Jon @jdp23@neuromatch.social
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Hey @fediforum when I clicked on the link you just sent me in the email you just sent about your un-workshop on "Growing the Open Social Web" my email client warned me that it was a tracking link.

As I said last year,

"The "Open Social Web" is a term surveillance capitalism companies and their friends have been using since at least 2008 either as a synonym for "the Fediverse" or "the fediverses". FediForum used to be about "the Fediverse", and I'm not quite sure when they changed their focus."

Thanks for providing such a great example of the surveillance capitalism-friendly nature of so many supporters of the "Open Social Web"!

By contrast, a long-standing value is the critique of openness. I don't know how many of you were here in 2020, but that's when the outstanding Seven Theses On The Fediverse And The Becoming Of Floss was published, and it's got an excellent section on that. Please read it!

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Seven Theses On The Fediverse And The Becoming Of Floss

Cover of The Eternal Network Together with Aymeric Mansoux I co-authored an essay that looks at the interrelation between Free/Libre Open Source Software(F/LOSS) and the Fediverse, an alternative social media network. Through seven different theses, the essay explores how this latest federated social network challenges both the established forms of production and governance in F/LOSS software, as well as the governance of social media platforms. Table of Contents: Meet the Fediverse The Fediverse as the Transition from Meme Wars to Network Wars The Fediverse as an Ongoing Critique of Openness The Fediverse as a Site for Online Agonistic Pluralism The Fediverse as a Shift from a Technical to a Social Understanding of Privacy The Fediverse as a Way Out of Data Sharecropping and Free Labor The Fediverse as the Rise of a New Kind of Usership The Fediverse as the End of Free/Libre and Open Source Software as We Know It Download the essay on Monoskop.

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