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Date: Fri Jan 31 13:40:48 +0100
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@@ -75,9 +77,12 @@ class: inverted
---
-## "What if we were to accept that the goal of theory is not to extend knowledge by confirming what we already know, that the world is a place of domination and oppression? What if we asked theory instead to help us see openings, to provide a space of freedom and possibility?"
+class:center,middle
+
+.center.middle.quote[
+## “ What if we were to accept that the goal of theory is not to extend knowledge by confirming what we already know, that the world is a place of domination and oppression? What if we asked theory instead to help us see openings, to provide a space of freedom and possibility? ”]
-2008, J.K Gibson-Graham after Eve Sedgewick in *Diverse Economies: performative practices for 'other worlds'*
+.left.bottom[2008, J.K Gibson-Graham after Eve Sedgewick in *Diverse Economies: performative practices for 'other worlds'*]
???
@@ -143,23 +148,22 @@ background-image: url(thefediverse.jpg)
???
----
-class: center, middle
-
-
-
-???
-
- example of diversity of type of community/companies
- impact on the way these community are regulated
(moving from centralised service, to reddit style dependance, to experimentation self governance with the deisgn of own TOS, CoC, etc)
---
+class: inverted
-???
+# HOWEVER
+also:
+* white nationalists
+* porn
+* trolls
+???
Consequence: you do not join Mastodon, you join the Fediverse
@@ -247,15 +251,11 @@ Ultimately, how to deal with a concept such as openness in this context?
???
----
-
-.faded[# THESIS 2
-## Fediverse as an ongoing critique of openness?]
-
-## Openness
+openness, universality, and the free circulation of information have been central narratives for promoting technological progress
---
+
.faded[# THESIS 2
## Fediverse as an ongoing critique of openness?]
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ Ultimately, how to deal with a concept such as openness in this context?
???
-The concepts of openness, universality, and the free circulation of information have been central narratives for promoting technological progress
+also for the promotion of the growth of the internet and the web
+
--
@@ -271,8 +272,8 @@ The concepts of openness, universality, and the free circulation of information
???
-and growth of the internet in general and the
-web specifically.
+At the same time these are also the core liberal values that underpinned the F/LOSS movement
+
--
@@ -280,12 +281,16 @@ web specifically.
???
-These are also the core liberal values that have underpinned the FLOSS movement
+and by extension also how social media has been said to be democratizing
--
## and how social media has been promoted..
+???
+
+
+
---
.faded[
@@ -310,7 +315,7 @@ These are also the core liberal values that have underpinned the FLOSS movement
--
-## = more participation
+## = more knowledge
--
@@ -322,43 +327,53 @@ Universality and openness are also the core liberal values that have underpinned
---
-## Early fediverse software
+## Early fediverse software response to social media
--
-## recover the liberal values
+## Yes: liberal values No: commercial exploitation
---
+??
-## but remove the commercial exploitation
+early fediverse software tried to recover the liberal values
---
+but get rid of the commercial exploitation
-## same liberal values, (max interconnection, universality and growth)
-
-???
-
-all federation software that came up from this were in line with this, maxixum integration
+in effect assuming that maximum interconnection universality and growth would be beneficial.
--
-## which worked for F/LOSS adjacent crowds
+## This works for F/LOSS adjacent crowds
+
+?? but maybe only for floss adjacent crowds
---
# ~ 2017 Mastodon
+???
+
+with the mastodon project more diverse communities joined the fediverse, including queer and gaming communities
+
--
## more diverse communities
+???
+
+these diverser communities, with harassment and things like Gamergate in mind started challenging the assumption those previous liberal assumptions
+
--
## challenge those liberal underpinnings
+???
+
+they brought with them critiques and practices of queer and feminst theories
+
--
-## if *anyone* is welcome, not *everyone* can join TODO
+## if *anyone* can join, not *everyone* is welcome
???
@@ -509,7 +524,11 @@ Regardless of how this will be evolving, if the Fediverse is telling us anything
.faded[# THESIS 4
## Fediverse as a shift from a technical to a social understanding of privacy?]
-So one of the effects of the above could be that we see a shift from merely technical understanding of privacy in the field of foss to a more social understanding.
+encryption, peer2peer,
+
+???
+
+So one of the effects of the above could be that we see a shift from a very technical to a more social understanding of privacy in the field of foss
Historically debates around the risks of social media have been focused on privacy and surveillance. Especially after snowden in 2013. This gave rise to many predominantly technical solutions such as the preliferation of specialised apps for encrypted chat and mail.
@@ -517,10 +536,27 @@ Many of these specialised tools tried ot address issues of surveillance at the n
on the fedi however there is an emphasis on responsibility around the instance, the community you belong to.
-But also on fediverse shift of threat model, not NSA anymore but the threat is the context of social interaction,
+But also on fediverse shift of threat model, not NSA anymore but the threat is the context of social interaction online,
+
+these question are brought up particularly by marginalised communities that joined the fediverse as they sought safer spaces than CSM
+
+---
+
+class:center,middle
+
+.quote[
+## "Much of the modern rhetoric around [...] privacy tools is focused on state surveillance. Queer communities often wish to hide things from some of their family and friends, while also being able to share parts of their life with others.. [...] aspects of queer lives underserved by the modern privacy community."]
+
+???
+
+bring up the idea of queer privacy.
+
+
+---
-these question are brought up by marginalised communities, bring up the idea of queer privacy.
+So we witness the large scale trying out of a model which is not about trusting the technology as much as trusting the community.
+This obviously has its limitations and potential pitfalls but allowed a large group to try first hand what an alternative could be like and consequently negotiate how it should work, also on the technical level.
This is a yet again a third way, that is neither the model of privacy where
technically inclined individuals are in full command of their own
