Wikipedia Co-Founder Calls For a Social Media Strike July 4-5 (larrysanger.org) 138
Wikpedia co-founder Larry Sanger is also Slashdot reader #936,381.
He has an announcement: "Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires," says my new Declaration of Digital Independence, which you can sign. So I'm calling a massive social media strike for July 4-5 to raise awareness of the possibility of decentralizing social media, which is wildly popular whenever proposed.
Read the FAQ use the resources to learn and spread the word far and wide. Look for lots of news about this soon. And get ready! Maybe we can make a long-held geek dream finally come true.
He has an announcement: "Humanity has been contemptuously used by vast digital empires," says my new Declaration of Digital Independence, which you can sign. So I'm calling a massive social media strike for July 4-5 to raise awareness of the possibility of decentralizing social media, which is wildly popular whenever proposed.
Read the FAQ use the resources to learn and spread the word far and wide. Look for lots of news about this soon. And get ready! Maybe we can make a long-held geek dream finally come true.
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Fuck you, this is anti-social media.
Re:Slashdot (Score:4, Interesting)
post a selfie or it isn't
we've had decentralized social media at least since letters and post offices came into being...
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yeah, believe it or not, anon, when you mail a letter to the next state it doesn't go through the New York post office first. If the Minneapolis and St. Paul post offices gets snowed in I still get my mail from all my friends and relatives, because no one lives in that frozen shithole of Minnesota.
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this "decentralized social media" will still use the big bad ISP cartels, the point is that no central agency controls or knows the data, what you can say or whom you can say it to.
Postal mail and telephones had that going for them
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Basic web forums should not be considered as "social media". They are certainly not in the same category as the big liberalized wrongspeak-censored giants.
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Basic web forums should not be considered as "social media".
On what arbitrary basis did you decide that?
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How does your definition prevent personal webpages and telephones from being social media?
You seem to be assuming that one has to tweak definitions of things until they match some pre-conceived notions. I consider that a rather strong assumption.
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I will repeat myself from another comment, since it's applicable here as well: What does this have to do with being or not being social media?
To quote Wikipedia,
Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks
I don't see anything there about anonymity or the lack of it. I mean, Reddit is considered social media, and posting there is anonymous/pseudonymous should you wish that.
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Would you not consider reddit social media? How is this old ancient site which does the same thing would not be social media? At which size does it become 'social media' user 635,356?
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ah needs (Score:2)
I volunteer! (Score:2)
'Yelling at cloud' aside, I hope this will encourage some people who are current users to try going without; I've seen lots of people report (on other social media sites...) that leaving Facebook and Instagram behind was good for their mental wellness.
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Um, email? txt?
Dare I even mention....the telephone...? OR *****GASP***** written letters????
lol@vword: truths
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Yeah, somebody is angling for a couple vacation days it sounds like.
/., G+, etc. (Score:2)
What about /.? :P Also, G+ is dead. Where have U been? :P
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Does it really matter if the rest of the world 'appreciates' or even understands what you do? You do the right thing for the sake of doing the right thing, not the recognition you get, that is called being a glory hound. Find a cause that motivates YOU and pursue it. The problem is that for most people the only cause that motivates them involves getting more, more money, more stuff, just accumulating stuff in an effort to fill the internal void they can't define. Friends and family, a sense of personal acco
Just do it! (Score:2)
There are already scores of other social media platforms, start using one - why wait for July 4th!! Strike out and explore the broader world.
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Just don't make them too popular. The ISP can block anything [newsroom.co.nz]. Our Wiki friend here is off target.
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*sigh* Thanks for the reminder to start reading at +1... The system works!
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I bet this Beggathon will be HUGE! (Score:1)
Every time you go there the beg banners will be up...
I have them all blocked but there will be new ones.
I call for a notability and revert strike (Score:2)
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Pot calling the Kettle Black? (Score:3)
One of the things that I've never liked about Wikipedia is how centralized it is along with the ability for different groups to slant the information their way.
I know that Sanger has replied to this concern in the past saying that Wikipedia is self-correcting, but I would think that the same could be said about Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.
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Wikipedia has shown not to be self-correcting and has turned into another source of misleading articles that are often populated with an extreme leftist slant. The moderators or writers on there quickly revert any edits that don't fit with their left opinions,and repeated attempts to correct an article will quickly cause the article to be locked form editing.
Wikipedia is becoming like Google search and Youtube-they will show you their truth, but not your truth or someone else's truth.
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they will show you their truth, but not your truth or someone else's truth.
If you believe there are opposing versions of the truth, you might want to brush up on the definition of the word.
Facts and truth aren't partisan. "Alternate facts" is just a euphemism for a lie.
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Can you even read? There are zillions of instances of social media platforms denying the actual truth and de-platforming you if you don't tow that line.
oogoliegoogolie is speaking the truth and you can't even recognize it..
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They remove content they don't want on their service, which as a private business, is their right. If you're going to argue that everyone should have equal rights to utilize someone else's property for their message, then I want to put my "Any Democrat 2020" sign in your front yard.
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Really? What articles are you talking about? Articles with a few sentences here and there that you would rather trim, but really don't amount to much in the bigger scheme of things?
And what is your definition of self-correcting, anyway? And do you know anyone in your entire life who attains that standard? (Apart from Jesus, if he ever existed as he is
Wikipedia shows that there is good in the world (Score:2)
And the content is technically sophisticated, including on news events. While journalists write ill considered fluff, Wikipedia editors do a very good job of boiling it down to the important facts.
Sure, there is an issue with fascist editors that only delete other people's work. And I don't contribute much these days because of them.
But by and large the system works pretty well.
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It's not yet another leftist conspiracy, it's just that Wikipedia is a crap MMORPG that most people can't be bothered to play any more. The few players left camp in their territory, not fixing any glaring grammatical errors but making sure that n00bs don't change anything either.
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While Wikipedia is vastly better than something like Twitter, it does sometimes have a bit of the same virtual reality atmosphere that regular social media has, with some of the same abuses.
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Mastodon? (Score:2)
I thought this was alreayd a thing - Mastodon is a decentralised social media platform that you can host your own server and link with others. I assume its designed ot spread control, but I also assume it would be best used with servers dedicated to particular areas of interest.
but of course, "social media" is a term that refers to twitter and facbook these days, not so much social as big business corporate mind control for profit. That's why servers like mastodon will never take off.
No a bad idea but probably doomed to failure (Score:2, Insightful)
If anyone should have learned anything from the latest Project Veritas reports big tech is far too eager to use their power to exert control over discourse in modern society. To quote a Google executive: they need to 'prevent another "Trump situation" from happening.' We've already seen examples of why the entire bulk of the corporate media has used their own platforms to use social outrage and financial deplatforming to stomp out competition.
Sadly no. Much like any service having more options is always
Godwin's law strikes again. (Score:3)
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Red Scare: 2019 edition (Score:1)
The homophobic left strikes again (Score:1)
No one fuckin' cares son. Get a real hobby. (Score:2)
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When will ya'll admit what you really want is to put your alt-right B.S. in front of those of us on the left who aren't interested in seeing it?
Nobody is stopping you from using Gab, getting your news from Breitbart, or going totally off-the-rails KKK on Stormfront. Most people just don't want this shit showing up on our Facebook feed, sorry.
Look at it this way: Is there anything I could really say to convince you to shift your political views further to the left? I'd assume, no. So why would you assume
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What we learned from the latest Project Veritas report is that James O'Keeffe is still up to his old tricks.
Show us the original, unedited footage, James.
Not sure why (Score:2)
I'm not sure what the point of this is, or about the timing.
Won't people er outside on the 4th, at the beach or lake cottage setting off fireworks?
Surely if you want to have as big a commercial impact as possible you would time tour strike for Prime Day on the 15th
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Centralized media (Score:3, Funny)
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This is a dumb petition!!! (Score:1)
And the
How Could I? (Score:2)
How COULD I _possibly_ reduce my use of social media? Since I use almost none now?
Fakebook? Never.
Twitter? Seldom.
Reddit? Never.
Here? Every couple of days, I suppose.
What else is there?
Half measures (Score:1)
I second that; July 4th to July 5th, 2099.
But how will we... (Score:2)
stop the white supremacists if we don't meticulously police every single communications forum on the planet?!
Zombies (Score:2)
Millennial PTSD (Score:2)
Who's going to pay for all the millennial PTSD rehab??? I suspect it won't be an issue though since none of them will be able to put down their phones.
It's like junkies against dope! (Score:2)
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OK (Score:2)
and since I will be at my lake house, I shall also avoid checking