He/him/They/them
Raising a toddler while extending our home’s resilience in Roseville, Minnesota.
Learning about scaling distributed informal voluntary associations.
BookWyrm: @kms@http://bookrastinating.com
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I never ended up giving this talk: https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/From_Foundation_to_Federation:_The_Last_Piece_of_the_Puzzle
Maybe I should revive it ...
Seeing Big Tech folks jump into the fediverse and – without so much as a “how do you do, fellow kids?” – roll up their sleeves to write the rules, dream up commercial services, and pontificate about how advertising should run on it. 👀
But also, we should be attentive to who is having the "different experiences" that people are presenting as evidence of Mastodon's superiority, or evidence of a "better climate," because if those people skew overwhelmingly in a specific demographic, then we've got a whole new variation on the same problem.
Let me put it in terms of the post: if only white people are given the benefit of the doubt and the courtesy of being apologized to, we have a new problem that mirrors the old problem.
Erik Moeller
Luna (moved instances)
f00f/eris/continuum/etc
Appropriate Tributes
WWWTXT (1980-94)
Aral Balkan
Adam Fields
Dr. Johnathan Flowers