Alek @tarkowski@101010.pl

Creative Commons, SPARC and EIFL have launched the Open Climate Campaign (https://openclimatecampaign.org) - which uses Open Access methods to help selve the climate crisis.

Worth noting is also the grassroots Open Climate community, launched in 2021 (https://www.appropedia.org/Open_Climate).

It's high time to consider #OpenClimate one more, crucial, "flavor" of the Open Movement.

Jonathan Zittrain recently wrote in The Atlantic that platforms like Twitter or Facebook could be fixed by "community governance”.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-mark-zuckerberg/661219/

(Fediverse is not mentioned, though it easily could have been - Zittrain mentions Twitter and Project BlueSky).

Community governance indeed is a good idea. Which made me think - does it happen in the Fediverse?

Are there servers that are community- and not admin-managed?
And are what is the governance of the #Fediverse protocols?

Any advice / pointers / knowledge will be much appreciated by me, thanks!

A post about https://assemblag.es led me to HomeTown, a fork of Mastodon tweaked by @darius for a more localized experience.

It’s refreshing to see someone experiment with Mastodon functionalities. Darius says the fork is still “99.99% Mastodon" but the 0.01% feels like a valuable difference.

And now I'm curious - is there a place where server functionality designers hang out and talk shop? In other words, where does #Mastodon innovation happen?

Here's HomeTown:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

I still don't understand why there are no previous on #Mastodon, the chopped links look disfunctional and unfriendly…

"With the mass decentralization of culture, even while platforms are becoming increasingly centralized, there’s no way for a sane person to keep up" - Terry Nguyen on trends (and their death, of sorts - at the hand of TikTok).

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23065462/trends-death-subcultures-style?r=hbmw

I like the idea that cultural decentralization fuels centralization at the platform layer. Smart observation. Trends are the new fuel for platform capitalism.

Interesting also because it shifts the conversation from one focused purely on data - and there's a lot of talk about platform capitalism and our data.

Finally, if it's not just TikTok, but also #Mastodon / #Fediverse that get's fueled by trends, then what are the #Feditrends? It seems to me they are all self-referential with regard to the technology, and deep into #CoderCulture. What trends do you see in your part of the Fediverse?

If #indieweb was a counterculture, then which one would it be?

Can we think of it as punk or rave? Or is it just a group of coders crafting alternatives on Git*?

I think we could think that way, but few / rarely do. If you’re into indieweb as a culture, or know someone who does, please ping / toot / whatever

'Legibility is disastrous at scale, and the internet is always at scale' - Gordon Brander
on digital identity. relevant for my #aicommons work, where the issue can be seen as that of harmful legibility, made possible by open licensing of photos of faces.

https://subconscious.substack.com/p/soulbinding-like-a-state

Prototype Fund has a new funding round. And more importantly, it’s a great example of public support and funding for #opensource #infrastructures, done in a smart way

https://mastodon.social/@PrototypeFund/108746445745437825