User:Kim/Special Issue 27/Prototyping: Social Media Track

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Installing Debby

05/20/25

ssh keys

jump from cerealbox to login debby: 

ssh cerealbox
ssh xpub@145.24.152.64 (@ip address)

make a shared terminal: 

tmux attach

find my ssh keys: 

cd USER
ls -la (show hidden files)
cd .ssh
cat (the key I want to copy)

edit config file (nano) in .ssh folder, copy and edit cerealbox config and change host, user and ip address 

ssh debby (should now be possible) --> not yet

but we made a local ssh in the config (using debbys local ip address) 

ssh debby_local

the config file in my .ssh folder is a listing of all my servers
to run certain install processes go to the root access 

$ su

installing mastodon software

RSS

Prototyping session w/ Joseph pad

  • death of the hyperlink
    • how shift happened from blogging to Social media (speaking about hosting structure, customization, profit, immmaterial labour...)
    • content targeting nowadays is hyper individual compared to social media 10 years ago or blogging
    • spectacularize everything to be heard (affects how we practice solidarity)
    • in 2014 google took feed reader software down, a move massively influencing the hyperlink and blogging landscape
  • Langdon Winner
    • (Autonomous Technology, Do artifacts have politics?) epistemological Luddism method of not using a certain technology (or object) and then recognize what changes/ what is different
  • we download an rss reader software
  • we create our own feed on cerealbox
  • https://rss-bridge.org/ allows to add website updates to your rss reader by defining elements with a css selector

Planetplanet a rss aggregator, combines many feeds of different online communities like Gnome Deutschland, Linux Chixs, Mozilla Zine

Server 101 with Joseph

a port 80 = http

server diagram by joseph
  • we remove and install linux on virtual box new (kim, debian)
$ su -> enter pw -> $ apt install sudo nginx  php8.2 (stay in root for next step)
add user as sudo: $ nano /etc/group
in the browser go to localhost

this is already our server, just $ su installing nginx (and php)

  • now we want to add a cms (flatpress)
$ sudo wget https://github.com/flatpressblog/flatpress/archive/1.3.1.zip (you have to be in /var/www/html)
$ unzip
$ mv flatpress-1.3.1/ blog
$ sudo apt install php-fpm
$ sudo systemctl stop nginx
$ sudo apt install apache2
$ sudo systemctl start apache2
in the browser go to localhost/blog
give write access (inside of blog folder do)
$ sudo chmod a+w fp-content/
continue to configure the cms in the browser (localhost/blog)

Guest Presentation: Roel Roscam Abbing

pad

fediverse research

  • studies online federation in the context of platform design
    • how is online federation configured in alternative social media
      • 'configuration' how concepts and materials interact (users/ use - system - ideas)
  • two approaches:
    • genealogy (use over time, past)
    • practice based research (look at specific types/ contexts
  • social media: product (intransparent, governed, one blob, profit) vs ecosystem (multiple interacting parts, incoherent, different mostly non-profit models)
  • social media: platforms (bounded off even when same companies) vs federation (allow interconnection)
  • over 20.000 different instances on the fediverse (different softwares, not just mastodon)
  • fedidb.com
  • social.edu.nl works with hr login? -- experiment
  • some dont set up an own instance but build an alternative mastodon app or interface, introducing different features, ways of navigating, seeing posts phanpy.social

Lurk.org

  • first offering digital infrastructure for arts (2014)
  • mastodon since 2019 post.lurk.org
  • fully user donations funded (and server space sponsored)
    • intentionally stay small: focus on specific environment, keep moderation workload managable, if growth then slowly
  • code of conduct, terms of service, community management to make a space interesting, safe, welcoming
    • roel was speaking about trust relationship involved: when signing up for such service, interesting when this is a relation to humans and not some machines/ corporations (like meta)
    • defederations/ server blocks is a step against 'universal openness' that instances can take
  • Sevgi asked: how do you choose moderators, how often do you change them? how often does moderation happen and at what points?
    • Lurk makes things for them easier by only making people who they know moderators (trust)
    • yes it makes this exclusive but also makes moderation less necessary, people solve issues between themselves
    • a code of conduct is also a conflict solving and preventing document
    • helpful cultural and geographic spread of moderators (covering different timezones and cultural experiences)
  • as user if problem with user from different instance, who is responsible? Roel: its always your local server
    • this is a fundamental power shift (towards the hosts - away from central platform)
  • Manetta asked: code of conduct, written once or updated? Roel: iterative document, you learn from things that go wrong and update CoC
  • post.lurk.org is practice based research: as you do you learn and make this matter of/ feeds into your research understanding a content from engaging with it

lumbung.space

  • during last documenta in Kassel - alternative platform prototype
  • collaboration, publishing outlet, archive
    • single login for multiple apps (cloud, tv, books, social ...) --> lumbung.space is the public interface
    • would rely on existing software like mastodon or peertube
  • with lumbung.space idea to lay groundworks for other communities to use similar infrastructures too
    • using co-op cloud, based on containers

lowtechmagazine.com

  • on lowtech->magazine website prototype: link aggregator forum (only for subscribers) 2022
    • never launched bc moderation tooling was never sufficient to host community

outlook

  • pull apart layers that in social media as product are inseparable and impenetrable
    • one does not have to act on all layers but can be one or two and go deeper there
    • dont take the thing (fediverse) as a whole but see aspects

questions

  • me: server, capacities, technical?
    • Roel: questions of server scope are tightly connected to community scope and activity
    • storage would need to be infinite to save everything, post.lurk.org has a limit of a few days after which they remove attached media to keep it rather lightweight
  • what is it like to research a topic like this in academic context?
  • how does this environment shape the research topic and towards whom its output is directed?
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