From ccc7807040668a264c54d524e591eb9ec43df082 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bumblefudge Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:35:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] revamp fediverse.json as per issue 193 and my tendentious personal ideology --- source/_data/fediverse.json | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/_data/fediverse.json b/source/_data/fediverse.json index 88d6797..e75b7ae 100644 --- a/source/_data/fediverse.json +++ b/source/_data/fediverse.json @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ "article": { "definition": "is a new word made of two words: “federation” + “universe”", - "preamble": "It is a federated social network running on free open software on a myriad of computers across the globe. Many independent servers are interconnected and allow people to interact with one another. There's no one central site: you choose a server to register. This ensures some decentralization and sovereignty of data. Fediverse (also called Fedi) has no built-in advertisements, no tricky algorithms, no one big corporation dictating the rules. Instead we have small cozy communities of like-minded people. Welcome!", - "info": "Fediverse social network differs from mainstream platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc). Mainstream platforms concentrate millions of users on one website, where they control all the decision-making, enforce censorship, and hoard users' data for commercial profit and spying. Fediverse platforms, on the other hand, are developed by a community of people from all over the world, independent from any company or official institution. You are free to register on any Fediverse website you like. You can choose the person who will be in charge of your data - the administrator of your server. If you have technical knowledge, you can administrate your own server for your friends and family, connecting with thousands of other independent servers across the web. Fediverse is an autonomous universe where power and data are decentralized and scattered across multiple lands.", + "preamble": "It is a 'federated' social network running on free open software on a myriad of computers across the globe. This means that not only are independent groups of people opting in to connect as peers to one another, it also means they are running many different kinds of openly-governed software on many different kinds of networks. There's no central corporation, 'platform', 'back-end', or website coordinating and controlling all the activity. Without such a centralized 'main entrance', it can be hard to 'find your people' and discover which server, governed by what community and running what software, will be the best fit for you. The 'fediverse' (often abbreviated to 'fedi' and used as a prefix) has no built-in advertisements, no unaccountable algorithms, no big corporations dictating the rules, unless you pick a mega corporation as your 'home-server' (there is currently only one such server). Everywhere else, we have small, 'cozy' communities of like-minded people and working out moderation and blocking and other messy human issues at human scale. Welcome!", + "info": "Fediverse social networks differ from monolithic commercial platforms (like classic Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc) in that while your home server can be large or small, or can even be a global million-user platform, it still brings you content from other servers and platforms to which your home server 'federates'. Classic, one-company commercial platforms concentrate millions of users under one website and control policy, where they impose (ideally uniform and non-arbitrary) standards for moderation, trust, and safety; they also hoard as much data as they can about each user to better target advertising directly and indirectly. Fediverse platforms, on the other hand, are developed by a community of people from all over the world, independent from any company or official institution, a voluntarily federating to one another. You are free to register on any Fediverse website you like, and from there, most Fediverse websites give you some freedom about how widely or locally you can interact. The user-server relationship is generally taken seriously as a kind of stewardship in the Fediverse, and most users choose their long-term home based primarily on this relationship, how safe they feel and how much agency they have to publish, read, and interact as they see fit. With enough familiarity with the tools and a fair amount of research, you can spin up a self-hosted or managed service and start administering a 'server' for your friends, family, or community, creating internal as well as global channels and connecting with thousands of other independent servers across the web. The Fediverse is a user-respecting alternate universe, where power and data flow up from users, through self-organized communities, to high-quality global channels.", "reading": [ { @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ { "title": "A quick guide to the Free Network", "url": "https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334" + }, + { + "title": "The Web Is For User Agency", + "url": "https://berjon.com/user-agency/" } ], "projects":