Fediverse
The loose, decentralized confederation of non-profit Social Media[1] sites such as Mastodon[2], Pixelfed, and PeerTube. They all use ActivityPub for federation.
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Links to this note
- Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now[3]
*This started out at a post on my blog[4]. This edited version is intended to be kept more up-to-date.*
- How to Join the Fediverse and Cast off the Attention Economy[5]
*This started as a post on my blog[6]. This edited version is intended to be kept more up-to-date.*
- Attention Economy[7]
Profiting from convincing (or, perhaps more accurately, "manipulating") people to pay attention. Big Social Media[8] sites like Facebook are part of the attention economy: you pay nothing to use the site. In fact, you are the product; they sell your attention to advertisers, and therefore design their product to maximize their profits by manipulating you to spend more time on the site[9].
- Mastodon[10]
Mastodon is a Free Software[11], decentralized, global Social Media[12] network. Unlike the other major ones, it is not a part of the Attention Economy[13], and generally has no ads.
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