Calum Mackervoy

Freelance developer, agitate in co-operatives. Interested in the semantic web & in social technics. I like writing & making games, too. More info on website

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

I made a demonstration of a game which lets you turn people into vampires, but the cool part is that the game doesn't actually know what a vampire is... https://t.co/qij8wrZNTL

Decentralised adventure games towards a federation of games in common :-)

#LinkedData #GodotEngine

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

I'm going to take part in two game jams - one in May and the second in June. If you want to be part of a team then let me know!

1 - 26 May (https://t.co/RHjUmGTXz7)

1- 30 June (https://t.co/unDx9Y1aRe)

Open to ideas but keen to incorporate this commons

#GameJam #GameCoops

[Digital Commons @DigiCommonsCoop]

Calling housing activists and organisers! Join us and take part in some (paid!) research workshops, all about how digital approaches could help to unlock more organising power within the housing movement. Find out more and sign up at https://t.co/iCaVv0liYj!

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

Does anyone have any good advice/resources on finding funding for development in open-source projects, in particular in Godot?

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

Wealth in a market is quite concentrated but also quite flexible/alienable (e.g. you can spend bank notes on just about anything). Wealth in the commons is dispersed, restricted and much less "alienable"

Anyone got any reading recommendations for exploring this?

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

Let's talk about branded types.

If I were building an app where security was critical, I'd use the crap out of them.

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

To re-propose my idea of making parallel Wikipedia articles with relished biases: imagine a Wikipedia article about pirates, but adopting the perspective of a pirate enthusiast celebrating the history. Why not?

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

I wonder if anything would actually be lost if we decided to revel in our biases?

Instead of trying to pretend they're not there we could try to highlight them, democratise them, even relish in them. For example we could try parallel Wiki articles (not for fascists)

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

People can get kind of dystopian about the web, Wikipedia is still a great example of something we've done really well (you could argue it's borderline utopian) and it's obliterated boundaries to information access... especially for example in language support

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

To an extent I get the desire to limit bias and have the viewpoint of a "historian", but personally I think we want our information to be *anti-fascist*, no?

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

@elonmusk oh cool are you gonna open-source Twitter? MIT or GPL?

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

@JoKingMob the windy rainy hail is a seriously underrated part of English weather

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

There are better visions for the #web3 , notably linked data, which is used by ActivityPub - the protocol which Mastodon uses and which allows the Fediverse to take shape

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

The blockchain is potentially useful in environments with essentially zero trust and where people will need to be financially incentivised to run something. I would argue that this isn't a good basis for the web, since here neither of those preconditions are true

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

I originally posted this on my Fosstodon (Mastodon) account https://t.co/2WpA565mab

What is Mastodon? https://t.co/cHwgaJT6d7

TLDR; it's a federation of many little locally-managed servers that form one service. The difference between "federated spaces" and "one global space"

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

Reposting an interesting paper about the tendency towards centralization in Mastodon: https://t.co/Foh3cXxcfl

One highlight would be 6% of instances being hosted on AWS, but 30% of users. Users clustering around instances seems to be happening more and more

[Calum Mackervoy @CalumMackervoy]

I’m reluctant to catostrophise about the potential for large actor like Twitter to exploit this along the lines of “embrace, extend, extinguish” because to be honest a small and decent community is often better than a global one which “doesn’t get it”