Océane<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Hex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Hex</span></a></span> By aggressively shortening posts, social media limit our global conversation to dual interactions: we won't talk about how A impacts B and C, and reciprocally from B and C.</p><p>So lots of legitimate activist takes get lost in translation. This is also true for the <em>cyberpunk utopia</em>: how technology would enable an actual social media, the internet, and following this permanent democracy.</p><p>We didn't see the web 2 coming. I have strong opinions on the topic: <a href="https://gotosocial.social/@oceane/statuses/01JRATNZGECKJDBQMDWSXS2WKQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://gotosocial.social/@oceane/statuses/01JRATNZGECKJDBQMDWSXS2WKQ</a></p><p>An eon later, anarchists have promoted Mastodon (despite its inherent flaws) from a wither anarchy scope; current developments from and around the GNU project (around <a href="https://orgmode.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Org</a>, <a href="https://guix.gnu.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Guix</a>, and <a href="https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Manuel.Serrano/publi/jfp05/article.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Skribe</a> (with the <a href="https://dthompson.us/projects/haunt.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Haunt</a> and <a href="https://nongnu.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Skribilo</a> implementations, as well as <a href="https://linuxmint.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Linux&nbsp;Mint</a>, <a href="https://circle.gnome.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">GNOME</a>…) make it irrelevant today. For example, as a Scheme fork Skribe actually is among the most simple ways to write a document in a Turing-complete language. Similarly, one could write in the Gemini syntax and export their posts as PDF thanks to Skribilo.</p><p>These improvements can't be overstated.</p><p>Another reason was to provide a shelter to actual trolls – socially isolated people often living with ADHD and depression, struggling with the most basic aspects of public infrastructure, lacking sleep, comfort, or the ability to maintain a decent hygiene. Twitter has gamified trolling, but by doing this at the expense of their own users they've gamified solving social problems – how to get people's attention without crossing their boundaries.</p><p>Trying the <a href="https://gotosocial.social/tags/100daystooffloadchallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysToOffloadChallenge</span></a> with some of the aforementioned software (for example by using an ox-ghost or an ox-writefreely helper) on the topic of solving social problems from the scope of your niche might be disruptive, especially by bridging this to your humanities cursus. I suspect that about 1500 free software trolls live in my town, so one could host horizontal events dedicated to solving social problems through academic references.</p><p>That is, IMHO, one efficient way to speed up activist work in a plurality of areas.</p><p>These are, IMHO, interesting structural causes to the obsessive, if not monotropic, focus on the dystopian aspects of cyberpunk, that happen on the web 2. There is no particular reason to load a website to work on a personal document when Emacs, Org, and/or Skribilo exist; other reasons can be read in Guy&nbsp;Debord's (very accessible) “The society of the spectacle” book (1967), leading to what communities of goth/lesbian/leftist Instagram users have openly appropriated as “cybercore”.</p><p><a href="https://gotosocial.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href="https://gotosocial.social/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> <a href="https://gotosocial.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://gotosocial.social/tags/trolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trolling</span></a></p>