Bug report:Observed behaviour: navigating with my keyboard the "+" button doesn't seem to be selectable.Expected behaviour: the "+" button should be among the first selected items.

As far as I’m concerned, for a capitalist, the "optimization" in "optimization for engagement" means "make X do Y as intensively as possible, regardless of their human rights". User metrics don’t necessarily imply it, silly me.

We’ve reached the point where a 128 GB Corsair Voyager USB key is about as expensive as a 128 GB SSD drive, while being safer and more practical than a standalone laptop for a students occupy where too many people will have brought their laptops anyway

I find solace inknowing that listening to Muse helps me to stay awake while mounting the guard

Ok I’m gonna sum up my opinion of Bonfire.It’s good. I’ve been victim of many kinds of surveillance capitalism so I tend to be critical of social media as a concept, but Bonfire seems to be manageable.A key concept for capitalistic social media is scarcity. Whatever they’re offering, they’re making it deliberately scarce (e.g. attention) to increase its value and trick isolated people into chasing it (e.g. clout). ActivityPub was one step in a more social direction (with native videos, blog posts, events reading, regardless of fundamental flaws in Mastodon as a publishing tool that Gargron probably won’t fix; he doesn’t seem to care) and Bonfire also goes in this direction, to express it poorly it especially shows as a publishing platform, and the brain stimulation reward that I’ve always criticized about notifications is really more manageable.The last time I’ve used it on a computer (i.e. the last time I’ve posted, because the feature is broken on mobile) I’ve stayed for 2 hours on my computer (especially because installing Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi made me anxious). Going out in the evening, I’ve felt silly for being so suggestible and asked myself if, like 5 years ago, I had no identity, no singularity. I wonder how asocial people (e.g. isolated highschool students) will appropriate Bonfire and if they’ll get "hooked" anyway. If they can’t diversify their activities by meeting other people, maybe Bonfire could be used to gamify reading books (similarly to Bookwyrm, but without its drawbacks, i.e. having to manage a new account).

I’m afraid I’ve been off-putting, but I’ve had an extensive experience with capitalistic social media, and I’d like to have a deeper conversation because I don’t want to mansplain any of you but I still want to warn you about things that I haven’t read elsewhere.

There’s a French-speaking left-wing memes group on Facebook which is called "Ghibliposting" and I really want to re-create it as a topic, but I don’t want to commit to anything on social media… (Also where’s my Foucault book)

I haven’t read Goffman yet, but I feel like the deprecation of cognitive resources – URLs, explicit (on Twitter) or implicit (and punitive) post shortening on Facebook, e.g. text in stories being smaller and less "shareable" as it becomes longer, the Facebook pages composer loading more and more the tab as the text goes longer, until it crashes – is directly related to Facebook groups, and Twitter clusters, turning into total institutions.Deprived of cognitive resources, all that remains to agonistic politics clusters on Twitter is a sort of rage that turns into a desperate attempt to oppress either minorities (which works) or oppressors (which doesn’t work, as "reversed oppression" can’t exist). An example of that is the appropriation on these capitalistic crowd media of the expression "men are trash", which seems to only shock men as being disabled, or abused (at home, at school, etc.), or people of color in a racist school system, or questioning their gender and maybe being actually women or non-binary, but re-assigned by this expression to their gender assignation whenever they feel mediocre. I see members of a specific "red" Facebook memes group spending a lot more of energy into shaming other fractions (trotskyists, anarchists, members of such political party or such union) than into sharing cognitive resources or being funny about oppressors.

Let’s talk quickly about the term ’microblog’.For ’microbloggers’, publishing and thinking for clout, the term implies that a worthy blog post should be longer. In Mastodon/Pleroma interactions, length in itself can be perceived as an authority argument.Now the usual microblogging mechanisms are the following:Built-in following/followers mechanism,clout-related notifications (favs/click-shares/followings), anda sort of interdependant federation mechanism (whether centralized or through a protocol).Emphasis on the word ’interdependant’: the federation mechanisms are meant to create loose fabrics of mutual dependance, that depend themselves on their federation mechanisms. There will always be switching costs with ’microblogging’ services, that will be higher for the most abused, disabled, isolated, dependant, vulnerable people.I’ll try to get a French research lab in touch with the Bonfire developers instead of pouring this pessimism of discutable quality 😅

Erving Goffman's "Asylum" is an excellent reading on how not to implement a social media : the capitalistic ones are designed to turn into total institutions for their socially isolated users. I won't mince words to please do-gooders, cutting millions of people's time schedules to the bone of meals and 5 hours of sleep per night, lifting social activities, studies, work, and family life, is a crime against humanity.

If #android users felt like they owned their phones, they'd start to do silly things like wanting to remove software and services they don't use. So we need to replace them every few years. Android is a sort of paid service and we get a new phone for "free", that we don't actually own.

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I'm interested in the "follow org accounts" use case – can we use boundaries to manage an account collectively without having to share the password? Which means posting, but also click-sharing as $ORG @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

I guess it's true for art in general, but when I took this picture I was marvelled by what I was seeing. A photograph is an (easy) act of creation.

Ok I want to become a developer. Or a farmer, either. Why would I study social change when I can be part of it?

Ok you might think that I'm cherrypicking but I'd like to set human-meaningful links relevant to the post title @BonfireBuilders #bonfire_feedback

When Ivan and Mayel update the beta so it's down, what do you feel? Personally, no stress at all, just "welp, I guess I'll come back later ¯_(ツ)_/¯"

Mozilla understands that links don't mean "restraints" but "social link" challenge 2K22