smallcircles (Humane Tech Now) / is on Nostr

I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #Fediverse advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

I'd like to "Reimagine Social" and envision the rise of a #Peopleverse where social networking is seamlessly entwined with daily life. I'm dreaming of opening up #innercircles .. but let dreams be dreams. They give guidance at best :)

Previously at: @humanetech

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2024-03-12 05:46:14

The new general #enshittification trend on the #Web:
> Please verify you are a human without any Ad Blockers turned on.
#Captcha dialogs that don't work unless you turn off your #adblocker .. of course you might allow the specific #tracker that makes the captcha functional, but not always clear which one to pick.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/081/127/506/891/956/original/1a6011d56abf0400.png

2024-01-04 09:12:56

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@npub1wwt…ljy2
Yes, obviously things are way more nuanced and intricate than my 500-char toot can ever convey. In light of this complexity it is already apparent the divide is artificial, a gross simplification.
I'd rather give people this thought and leave it to them to ponder on it (or not) no matter where they are leaning.

2024-01-04 08:10:12

The left vs. right divide is mostly artificial. It's cultivated, weaponised.
Is desire for peace, prosperity, freedom and human rights and progression towards that, somehow 'leftist'?
The real divide is top vs. bottom, the haves vs. have-nots. Surely big-brother oligarchs smile in evil glee, watching common folks be driven to opposite extremes by their diversion tactics. Preparing guts and minds for the destruction of democracy that stands in the way of their further upwards rise to dominance.

2023-11-28 10:49:49

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@npub105v…hk8p @npub1zl8…pnyf
I once wrote on purity spirals: https://community.humanetech.com/t/social-media-and-purity-spirals/5263
A similar dynamic helps drive left vs. right to opposite extremes. Populist leaders may be demagogues, sociopaths, racist/fascist, etc. But are all followers too? Can we generalize and slam such labels on 2.5 million Wilders voters? If we do so and cancel them, they have only 1 direction to go: more to the right.
Feeding into purity spirals is a strong weapon, and the left is serving the right when participating.

2023-09-18 11:58:13

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@npub195l…4d7a agreed. #SQLite getting incredibly popular for all kinds of use cases. And including production DB at relatively high scale too.
What popped up in my head as an extension of this thought experiment, having taken an interest for #WebAssembly (server-side Component Model + #WASI) was SQLite + #Wasm ..
https://www.sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md
And then picture - in this case - OpenDocument as a WASI interface, backed by SQLite.

2023-09-18 11:32:28

🤔 What if #OpenDocument used #SQLite?
Benefits would include:
- Smaller documents
- Faster File/Save times
- Faster startup times
- Less memory used
- Document versioning
- A better user experience
A nice thought experiment by the SQLite folks..
https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37553574

2023-09-05 07:38:25

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@npub1df0…7gmw @npub1npf…3lrs
While this is true, there's more history. At the time #ActivityPub became recommendation the people involved knew that important improvements were required in future iterations. This just never happened. Specs never evolved and projects created their own solutions.
For many years, what's now #Streams and #Nomad protocol, created by @npub1nl9…fh6t has had nomadic identity. Why this hasn't picked up by other projects? Idk, getting such adoption is likely just as hard as evolving specs.

2023-09-01 08:03:46

Yes, you can ditch #GoogleMaps now..
https://organicmaps.app
#OrganicMaps is here. Use it while offline and feel good about a #privacy-respecting app that doesn't suck you dry of your personal information. Based on #OpenStreetMap this app is gonna blow #Google #Maps out of the water (hopefully ;)

2023-08-09 11:46:59

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@npub105v…hk8p
I see your point. Symmetry and fairness are where this hinges on, I guess. There's the aggregators' and the publishers' perspective.
We have industrial-scale aggregators with huge audiences, and many, many smaller ones. Where does it leave the content creators / publishers is the question, I suppose? Why would they create neat places for their audience, if the content is sucked out of them? How would they sustain themselves if it is monetized elsewhere, by different parties?

2023-08-09 06:35:23

#Google says AI systems should be able to mine publishers’ work unless companies opt out
"The tech company’s latest proposal about generative #AI turns #copyright law on its head, and could especially hurt smaller content creators, say experts"
🤬
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/09/google-says-ai-systems-should-be-able-to-mine-publishers-work-unless-companies-opt-out
#Australia

2023-08-06 10:06:15

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@npub1trd…ussx
Peopleverse. suggestion :D

2023-08-06 06:03:13

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@npub1trd…ussx
I use #Peopleverse as a concept/vision (not a name) to indicate the state where our offline and online worlds seamlessly integrate and are enriching to our daily lives.
In this, the name of the online space stays Fediverse, but is more technical. Same as "internet" is. Peopleverse is inherently human and social.
It is also not "the" Peopleverse, but "a" Peopleverse. It is diverse, there isn't but one. It can be personal. Emerging on the Fediverse.
May consider adopting the term

2023-06-21 20:01:26

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@npub1g8e…qdqf
I would also ping @npub12ty…vnqc here, regarding plans with fediDB.