I see similar experiences all the time. It makes you realise just how much the recommendation algorithms have been in control over the content that influences us, rather than the human participants.
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Beautiful piece by @ewen about Mastodon and the Fediverse.
Great description of how social media platforms donât suddenly disappear but instead âerode slowly like a Ship of Theseus morphing into the Wreck of the Hesperusâ
And some great explanation on how recommendation algorithms ruin experiences.
âOver time the algorithms get mean.â â But the Fediverse is ultimately a place where you can set the boundaries without being gamed by an algorithm.â
@mookie Wohoo!! Given that this is the first year ever I am playing around with servers Iâm feeling pretty awesome about making this happen.
@m
Hetzner here. But I misspoke. This server is actually in Finland!
Okay, if anyone is seeing this I managed to move this instance from a server in Sweden to a server in Germany (edit: Oops. Actually: Finland), managing to copy and restore the database, and hopefully keeping most stuff intact⊠đ
If things are âmisbehavingâ for a while longer itâs because the domain name has moved to a new ip address and that pointer has to be removed and refreshed in various caching systems.
I am learning so much and having great fun experimenting, I have to say.
Taking my server offline in 20 minutes. Will attempt a server migration. Outage will likely last at least a few hours... We'll see đ
@samuel
I use my Ghost blogs (self-hosted) as the newsletter platform as well. So each newsletter is a blog post that is also sent out as a newsletter.
(Not every post is a newsletter)
https://axbom.com/tag/newsletter/
Today I had the first introduction to the remote course I'm attending this semester at UmeÄ university. The topic is Media, Communication and Sustainability.
The first assignment is due on Friday and I'm almost done. Obviously excited about going back to school.
Wanted to share: I was very heart-warmed by the fact that the logo on all slides is complemented with the university name written in a SĂĄmi language.
So instead of UmeÄ universitet (Swedish) the written part of the logo reads Ubmejen UniversitiÀhta (Ume Såmi).
If you are unaware, the SĂĄmi are indigenous to large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Murmansk Oblast, Russia.
This university is located in the north-east of Sweden and I was glad to see their recognition of the SĂĄmi in a prominent position on every single slide.
I have about 50 links I want to include in my newsletter. Which is too much. So I've been postponing my newsletter while I figure out how to prioritise.
Meanwhile the number of links keep increasing...
@aral I've always heard this was a design critique specifically directed at hostile architecture but now I feel more unsure.
@Catweazle @stooovie
This appears to be the best clue Iâve found:
âArtist Fabian Brunsing tackled similar themes with a piece which criticizes the privatization of our public spaces.â
@dinkompismia Har lÀst ikapp. Usch vilken obehaglig hÀndelse. Hoppas du fÄtt/fÄr tid och ro för ÄterhÀmtning och bearbetning.
@LeoR1010 VÀldigt tacksam att du Àr hÀr Leo. SvÄrt att komma pÄ nÄgon som Àr mer jordnÀra och reflekterande. Du uppmuntrar till mer eftertanke hos mig.
@m
Very good points. I really need to do a writeup on all these insights!
@joeldebruijn
@joeldebruijn In the end I had no problem moving across followers from Mastodon to Akkoma. (works the same way as Mastodon to Mastodon instance migration and you have to redirect your old account). I did lose thousands of followers but as Iâve written about I believe those to be abandoned accounts. Which means it was probably a good thing :)
Follows works with exporting and importing a csv file.
https://axbom.me/notice/ARb5w5wAjbb9PcCoVM
@deltatux Ah, interesting. Thanks!
Don't mind me. Just adding some posts that can be pinned to my profile, as one does. đ
(Noticing that Mastodon doesn't seem to do a good job of interpreting bullet lists in Markdown nor HTML).
One way of getting to know me is my writing and my talks.
Here is a selection of posts within the areas of Digital Ethics, Human Rights, Usability, Accessibility and more â all with a leaning towards design and communication theory.
- The Elements of Digital Ethics
- AI and Human Rights - video and transcript
- The Trouble Diamond
- Design for Universal Wellbeing
- The world map that reboots your brain
- The slavery supported by that device in your pocket
- Tech addiction: Why it matters
- Digital Compassion: A Human Act
- Fairy tale experiences talk at UXLx - my first talk on design ethics in front of an international audience
- 25 years of online resilience - a newsletter about #indieweb
- Digital abuse is hard to leave â by design
I teach, consult and write about these issues. If you want to know more, donât hesitate to contact me.
@Mabande @dinkompismia Sicken serendipity! Nu har jag lagt till den dĂ€r boken pĂ„ lĂ€slistan ocksĂ„. đ
@dudleytribune Iâm not sure if you have misunderstood something. Twitter is not involved in this at all. Iâm moving from a self-hosted Mastodon instance to a self-hosted Akkoma instance.
I agree about followers not being a useful metric, but the assumption here is that if someone follows me in the Fediverse they donât want to just suddenly lose contact when an account moves to another instance.