it's maddening that we have little control - other than shifting platforms - over technology directing our actions and well-worn habits. We are slowly, perhaps insidiously, yielding our freedoms over to the algorithms that oversee and then determine our choices..
There has been some conversation, but not much, in regard to what might be done. I have reported on sideloading to smart phones. That is where you can load an app to your phone outside the vendors store. They police what is and what isn't allowed on apps. In Indonesia Apple pulled Grindr from their store.
However, the other issue is why don't we have our own social media platform and app. There has been a minor attempt to set up a website, but it didn't catch on since it wasn't an app, but a website and the Gay art community wasn' supporting it. the artist gave up on it.
Gays also are the value of the hookup apps. Last time Grindr was sold, it went for $600 million.
It would be good if a Gay organization owned its own social media/hook up app/market place and news source environmen. The critical thing would be that it there would have to be an ability to sideload the app, so that Android/Apple, telecommunication companies couldn't ban it.
The other thing is that I am the only person thinking about this issue. I am overloaded with projects, though I am getting one thing after another completed.
it's maddening that we have little control - other than shifting platforms - over technology directing our actions and well-worn habits. We are slowly, perhaps insidiously, yielding our freedoms over to the algorithms that oversee and then determine our choices..
There has been some conversation, but not much, in regard to what might be done. I have reported on sideloading to smart phones. That is where you can load an app to your phone outside the vendors store. They police what is and what isn't allowed on apps. In Indonesia Apple pulled Grindr from their store.
However, the other issue is why don't we have our own social media platform and app. There has been a minor attempt to set up a website, but it didn't catch on since it wasn't an app, but a website and the Gay art community wasn' supporting it. the artist gave up on it.
Gays also are the value of the hookup apps. Last time Grindr was sold, it went for $600 million.
It would be good if a Gay organization owned its own social media/hook up app/market place and news source environmen. The critical thing would be that it there would have to be an ability to sideload the app, so that Android/Apple, telecommunication companies couldn't ban it.
The other thing is that I am the only person thinking about this issue. I am overloaded with projects, though I am getting one thing after another completed.
you may not be the only person thinking about these issues. But you're certainly DOING something about them / or beginning to.