mati @mati@cybre.space

just another Manic Monday~

Gran cierre de año con la segunda charla abierta virtual 🎙de la Cumbre Argentina de Redes Comunitarias 🕸️

📲 Podés seguirla a través de YouTube en https://youtu.be/AJ6bvGb02f8

¡Les esperamos!

I'm excited to share my #apconf2020 talk, "Decentralized Social Media vs the Trolls."

In it, I tell how the #Fediverse, a #decentralized social network, rallied together to isolate an invasive right wing extremist group through codes of conduct, human moderators, and strong moderation tools.

Thanks to @ashfurrow, @emi, @maffsie, @catgirl, @laurelai and all the folks who gave me their time and perspective.

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01f38f966?autoplay=1

(Hosted on a #peertube instance, conf.tube!)

There are a LOT of good conference talks this year at #apconf2020. Like, seriously, I can't believe how many are so good.

I'm going to highlight a few in particular in this thread (if I don't highlight yours, it's just due to lack of time, I was seriously impressed by all the talks)

One of the things that I liked from the Social Dilemma is that they pointed out that the problem isn't necessarily the existence of the technology, or the algorithms, or social communication platforms in themselves... but that a major issue arises when we turn those algorithms back on to ourselves.

It was kind of a subtle point made in passing, but in my opinion this is the whole point: Instrumentalizing people through the application of algorithms on people produces bad outcomes for people.

It's not just that the algorithms are biased (they are), but simply the fact that they are being used to measure and sort people and then provide or enforce different outcomes on people based on how someone gets sorted.

I'm curious if there are any exceptions or if this instrumentalization is universally unhealthy for humans (because it is inherently dehumanizing)?

when I will do some #SQL #programming