Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
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Livelihood. Well, I suppose that, if true is somewhat understandable. I have seen similar sentiment recently but with where it was ego or reason for existing depending on twitter. All of it is a sad state of affairs.
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Dystopia is rolling in fast: Weather App AI will now have a text romance with you if you buy her the "right combination of gifts".
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/6/23494827/carrot-weather-5-9-update-romance-relationship-layouts
Honestly @dk , and you know this, but if your intention is to make your opinion heard to the developers, an issue on the project page is much more likely to have results.
Oh! Well there you go.
According to the ChangeLog a lot of support was added for edits since 3.5.0
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Once again, one could always go ahead and implement this, although I'm not sure of the implications for #ActivityPub and federating revision history. Delete and re-post is hard enough to ensure, with some instances out there not respecting deletes. I would suggest, "revise well before you post" is better than "ah, i can always edit it later"
It's important not to ask a micro-blogging platform to be the kitchen sink, but rather consider which federated (or not) platform is the right tool.
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@kevlin @cwebber described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures at an instant with unflagging confidence in it’s own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or awareness even of the level of expertise of it’s audience.
@dk
I'm sorry you find it sad, but I'm curious as I don't actually see this problem, other than sometimes having to open the thread starter on the OP's server, in order to catch all replies that your instance may not be aware of.
You don't need me to tell you this, but if you have an idea about how to make the platform better, you can start with opening an issue, maybe leading to some code and a pull request, and in the very worst case scenario, a fork.
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Remember: if you get Wikipedia "pls give us money" begging, give to the Internet Archive instead.
The internet archive is perpetually underfunded, whereas Wikipedia has enough cash on hand to continue operating at twice its capacity for about 3 decades.
Editors strongly opposed the wording of the recent beg banner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics
The #surveillance #advertising industry is dominated by a handful of companies including Google, Meta, and Amazon, which together control nearly three-quarters of the global digital advertising market.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-capitalism-not-a-few-bad-actors-destroyed-the-internet/
The dismal outcome of this #journalism crisis, writes Victor Pickard, is “a lack of public access to high-quality information, a loss of diverse voices and viewpoints, and the evisceration of public service journalism.”
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-capitalism-not-a-few-bad-actors-destroyed-the-internet/
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After 2 years of negotiations with Microsoft, the German Data Protection Conference issued a damning statement: German schools must not use MS365 due to privacy violations.
Fortunately, Linux, LibreOffice & Tutanota are very good alternatives. 💪🔐
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/microsoft-office-365-email-alternative
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Again, a quick and dirty analysis, but if I have no bugs then the 1% largest #Mastodon instances accounts for 84% of all users.
The top 5% accounts for 97% of all users.
We can say that the system is effectively centralizing around a few instances, and this might be a problem for the overall stability and sustainability.
@tiago @lmrocha @estebanmoro @hirokisayama @PessoaBrain @danielemarinazzo
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I wrote a bot that parses the current #Mastodon instances and assigns them to the respective #ASN (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASN).
Interesting is the concentration on a few top ASN. Here for example the 10 most frequent ASNs as Pie Chart (as of 11/25/2022).
❤️ Thanks to @TheKinrar for the nice API for receiving the current mastodon instances.
#networking #network #mastoadmin #mastoadmins #research #bot #instance
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I remember seeing Halliburton employees hiding their badges at a tech conference because they were ashamed of it. (Not conjecture, by the way, I asked them why and that’s exactly what they told me.) And that’s exactly as it should be. They, at least, had some situational awareness. I can’t say the same thing for folks who proudly work at surveillance capitalists now parading themselves on the fediverse like prized peacocks.
3/n
#surveillanceCapitalism #fediverse #corporateCapture #activism
As @ummjackson mentions elsewhere on this thread, disabling the public timeline is a potential workaround to avoid getting scraped, as #http is not #activitypub as doesn't have federation rules.
However, I don't see why disabling this feature for all should be the answer to avoiding a few bad actors. iptables block lists perhaps? Or maybe a network wide request to respect something more HTTP-ish like a robots.txt?, and reserve firewall blocking for violators?
It seems to me that an important part of the #fediverse is the ability to de-federate.
As someone involved in attempts to build #community networks, I find this feature attractive. I support the creation of small instances, where most users would have some kind of real world connection and can carry on their business without having to participate in the #myrmecology aspects of the internet.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
