Kate
Laura Ritchie 🌸An invitation - #mastoparle https://wp.me/p4Ng5z-Qb
@twryst @katebowles @Tdorey @ShorterPearson @fgraver @econproph @clhendricksbc
What do you think? Worth a go?
Paul Prinsloo
@14prinsp
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Was born curious and in trouble. Am seriously looking for alternative spaces for sharing, being, communicating... Let us see if Maston can deliver.
@beadsland @u2764 @Tdorey The theory that helps here is placemaking. Space isn't what's "out there", the passive backdrop to our agency. Even more so, place is social, co-constructed, relational. So it's what we make together. And then there's the path we make together, by walking it.
@14prinsp @ShorterPearson @mahabali @cogdog @daniellynds @sundilu @econproph @actualham @blamb @lauraritchie @bonstewart @clhendricksbc
I want to think a bit about how to clear time for this kind of activism, how not to be going flat out all the time, so that we can build on possibility together.
Soil time is like hiatus time. Space for thinking.
1. The developer is present
2. The community is really thinking through how functions, standards and practices work
3. No blue ticks, no faux celebrity
4. The kindness of strangers
5. Quality over quantity: a novel approach to growth
(Also: handstands, lenses, small stories -- new ways of thinking about how we're doing as humans)
@friedelitis @mahabali @cogdog @lauraritchie @fgraver @clhendricksbc @robparsons
So for me there's a colonialist logic to the dismissal of reflection as navel gazing. Reflection on self and practice can't detour around questions of power, and these are awkward questions for power itself.
So there's an effort to trivialise and dismiss reflection, that's worth keeping an eye on.
Hope this helps, Maha. Why did you ask?
EFF's DeeplinksTop 5 Threats to Transparency: 2016 in Review - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/top-5-threats-transparency-2016
"Mastodon and GNU Social are important, but what is missing is a larger social movement to reclaim individual autonomy while simultaneously coming together in organic communities and networks. If we all just abandon Twitter and Facebook without thinking through how to keep meaningfully connected, we've lost an important sense of social cohesion."
So much to think through here, thank you @dnorman
@Gargron you're amazingly dedicated to this platform & running it yourself is bound to throw up teething probs. You're doing great and your openness about process & attention to detail are noticed.. (sending encouragement!)
@lauraritchie @Gargron I just wanted to send encouragement too. We're all used to big corporate platforms that stay open 24/7, and in return for that they use and sell all of our labour. We pay a high price for the appearance of stability, which is really just exploitation.
The work you do here is really appreciated. So glad you are OK, and lovely that it's back.
I was surprised how much I worried about it, in a human way.
Reading John Berger's collection of short essays of art criticism, I just came across this:
"What the painting by Bosch does is to remind us -- if prophecies can be called reminders -- that the first step towards building an alternative world must be a refusal of the world-picture implanted in our minds and all the false promises used everywhere to justify and idealise the delinquent and insatiable need to sell. Another space is vitally necessary.”
(John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket)