Fediverse

The loose, decentralized confederation of non-profit Social Media[1] sites such as Mastodon[2], Pixelfed, and PeerTube. They all use ActivityPub for federation.

1: /social-media/

2: /mastodon/

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Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now[3]

3: /recovering-our-lost-free-will-online-tools-and-techniques-that-are-available-now/

*This started out at a post on my blog[4]. This edited version is intended to be kept more up-to-date.*

4: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10231-recovering-our-lost-free-will-online-tools-and-techniques-that-are-available-now

How to Join the Fediverse and Cast off the Attention Economy[5]

5: /how-to-join-the-fediverse-and-cast-off-the-attention-economy/

*This started as a post on my blog[6]. This edited version is intended to be kept more up-to-date.*

6: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10124-how-to-join-the-fediverse-and-cast-off-the-attention-economy

Attention Economy[7]

7: /attention-economy/

Profiting from convincing (or, perhaps more accurately, "manipulating") people to pay attention. Big Social Media[8] sites like Facebook are part of the attention economy: you pay nothing to use the site. In fact, you are the product; they sell your attention to advertisers, and therefore design their product to maximize their profits by manipulating you to spend more time on the site[9].

8: /social-media/

9: /how-the-attention-economy-hurts-you-via-social-media-sites-like-facebook/

Mastodon[10]

10: /mastodon/

Mastodon is a Free Software[11], decentralized, global Social Media[12] network. Unlike the other major ones, it is not a part of the Attention Economy[13], and generally has no ads.

11: /free-software/

12: /social-media/

13: /attention-economy/

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