I totally loathe tech podcasts, but want to recommend tech folks listen to @jimmyhmiller episode of the changelog. It is v good.
i am personally more in favor of a "social Web" than a "social network".
what i want to do is make it easier for anyone to make a website, and to manage that website.
i want those websites to be able to link to each other in well-defined and clearly-understood ways.
i want to make friends and express myself to the fullest, in varying contexts on various websites, without context collapse.
but it feels like #fediverse is more interested in replicating the "social network" paradigm.
30/30
Means testing harms the mean household and is just plain mean, by design.
Study after study shows that providing social safety nets - benefits the vast majority of people support - is cheaper and more efficient when you get rid of the hurdles to prove you qualify.
Means testing punishes those most in need who are often least able to spend time and energy to complete the intentionally difficult process to access benefits, and results in higher costs.
Last week, Tyler Thorsted, @archivist_Liz, Chris Knowles and I did a workshop on imaging obscure floppy disk formats at #ipres2024
As part of this workshop we produced a guide, which is available on Zenodo!
quite excited for the prospect though.
we'll write a jank wiki and everyone can just put their web links on it.
16K SYSTEM RAM...
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OK!
> LOAD "FEDI"
SEARCHING...
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FOUND: FEDI
OK!
> RUN
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*** SMOL FEDI CLIENT ***
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LOGIN: *****
PASSWORD: ************
CONNECTING TO: <MASTODON.SDF.ORG>
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OK!
ACCOUNT STATUS: INACTIVE.
NEW MAIN ACCOUNT: @vidak@social.solarpunk.au
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Does anyone know where I can find a spreadsheet or something similar where I can compare features of popular fedi micro-blogging software?