ALAN LAVENDER @lavenderlens@qoto.org

@fediversenews

So, I think I've dug as deeply into the #hachyderm drama as I need to, and settled on some conclusions.

* Most basically, the best insights came from seeing conversations on another platform: discord.

Admins from both sides were talking. And as it's a chat platform, the engagement and conversation was clearly more direct, free, expressive and clarifying.

If the fediverse wants to be the new internet, seriously, it needs to growup and move on from just microblogging.

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A current worry: The only people with existing deep expertise in things like how the atmosphere/ocean/geosphere work are academics, who are ace at giving impartial evidence-based advice. But as lots of climate “solutions” companies spring up, these academics are consulting with them & in some cases leaving academia to work for them (often much better pay & working conditions) & are then limited in what they can tell the rest of us. So the public source of open unbiased expertise is at risk.

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway

Simone here. I've been a sound and web designer for more than 25 years. Professional bass player and producer, I've been juggling between creativity and technical jobs for decades.

I'm trying to go back to the videogame industry after a 5-year stint as lead sound designer for a console game. I was present at both the launch of Steam by Valve and Game Audio Network Guild, in San Jose, GDC 2002.

Passionate about the small web, static site generators and web standards.

#introductions

Elon Musk's New Artificial Intelligence Business, X.AI, Incorporates in Nevada - The new organization’s name suggests link to the billionaire’s interest in an everything ... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-new-artificial-intelligence-business-x-ai-incorporates-in-nevada-962c7c2f?mod=rss_Technology #paid

Welp, I'm giving another talk on satellite pollution so I have to update the numbers in my slides.

*checks https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html and https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=tle*

Oh crap, there are 150 more Starlinks than when I gave a talk on this topic 1 month ago.

3908 Starlink satellites out of 7545 total satellites.

52% of all sats now owned by one awful dude. Still with effectively no regulations. This is so bad.

Hello World!

Here's a little #introduction:

I'm a German web developer currently living the rural life in Spain making olive oil, breeding goats and growing vegetables.

Before that I spent 23 years in the UK, studying sound engineering, working at and then running a community radio station and volunteering at a #csa project 1/2

My intro: There's nothing very special or clever about me. I'm just an elderly woman who enjoys social interaction but only in an informal internet context. That is because, to be honest, I'm riddled with anxieties. Over the years I have been an artist, poet and musician as well as working commercially at graphic design. I have too many (dormant) websites to remember, but my only active online presence now is a blog. Married; formerly owned by two cats; curious about almost everything.