The line is straight when you know the route it took, seemingly coincidental otherwise.
But as the HipCrime Vocab defines "coincidence": you weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on.
And, err, though I'm in danger of exhausting my quote quota, the proof is in the proverbial pudding.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social WHATWG started in 2004, with Mozilla, Google, Apple and Microsoft.
Apple forked KHTML into WebKit in 2005.
@oblomov@sociale.network @cstross@wandering.shop @jwz@mastodon.social
Jens Finkhäuser