The Fedilore Otter 🦦

The business model for Facebook and Twitter and BlueSky and TikTok is to get big fast by ignoring basic expectations for product safety.

We knew how to do moderation on bulletin boards.

We know how to do moderation on Mastodon.

It's not that hard.

If you genuinely believe that BlueSky needs to feed your data into an LLM to keep you safe, then you're admitting that BlueSky has worse content moderation than 4chan or Something Awful.

You only need AI to help with moderation if you allow Nazis and pedophiles onto your social network.

We shouldn't let our standards for content moderation fall that far.

Don't trust these freaks who want to feed everything you post into some AI.

It's not necessary. It doesn't help. It makes moderation worse.

But it makes some rich assholes richer, by letting them steal your data.

Moderation work is only traumatizing if a social network is extremely poorly moderated.

It just takes a couple of volunteer mods for every few hundred users, as long as you have a strong sense of community and high standards for safety on your network.

Thread. Not threat.

In the time it took to write this threat, Aaron could have banned Jessie Singal.

I enjoy how people with lists called "leftist pigs who deserve helicopter rides" are ignored so the devs can focus on what's *really* important, defending digital cancer

Worth mentioning that it's impossible for this to happen on the Fediverse

Mastodon The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

My two big tips for joining Fedi (Mastodon):

- Eventually migrate to an instance with a cool admin you can relate to, but it's fine to start on a larger instance like Mastodon.social.

- Ignore the drama. Its bark is worse than its bite and the people making a fuss are mostly ignored these days.

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To be clear, my core point is that Jay is bad because she runs a company that made protocol that does bad things.

You could imagine a different way to run things where my PDS encrypts the data of my users, and each destination PDS needs to ask permission from my PDS to unencrypt that data.

Imagine I run a PDS for queer people refugees.

I want my users to be able to communicate with most users of the protocol, but I do not want their information to be shared with a known list of PDSs that allow Nazis.

There isn't currently any way to do that, because everything is maximally public.

ATProto is designed to make data scraping as easy as possible, by removing basic safety and privacy features that every other platform has.

A PDS cannot reasonably prevent all untrusted relays from collecting data from it, or prevent relays from sharing their data with a malicious PDS.

1) Doing bad things in a more efficient way is worse.

2) I have been writing in detail about how ATProto is fundamentally unsafe by design for more than a year now, but yes. The issue isn't really AppViews, it's that relays collect and share posts without the consent of the PDS.

The Bluesky CEO is promoting an "AppView" that was not only vibe-coded in a few hours by an LLM, but that also appears to have been created by a known FBI informant.

An AppView is the ATProto/Bluesky layer that gobbles up everybody's data and applies algorithms.

mastodon.social/@fedilore/11...

The Cowardly Little Otter 🦦 (@fedilore@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image A Bluesky/ATProto dev (Hailey) got made fun of for thinking that LLMs are alive, so now she's brainstorming new ways that they can use the protocol to spy on you. One of the Nivenl...

A Bluesky/ATProto dev thinks that chatbots are alive, and is implementing new tools to spy on you because of that (false) belief.

Do you trust somebody this out of touch with reality to scan and permanently track every picture you upload?

mastodon.social/@fedilore/11...

this is Jay Graber promoting Laurelai Bailey

atproto, the Laurelai network

The grass-cutting sword!

I'm a Fediverse/ActivityPub/Mastodon drama account, who talks about big (usually transphobic) drama between instance admins.

That stuff can be scary at first, but it's almost all just drama.

Ultimately your chosen instance admin is in control, not some hashtag.

For people on BlueSky who are looking to switch platforms, because of all of this:

- It's okay to just join a big instance like Mastodon.social or tech.lgbt to start.

- It's pretty easy to self host ActivityPub with YunoHost if you want to control moderation for yourself and some friends.

rest in piss

bella ciao

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Just testing something in this thread.

Charlie Kirk: "We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor"

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

Charlie Kirk: Jail every doctor who has treated transgender children.

(Source: www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...)

We Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful Life Influential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.

Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.

We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.

My latest piece.

@jay.bsky.team: "Violence is always unacceptable, and threats of violence have no place in public discourse. Our thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family."

@killeveryhetero@jorts.horse: "glug glug there goes your blood idiot lmao"

I trust one of these two women to run a social media site.

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous