Re: <nettime> Moving Nettime to the Fediverse

[Allan Siegel <allansiegel@internet-mail.org>]

Hello,

This is a good move with exciting possibilities. The fediverse is in an 
expansive mood right now with a massive influx of people; an intensely 
evolving social space with strong anti-corporate sensibilities. A forest 
with trees, paths to be explored - a refreshing landscape with a 
different communication toolbox (or maybe something from the past now 
reconfigured?).

best

allan


On 11/30/22 01:34, nettime's mod squad wrote:
> Dear nettimers,
>
> Nettime was founded at a time when, as quaint as it sounds, email was exciting.
> That's long since gone for those who experienced it, let alone for those who
> didn't. Discussion-oriented mailing lists like this are, in a word, over,
> technically *and* culturally. It's time to think more attentively about whether
> or how nettime can evolve beyond email and its peculiar 'list culture.'
>
> And it's not just email. The edifices that have displaced and replaced lists
> are on the rocks too. Twitter is widely thought to be going over a cliff as
> Facebook, already graying, sinks under the weight of its "Metaverse." As more
> and more people cast around for alternatives, net.critique has become a bit of
> a thing again.
>
> We say: let's ditch the mailing list and start moving to the fediverse. Toward
> this end, we've set up an instance < https://tldr.nettime.org > with the
> following bare-bones "about":
>
> tldr.nettime is an instance for artists, researchers, and activists interested
> in exploring the intersections of technology, culture, and politics.
>
> It has grown out of nettime-l, one of the longest-running mailing lists on the
> net — in particular, on the 'cultural politics of the internet'.
>
> tldr.nettime is based on Hometown, a fork of Mastodon. It's compatible with the
> wider fediverse, but it also offers two tweaks we hope will help make it
> unusually fruitful:
>
>     * The character count per message is higher — 2000 chars at the moment.
>
>     * You can choose whether your post is public or visible only on tldr's local
> timeline and only to tldr's members.
>
> Aside from that, everything is raw by design: it's for those who make the move
> to define what this instance will be and how we can make it useful.
>
> This is a chance to move beyond nettime's shrinking in-group, so feel free to
> invite others. Our goal is to keep tldr to a size where the local timeline
> remains a useful tool for an actual, not rhetorical, community; how big that is
> remains to be seen.
>
> In the longer run, we won't maintain two infrastructures, one for email, one
> for the fediverse. At some point we'll close one — ideally, which one will be a
> collective decision.
>
> So, we hope this is the beginning of change in every sense, hopefully including
> some of the imbalances that have plagued the mailing list for many years.
> There's no clear path or process ahead, so this is a free-form, open invitation
> to get involved. As they say: be the change you want to see on nettime.
>
> See you on the other side
>
> Doma, Felix & Ted
>
>
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