Dr Pen / is on Nostr

Tech society posts and shares from Dr Pen, Digital Media & Humanities academic based in Malta, from London. Late bloomer, a bit pithy.

Previously of home.social

#UserExperience #UGC
#DataSociety #DigitalSociety #SmartCities
#webdev #Fediverse #activitypub

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2024-09-19 10:34:57

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I live in the EU but don't have threads (I deactivated IG). So you're saying EU threads accts can't federated to see mastodon accts in their threads feeds (for example).

2024-09-19 10:30:07

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why are you saying EU users dont get Activitypub support on Threads? Is that from the Threads acct side? Becasue Im in the EU and follow several threads accounts via Mastodon apps. I do run the bridge though.

2024-09-17 05:55:49

Good day #Fediverse. Can anyone help with evidenced information for data gathering practices in #Mastodon? I need something I can use in an academic paper to justify that Mastodon does not collect personal data, track interactions or monitor platform instance users in any way for commercial or any other purposes. I hope this is true and that I can justify it. I know that users & posts are tracked/counted bc of @npub1z9g…cynx stats sharing but thats anon data
#academicchatter #data #privacy #ethics

2024-09-10 07:29:19

Every time I try to access unsent posts in #Moshidon it crashes. Is anyone else getting this problem? Megalodon doesn't do this but the UI is slightly different.
#technology #fediverse #mastodonclients

2024-09-02 09:28:51

Revised version of **Creating a city for all of us: a role for the Fediverse in archiving civic urban memory**. Accepted to Digital Society journal, so should be published fairly soon I hope.
I discuss the Fediverse as a solution to civically owned urban memory archives. I use Mastodon as an example to highlight a few key tech challenges as well as to illustrate moderation approaches.
https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/te2ms
#fediverse #urban #memory #civic #learning #archives #academicchatter #urbanism
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/067/230/573/247/892/original/2f98c5e4874ecda9.png

2024-09-02 07:00:48

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Im not saying Ive received any behaviour I would consider bad enough to 'report'. Its not about that, its a mindset. I dont get why you think not recommending Mastodon would help, tbh its the only app to recommend to ppl who come off Twitter. I know fedibros wont like that, but there you go.

2024-09-02 05:50:10

Slightly contentious thoughts:
- Why is it so difficult to sign up for a Mastodon account? We really need a way to simplify this for ordinary users!!
- If you mention Mastodon on the fedi, why do you get chased down by a fedibro telling you to [insert any issue about the real fedi] yadda yadda? Give us all a break, please.
- Why do people think of socmed as a kind of personal branding? We need to help them get over that.
#fediverse #mastodon #opensocialweb #socialweb #academicchatter

2024-08-16 05:25:02

The astonishing level of techbro entitlement, part of the "move fast break things" myth of technological determinism/solutionism. Humans are only in the way of the great society techbros can build and sell to investment bros. Like property developers, they don't care what happens afterwards. See also Musk, Bezos etc.
#ai #genai #ipr #copyright #musk #google #academicchatter
Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP, hire lawyers to “clean up the mess” - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schmidt-stanford-talk-ai-startups-openai

2024-07-05 05:15:42

Its very much worth saying - and for other nations to watch - that the UK political transition is peaceful and orderly. No trouble or violence, no mass demos on the day of election, no police at most polling stations, just ordinary people going to vote. Humour is often a gentle weapon in the UK, sometimes used to merciless effect.
#ukelection #ukelection2024 #uk #politics #ukpolitics
Img: Rees Mogg, who lost his seat, with another constituency candidate, from the Monster Raving Loony Party
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/732/138/155/360/434/original/b762703a6b8d5eb9.jpg