When people say you should "own your own data", or that the future of the web is "ownership", what does that mean?
We need to talk about digital ownership.
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-need-to-talk-about-digital-ownership/
@molly0xfff "the future of the web is ownership" is some bunch of bad actors deciding they are going to enclose our commons and we need to break out the sabots.
@molly0xfff
Running your own email server and Mastodon instance?
@dirkhh @molly0xfff there are two reasons why Google and Microsoft are making it increasingly difficult to have your own mail server successfully deliver mail to their system, and only one of them is about spam.
@dirkhh @idiot @molly0xfff bonus points: most spam I get on my independent mail server has valid DKIM signatures for Microsoft or Gmail...
Hmmmmmmmmm...
@warthog9
Yes, they are the #1 source of spam. By a WIDE margin.
@idiot @dirkhh @molly0xfff i run my own mailserver and I get an astounding amount of spam from google servers - i.e. valid DKIM sig
Honestly, it's a good split between random phishing, folks falling into my honeypot, and spam from Google. Meanwhile they have never received a single spam report from my domain but they refuse my email.
@idiot @dirkhh @molly0xfff I'll bite. What is the second reason?
@kdawson
The desire to have access to your email, scan it, and be able to better market to you.
It's about control. And independent mail servers challenge that control.
@molly0xfff This was really, really good.
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I adore this article! So well written!
@molly0xfff maybe Google sells me an NFT of "My Data"
Excellent explainer. As a writer, photographer, and amateur musician, I've thought a lot about issues of copyright, licensing, and ownership. Thanks for going into such great detail on these thorny issues. This should be published in textbooks!
cc @coachtony , @pluralistic
@molly0xfff Very well said.
@molly0xfff Thank you for sharing this article! Very clear, well explained and makes me think about all those elements that arise from the concept “ownership”.
I also wanted to thank you for the clear interface of the article. A pleasure to read it.
@molly0xfff fantastic article.
@molly0xfff i think the piece works well as an introduction & is chock-full of useful info & concepts
i was rather disappointed there was not a mention of IP, the encompassing idea that ties together the copyright, ownership, etc. you mentioned
the mention of property was nice, i would have liked to see more on it!
i can expand/explain if anyone wants, i always thought this bit from Adam Smith was analogous to contemporary data ownership by corpos & ownership of one's data
@molly0xfff going to read that in a second. But i wanted to tell you how absolutely great it is that you provide a self made audio version of the articles. (Before i forget again...)
Also, layout, font choice, and of course topic and writing make your articles an absolute joy.
Here. Have a cat in a way too small box as small sign of appreciation.
@molly0xfff Spot on. This is why I’ve been trying to reframe it as an issue of personhood. When those of us who aren’t trying to sell you something talk about ‘owning your own data’ we mean it in the sense that no one else should own it; in the same way you ‘own’ yourself in a free society – in that no one else owns you. Not because you want to sell yourself but because human dignity demands it.
https://ar.al/notes/the-nature-of-the-self-in-the-digital-age/
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Very well and clearly written, a pleasure to read, thank you very much.
@molly0xfff this is great.
We really need to get people talking about this because it's all so wildly misunderstood. I love the clarity of your terms.
@molly0xfff Reminds me of https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 which I should probably reread some time.
@molly0xfff really excellent, clarifying essay. I explored some of these dynamics in a more rigidly academic context here, which may or may not be of use: https://mediarxiv.org/np325
@ntnsndr thanks for linking!
@molly0xfff Thank you for reusing my illustration for your newsletter, very cool surprise! Good article too.
@davidrevoy thank you for freely licensing it! i love it
I got a kick out of seeing David's illustration on the newsletter too, love Pepper and Carrot and really appreciate the breakdowns of how the images are put together.
@davidrevoy @molly0xfff Love the image, still reading the essay...
To close the circle, here's the direct link to the image https://www.davidrevoy.com/article867/lofi-cyberpunk
@molly0xfff wish: a download button/link for the audio
#CitationNeeded #newsletter #blog #web thank you, very nice article bearing clarity on the topic (yes I know, the fact that often people don't try to make it clear is because it would go against their interests/power structure, and that's why it's even more important to have reference texte like that one)
@molly0xfff apologies for not being able to find it, did try: who made the art that is the header image? And why doesn’t it show on the post when I click the link?
@onewil source is way at the bottom: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article867/lofi-cyberpunk
maybe need to make it more prominent...
@molly0xfff thank you! Sorry I couldn’t find earlier.
@molly0xfff Terrifically smart, nuanced piece.
@molly0xfff timely nyt feature on Criterion (for whom I just went a bit nuts on their spring flash sale…) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/magazine/criterion-collection.html