@jacqueline no, but centralized social networks can produce “I was sentenced to death thanks to the site's owners”
Notices by Erik Uden 🦣 (erikuden@mastodon.de)
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Erik Uden 🦣 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 01:12:16 UTC Erik Uden 🦣 -
Erik Uden 🦣 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 12:29:35 UTC Erik Uden 🦣 Today, 15 years ago #OTD the person or group with the fictive name of “Satoshi Nakamoto” created the first cryptocurrency named Bitcoin with the thought of it becoming a secure and fast alternative to fiat currency.
Now it's known as the most wasteful use of electricity, inefficient and limiting capability/functionality, as well as being among the most insecure and de-anonymizing ways to transfer money.
However, what Satoshi Nakamoto probably hasn't expected is how many scam-currencies would come after theirs, and how their invention would create a new breed of the most annoying people known to our species: crypto-bros.
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Erik Uden 🦣 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 10:01:42 UTC Erik Uden 🦣 @EU_Commission now do right to repair
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Erik Uden 🦣 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 10:07:32 UTC Erik Uden 🦣 @JBrodkinWebb Strong agree! Making everything dependent on digital infrastructure is bad in so many ways, especially because the kind of control over your data and, to some degree, extension of self, you're giving away to some third party.
Not only things like your diary, messages to loved ones and friends, or significant images can be stored on digital devices, or often cloud platforms, but more importantly your main source if information comes from such online platforms.
If that's the ONLY place you'll inform yourself through, and all of those places (Twitter, Facebook, Google / Apple News) are well-monitored and algorithmically controlled, then damn a good and critical book will be worth a lot to you.
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Erik Uden 🦣 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 01:21:49 UTC Erik Uden 🦣 Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.
Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this. :trantifa: