𝓻𝓻𝓪 @rra@post.lurk.org

Next weekend Varia will host a meeting on feminist servers as part of a series called Feminist Hack Meetings.

Let's talk about feminist servers! In this meeting, we invite you to discuss questions like:
What does it mean for a server to be feminist, and how could it look like? What and who does it serve? What does it take to create and maintain it?
We would like to map and draw collectively our ideas and consider the possibility of setting up a feminist server at Varia, as a base for our practice.
We will bring material (like RPis and computers) to start experimenting and trying things out.
Join us!

#technofeminism #research #servers #varia
https://vvvvvvaria.org/en/feminist-hack-meetings-feb-servers.html​​

Malmö, hello ✨

Are you interested in a federated alternative to Goodreads that doesn't use Amazon?

because I'm making a federated alternative to Goodreads that doesn't use Amazon

https://github.com/mouse-reeve/fedireads

⚡ we continue the Read & Repair sessions at #varia with special guest @manetta ⚡

🌀 she'll be guiding us through discussions around open licenses from 11 to 13 🌀

http://varia.zone/en/rr-open-licences.html

New essay: Seven theses on the Fediverse and the becoming of FLOSS

Recently, @rra and I have been working on an essay highlighting questions about the #Fediverse and how these are getting entangled with #FLOSS practices. From software production to structure and governance within alternative social media, online communities and politics.

The text follows a multi theses model, to map the different things we've been looking at and publish the current state of our research.

It is the closing chapter of a new publication from INC/Transmediale (https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/the-eternal-network)

PDF of the text: https://monoskop.org/images/c/cc/Mansoux_Aymeric_Abbing_Roel_Roscam_2020_Seven_Theses_on_the_Fediverse_and_the_Becoming_of_FLOSS.pdf

Feedback welcome. We're planning to publish an online version with more references!

'The Great Google Revolt'
on labor unrests and retaliation
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/18/magazine/google-revolt.html

#Fediverse folks -- who's writing about the ethics of using SciHub to conduct research? for use cases such as bibliometrics research, systematic reviews, network analysis, but could be any research use case I s'pose

Before the Luddites: In the 17th century the ribbon-loom was actually prohibited in some European cities. In Leyden riots of the ribbon-weavers at length compelled the Town Council to prohibit it. In Hamburg it was burnt in public by order of the Senate.

See Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. I, Chapter 15: Machinery and Modern Industry → https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S5

Any recommendations of books or articles about the Luddites, which aren’t just about portraying them as technophobic machine wreckers?

* boost appreciated *

It is time for a new special issue of the Pervasive Labour Union zine! This issue, prepared by the collective Precademics 85.42.1, brings experiences of precarity in Greek academia to the fore.

"This is an attention-seeking act of Greek academic unions to make public and visible the precarious conditions they find themselves in. Far from being an academic aporia by our Greek colleagues, this is the past and future of academia itself." Leandros Kyriakopoulos

https://ilu.servus.at/category/14-special-issue-precademics-85421.html

So, there's this concept of "implicit feudalism" in online communities. Essentially, the vast majority of online communities - from old-school forums, to facebook groups, to large platforms like Twitter and Facebook themselves, even to fediverse instances - they're all run as dictatorships by default. It's built into the software - you'll have a top admin who has full, unconstrained power, they might delegate mods who have some limited powers, and anyone else has to listen to what these dictators and lords tell them. We talk about "federating" here in the fediverse, but each individual community - as far as I'm aware of - is a little dictatorship. A federation of dictatorships is not a free society, anymore than the UN, an international body composed of "liberal democracies" and authoritarian regimes is truly democratic. We need a way to start governing online communities through actual forms of democracy.

boosts++

#paris

Hi all - I'm new here so an #introduction / #introductions is due. I'm a political sociologist working with film on matters of #security, #counterterrorism & #surveillance from a critical perspective. I'll soon be starting a new collective research and film project on the politics of #computervision in the field of security.

If you're new to Mastodon, please visit -

or if you'd like to invite new people to Mastodon, please ask them to visit -

my Increasingly Less-Brief Guide to Mastodon, which (in addition to being a Hitchhiker's Guide reference) will tell you many things that are useful to know about Mastodon, and also some other things:

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/

Do you find that the status and progress of ForgeFed is clearly communicated? Is the work visible, does it look like something real that's really happening?

Plz comment & explain, especially if your answer is no :)

Would you want to see a video / talk / presentation about the project?

I updated the website main page to explain project status, feedback on that is welcome!

Girl with a Dell Latitude E6530
Leipzig ESSID: Biertsunami