Your life depends on millions of people.
You and I need millions of people.
We can’t know them all. We will never meet them all. But, self-sufficiency is an illusion, often an expensive and thinly drawn one at that. The more high tech and comfortable your life is? The more true this is.

I do not care if you have a cabin in the woods. I do not care if you “reject modern medicine” —

This is one of those things I find “obvious” but I can imagine it starting a big argument for some.

It's finally done! 🎉 I am so excited to announce "Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography", the first zine from my research group!

Read online and print your own free copies: https://decomposition.al/zines/

Thread! 👇

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When I talk about the importance of going all in on the Fediverse, I speak based on experience.

At Opera we built a massive user community. When I quit, we had something like 35 million registered users and 35 million monthly visitors.

The new Opera management did not see the value of that. They believed it was cheaper and better to just use Facebook and that investing in your own community was a waste of money. So they closed down MyOpera and built a following on Facebook and Twitter instead. Then they got caught by the bait and switch when Facebook changed and you would no longer reach your audience, without paying. Later on Twitter changed as well.

This is important to explain to companies and institutions as they go shopping for social media sites to invest in. The best investment is clearly in your own site, being part of the Fediverse. It is not even all that expensive to do. It may take longer to build, but at least it is your own.

Not saying you cannot build a following on those other sites, but your long term strategy should be the Fediverse with your own server.

We try to lead the way here and thus we build Vivaldi Social. Not just for our selves, but to make a point and support the Fediverse.

#fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #Threads #BlueSky #Vivaldi

By the time you die, the information of your existence will have traveled about 600 trillion miles, mingling amongst the stars of the Big Dipper.

What will your information bubble look like? What will be your legacy to the universe? I dig into all of this in my latest Invisible Universe column.

https://invisibleuniverse.substack.com/p/the-600-trillion-mile-perspective #space #science #life #perspective #nature

Had to explain to another user why asking a volunteer project to fix an issue is inappropriate.

And I get that's it's a really subtle point here between saying "I also have this problem" (fine) and "Please fix this issue" (not ok)

i.e. You can only ask people you have a relationship with to do work for you. You can NOT ask strangers to labour for you for free, even if you think it's important, or appropriate.

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PayForFreeSoftware