I'm sure doing a lot of work for my new job even though I'm not done with my old job yet.
@matigo it's something to do with the work VPN. It broke Mastodon the other day…
@larand you hit the nail on the head.
I'm not in any way suggesting people shouldn't be able to own content. You just have no realistic way to prevent the unauthorized distribution of your content once it's been published.
Sure, you can put DRM and the like around content, and that may work for a time for content meant for fairly limited distribution. Ask the MPAA, RIAA, BSA, and other similar organizations how their efforts at achieving this at scale have worked.
// @sumudu @33mhz @indigo @hybotics
@hybotics You can always "zoom" the browser window. But yeah, I get your meeting. Accessibility settings aren't the best.
@lukasros I've always had a love/hate relationship with Twitter. This is just one of the hate phases. :P
Clearly I sparked a discussion here… and something broke my ability to get to the website to participate… and I got busy.
Nice to know I can still occasionally back together a shell script or two, learn enough SQLite to be dangerous, and make stuff work.
It's easy to think that we could own our data when data existed entirely in books, photographs, or the contents of our mind.
Once that information is digitized and put on a network, you no longer have any control over it.
Mastodon itself is interesting technology. Rather than a central, single instance like we have with Pnut/10C, anyone can set up their own instance of it. Those instances can operate under the own rules.
What sets Mastodon apart: Federation. Federation allows you to follow people on another instance. Likewise, people can follow me on the various instances I'm on.
It's kinda like email in how people can reach you and that you can have multiple identities.
This gives you the benefits of a small community like we have with Pnut/10C with the global reach of a larger network, thanks to all the instances. Further, if one instance folds, or the one you're on sucks for some reason, join another.
The fact that the Twitters, Facebooks, and Googles of the world will have a difficult time monetizing or controlling the network is a feature, not a bug.
I've just coined a new term for Twitter: The Birdshite. Because that's what it seems like it is now.