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• Post #4228599

  "AT Protocol is not #Bluesky… The reason I draw your attention to this distinction is because #ATProto has interesting properties, notably in how it supports #pluggable #identity that doesn't depend on the server you use… This puts power in the hands of the #users and not in those of #serveradmins. It means that you can always guarantee credible exit, you cannot get locked in. By default, email-style federation is subject to capture, and indeed email is captured." https...

• Post #4228598

  “I think the #forcedadoption of #AI on people’s devices might be the straw that’s breaking the camel’s back in some ways,” she said. “The awareness has been growing for a long time that these products and these companies that make them have an outsized influence over us, and that we’re not really using these products in the way that we would like to.” https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/

• Post #4228597

  "This article presents this phenomenon of #vanishingculture as a first-order #politicalcrisis. … #museums, #libraries, #archives must have #legalprotections to undertake four basic practices with #digital materials that they were previously allowed to do with physical ones: (1) collection (2) preservation (3) access, & (4) collaboration. #MemoryInstitutions should sign the Statement, join the movement, and work together to protect their critical role in the digital age.&quo...

• Post #4228596

  "On #Mastodon, you can set your timeline to hide or block posts featuring certain words, phrases, hashtags or emoji. You can choose to block them completely, or hide them behind a warning that you can open manually. This isn’t just about offensive posts, it can be filtering for any reason. Some use filters to hide Wordle posts for example. Your filters are private, and they will apply in the apps as well as on the website. No one will know you have filtered their posts." https:...

• Post #3771411

  O #WhatsApp no #Brasil é o símbolo do enclausuramento da vida privada pela BigTech, mas temos que admitir um sub-produto delicioso: corruptos grampeados em série. “Segundo investigações, Tuca operava como braço direito de #Cunha, ignorando fluxos formais para materializar as decisões do ex-deputado. Análises de mensagens telemáticas revelaram que Cunha coordenava diretamente a destinação de pelo menos 29 emendas da Comissão de Saúde, totalizando um valor de R$ 6.15 Mi.” https://www1.folha.uol....

• Post #3726803

  #Enclausuramento dos #grupos: sob o domínio do #WhatsApp no #Brasil O grupo não é seu. É do WhatsApp. Presente em 99% dos celulares, o app tem um custo invisível: cada grupo de família, de bairro, de movimento—sua identidade, seu histórico, sua lista de membros—pertence à Meta, não à comunidade. Se o app mudar os termos, o grupo se curva. Se sair do ar, o grupo some. Sem protocolo aberto, toda comunidade que migrou sua vida para o digital virou inquilina na casa de outro. https://identitywoman.n...

• Post #3715537

  #enshitification "…is not a story about bad people. It is a story about structure. #Platforms mediate two-sided markets, can reallocate value between sides at zero cost, and once both sides are locked in, the platform’s incentives shift from serving either of them to extracting from both. The diverging of platform interests from user interests is not a failure of the platform. It is the #businessmodel. “We just need a better platform” is not a #strategy." https://identitywoman.net/ensh...

• Post #3691063

  " #RSS is one of the best examples we have of the #openweb, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around. RSS has come in and out of fashion, been declared dead, and has come back, every time. Open systems are the best way forward to a free, equitable internet, and the resilience and continued reinvention of RSS has shown just how creative the web community can be with #openprotocols." #Xemele https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algo...

• Post #3363990

  “And now, inevitably, half of my #Bluesky timeline is like: oh, we need a service that’s resistant to this sort of shit, something that’s not beholden to capitalist pressure, something that’s queer-friendly…, quickly followed by but don’t say #Mastodon! Sorry, I’m saying it. We want fucking Mastodon. It’s run by an actual non-profit foundation, none of this “public benefit corporation” bullshit. It’s not subject to creeping network-wide puritanism. Mastodon. Goddammit.” https://giants-club.net/...

• Post #2574902

  "A campanha #Fedigov (ou Governo no Fediverso) que começou na Europa, e foi adaptada para o Brasil pela Associação #Alquimídia, visa diminuir a terceirização da comunicação pública institucional para as plataformas das grandes empresas de tecnologia (Meta, X, YouTube), seu modelo de negócios e seus algoritmos opacos. O Núcleo de Desenvolvimento da Criatividade da #Unicamp (#Nudecri) se soma no esforço para fortalecer essa estratégia pela soberania digital do país." https://www....

• Post #2495841

  Instagram como entrada para o museu... Me fez pensar em uma promoção dos "#museus pela #soberaniadigital" oferecendo conta do Fediverso nos eventos da SENSACIONAL Semana Nacional de Museus, a 24ª (18 a 24 de maio) O tema este ano é "Museus Unindo um Mundo Dividido", e são milhares de eventos espalhados pelo Brasil. A conta @VisiteMuseus, ainda em fase de testes, irá divulgar a maravilhosa diversidade de possibilidades que emergem dos museus brasileiros. Vale...

• Post #2491723

  "…as tempting as it might be to ridicule the #Trump regime’s #stupidity — and there is no shortage of material for that — it is worth stepping back and asking: Who #benefits from the madness? The world’s richest 500 people made a quarter trillion dollars in a single day when Trump threatened Iran with genocide and then abruptly about-faced and agreed to a ceasefire." https://jacobin.com/2026/05/iran-war-trump-profits-class

• Post #2324600

  "#Apple understands #browser choice is a threat to its rentier model. The #DMA holds the potential for developers to finally access the safe, open, and #interoperable web technologies that power most desktop computing today. Keeping capable, stable, high-quality #browsers away from #iOS is necessary to maintain the App Store's monopoly on the features every app needs." https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

• Post #2315610

  "#Törnberg identified 3 new kinds of emerging #onlinemedia platforms, starting with private or semi-private group chats like #WhatsApp. The 2nd category is what Törnberg calls #algorithmicbroadcasting media, like TikTok, Instagram, and even Facebook, to a certain degree, thanks to the Reels aspect. The 3rd is users interacting with #AIchatbots. “If you look at the data, it seems like about twice as many people are talking to a chatbot versus posting on social media." https://a...

• Post #2169619

  "t’s time to stop focusing merely on making #BigTech safer… …rather than trying to make the intrinsically harmful environment of #monopoly platforms better, we should make our first area of focus evacuating the tech #platforms —that is, a managed retreat to smaller forums run by and for their communities, made possible through #interoperability." @pluralistic https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/01/1081939/big-questions-problem-solving-bill-gates-jennifer-doudna-lina-khan/

• Post #2073908

  #Bounce is built on the work of #BridgyFed, which makes your #Bluesky posts visible on #Mastodon and vice versa. Using Bounce will bridge your accounts, in case you haven’t already set up Bridgy Fed. Then, Bounce can move your account from Bluesky to Mastodon by shifting personal data servers and utilizing the native “move” functionality that ActivityPub and AT Protocol have in common. “Folks on Bluesky will likely never even know you’ve #Bounced to Mastodon.”" https://www.theverge.com...

• Post #1959758

  "#Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to #communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in context. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We propose designing for #intercommunity governance: mechanisms that support relationships between communities toward coordinating on #governance issues." https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.379085...

• Post #1959757

  "Many #gov organizations & politicians to this day seem to prefer #BigTech platforms (X, Facebook, Instagram) and Bluesky for their communications. #Bluesky is based on an open protocol (ATProto) that allows data portability, but 98% of its accounts are still centralized on the Bluesky main server. I have been highly skeptical of Bluesky (even if I've been an early adopter of it) because to me it replicates many of the toxic, problematic behaviors of Big Tech platforms.&...

• Post #1959756

  RE: https://mato.social/@josemurilo/116504503074942140 A importância da #governança #intercomunidades: "…colocamos muito foco de design olhando para dentro das comunidades, de como melhorar as ferramentas de moderação e a integração, mas quase nenhum foco no aspecto da #governança_intercomunitária: a infraestrutura que permite que as comunidades coordenem, compartilhem informações e gerenciem seus relacionamentos entre si." Como sempre lembra o Thiago @skarnio ;)

• Post #1959748

  "#Facebook…the company, would constantly #bundle and unbundle services like Messenger and Photos. I mean, even Poke was unbundled at one point. This expanded beyond Facebook with #WhatsApp becoming another attempt to create one-app-to-rule-them all after Mark Zuckerberg clearly saw the success of the "super apps" in various Asian markets with products such as China’s WeChat, Japan’s Line, and South Korea’s KakaoTalk. But it never really worked. Or at least, hasn&#3...

• Post #1783249

  #PIX is the future of #money! "I can’t help noticing that Pix is actually achieving what #cryptocurrency boosters claimed, falsely, to be able to deliver through the blockchain—low transaction costs and financial inclusion. Compare the 93% of Brazilians using Pix to the 2% of Americans who used cryptocurrency to buy something or make a payment in 2024. Oh, and using Pix doesn’t create an incentive to kidnap people and torture them until they give up their crypto keys." https:/...

• Post #1754188

  "A #culturahacker é sobre apropriação da tecnologia e também sobre fazer #parentes, construir alianças entre identidades… #Redesdescentralizadas e federadas podem funcionar não só como um refúgio frente a apropriação de dados de comportamento e das políticas de modulação, mas também como eventos de construção política em torno da tecnologia. De modo a que a própria tecnologia se torne mais diversa." Será #oFediverso a alternativa? https://outraspalavras.net/outrosquinhentos/ser...

• Post #1747650

  1st question to Google's CEO, by @nilaypatel: "Do you think language is the same as intelligence?" Sets the tone for a good interview on Google's #AI prospects on #search: "If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website?" Check out the CEO's answers: https://www.theverge.com/24158374/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-ai-search-gemini-future-of-the-internet-web-openai-decoder-intervi...

• Post #1708067

  #nuclearenergy #SMRs "This is obvious stuff looking backward from 2023. As I noted recently, nuclear energy and #freemarkets aren’t compatible. Nuclear programs are state programs with subordinate corporate partnerships. No country globally has the conditions for success for nuclear generation in the 21st Century. That was a Cold War era success story…which is vastly diminished in the age of trade." https://cleantechnica.com/2023/11/30/what-drives-this-madness-on-small-modular-...

• Post #1528931

  O App como estratégia de adoção da #WebSocial O grande desafio é como encaminhar a transição do ambiente centralizado, proprietário, para o ambiente descentralizado, que estabelece responsabilidades distribuídas, e um papel ampliado para instituições que promovem acesso ao conhecimento.​ …o Fediverso é um ambiente determinado pela tecnologia, onde tudo começa com um servidor, ou um protocolo. Para comunidades e pessoas no Brasil, os espaços sociais começam com um app.​ https://josemurilo.com/2...

• Post #1341391

  "Many #libraries and #archives have begun digitizing their collections; whether that be manuscripts, periodicals, rare books, or private archives. Below you’ll find a list of #digitizedcollections, categorized by country, that contain material related to the study of #NorthAfrica, the #MiddleEast, the #Caucasus, and #SouthAsia." #DigitalHumanities https://www.arsheef.org/digitized-collections

• Post #1256208

  Hi @_elena! And thanks to @lxo for the link. As you can imagine, it all starts with #freesoftware, and in our case, #publicpolicy. #Tainacan began as a tool for publishing #digitalcollections and, over 10 years, became part of Latin America’s open cultural digital infrastructure. As a #WordPress plugin, it helped low-budget institutions adopt it easily—and now it’s attracting larger #museums too. Our current focus is bringing digital collections into #theFediverse. Info: https://josemurilo.com/2...

• Post #1177609

  "O pensamento #socialista organizou-se em torno de uma série de dicotomias – forças produtivas x relações de produção, base x superestrutura, meios x fins – e, em cada caso, colocou a tecnologia no lado neutro e instrumental: com a esteira rolante, a usina nuclear, o modelo de linguagem. Sob o #capitalismo, a classe errada direciona essa maquinaria para seus propósitos; sob o #socialismo, a mesma maquinaria é redirecionada para objetivos melhores." https://blogdaboitempo.com.br...

• Post #1157571

  #RonaldoLemos mostra como Habermas pensa os #modelosdelinguagem: "#Habermas notou que o mundo da vida estava sendo colonizado. Seus colonizadores são o dinheiro e o poder, que ele chamava de "#imperativosdeslinguistizados". Eles não precisam da #linguagem para atuar; e faz todo sentido. Se uma pessoa recebe 100 milhões de outra, quem dá o dinheiro não precisa argumentar nada. Quem recebe se alinha com as ideias e objetivos da pessoa, seja sua argumentação boa ou ruim." https:...

• Post #1156044

  #OpenSocial #Awards "These awards showcase leading projects by those seeking to develop alternatives to Big Tech products and platforms, leveraging any of the open social protocols.    Applications are due by 11:59pm Pacific Time on Friday May 1, 2026. They will be awarded during the PublicSpaces Conference 2026, held in Amsterdam June 4-6, with an in-person ceremony on June 5th." https://newpublic.org/OSA