Decision-making around social media. Naming those values will help you be consistent in applying them.
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♠ Data #privacy
Online data collection is too intrusive and presumptive, lending itself to abuse and creating an atmosphere of exploitation and constraint.

♠ #Smol tech
I’m concerned about the footprint of tech, and feel that the best path toward sustainability (both environmental and technological) is to prefer less resource-hungry technologies when and where possible.

♠ #Community & #trust
Darius Kazemi’s Run Your Own Social radicalized me to see social media as best organized around manageable communities of mutual trust.

♠ #Information #transparency
Disinformation may be unsolvable, but it’s amplified when the sources of our information diet are opaque.

♠ The #open #web
I’m happy to see the Web 2.0 trend toward siloed corporate platforms reversing a bit; maintaining those gains requires thoughtfulness and vigilance.

♠ #accountable tech
“Computers can never be held accountable; therefore, a computer must never make a management decision.”

It’s debatable whether Mastodon—or, for that matter, the fediverse as a whole—really fits all of those values. But spelling them out equips me to make more conscientious decisions about how I use social media.

It should also serve you as a basis for assessing everything that follows, as well as a reminder to distinguish between what it would be nice to have in a perfect world, and what can be obtained without breaking the balances that preserve our values.