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Valley Drag Episode 2: The One About Media And Stuff

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This week on Valley Drag, we try to drag centralized media services and federated media services. But honestly we just end up dragging ourselves.

Show Notes:

Why centralized social media sites can be good:

  • Information Source
  • Concretely, during Ferguson, twitter played a big part in letting people see what was happening.
  • #BLM
  • #ILookLikeAnEngineer
  • Essentially gives folks who may not be apart of a certain demographic a view into another part of the worlds culture.
  • Allows people share experiences, break up traditional media’s hold on publishing.
  • Unbundling of media content.

    • Reasons as to why they can be bad:

    • Bitter Brown Femmes episode where they have a bit talking about organizing online using facebook and twitter
      • Essentially that it’s horrible but because of how American education and such is, these centralized services are the only way a bunch of folks find out about their own ethnic and cultural history
      • Censorship of “controversial content” like videos by LGBT creators (but hatespeech is continually supported by both twitter and youtube).
        • Essentially whatever raises stock prices is what will be ultimately protected and prioritized.
        • Facebook, twitter, et al turning over information to law enforcement (using facebook to organize BLM, protest, resistance events is not safe).

          • Content Creation:

          • Getting paid for content creation is hard.
          • No good open source kit in a box easily deployable solutions for it.
          • Ethical ad markets
            • An ethical ad market would allow for people to still make money off of advertising while also respecting users privacy.

              • Open Source and Decentralized Alternatives:

              • Monetization:
              • liberapay
              • flattr
              • Build it yourself with stripe or other payment processing services.
                • Registering a business is almost a monster of a task
                • Social Media
                • Mastodon
                • Disapora
                • Media & files
                • Mediagoblin
                • Owncloud
                • Sandstorm, here is a Pentagonal episode where we talk about this in depth.

                  • Social Media:

                  • Cristian on Twitter
                  • Tim on Mastodon
                  • Tim on Twitter
                  • Stipes Radio on Twitter

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