The Tories are in Manchester.
#GetOutOfMyTown
Author: Neil Mather
Started with a really simple version of Ton’s infostrat and liking it already.
I set up a couple of channels, one for people I tend to interact with a lot, one for people I loosely follow. Both a combo of IndieWeb, Mastodon, Twitter and RSS feeds, mostly of actual real people. The other stuff I haven’t moved yet and is mostly institutional feeds.
When I get a social media urge, I’ll check the first two groups. If empty, I’ll maybe check the rest, or read an article, or just do something else.
The best part is avoiding anything that has an endless stream of fairly random (but tantalisingly, possibly interesting) stuff. As Ton points out, anything *really* worthwhile will invariably end up in a feed in one of the first two groups sooner or later. I’m feeling more intentional, less flighty of attention.
What are your favourite books / resources on software maintenance?
I give it a fairly broad remit, e.g. I think Working Effectively with Legacy Code is a good one.
Smart contracts for more equitable returns on investment in public infrastructure.
‘redesigning our regulatory systems so they don’t favour speculative financing and land trading’
‘give communities a way of investing and owning the things that make neighbourhoods work, without the fear of being priced out by their desire to improve their community.’
I need to give it a thorough read, but sounds interesting and I immediately like anything that has a plan rather than just a diagnosis…
https://provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/a-smart-commons-528f4e53cec2
Is there a way to RSS/Atom feeds for Lists or Notifications in Mastodon? I know I can get them for individual users, but dunno about these special lists.
Apparently Facebook and Instagram are currently doing ‘trials’ of removing like counts from posts. That’d be good if they did actually roll it out. I can’t see them doing it though, I thought all of that psyops stuff was good for business.
Nice article about indymedia. I was vaguely aware of indymedia when I was a teenager, but didn’t know much about it.
Talks about how techno-libertarianism and individualism won out over federated communities.
This line makes me sad: ‘Today, social movements depend on Facebook, Google, and Twitter.’ But strikes me that we’re in a pretty good position right now to start federated, tactical media platforms again, no?
Trying to start to rearrange my channels in Aperture to move towards Ton’s style of information strategy (https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2018/07/my-ideal-rss-reader/). In short, making me more likely to read things from people I know (for some value of ‘know’), and less likely to get overwhelmed by a big feed of information that I could never really get through.