# Slides atelier Sphera Media Lab #  @adalanerd@eldritch.cafe ---- ## Get the slides...  ### to open the [notepad](https://pad.public.cat/iTwN0P8USROGYqGU-JYs0A?both) ### or type pad.public.cat/SML25-PS --- ## Definitions - **hacking**: taking control over a technological artifact; - **social media**: a communication service to share content; - **algorithm**: a series of logical instructions to process information; - **independent media**: a platform free from external pressure; - **counter-narratives**: stories beyond mainstream; --- ## [petites singularités](https://ps.lesoiseaux.io/) are gathering **hackers** aiming to take control over our past, present and future, sharing methods with like-minded people with different conditions. - [OFFDEM: February 1-2, 2025](https://oxygen.offdem.net), an intersectional hacker conference - [THX workshops](https://thx.zoethical.org), speculative fiction writing sessions - [NGI Zero](https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-zero/), mentoring FLOSS projects - [NGI TALER](https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html), an anonymous, libre payment software ---- ## [les petites singularités](https://ps.lesoiseaux.io/) are **Hackers** hosting their own **social medias** on the fediverse. - a [Mastodon](https://ps.s10y.eu/home) instance - a [Peertube](https://peertube.public.cat) instance - many [Discourse forums](https://ps.zoethical.org/t/liste-des-forums-heberges-soutenus-par-les-petites-singularites/8125) for activist communities ---- ## [les petites singularités](https://ps.lesoiseaux.io/) are **Hacking social medias**, considering that **algorithms** are political and should therefore be transparently and collectively written by the grassroot communities. - [ActivityPub Developer Portal](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/) for debating the future of the fediverse developments ---- ## [les petites singularités](https://ps.lesoiseaux.io/) are **Hacking social medias algorithms**, to promote the books and other contents we create and publish on a forum under the Art Libre license to make them **independent medias** on their own. - [THX books](https://thx.zoethical.org/), short stories written by hackers during the aforementioned sessions - [Synware](https://oxygen.offdem.net/pub/synware-free-software-syndicates), free software syndicates publications - [Spectralx](https://spx.zoethical.org/pub/spectralx), a space for subaltern expressions ---- ## [les petites singularités](https://ps.lesoiseaux.io/) are **Hacking social medias algorithms to push independent medias**, gathering rare and precious **counter-narratives** in our publications via writing workshops and residencies. - [Congo Éteint](https://lcm.zoethical.org/pub/congo-eteint), short stories by congolese writers from the mining region of Lubumbashi - [Silenciées](https://lcm.zoethical.org/pub/silenciees), witness accounts by people detained in closed centers, in collaboration with Getting the Voice Out ---- ## [les petites singularités](https://ps.lesoiseaux.io/) are **hacking social medias algorithms to push independent medias counter-narratives.** --- ## Resonable expectations about social medias One could reasonably expect - **social medias** to make us create together; - **algorithms** to program timelines, data flows; - **interfaces** to match our needs, desires and limits; instead... ---- ## platforms puppet people... - they **put us in competition** on a global market of self-branding individuals, striving for clout and success; - they **advertise us** what will most probably suit our potential attention; - they **program us** to scroll for as long as possible by balancing the different types of content... to feed commercial silos of data, then processed by AI models, retrofeeding us with scrap. ---- ## So what's there really to expect from such platforms? But to... - diminish our collective agency; - waste our so precious time and money; - lose more and more cognitive capacity. At least, that's what we hear from teenagers up to elder people. And we gathered enough evidence about that to agree with them. --- ## OK! ### Let's discuss and hack now, no? - 10:45 - 11:00: current situation, dynamics - 11:00 - 11:30: alternatives & feedback - 11:30 - 11:40: break - 11:40 - 12:20: hands on - take the power back - 12:20 - 12:30: Q&A ###### [Notepad](https://pad.public.cat/SML25-PS#)