"[...]No, I'm so excited about it. It really, I'm really passionate about this. Because, I think some people because we chose to build on the AT protocol. Some people have asked me where it's like, oh, did you not like ActivityPub? And I'm like, no, no, no. Like, this is a yes and not an either or, right? I think of that. I don't know if you know that the Spider Man meme where there's like three spider mans and they're all pointing at each other. I'm like, we do not want to become that. We are all Spider Man, you know, and we have some bigger fish to fry. We are working together, and we are going to fry those fish well.[...]"

Not completely done listening to this one, and there are some assumptions I feel uneasy with (like, the in some of these networks reoccurring assumptions that users are basically just "content creators" aiming at in whichever way collecting and keeping followers to consume whatever they produce), but some other aspects definitely resonate, and this one about the need for collaboration rather than competition in the "open social web" space definitely standing out. Worth checking out.

https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/tori-white

#podcast #social_networks #atproto

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Älterer Beitrag, an dem der Podcatcher hängenblieb: "Informatik g… 8 December 2025 at 16:12

Älterer Beitrag, an dem der Podcatcher hängenblieb: "Informatik g…

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8 December 2025 at 16:12

Älterer Beitrag, an dem der Podcatcher hängenblieb:

"Informatik gestaltet nicht nur technische Systeme, sondern Welt.“ Diesen Satz sagte unsere Gesprächspartnerin dieser Folge vor einiger Zeit in einem Interview – und bezog sich dabei auf die Expertise der Gender- und Diversity-Forschung, die helfen kann, digitaler Spaltung und der Verstärkung von Ungleichheiten entgegenzuwirken. Prof. Dr. Claude Draude ist Leiterin des Fachgebiets Gender/Diversity in Informatiksystemen an der Universität Kassel, das zwei der zentralen dortigen Forschungsschwerpunkte miteinander vereint: die Kultur- und Geschlechterforschung sowie die sozialnützliche Informationstechnik-Gestaltung.

Auf halber Strecke, sehr hörenswert, sehr bedenkenswert gerade für die eigene Verortung in dieser technischen Welt.

https://www.hessen-schafft-wissen.de/artikel/podcast-claude-draude

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Morning listenings, on the bike: https://vivaldi.com/blog/6-stephanie-stima… 24 September 2025 at 07:37

Morning listenings, on the bike: https://vivaldi.com/blog/6-stephanie-stima…

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24 September 2025 at 07:37

Morning listenings, on the bike:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/6-stephanie-stimac-igalia-for-a-better-web/

We also talk about the development of browser engines and the challenges of funding open-source projects. Whether you’re a developer or just curious about how the web evolves, this conversation offers a glimpse behind the scenes of browser development.

Halfway through it now, interesting to learn about Igalia and what they do, but more again and again stumbling across that huge elephant in the corner, that elephant of browsers and subsequently our access to most of nowadays "internet" for most people ist essentially funded by corporations. Period. And choosing a non-Mozilla fork of Firefox or a non-Google browser shell based on Chromium isn't changing anything about that. Even worse, it seems that this way we ought to be better supporting these companies because, at the very end, they fund what's needed for a lot of Free and Open Source implementations to even exist (not even talking about them employing a lot of developers and allowing them to be able to work on Free or Open Source code either full time or at least in their spare time). Imagining sustainable organic farmers doing this kind of ethical work in their spare time while being employed by some shady agricultural corporation that does pay their bills and earns them a living? That sounds ... more than just a bit difficult. It sounds like Free and Open Source software has a dire self-sustainability issue. But maybe that's only me.

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