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A banality just occured to me. I love when that happens. It often signals something important stirring inside. It is that there's no position from which you can see all of the #Fediverse. Donna #Haraway calls it the god's eye view. Instead, knowledges are "situated" - specific servers from which you see something particular, not everything. It is baked into the protocol. The task now is to unlearn the paradigm of #surveillancecapitalism, care for our worlds and build bridges between them.
#fediverse #surveillancecapitalism #Haraway
malte
From banalities that I've previously overlooked, often follows a lot of other new understandings. For example, that there exists a strange alliance between proponents of the liberal idea of a "public sphere" and the god's eye view of surveillance capitalism. Consider the critique (or rather dismissal, because that is what it is) of situated worlds as so called echo chambers. It's a way to make them suspect. It brings into view a position to overcome - a kind of "imperial Habermas".
Doug Webb
related: https://mastodon.xyz/@douginamug/113894705680664770

Doug Webb (@douginamug@mastodon.xyz)

Content warning: stream of consciousness about the fediverse not actually being a better political force than the siloverse right now
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malte
I think that's a very different perspective, although both are about the topic of discoverability. What's the relation you see?
Doug Webb
ahhh, I linked you to not the thread I was thinking of, sorry!!

The other one was about storytelling: how do we tell the story that, as you say, there is no gods eye view of the fedi, and even more, that that is desirable.
malte
Yes, that sounds pretty close to my perspective. Too bad you couldn't find the right thread!
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