Social media has been dominated by a handful of companies, shaping how information flows and limiting innovation. But change is here. Join us March 21st @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com Cc @freeourfeeds.com www.linkedin.com/events/thene... - ThreadSky

sherifea.com • 3 days ago

Social media has been dominated by a handful of companies, shaping how information flows and limiting innovation. But change is here.

Join us March 21st @marietjeschaake.bsky.social @emilyliu.me @robin.berjon.com

Cc @freeourfeeds.com

https://www.linkedin.com/events/thenextsocialwave-open-competit7303371557190467584

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laurenshof.online•3 days ago

Yo lets be real here. Posting this event on LinkedIn and not on native atproto applications is an incredible bad look for an organisation that claims that they can just position 9 random people as "custodians" of the protocol

laurenshof.online•3 days ago

You complain that social media is dominated by a handful of big tech companies, and say that change is here. But you do not make the simplest effort to actually make use of the change you promote, and keep using big tech social media yourself.

Do better.

renahlee.com•2 days ago

smokesignal was right there for them :(

imlunahey.com•2 days ago

the smoke signal link could have also been posted to linked in. there's no need for them to have posted the linked in link here.

imlunahey.com•2 days ago

they blocked me over my replies to this.. lovely.

sherifea.com•2 days ago

I am sorry but YOU do better. Seriously that’s your problem? People are on LinkedIn and until they’re elsewhere I’ll keep posting things there. This is the kind of thinking that keeps alternative from going anywhere. You do better.

icyphox.sh•2 days ago

actually no, it’s your kind of thinking that keeps things the way they are. post it on an atproto platform and SHARE that with people.

if everyone collectively waits for things to change, nothing will.

spookalucca.games•1 day ago

it's almost like they don't even know how a PDS works, and that they can own their own data (like i do) and share it out from that source!

sherifea.com•2 days ago

How do you reach people who aren’t on BSky, which is the vast majority of people.

sherifea.com•2 days ago

Also custodians of the Free Our Feeds initiative not the protocol. Read better.

sherifea.com•2 days ago

So who’s not random? People your personally choose and approve of? If you’re going to say something maybe it could be constructive or just not plain trolling for a start. Honestly…

laurenshof.online•2 days ago

sure, I'll admit that calling the selection of the custodians random is not constructive, so ill take that back and ask you a constructive question instead: What was the process and selection mechanism to determine the nine people to become custodians of FoF?

robin.berjon.com•2 days ago

Hey folks, you're both excellent people who would get along great if you were having a beer together so I'd like to invite some collegiality here :)

Regarding tooling: there's always a tension between organising things where we would *want* people to be and doing it where they are.

robin.berjon.com•2 days ago

I think that for relatively confidential (still) ideas like algorithmic pluralism that need to find a much wider audience, it's better for now to go where they are. Happy to discuss that, but the goal is to bring new people in, not to convince folks who are already in the tent.

robin.berjon.com•2 days ago

What we needed from custodians is "would you trust these people for 6-12 months to manage the funds until the foundation is up?" It's a question of capture-resistance.

There are ways of building institutions that have longer-lived capture resistance but that takes time.

dame.is•2 days ago

why not both?

sherifea.com•2 days ago

@laurenshof.online you caught me on a particularly bad week so sorry for the hotheaded reply. Would be happy to have a beer one day with you and @robin.berjon.com

robin.berjon.com•2 days ago

I propose Brussels since it's between you two and the beer is better 😉

dame.is•2 days ago

it's not trolling... use @smokesignal.events

adamtheo.com•2 days ago

Mr. Elsayed-Ali, I don't know you but I have high hopes for @freeourfeeds.com. Being insulting to community contributors is not a good look for an Executive Director. Doesn't matter if they came in hot, your job is to be professional and calm at all times. Do better for the sake of @freeourfeeds.com

sherifea.com•2 days ago

You’ll find that I didn’t start it

adamtheo.com•2 days ago

That doesn't matter. You're (supposedly) a leader in the community. Your responsibility is to shrug off little jabs and respond in a professional, constructive manner. Example "we posted on LinkedIn b/c it's a big audience for outreach to, but we would love to support smokesignal to that level, too"

sherifea.com•2 days ago

I have nothing against smoke signal, I wasn’t responding to that comment

sherifea.com•2 days ago

*all the time

sherifea.com•2 days ago

I am a person with feelings not a robot or an angel. We shouldn’t expect people to be calm or the time regardless of circumstances, it’s dehumanizing.

knotbin.xyz•2 days ago

1st: his replies are really shitty and worrying
but 2 things on this point:
1. he has 6000 LinkedIn followers and only 200 here so it seems understandable he would post there, and ATproto development shouldn't be gate kept to people who exclusively use ATproto platforms.

sherifea.com•2 days ago

Thanks Roscoe for feedback. Said sorry to Laurens for rather hotheaded reply. Caught me at a bad time.

I believe it’s important to reach people where they are and we need more people and policy makers to know there are alternatives to the big platforms.

knotbin.xyz•2 days ago

2. I take a bit more issue with the idea that @freeourfeeds.com is "an organisation that claims that they can just position 9 random people as 'custodians' of the protocol"
They never said the custodians would be custodians of the protocol, only custodians of the project & foundation.

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