Aaron Parecki

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 6:26am -08:00
Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
I am disappointed so many of the people who tweet about #SurveillanceCapitalism and #IndieWeb have not setup a Mastodon account somewhere. It’s federated. It works well. There is Twitter cross-posting to ease the transition. I subscribe to https://librem.one/ .

Unless you're running it on your own domain, you don't own your mastodon identity, the server admin does. Sure it's better than the Twitter monolith, but getting a mastodon account "somewhere" doesn't solve the underlying #indieweb problem.

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 6:46am -08:00 #indieweb
Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee/status/1222129855258558466

Sure, but I just don't think a blanket "join a mastodon somewhere" statement is really beneficial overall.

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 7:21am -08:00
Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
To parrot back: Do you run your own email server? Unless you're running your own, you don't own your email identity, the server admin does.

I think distributed instances with their own rules are many steps forward from our current centralized position. Better is good.

Nope, email *domain* not email server. My email address is @parecki.com but it's gmail behind it. That means I can swap out gmail for running my own server later and nobody who emails me will ever notice. That's the difference.

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 7:27am -08:00
Justin Richer https://twitter.com/justin__richer

One of the hardest things about standards work is that there are just so many great hills to die on.

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

Tue, Jan 28, 2020 5:35pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jan 28, 2020 9:51am -08:00)
Jeremiah Lee https://twitter.com/JeremiahLee • Jan 28
My earlier point is that everyone needing to buy a domain name is an unreasonable expectation for the vast majority of people.

We pool resources for all sorts of things in meatspace society. Most people do not have a reason to be “every person for themself” digitally.

Sure, and in that case, share a domain with a friend/community you trust. My problem was very specifically with your wording "go get a Mastodon somewhere" for these two similar but unrelated reasons:

https://indieweb.org/own_your_data

https://indieweb.org/plurality

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 10:25am -08:00
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Luc Perkins https://twitter.com/lucperkins • Jan 28
I would love to be wrong, but I'm beginning to feel pretty strongly that using IRC for all communications is a good way to keep your OSS community an Old Boys Club

Exactly why we bridge all of IRC, Slack, Matrix and Discord for the IndieWeb chat. Regardless of where you join from it's all the same chat. https://indieweb.org/discuss

Portland, Oregon • 48°F

Tue, Jan 28, 2020 9:28pm -08:00
Amanda Folson https://twitter.com/AmbassadorAwsum

My time at @Vonage is coming to an end. I have ~10 years experience with #devrel or devrel-adjacent work and have given over 100 talks in the last 5 years. If you're in need of a developer advocate/community person with some management experience, let's chat!

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