Rambling

[oakfarm]

The reason I know about fediverse is because of a Bernie Sander fan on youtube has made several videos about it. I can’t say I understand it, but fediverse is something about decentralized social media, something about being a person not a product, something about p2p, bittorrent. Anyway of course I registered myself on the fediverse video-hosting site peertube. I had two reason to do that. Later in this entry I’ll elaborate on them. One, disappointment of the digital media gigants. Two, I still want attention. 

 

Last thing first. Sure uploading videos on a small platform like peertube would prevent my videos from drowning in content. However, I can’t get views on peertube either - perhaps it’s a stupid hobby to write and read free verse for a video. Then narcissism is a popular word now a days, is it narcissistic of me to want attention. Maybe not, the narcissistic thing might be to feel attention is a right for you, not wishing you had the capacity to get attention. (Of course it may also be a different between “narcissism” and “narcissistic personality disorder”, and so on.) And sometimes I do think my ideas are worth spreading. Like when I saw that the BBC had an article with the headline: World in chaos, half a million dead. Where did it all begin?. That headline wanted me to point out that last time I checked half a million was exactly how many children under five that die every year because of lack of clean water. That was never chaos.

 

Second yeah, the moral of Silicon Valley. The conspiracy theory - that I don’t buy - is that they allow and spread so much far right propaganda because they are private companies, they want the parties looking out for the capital holders in power. (Of course allowing propaganda and desinformation while removing a photo of a woman getting manography, cancer screening is too sexy.) Btw, I think Netflix also deserve criticism. The word “documentary” should mean something, they shouldn’t get away with calling entertainment for “documentaries”, and worse they even call propaganda work like Obama's America and GMO OMG, for documentaries.

 

Comments

[wantedonvoyage]

being seen is so a part of today's culture, though. I'm curious what your experience is of these peerverse sites and how big the audience is. Did you read anything about "Hello" which was supposed to be the equivalent to Facebook minus the ads and social-engineering? It was a cool idea but a bit of a ghost town.

[oakfarm]

To me peertube looks quite empty. I also looked at Tusky, their twitter copy, but just the Swedish one and that quite empty to. I have not seen Hello.

[wantedonvoyage]

I suspect Hello shut down. If Google could not successfully compete with Facebook I doubt anybody could.