Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it

"The fact that the decentralized web isn’t decentralized is not a secret. Plenty of people can see that Web3 is centralizing far faster than Web2 ever did, they simply don’t care. They’re hoping to position themselves in such a way that they either become part of the monopoly, or at least get bought out for a nice chunk of change along the way."
https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/why-web3-doesnt-exist.html

Capitalism does not require us to “work or starve.”

It requires us to perform labor *for property owners* or *be starved by property owners.*

You have ancestors who lived before wage labor. They didn’t starve to death because they lacked jobs and wages.

You do not lack any of the faculties they possessed. You do not lack any of their abilities to sustain themselves by their own effort.

What you lack is *permission* from property owners.

I despair about how many talented people are using Substack when we know exactly where that whole mess is headed.

Here's a video (sorry for the quality) of 2 Capyloon devices sharing data thanks to IPFS:
- the laptop "uploads" the capybara image to its local ipfs node, and generates a QR Code with the ipfs:// url.
- the phone scans the QR Code to get the ipfs:// url, and loads it as any other web page.
- since both devices discovered each other over mDNS, no data left the local network!

https://capyloon.org/videos/capyloon-share-ipfs-qrcode.mp4

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample so results are predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boosts but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

Critical Distance, a non-profit I volunteer for on the board of directors, needs help. We have been archiving and contextualising online games writing for 13 years. We are asking for help to allow us to continue operating, and perhaps even invest in building longer term resilience. I'd be very grateful for any help spreading the word: https://www.gofundme.com/f/critdistance