Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@qoto.org

My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”

“…when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues…”

Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan, The Demon-Haunted World, 1995
#threads #twitter

Threads is looking better and better. What I wanted from social media was:

* self-promotion from celebrities and rich people

* no control over my timeline

* strict prohibition of any sexual content

* nothing from europe

* no alt-text

* data harvesting to empower genocides

“You, boy, what social media website am I posting from?”

Great post from the Mastodon team with Eugen Rochko’s perspective of Threads. The best case is that users can follow and communicate with each other. The worst case is where they are today as two distinct networks.

Eugen seems to expect that Meta will follow through with its plans to interop and if that goes awry, worst case is we’re back where we are today.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

Robots.txt needs an update for the 2020s. Instead of just saying what content can be indexed, it should also grant rights.

Like crawl my site only to provide search results not train your LLM.

Going to bring to the Supreme Court a suit that I should be permitted to use lethal force to defend myself against anybody who dresses like a giant yellow bird in any dream I have, because the Oracle of Delphi, who I worship religiously, prophesied that a giant yellow bird would someday bring my doom.

It's the case of MOXON VS. STEVE, HIS NEIGHBOR, WHO WAS DRESSED LIKE A GIANT YELLOW BIRD IN A DREAM MOXON HAD

Everyone (looking at a nice sunset): what a nice thing for all to enjoy

Billionaires: (looking at the same sunset) am I rich enough yet to destroy the sun

Happy Enshitification Day! 💥

July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ab-blockers, Meta and Google block news in Canada...

A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on #enshitification, how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on their own destruction.

Celebrate Enshitification Day by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!

The visiting team's fans went to their rented homes, which were located in the blocks surrounding the stadium.

And the home team’s fan—who knew they were the home team because they owned both the stadium and the visiting teams’ homes—drove to their own houses, many miles away.

And they slept well, knowing that after a brief and disturbing outbreak of discriminatory bias against them, justice on the Court Supreme had been restored.

/end

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-court-supreme