Members of the Usenet Big-8 Management Board [1] will be delivering a
talk, "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original decentralized
social network", at the hybrid LibrePlanet 2023 conference [2].
The talk will be given online on Sunday, 19 March 2023 from 13:35 EDT
(UTC-4) to 14:20 EDT. We will give an introduction to how Usenet works, compare it to more recent forms of social media, and discuss what we can learn from Usenet.
LibrePlanet is a conference about software freedom, and brings together software developers, law and policy experts, activists, students, and computer users to learn skills, celebrate free software accomplishments,
and face upcoming challenges together. Newcomers are always welcome.
The conference is free to attend online. Please register [3] in advance.
[1]: https://www.big-8.org/
[2]: https://libreplanet.org/2023/
[3]: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=106
Members of the Usenet Big-8 Management Board [1] will be delivering a
talk, "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original decentralized
social network", at the hybrid LibrePlanet 2023 conference [2].
The talk will be given online on Sunday, 19 March 2023 from 13:35 EDT
(UTC-4) to 14:20 EDT. We will give an introduction to how Usenet works, compare it to more recent forms of social media, and discuss what we can learn from Usenet.
Members of the Usenet Big-8 Management Board [1] will be delivering a
talk, "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original decentralized
social network", at the hybrid LibrePlanet 2023 conference [2].
. . .
On 3/14/23 18:59, Usenet Big-8 Management Board wrote:
Members of the Usenet Big-8 Management Board [1] will be delivering a
talk, "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original decentralized
social network", at the hybrid LibrePlanet 2023 conference [2].
Have you considered recording the talks? Youtube bingers and podcast
junkies would find their way to it afterwards.
It seems like registration being (temporary) closed until the day before
the event is ... questionable at best.
The talk will be given online on Sunday, 19 March 2023 from 13:35 EDT
(UTC-4) to 14:20 EDT. We will give an introduction to how Usenet
works, compare it to more recent forms of social media, and discuss
what we can learn from Usenet.
Will the talk(s) be recorded?
Will you please enlighten us as to what "moderation" is in the talks context? It seems like it could easily be conflated with censorship.
We're not a social network. We're above Facebook [spit] friend/unfriend crap.
On 2023-03-14 20:24, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
We're not a social network. We're above Facebook [spit] friend/unfriend crap.
Yes, Usenet is not a "social network" in the way the term is commonly >understood today, and we do describe the distinctions -- including the
notion of "friending" -- in the talk. But at least in academic circles, >Usenet had been studied as a "social network" (using that exact term,
albeit in a more generic sense) years before Facebook and its ilk existed.
This sounds like it'll be a good talk - there's not much been written >recently (in the last couple of decades) about the tech/sociology interplay >of Usenet, and lessons for the wider internet.
Greetings.
On 2023-03-14 18:32, G.K. wrote:
On 3/14/23 18:59, Usenet Big-8 Management Board wrote:
Members of the Usenet Big-8 Management Board [1] will be delivering a
talk, "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original decentralized
social network", at the hybrid LibrePlanet 2023 conference [2].
Have you considered recording the talks? Youtube bingers and podcast junkies would find their way to it afterwards.
Yes, the talk will be recorded by the LibrePlanet organizers and
published online by them shortly after the conference.
Tristan Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2023-03-14 18:32, G.K. wrote:
On 3/14/23 18:59, Usenet Big-8 Management Board wrote:
Members of the Usenet Big-8 Management Board [1] will be delivering a
talk, "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original decentralized >>>> social network", at the hybrid LibrePlanet 2023 conference [2].
Have you considered recording the talks? Youtube bingers and podcast
junkies would find their way to it afterwards.
Yes, the talk will be recorded by the LibrePlanet organizers and
published online by them shortly after the conference.
Please do post the link when it's available.
This sounds like it'll be a good talk - there's not much been written recently (in the last couple of decades) about the tech/sociology interplay of Usenet, and lessons for the wider internet.
Greetings.
Yeah -- I'm not sure what's up with that.
Yes, our talk (and probably most or all other talks at LibrePlanet) will
be recorded and published online after the conference.
We briefly describe how moderated newsgroups work, some of the problems
that Usenet's moderation system solves, and some of the problems that Usenet's moderation system creates. We separately discuss the issue of censorship in Usenet versus censorship in centralized social media
networks.
The rest of the points you raise in your post are all valid ones, and
ones that we're aware of. Of course, it's possible to have a very long
and intricate discussion about censorship and Usenet, but since this is
only one of many topics we cover in the 40-minute talk, and because
we're pitching it mostly at people who aren't already familiar with
Usenet, we won't be going into too much detail.
On 15/03/2023 00:32, G.K. wrote:
Have you considered recording the talks? Youtube bingers and podcast junkies would find their way to it afterwards.
You must be joking mate. Richard Stallman hates YouTube, Amazon, Google, Microsoft or anything that makes money by selling software or services. Get real.
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Members of the Usenet Big-8 Management Board [1] will be delivering a
talk, "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original decentralized
social network", at the hybrid LibrePlanet 2023 conference [2].
The talk will be given online on Sunday, 19 March 2023 from 13:35 EDT
(UTC-4) to 14:20 EDT. We will give an introduction to how Usenet works, compare it to more recent forms of social media, and discuss what we can learn from Usenet.
Dear all,
On 15/03/2023 00.59, Usenet Big-8 Management Board wrote:
Members of the Usenet Big-8 Management Board [1] will be delivering a
talk, "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original decentralized
social network", at the hybrid LibrePlanet 2023 conference [2].
The talk will be given online on Sunday, 19 March 2023 from 13:35 EDT
(UTC-4) to 14:20 EDT. We will give an introduction to how Usenet works,
compare it to more recent forms of social media, and discuss what we can
learn from Usenet.
Video and audio recordings of our talk, as well as the slides, are now available to download or to view on LibrePlanet's website
<https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/federation-and-moderation-usenet-as-the-original-decentralized-social-network-slides/>,
as well as on PeerTube <https://framatube.org/w/jJiSmtQUrZh3cizjUvoTBo>.
Regards,
Tristan
Tristan Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2023-03-14 20:24, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
We're not a social network. We're above Facebook [spit] friend/unfriend crap
Yes, Usenet is not a "social network" in the way the term is commonly >understood today, and we do describe the distinctions -- including the >notion of "friending" -- in the talk. But at least in academic circles, >Usenet had been studied as a "social network" (using that exact term, >albeit in a more generic sense) years before Facebook and its ilk existed.
We're just Usenet.
What is Usenet?...
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