mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

I saw an image a while ago, here on fedi, of a screen capture of the post box, but the "Post" button had been replaced with "I am prepared to have this read back to me in court"

I think about that sometimes

Does anyone who used to work at Twitter want to tell us how the algorithm worked, now that the whole thing is about to burn down anyway?

Warble v2.0.0 is here! 🥳

✨Updated to GTK4
✨Cleaner UI
✨New (barely modified) icon
✨Same fun gameplay!

Get the update soon on
@elementary
#AppCenter, or on #Flathub!

#vala #gtk #gtk4

https://github.com/avojak/warble

Just resist the urge. Because you're not going to think to check for robots.txt, but you ought to, that's how we communicate we don't want to be involved. You're probably not going to bother to read the various terms of service for the instances you touch, many of which explicitly ask you not to do any scraping or automated activity beyond normal use of the service. You're not going to know to respect people using the NoBot hashtag that was meant to prevent automated follows. You're certainly not going to parse user profiles and pinned posts to learn how people like to be approached, what will get you blocked, or even think to heavily throttle your activity because instances are falling over in response to load.

Whatever your thing is, make it 100% opt-in. Make it appropriate for a significantly more at-risk user than you are. Make sure it forgets things, purges info about servers it can't contact, can't operate in any sort of logged-in mode where consent is an issue.

We will straight up help advertise your cool thing if it respects users properly and takes the time to consider the safety and preferences of every person involved. There are a lot of fun, thoughtfully-designed toys! And there are a lot of people really tired of having to come and tell you off when you wanted to help, honestly. Help yourself and ask around before you flip on your cool new thing, let folks point out what you're missing.

No one's going to like this prediction/suggestion but... If I were a brand, I'd set up a Mastodon presence *not* for marketing (no ads, no algorithms; nobody wants to befriend brands) but only for customer service, as rel="me" allows for certain verification (as @leo beat--and I mean beat--into my head on TWiG). The aim is only to deal with customer complaints before they blow up, as they still will, even without Twitter. Without Twitter, brands are deaf and that will hurt.

Non-Jewish progressives and leftists: The phrase “the Jewish question” IMO is pretty transgressive and dangerous given the historical and contemporary contexts in which it has been/is being deployed.

You are not the anti-oppressive ally you think when you use it w/o care.

Just a PSA.

Mastodon v4 goes online on Monday.

Many server/instance admins will be updating.

I've ran through the process with the latest RC yesterday on my testbed and it all went well, but, like any update these things are prone to hiccups.

Keep that in mind if your server seems to go offline briefly, the admins will be trying their best

@evan this has to be one of the most under-stated introductions I have seen here!

So let me offer a better one: Evan is one of the reasons we are all here. He is credited as one of the creators of the #ActivityPub protocol:
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

Back in the day (a decade ago), he also used to run the biggest instance of #StatusNet, identi.ca. MY old account is still there, even though I have lost access to it:
https://identi.ca/rysiek

StatusNet was the precursor of fedi.

Welcome, Evan!

All,

The moment has finally arrived! 🥳

@McCullohMD
@stevendavis , and I have been hard at work for the past week putting together a Mastodon instance so that we can create a backup disability and chronic illness community.

It can be found here:

https://disabled.social

For now, we have set up a terms of service, privacy policy, rules and best practices.

I have plans to set up a Twitter space to go through each of these with the disability community directly to add/subtract/reword things.

a section 230 fever dream

RT @rafaelshimunov@twitter.com

Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions?

Yes.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1591133819918114816

Is there a good list somewhere of #BlPoC to follow in #infosec or adjacent fields on Mastodon?

Tidbit about the #Kherson, as we celebrate liberation:

At the turn of the 20th century, #Yiddish was the second most spoken language there, with 30%! of the city speaking Yiddish as their first language!

Yiddish only started to decline a bit during the Soviet-Russian occupation in 1920 (Yiddish was one of the 3 official languages of the short lived independent #Ukrainian Republic, as seen in this Ukrainian hryvnia bill from 1917), and was fully decimated during the Holocaust.

#Херсо́н

Also, shout out to @pluralistic and @mmasnick — I link to and lean on two important pieces of theirs:

"Moneylike", by Cory Doctorow:
https://doctorow.medium.com/moneylike-d20f8279a72e

"Protocols, not Platforms", by MIke Masnick
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech

Seriously, go read them.

Very excited to be able to @-bother them both on fedi!

@demandprogress @GovTrack @eff @pogowatchdog @team @CREW @weareoversight @epicprivacy

Also, if you personally work on (federal) #opengov or #accountability issues, let me know, because I want to follow your account.

I don't dislike Eugen. You have to give him credit for building Mastodon, which has turned out to be a catalyst for introducing decentralized to the masses.

If I had to name a feeling, it would be disappointment. Mastodon represents a massive opportunity to make different decisions about engaging and building community.

Unfortunately, he has chosen time and time again to stick to a myopic view of the fediverse that makes people unsafe and replicates the issue of significant platforms because of his juvenile sense of fairness.

Where is the centralized database of bad actors that instances can integrate into their platforms to check and warn people at the server level? Where is the support for instances that prioritize safety over engagement? Where is the input from targeted communities that could diversify the experience?

Time and time again, he has shown he does not want Mastodon to be an example of what social media could be because he is captivated by his vision of what he feels should be.

And as any non-white man will tell you, his decision-making has left every community that does not look like him vulnerable.

He is simply replicating an open-source version of the social media platforms we are trying to escape.