Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Clapping hands emojis between each word of a post: can we not do this please? And this is me being nice.
Imagine listening to a post with the words "clapping hands" or e.g. "clapping hands with light skin tone" inserted between each word. That's what it's like when you use a screen reader and come across something like that.
So it'd be like this:
it clapping hands with light skin tone is clapping hands with light skin tone very clapping hands with light skin tone annoying.

I have a few polls about #meta #project92 in the fediverse for you.

A Thread:

My stance towards Meta is that the Fediverse needs two types of servers:

1. Lobby servers that explicitly federate with Meta for the purposes of moving people from Meta to the rest of the Fediverse

2. Exit servers that explicitly defederate with Meta for the purposes of keeping portions of the Fediverse out of reach from Meta

Both approaches not only can co-exist with each other, they might just be complementary.

People who use Meta need a way to migrate towards a space that is friendly, easy-to-use, and allows them to port their social graph.

But People also need a space that’s free from Meta, and allows them to exist beyond the eye of Zuckerberg.

Guess what? People who use Meta now might want to be invisible to Meta later. And people who dislike Meta might need a bridge to contact friends and family through some mechanism that still allows them to communicate beyond Meta’s control.

And thankfully, the Fediverse allows for this.

Software Patents: "We urge all developers and supporters ... whether a student, open source maintainer, or enterprise ... to voice their opposition today to the proposed rules"

https://github.blog/2023-06-19-developers-need-the-right-to-challenge-junk-patents/

The IRS could recover $12 for every $1 spent on scrutinizing the ultra-wealthy's taxes

https://www.businessinsider.com/irs-tax-audits-recover-12-dollars-for-every-dollar-spent-2023-6

#BusinessInsider #IRStaxaudits #ultrawealthy #taxrecovery #governmentrevenue #financialscrutiny #Politics #News

The Productivity Commission has today added to the piles and piles of evidence we have had for decades about the devastating consequences of persistent poverty.

There’s a clear and immediate solution and that’s an Income Guarantee paid for with a fair tax on the wealthiest few.

We should be trying to invent online social spaces that are much, much smaller, and I think it's possible to do this without losing the benefits of large social networks:

https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2023/06/19/groups-should-go-small/

#SocialMediaDesign

HOW TO SPOT A DEEP FAKE:

1. You can't.

Don't think you can. You can spot clumsy ones, but you've already missed a dozen others. We're past the stage where even _expert_ practitioners can have a 100% success rate.

Instead, think about how to avoid taking action, or trusting someone, because of who they seem to be. Holding onto the fantasy that "I can spot 'em!" is harmful, and moves the onus of responsibility from collective to personal.

This is also true for #genAI, of course.

@scirave @stux There's some reporting on the fact that they're facing increased regulatory scrutiny for monopoly power and their walled garden business model, so federation could just be a way of offering an excuse to regulators. I highly doubt scraping the Fediverse is a goal — the number of people on here is a rounding error for FB. Not worth spinning up a whole new product to get a few million new users in the system.

I'm sitting here watching this "Meta had an NDAed meeting with big fedi devs/admins" stuff shaking my head because I was one of the people who woulda been in the NDAed meetings when Meta, Google, and AOL did this exact same fucking thing to XMPP.

They're not even altering their playbook! This is EXACTLY how they "joined" XMPP then squashed it 2 years later.

EXACTLY. How can you be so gullible??

It's NOT platforms like #Facebook or #Instgram that join the Fediverse ⚠️

Meta is working on a new platform that intends to federate

So it's not everyone on FB or IG that joins but a new crowd probably

We have great moderation tools on Masto and other software that can cut them off within a second if needed

But let's not "block everything by default" but first check..

You won't be happt if your admin starts blocking things without even checking them first

The same rules apply to them also

Thanks to @Andrew for pointing me at https://calckey.social/notes/9f8fucbd3f which gives me pause-for-thought...