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Uncomfortable questions..

- To what extent is #FOSS complicit to the rise of #BigTech?

- To what extent is FOSS complicit to disruptive #AI craze we face today?

- To what extent are vibe coding #LLM even possible without FOSS?

"BUT.. BUT.. The License!"

- To what extent does slapping on a license free us from responsibility, knowing that it hardly offers protection from abuse?

- To what extent did FOSS too just introduce the tech and damn the externalities?

- To what extent is FOSS complicit to the current state of the world?

- To what extent is it enough to consider FOSS to be "imbibed by good morals and values" if we can't defend those?

#poll #ethics

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App-centrism is a re-centralization force in the #ActivityPub fediverse.

For the #fediverse the accepted app-centric #SocialNetwork work method is a decentralized NPM-like dependency hell waiting to happen.

Apps that introduce extensions become owners of parts of the specs when they become de-facto standards. We can only hope for responsible #ownership, and that the project stays around to keep their #design docs and code in the air.

The #FEP and the #SocialCG are two points of #centralization we find acceptable to help mitigate protocol decay and tech debt. It is not ideal, but a bandaid to keep an utterly fragmented developer ecosystem together.

The people who do most of this holding together are volunteers that can be counted on one hand. They may burnout and leave any day, in typical #FOSS fashion.

#SX investigates the concept of #GrassrootsOpenStandards, where the standardization process matches social dynamics that exist in our #commons.

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The #fediverse is a consensus between app #developers on the app #features they want to spend time on to connect with the next app.

Taking care of their own herd, the users that flocked to their platform, they form narrow #interoperability bridges, so a user may graze a bit of the grass in the adjacent meadow that is owned by a fellow dev.

Until now this #app-centric land ownership model works quite well, as a recent #poll with delightful outcome among the lifestock has shown. And for every new land owner we can just build exponential more bridges to connect them all. Right?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116154415408228188

#SX #SocialCoding #PeopleNotUsers #ReimagineSocial

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#AI / #LLM technologies are an existential threat to #humanity well before we even get anywhere near #AGI and the singularity.

The sheer scale of deployment and integration in all the nooks and crannies of society, where we give it access to all our information, and now with the Rise of the Agents, let AI act on them too. Giving full control away from us..

.. to the owners of this technology, the #BigTech usual suspects, and their billionaire class. Folks who are clearly out to dominate us, and keep us in check so they can continue their fancy lifestyles wallowing in decadence and moral depravity.

🤖 Unrestrained AI is the tech for 🧛 unrestrained elites.

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"Ex-Google PM Vibe Codes Palantir To Watch The Iran Strikes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8o7AeHDzg

See also: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116158937812802335

Alright. Another #poll ..

Is this person's proud presentation of their creative work ..

#AI #LLM #ResponsibleTechnology #Ethics #TechnologyInnovation #Progress #Future #Society

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With quote posts we are able to shape our own micro #wiki's within our timelines and those of others, buld social graphs (technosphere) and navigate social fabric (socioshere) ..

What might we be be able to weave if the #ActivityPub #LinkedData aspects were used to their full extent and benefit?

Social semantic fabrics.

#SX #SocialCoding #SocialWeb #fediverse

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Noting a small likely unintentional side effect of the ability to edit #Microblog posts on the fediverse..

It enables would-be influencers to use that as a growth-hacking tactic in their arsenal. Whereby editing a post some time after it was published, will serve to remind all people who interacted with it before (by receiving the 'edited' notification). And for those who only favorited another stimulus and opportunity to boost the post as well.

#SX #SocialCoding #ActivityPub #Microblogging #fediverse #SocialWeb

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Cross-referenced toots may be called "universal linkrot references" or ULR's.

Fediverse then, is ULR-based social media.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116141469199837056

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Commons based: You have opportunity to introduce a post-capitalist society

Default public: Sorry, it is #hypercapitalism for you. You lose.

https://coding.social

#SX #SocialCoding #ConwaysLaw

#ThoughtProvoker  

The current fediverse is an evolutionary dead-end for 2 reasons:

1. It has painted itself in a small niche of decentralizing typical social media use cases, by means of post-facto interop and the introduction of protocol decay.

2. Lacking a proper grassroots standardization process, and with the primary mechanism for fediverse extension being only post-facto interoperability, there is no way out.

Congratulations to the early adopters, who managed to "cross the chasm" with their own app platforms. It took true grit to become deep #ActivityPub experts, and plug holes needed for your app, but you have made it. Post-facto interop works in your favor now. You are unrestrained to productively add more features in your app, and put them on the fedi wire for others to deal with.

To avoid fedi to become less and less attractive to newcomers, we must now consider:

“Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom?” -- @ben

http://coding.social/blog/shared-ownership/