Mathew Lowry

@mathewlowry.eurosky.social

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Australian in Brussels. Info architect, innovation, knowledge, community & content strategist. All the Stuff I Like, Think & Do: https://myhub.ai/@mathewlowry/

Screenshot: "But the truth is in some ways worse: the Atmosphere is so new that relatively few people in my LinkedIn network have ever interacted with content about it, so the algorithm probably just assumes they're not interested. So it's more blind than malevolent, but that's still not OK: algorithms look at your past to predict what you'll want to see; they do not look at your future to predict what you need to see."
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XKCD's standards comic. HOW STANDARDS PROLIFERATE: 1) SITUATION: THERE ARE 14 COMPETING STANDARDS. 2) two people talking. . 14?! RIDICULOUS! WE NEED TO DEVELOP ONE UNIVERSAL STANDARD THAT COVERS EVERYONE'S USE CASES. . YEAH! 3) SOON: SITUATION: THERE ARE 15 COMPETING STANDARDS.
Cafe and petit pain au chocolate at an outdoor cafe
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Screenshot from Unpacking Bluesky's Adoption Challenges https://experiments.myhub.ai/permanent_versions/atproto/bluesky_adoption_challenge I doubt most people will pay for social media which is identical to the free incumbents but lacks their audience. I can imagine some of them paying for something which delivers greater value than incumbent social media ever can. There are so many things you cannot do with X, Facebook and the rest. Can we have some apps that provide value people cannot get anywhere else, and can we communicate the differences, not the similarities? Maybe, at the end of the day, the social media we have today is the social media which can be supported by advertising, and X-style microblogging simply cannot provide enough value for most individuals and organisations to pay for it. But there are plenty of online content applications that some people do pay for, and to date they are either productivity software or longform publishing (enewsletter and website publishing). My goal is to combine them, but that's another story.
Photo of a brookie, showing a layer of brownie and a layer of cookie. And with a bite taken out of a corner
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Screenshot of my "customise twinkl" page, with every option selected.
A delicious looking cake called Brookie at my local boulangerie
From Unpacking Bluesky's Adoption Challenges (now on V3, but this text was there from v1, fwiw): https://experiments.myhub.ai/permanent_versions/atproto/bluesky_adoption_challenge "Undermining Bluesky's key argument These examples show that while almost everyone on Bluesky uses one company's infrastructure, the network will look centralised, even when built with decentralisable technology. getting users onto alternative infrastructure may be almost as important This undermines one of Bluesky's differentiators against its better-funded, walled"
A page asking me to log in to create a pckt blog
Lukaku holding up a Uno "+4" card
Summit of Mt Kebnekaise, Sweden
Photo of vin diesel with the word Family.
Screenshot of finding being incredibly obtuse about it.
Extract from page 8 "...values. Despite the earlier recommendations, those val- ues cannot be fully protected without EU digital sovereignty and autonomy. Recommendations to achieve digital sovereignty: • Achieve digital sovereignty through European digital, physical, and online infrastructure: Decentralised systems like Atmosphere, FediVerse, Mastodon, Eurosky, which also need EU cloud infrastructure, computing power, etc. to give autonomy back to citizens, take the decisions out of the hands of foreign corporate owners, and can allow explora- tion of alternative democratic models in real time. Financial support, R&D funding, encouraging more EU-based private funding, and public early adop- tion (e.g., requiring public administrations to also use alternative platforms, training civil servants) are needed to make them viable competitors of established centralised incumbents, whose R&D budget dwarfs funding currently available in the EU."
Justin Timberlake with "thank you for bringing sexy back", with sexy replaced by "blogging"
Photo of Elon Musk giving a fascist salute
Screenshot of the first version of my reply
Cute dog sleeping amidst cushions
Battlestar Galactica meme: All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again.
Screenshot from https://medium.com/@mathewlowry/in-memoriam-richard-medic-b3af3ed57a24 "Out of the entire Brussels Bubble, he was probably the only other person I knew who really saw Madelina Kay (aka EU Supergirl). I still don't know what it means that the most supportive Europeans she found in the Brussels Bubble were both Australian."
Conference shot
Photo of pots conference.
Screenshot from Unpacking Bluesky's Adoption Challenges https://experiments.myhub.ai/permanent_versions/atproto/bluesky_adoption_challenge : The past few months have demonstrated that only a small percentage of X users will move to Bluesky in disgust at the prospect of continuing to reinforce the influence of the world's richest Nazi. If this didn't get them to make the move, what on earth will? (Photo of Elon musk giving a nazi salle) In a better world, perhaps, people and organisations (companies, governments, civil society, etc.) would adopt Bluesky simply because it's an ethically superior
Biscuits!
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A screenshot of my previous post pointing to my leaflet page, which does not show the rich preview embed
As before, but 47 impressions.
Screenshot grim LinkedIn, showing that my post "What is LinkedIn's filter bubble not showing you?" has received... 35 impressions.
Screenshot of the original post, but the last words are "but wtf?"
Screenshot of clearsky, showing an account blocking 33153 accounts
How it looks on Bluesky, showing my very first job description from the previous century.
Diagram showing the content pipeline from https://experiments.myhub.ai/myhub_on_the_atmosphere
Screenshot of Anna's profile with a "pds.wsocial.network" label applied and highlighted.
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Garden photo, roses to the left, small Apple tree to the right, and a Monk Parakeet ... somewhere.
Verge login screen. Options include email, Google, Facebook& Apple, but no Atmosphere.
Photo of snowy mountains, taken from the summit of Kebnekaise, northern Sweden.
screenshot of bluesky telling me leaflet needs me to install chrome, which i have of course got on my phone .
Screenshot: The real agenda, however, was the launch of the EurActiv blogger "platform" – its blogactiv site, its commission-sponsored effort to corral bloggers into a central, controllable niche. Like civil society, bloggers too must be "organised".... the race is on to control the blogosphere, yet more "stakeholders" to be enlisted to support the great European "project" - EU Referendum
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A shot of my front garden with a dwarf rhododendron in full flower.
A glass of Triple Westmalle
Three Goodies on one bike
Photo taken from the conference of Alex presenting a slide entitled "A Foundation for Collective Intelligence."
Slide from the workshop showing one research team working together on BlueSky, via their Standard.site website, and using multiple knowledge management tools: Sill, Semble, Margin, and Squarespace
Orban and Vance in front of a crowd