#FreedomOfReach

2025-12-08

La multa UE a X svela il trucco dell'Ingegneria Sociale. Non è solo una sanzione economica. La decisione di Bruxelles contro la piattaforma di Elon Musk conferma i sospetti di milioni di utenti: dietro il caos dei bot e l'odio online c'è una "scatola nera" progettata non per la libertà, ma per il controllo. Il 5/12/ 25 segna una data storica per internet

scienzamagia.eu/misteri-ed-ufo

#DeadInternetTheory #DigitalServicesAct #FreeSpeech #FreedomofReach #QuartoReich #RageBait #regiaocculta #SpunteBlu

generata AI digital service act e piattaforma social x
2024-04-24

#FreedomOfSpeech#FreedomOfReach sounds only infuriating to those who mistake #Fediverse #diversity for a distributed server infrastructure they're entitled to "use".

2023-11-13
2023-10-14
2023-09-14

I've finally switched to DuckDuckGo. I can't stand how bad Google results have gotten.

I made an explicit search for my own obscure website and it was well below all the payola "SEO" bullshit. Simply typing the name produced the desired result in DDG.

I know it's not perfect, but the other products are unusable.

#FreedomOfReach #DeGoogle #DuckDuckGo #SEO #Enshittification #Payola

2023-08-13

We can't (and shouldn't) bring back the old, good internet.

We can (and must!) make a NEW, good internet.

doctorow.medium.com/enshittern

#enshittification #interoperability #labor #news #FreedomOfReach #bossware

I miss the old, good internet, but I don’t want to bring it back.

I want a new, good internet. One where users can’t be locked in because we make it legal to:

    reverse-engineer products and services, so you can leave a social media platform but still send and receive messages from the people you leave behind;
    jailbreak your devices so you can remove antifeatures like surveillance, ink-locking or repair-blocking;
    move your media and files out of the silo whence they originated and into any player you want.

I want a new, good internet where we constrain the conduct of tech companies, banning unfair labor practices, deceptive marketing, corporate hostage-taking and other forms of rent-extraction.

I want a new, good internet where it’s both illegal to impose bossware on your employees, and where those employees can legally hack the bossware their bosses shove down their throats.

I want a new, good internet where creative workers and their audiences can reliably connect with one another, where news reporting isn’t held hostage to extractive processes.

I want a new, good internet where we seize the means of computation so that the digital infrastructure that connects our romantic, personal, political, civic, economic, educational and family and social lives is operated by and for the people who use it.
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Sébastien Leriquewehlutyk
2022-12-11

Interested in GitHub's Copilot, imagining it will open programming doors? @doctorow shows bright and clear how this will slowly transition to a locked-in "enshittified" programming world controlled by Microsoft.
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RT @doctorow
The online debate over *suuuuucks*, and, amazingly, it's *getting worse*. This week, it's the false dichotomy of v - whether a platform should override your explicit ch…
twitter.com/doctorow/status/16

A handwritten letter from a WWI soldier that has been redacted by military censors; the malevolent red eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey has burned through the yellowing paper.

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

William Shaw Antliff (modified)
https://www.macleans.ca/history/this-canadian-private-wrote-and-saved-hundreds-of-letters-during-the-first-world-war/

Public domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Canada#Posthumous_works
2022-12-10

The online debate over #FreeSpeech *suuuuucks*, and, amazingly, it's *getting worse*. This week, it's the false dichotomy between #FreedomOfSpeech and #FreedomOfReach, that is, the debate over whether a platform should override your explicit choices about what you want to see:

seekingalpha.com/news/3849331-

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A handwritten letter from a WWI soldier that has been redacted by military censors; the malevolent red eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey has burned through the yellowing paper.

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

William Shaw Antliff (modified)
https://www.macleans.ca/history/this-canadian-private-wrote-and-saved-hundreds-of-letters-during-the-first-world-war/

Public domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Canada#Posthumous_works
teledyn 𓂀teledyn
2022-11-14

@audiophilestyle @virginiaheffernan @Julie @jbf1755

There is a good solid reason Search is the way it is. And it is for your own good.

The concept here is that doesn't mean how far away can you reach people, it is the opposite. It means you have the freedom to decide who can reach you.

Lots of mastodon rules are hard won, and they boil down to Consent.

If you add a hashtag, you agree to be found.

tip: click your own tags

teledyn 𓂀teledyn
2022-11-11

Presently on BBC World News :

In the line of fire: Debris throwing by wild octopuses | PLOS ONE
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

teledyn 𓂀teledyn
2022-11-10

@timbray

There is a difference here we didn't have in 1993 or 2008: this time it is open source decentralized hubs using an open standards protocol in an era of cheap bandwidth and folks have access through a ubiquitous hand held device.

Gog from Magog (barbarians at the gates) isn't doomsday, it's bloomsday, HCE (Hear Comes Everybody) because those Other Folks can have their own federation.

Here, is about me controlling what reaches me, not who I can reach.

#ZeitfuerNeues by @kenwinklerKenwinkler@semiosen.de
2022-11-09

#ElonMusk about #FreedomOfSpeech vs #FreedomOfReach.

I don't see another way but putting a softlock on #musktwitter

In plain English:

Without his $8 subcription the platform will become irrelevant to use in terms of reach

#verification by creditcard

twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDGlabMN

teledyn 𓂀teledyn
2022-11-06

@carlwgeorge @killyourfm

We're back to Hume: what does 'tolerance' or 'intolerance' mean? Ask 20 people, you get 20 answers. Does it mean laissez faire? Does it mean hunt down and genocide?

Or does it mean don't bring that stuff in here? And don't sell them airtime that then gets thrust in my face as an advert...

Repression doesn't work. Historically it backfires. On the other hand, good fences make good neighbours.

One issue solves is 😉

teledyn 𓂀teledyn
2022-10-06

@sergio_101 @atomicpoet

One of my favourite features of mastodon is how you can switch from public to group to private within a thread, so a personal aside and its follow-ups need not be broadcast, but the context is retained. also means freedom to control your reach.

teledyn 𓂀teledyn
2022-05-08

Way back, way way back, we had this long-lived largely-civil distributed open social network called that offered its own guidelines, many of which targeted to contain flamewars.

Not that it worked, but it's the thought that counts

lsu.edu/internet/usenet/usenet

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