Vraiment un très très intéressant article...

Merci Nicolas Hoizey pour la découverte !

Quelques passages marquants :

Network effects create powerful inertia. To maintain control of their lead, the incumbent network just needs to evolve its product at a reasonable pace. In retrospect, the deaths of MySpace and Digg were completely avoidable.

I enjoy Bluesky the product, but I have reservations about Bluesky the venture-backed, for-profit corporation. For example, it was formed by cryptocurrency people and maintains deep ties to the cryptocurrency world. Their initial investors include Protocol Labs, who created a failed, slow, and broken distributed filesystem that only succeeded in pumping its companion token, FileCoin. It peaked around $191, and now trades around $5. We owe a great big "Thank You" to the FileCoin bag holders who helped fund Bluesky.

Bluesky claims to be billionaire proof, which is either hopelessly naive or deliberately smarmy. Claims that their platform is open and decentralized are mostly bullshit. Nothing prevents the company from cutting off access to the network, just like Twitter did to third-party clients, and the option of spinning up your own Bluesky clone means nothing when the value a social network is the users and their network effects, not your tech stack.

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En privatisant ces espaces publics, des acteurs comme Musk s’arrogent un pouvoir considérable : celui de modeler l’opinion publique à travers des outils opaques, non régulés et détenus par des milliardaires

Bah voilà même Techcrunch promeut des alternatives numériques maintenant. Tellement mainstream !

Moi je pense que le dilemme pour la plupart des concerné⋅e⋅s il est quand même assez simple...

Très chouette ressource chez nos voisins suisses !

Je le répète : on ne peut pas espérer lutter contre l'extrême droite dans un bar tenu et sur-fréquenté par l'extrême droite...

Très intéressant, comme souvent avec Tariq Krim.

Pas testé, mais potentiellement utile tant que les IA génératives sont dans le paysage ;)

The point of all of this is to say: the tech utopia fantasy is truly dead to me. The image of the cool, hippie, leftist Silicon Valley tech is wrong. The companies themselves and the VC’s they take money from are supporting values and governments that do not act in your best interest and do not even align with their marketing image. Don’t be further misled. Stop giving them your money, time and data as much as possible for you. They won't bring us closer to these ideals they promise.

Via le Khryspresso

Le procès de Mazan met pourtant la lumière sur des chiffres pourtant effrayants : 1 enfant est victime d’inceste, de viol ou d’agression sexuelle toutes les 3 minutes Alors oui, il faut de l'éducation sexuelle, et très tôt !

Source : https://solidarites.gouv.fr/sites/solidarite/files/2024-03/DP-Violences-sexuelles-faites-aux-enfants.pdf

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