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Re: <nettime> Facebook


other social networks are possible

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50127713


Em 2019-11-04 21:29, Alan Sondheim escreveu:
> I'm in agreement here; I leave as little trace as I can. (Also trapped
> because I want my own work to remain.) This reminds me of the fight I
> had on YouTube with Viacom and YouTube (later) re: my banning which
> went on for a couple of years, a fight I finally won. YouTube has its
> own viciousness of course - even something as saying no to autoplay,
> which then returns on the next login.
> 
> I'd be curious about the server farms YouTube must use; they seem
> unimaginable to me.
> 
> Best, Alan
> 
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Craig Fahner wrote:
> 
>> maybe it's not so much a question of whether facebook's policies are bad (of
>> course they are) or whether facebook is part of our social infrastructure
>> (of course it is), but, rather, what capacity users have to undermine
>> facebook's more predatory policies and evade its data collection regimes and
>> biased recommendation algorithms. given that a lot of people use facebook
>> not because they think it's an optimal platform, but because it is
>> absolutely necessary to use it in order to connect with certain communities,
>> what possibilities exist for users to participate in those communities while
>> circumventing the platform's more odious aspects? what do a tactics of
>> social media usership look like? i suspect they would engage in a constant
>> give-and-take with the algorithmic governing forces that be, but, with a
>> growing sentiment of suspicion regarding facebook's policies, perhaps a
>> tactical approach along the lines of plugins that remove algorithmic
>> recommendation features, deliberate scrambling/obfuscation of users' data
>> and trackable behaviours, etc. might be more successful in empowering users
>> than simply encouraging them to leave the platform entirely.
>> craig fahner - https://www.craigfahner.com/
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:25 AM Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>       On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, mp wrote:
>>
>>       > On 03/11/2019 20:36, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>       >>
>>       >> The loss is more important to me
>>       >
>>       >> On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Frederic Neyrat wrote:
>>       >>> 1/ FB enables to create a "community," that's good for
>>       sure;?
>>       >>> 2/ but in the same time, it destroys?the condition of the
>>       possibility of
>>       >>> community/togetherness/Gemeinwesen/?tre-ensemble, etc.
>>       >
>>       > Individual, particular and hence relatively short term
>>       perspective and
>>       > context (Alan's) vs. collective, abstract and hence relatively
>>       long term
>>       > perspective and context (Frederic's).
>>       >
>>       > A common disjuncture.
>>       >
>>
>>       What disturbs me here is the assumption of passivity "relatively
>>       short
>>       term perspective" for example. Unless you know my work, read my
>>       posts,
>>       etc., you have no idea how long my perspective is. I've run
>>       talkers, a
>>       MOO, conferencing in IRC years ago, CuSeeMe, and on and on. I've
>>       taught
>>       courses in internet culture from 1995 on. And one of the things
>>       that keeps
>>       me generally from posting on nettime, is its own toxicity, these
>>       constant
>>       presumptions about one another, about the world, etc. And re:
>>       below, there
>>       is no "on the one hand, on the other hand" - the issue is far
>>       more complex
>>       as is people's usage of Fb or other platforms (for example email
>>       lists
>>       themselves). So "email is also shit"?
>>
>>       I know a hell of a lot of free jazz musicians who work through
>>       Fb, fight
>>       racism, and take advantage of the platform. I know people who
>>       have found
>>       community on Fb that is absent for them in rl. I've participated
>>       in
>>       courses taught on Fb. I've engaged in political action on the
>>       platform. I
>>       don't expect purity anywhere; I never have. And one person's
>>       purity can be
>>       another person's hell. I'm appalled at Fb's policies but also
>>       given that
>>       the platform has between 1 and 2.4 billion users, the sociality
>>       is far
>>       greater (and far more diverse and interesting) than its public
>>       image.
>>
>>       Alan
>>
>>
>>       > It is a complex issue. On the one hand it makes sense to
>>       adjust your
>>       > means to the ends you desire. Be the change you want to see
>>       and all that.
>>       >
>>       > On the other hand, it could be seen as a form of
>>       neoliberalisation when
>>       > the responsibility for the future of the system is distributed
>>       to
>>       > individuals - and at the end of the day, it is impossible to
>>       live in
>>       > this planetary urbanisation without acting in destructive
>>       ways, so we
>>       > all have to cut corners. Email is also shit for the web of
>>       life we are
>>       > entangled in.
>>
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