Johannes Ernst
Johannes Ernst
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Engineer, founder, organizer.
Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Open Social Web is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.
Check out my home page for more info and links.
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Home page with more info and links: https://j12t.org
FediForum, the unconference for the Open Social Web: https://fediforum.org
Dazzle Labs Inc.: https://dazzlelabs.net
Pronouns: He/him/any
It’s a very compelling pitch: tear down anti circumvention laws and reap billions for your economies, while at the same time also becoming digitally sovereign.
Now do European, or other, politicianshave the guts to do it?
From: @Cory Doctorow
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
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*On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos...
Not just to respond to the Trump tariffs: if one wanted to get to digital sovereignty, the repeal of anti-circumvention laws is practically required, or the network effects likely will turn out to be insurmountable.
/cc @Cory Doctorow @Alexandra Geese
WIRED
US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while maki...
Threads’ Fediverse integration now is “in maintenance mode”.
#fediforumfriday #threads
The Verge
Threads wants to be the app you can’t wait to open in the morning
A conversation with the head of Threads Connor Hayes on creators, ads, and the fediverse.
@rose.bsky.team from Bluesky: We started with 90% of users being posters, now we are at 30%, but compare this with 1% on some commercial platforms. Conversations are happening again.
OH: ASCII Imperialism.
Not wrong. Still funny.
Totally agree with Cory. Today’s “AI” may or may not be useful to you or your company, but there is no way that it is financially sustainable. And giving the sheer outrageous magnitude of money involved, when the crash comes — and it will — it will likely be worse than any other crash we’ve ever seen.
From: @Cory Doctorow
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
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Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I...
Learned a new word: Enshittocene.
@Cory Doctorow what have you done.
Cybercultural
Enshittocene
Internet history from about 2013 to 2021.
I'm fascinated to (re-?)discover that the core #ActivityPub deliverable was the C2S API, not the S3S federation protocol.
Was the underlying assumption that servers were boring, one/few implementations could handle all cases, and innovation was going to be centered around clients?
From Enshittification to Disenshittification. The words keep coming to @Cory Doctorow !
http://disenshittification.org/