Miren @miren@mas.to

the initial push for the internet came from the state and from academia. but the market innovated such now-ubiquitous features as 'every page taking forever to load' and 'half of it going down for no reason'

If you're into maps, UX, and talking to legit on-the-ground environmental activists, we'd like to pay you to help us figure out what features and other design specs will be most useful for them https://twitter.com/EnviroDGI/status/1399820245372575745

“It does raise concerns about censorship, particularly given how we’ve seen social media platforms bungle moderating Palestinian voices in recent weeks amid the Israel conflict. Twitter’s algorithms have screwed up before, and there’s no arguing that mislabeling inconvenient truths as ‘fake news’ could have lasting repercussions.”

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-may-roll-out-tiered-misinformation-warning-labe-1847004671

Wow what a great wikipedia page

A new record: I’m now following -2 people on Twitter.

Ever since I unfollowed everyone – why? For my peace of mind… see https://ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/ –Twitter’s lost the plot. Today it showed me following two people. When I clicked through, it was four. Unfollowed them and…

(If they’re messing this up, what else are they messing up while filtering and moderating your reality and analysing and categorising you?)

#SurveillanceCapitalism

#GMail is harmful to e-mail ecosystem; its antispam blocking policy matches too many valid messages as spam.

It blocked LastPass email leak warning email, because it contained "a link" to a leaked site.

It blocked an e-mail from goverment agency addressed directly to me.

It discriminates all non-gmail servers, and it's pretty much impossible to own a private SMTP server these days, because GMail will classify everything as spam.

It's not how e-mail should work.

Consider dropping GMail.

Docentes en Canarias impulsan una fundación para velar por la soberanía tecnológica en el ámbito educativo. La propuesta de Google es entrar gratuitamente (sic) a través de la Suite for Education.

https://www.eldiario.es/canariasahora/sociedad/alternativa-google-aulas-docentes-canarios-promueven-tecnologia-etica-educacion_1_7981842.amp.html

Folks on Twitter: if you notice that my account has unfollowed yours, please don’t take it personally: I’m running a browser extension to unfollow all accounts.

Why?

Read: Hell site (https://ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/)

TL; DR: I’ve had enough of dealing with shit-stirring asshole algorithms :)

I’ll continue to forward posts from my own Mastodon instance so, if you want to keep up with Small Tech/Web stuff, you can still follow my posts, if you like. (I’ll also read replies/respond when I can.)

Not coincidentally, these are often operated as public utilities, to keep natural monopolies from being abused by greedy jerks.

But the internet isn't a railroad. Digital is different, because computers are *universal* in a way that railroads aren't - *all* computers can run *all* programs that can be expressed in symbolic logic, and that means we can almost always connect new systems to existing ones.

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