# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 9
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twt.nfld.uk/user/search_social/twtxt.txt&offset=9
ure which guarantees, by it's very foundation, no challenge can ever be organized, because it's literally impossible to form that shape in the network. But if you make a worldwide internetwork of local friend groups hosted on fediverse, with in addition a ton of voting plug-ins; then even if those voting plugins are only initially used for games and shitposting and tarot reading; you've now Conway'd yourself into a strong and thriving comms struct that is also capable of being turned, in an instant, to a useful democratic goal, and ergo it will be!!!
roups. But once that comms structure is stabilized, that same "shape" can trivially organize a union or union-like actions, even though the original goal had nothing to do with unions, and even if no one would have joined a union goal originally (pre trust/interaction), and even if a union would have been put down but a soccer wouldn't.
So, getting more to the point. If you make a worldwide internetwork of local friend groups hosted on twitter, which restricts all voting to a rigid set that they also control completely; then you've Conway'd yourself into a comms struct
stabilized the comms pattern. The original excuse for the comms pattern becomes a "carrier signal" which can embed and transmit the new concept even if the new concept isn't strong enough to be transmitted alone.
So, as an example, one could make, idk, a weekly soccer game for some coworker friends. And if some remote branches of the company also had weekly soccer games, you could organize a tournament of some kind where your team goes to play their team. Here soccer is stabilizing a comm structure of local co-worker groups as well connections between those co-worker g
@jlj @prologic >particular bill >disbanded party >long haul
So I am becoming more and more a fan of Conway's Law here or more precisely the inverse of Conway's Law which I will call Conway's Aspiration: If you want an organization to behave a certain way, then create the communications structures that parallel that way [implied: don't try to make the behavior happen].
Once you stabilize a certain comms pattern i.e. interaction+trust social graph, then that comms pattern will foster any concept that follows that same pattern, even if it's not the original concept that
@prologic @jlj >I participated in some activism around copyright reform, 20 years ago, in Canada; met with my MP, did a bit of advocacy. It’s tough to get anywhere. And then they just try again, with new legislation, a few years down the road. Pretty crushing.
We need a collaborative zettelkasten of every piece of activism every one of our people have done and are doing to map out the angles and coordinate the attacks.
>I feel this isn’t a good look.
I agree, a community that has to resort to bans to maintain their grip on power isn't a good look at all.
>And a possible sign of a deteriorating mental state.
Being emotionally invested in a toxic individual does tend to lead to mental state deterioration, yes. Effective strategies include using non-IRL identities which preclude doxxing, and quietly making friend contents with everyone useful in the room before getting banned, in order to have real conversations with them elsewhere.
