bmann.ca
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_journals/2024-02-08_0144.md
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_journals/2024-02-08_0144.md
···+> The idea of NeoBooks was never to be about one particular kind of object. It’s about how to use the techniques that we have, social techniques and informational techniques, to help people publish.
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_journals/2024-02-08_1429.md
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_journals/2024-02-08_1429.md
···+I have a [[Twitter]] archive powered by Tweetback. There are apparently [68 Tweetback Canonical](https://nicolas-hoizey.com/notes/2024/02/08/2/) archives registered, which will link to the “canonical” URLs of each others archives.+I think Mastodon or Bluesky import is a more likely path for people who really want their archive online.
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_journals/2024-02-09_1949.md
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_journals/2024-02-09_1949.md
···+[[vgr]] writes a post on a [[Management]] trend he’s seeing, that he calls [BDFx-ing](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/02/07/bdfxing-or-post-charismatic-distributed-leadership/).+[[BDFL]] (Benevolent Dictator For Life) is a common governance model for many open source projects.
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_journals/2024-02-09_2001.md
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_journals/2024-02-09_2001.md
···+[Bluesky handles directory](https://blue.mackuba.eu/directory/) lists a breakdown of custom domain names used as account names on Bluesky.
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_journals/2024-02-09_2003.md
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_journals/2024-02-09_2003.md
···+> A collection of links to publicly available governance documents, published by the collectives that use them.+Launched by [Doug](https://dougwebb.site/), who is looking for other collectives to contribute their docs.
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_journals/2024-02-09_2038.md
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_journals/2024-02-09_2038.md
···+> ”where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It's a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves.”+404 Media, [This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time](https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/)
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_notes/BDFL.md
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_notes/BDFL.md
···+> It originated in the Python community and is now generally used to describe the condition of an open-source leader who may find themselves saddled with more, and longer-term, expectations of selfless (bordering on martyrdom) leadership than they may want.+> — [[Venkatesh Rao]], [BDFx-ing](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/02/07/bdfxing-or-post-charismatic-distributed-leadership/)+> **Benevolent dictator for life** (**BDFL**) is a title given to a small number of open-source software development leaders, typically project founders who retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the community. The phrase originated in 1995 with reference to [Guido van Rossum](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum "Guido van Rossum"), creator of the Python programming language.+> BDFL should not be confused with the more common term for open-source leaders, "benevolent dictator", which was popularized by [Eric S. Raymond](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond "Eric S. Raymond")'s essay "[Homesteading the Noosphere](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesteading_the_Noosphere "Homesteading the Noosphere")" (1999)
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_notes/Dark Forest and Cozy Web.md
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_notes/Dark Forest and Cozy Web.md
···+> The cozy web is [[Venkatesh Rao]]’s term for the private, gatekeeper-bounded spaces of the internet we have all retreated to over the last few years.+> Venkat first proposed the term in one of his *Breaking Smart* emails on [The Extended Internet Universe](https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-extended-internet-universe). He builds off Yancey Strickler's companion idea of [the Dark Forest](https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1) theory of the web. The “dark forest” is a place that *seems* eerily quiet and devoid of life. All the living creatures within it are hiding. Because “night is when the predators come out. To survive, the animals stay silent.”+> The predators here are the advertisers, tracking bots, clickbait creators, attention-hungry influencers, reply guys, and trolls. It's unsafe to reveal yourself to them in any authentic way. So we retreat into private spaces. We hide in the cozy web.+> We create tiny underground burrows of Slack channels, Whatsapp groups, Discord chats, and Telegram streams that offer shelter and respite from the aggressively public nature of Facebook, Twitter, and every recruiter looking to connect on LinkedIn.+> It's the digital realm of [Domestic Cozy](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/series/domestic-cozy/) Gen-Z vibes. Casual, comfy, and not trying to kick up a fuss.
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_notes/Knowledge Networks and the Politics of Protocols.md
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_notes/Knowledge Networks and the Politics of Protocols.md
···+link: https://blockscience.medium.com/knowledge-networks-and-the-politics-of-protocols-af81ad0fa2d4+> Building tools that allow users to provision, operate, maintain, and govern their own instances of an application is one of the most politically potent acts possible in open-source software development.+> The goal of this initiative is to identify a “sweet spot” between designing for configurational freedom and designing for user-friendliness, so that the process of protocolization does not force users to choose between _software that is useful_ and _software that they can use_.+> _How can developers ensure that user-instanced open-source software is customizable enough to meet the needs and reflect the values of heterogeneous communities, but also sufficiently standardized to allow interoperability across instances — all while remaining easy to maintain?_+> The project at the center of our inquiry is perfectly suited to this purpose: BlockScience has developed an open-source knowledge management system (KMS) and knowledge organization infrastructure (KOI) for our own internal use3, employing an LLM as the interface to a database of our organizational knowledge, to anchor interactions within the scope of the content of the knowledge database and thus foster a genuine user interaction.+> We define self-infrastructuring6 as the ability of an organization to collectively design, own, govern, and maintain its own infrastructure. This concept underscores the significance of entities provisioning and operating their digital infrastructure, which is especially pivotal for entities whose ideals and objectives markedly diverge from those of external infrastructure providers. Due to the economics of scale, private digital infrastructure providers disproportionately serve majoritarian interests.+> it unveils the inherent trade-offs between self-expression and operational ease, a dynamic that often propels entities to cede self-expression in favor of the convenience offered by Software as a Service (SaaS) tools.+> This exploration is poised to render self-managed infrastructural models viable for small research entities, thereby facilitating a more inclusive and diversified infrastructural landscape.+> the move to practice involves applying insights from the self-infrastructuring paradigm to the process of protocolizing open-source software, with the goal of enabling instances to interoperate while also adhering to (and representing) the divergent values and goals of different groups — and of different individuals within those groups.+> Our initiative will be successful if, at its conclusion, we have reached a richer understanding of the trade-offs between customizability and standardization in the specific context of knowledge commons and open-source AI-enhanced knowledge management software+> Ultimately, this work is about clarifying how open source digital infrastructure allows different organizations to organize themselves and their activities around non-identical worldviews, while retaining the ability to make common cause, or otherwise coordinate and collaborate in the world we all share.+> This research initiative is animated by a belief that open digital infrastructure should be treated as a public good, and our proposed work is meant to democratize access to digital resources and to catalyze innovation through collective societal engagement.