OK so some random thoughts about Everything Social.

1) It's not (just) about you.
2) Mastodon is not a life-raft.
3) One infrastructure, many communities.
4) Moderation is mechanisms that guide interaction.
5) Security creates possibilities

I am looking for collaborators.

1/ 1: It's not (just) about you.

First problem I have trying to describe any new system is people cut in three sentences in to say why they would hate a particular scheme because they assume the proposal would be like FB or Twitter.

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@molly0xFFF @Bitfinexed

A new explanation of why Coinsplainers think they are right and why they are actually horribly wrong.

Back when we were building the Web at CERN we spent a long time designing the deployment strategy.

1/ @molly0xFFF @Bitfinexed The Web was designed to win the network hypertext standards wars. These days people only remember gopher but there were dozens of also rans and some (Hyper-G) were much slicker than the Web.

The Web won because it was designed to be viral.

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Contrary to claims made by the coingrifting community, NFTs are designed to rob artists, not a way for them to make money.

NFTs are not interesting, but they raise interesting questions:

But what would a scheme to support artists look like?

Can we build one using the Mesh?

1/ The biggest flaw in the NFT scheme is that the NFT does not establish any right of ownership. Nor are the marketplaces selling them remotely interested in providing that. [Nor does DMCA safe harbor cover their activities].

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@cstross I never worked in intelligence but if you work in communications at my level, you keep meeting people who did.

In today's intelligence world, Bond would be considered a serious security risk and for very good reason. 1/ @cstross Back in the 1970s, the KGB developed an agent (i.e source, Bond is an operative, not an agent) recruitment process whose imprint can be clearly seen in the backgrounds of the men at the center of Brexit, Trump's election and more (aFD, Golden Dawn, etc.) 2/