Jon P

I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.

Decentralisation and blogging on atproto The space for blogging and long-form writing on atproto is rapidly developing, and it gives some interesting insight in what decentralisation on atproto looks like

an overview of the current state of blogging on atproto, and how it gives insight on what decentralisation on atproto actually looks like in practice

The racist SNAP videos are fake; the cop savior videos are fake. In both cases there's a call-and-response between something an audience *feels is true* and *wants to be true*; and content creators & algorithms serving that desire in spite of it being lies

What OP did is good; debunk w/o spreading

AT service operators and moderation thinkers: I put together an early proposal around infra abuse notices across organizational boundaries.

really looking for feedback on this one, it is bait for counter-proposals and references to prior work!

PDS MOOver PDS MOOver – ATProto tools for PDS migrations and backups

New PDS MOOver update 🐮!

- Backups now happen every 6 hrs instead of every 24 hrs
- Frontend rewritten in SvelteKit
- New npm library to create your own PDS MOOver

Overall, the site should function mostly the same way it did before, but this setup will make future updates easier.

An important thread that’s not simply about the University of California.

It highlights the misguided administrator-managerial thinking that has become endemic in higher education across the country.

Professors are the lifeblood of the academy.

Stop treating them like gig workers.
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Yeah, Mastodon's web interface includes this feature as well, extremely useful.

Alt text is for people with vision problems. For people who can't read the text no matter what form it appears in, who use screen readers. The alt text is needed for those. That's why it was created. Also, it's just copy and paste it's way easier than describing an image, the work is done for you

remember that woman who reposted the video of a journalist being arrested by ICE? when someone showed her it was AI, she said she didn’t care because it was what was happening! we called her out and she didn’t budge. it’s a perfect example of how this shit reaffirms what people *want* to be true.

OpenAI is a social arsonist.

Agreed, great point

everything old is new again ...

Wow!

Yeah. And, the ability to override individuals (for labelers as well).

The frustrating thing is that composable moderation is an interesting approach but the implementation is flawed in very basic -- and fixable -- ways that have been repeatdly pointed out... but haven't been addressed.

A general reminder. We do this for a good reason. Please read: Whitney Philips' "The Oxygen of Amplification"

Gnu Social was all-public. Lemmy is all-public.

Anyhow I'm not disagreeing about the blockchain influence on the design here, and all-public is certainly consistent with it. I just don't think "blocks are public" is a particularly strong indicator.

The general "everything should be public" base assumption is certainly a disastrously bad one and reflects a mindset of not caring about safety or consent. Specifically with blocks, though, Mastodon wound up making the same (bad) decision so not sure it's necessarily crypto-related.

and @dame.is for the "changed profile 500+ times yesterday" lol

The general recommendation is to start with the framing and narrative you want to establish, then highlight the agenda of the people making the propaganda argument, before stating the actual facts. Easier said than done of course!

Yep. And it's not a controversial assessment at all with experts on propaganda and disinfo!

Yeah there's a straight line between Jay not liking continually getting hassled about not banning a certain anti-trans bigot and this functionality. Although, there's also a straight line between pro-AI people not wanting to deal with pushback and this functionality.

Yes to academic freedom against fascism.

And, as June Jordan asked, “What freedom does this institution care about? Is it the freedom to maintain traditions based on hundreds of years of genocide, theft, rape, humiliation and hypocrisy? … Show me the freedom that this University upholds.”

What is reality anyway?

And also the framing is telling: "If you admit that X" certainly implies she thinks X is true.

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

You can read Dr. Alkhatib’s paper for free:
ali-alkhatib.com/papers/chi/s...

The protocol supports editing, so it's not actually a problem!

Hilda Bastian wrote a blog about how ‘A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different’, that got popular on the fediverse, with people highlighting the quote “I’m going back to the Fediverse. Back to Mastodon. To the nerds, the hobbyists, the idealists. The people who don’t talk about reach, but about relevance. To those who understand that decentralization isn’t nostalgic, it’s the future. That digital sovereignty isn’t a gimmick, it’s a survival strategy. Yes, the Fediverse is sometimes clunky, nerdy, uncomfortable. But it belongs to us. It’s not over-regulated, not driven by capital, not buggered up by algorithms. It’s what social media once aspired to be: A network of people, not brands.“ What I find interesting about the quote is that it describes the self-identification of the fediverse very well. The fediverse is indeed clunky and nerdy, operated by hobbyists and idealists. It’s one of the main powers that allows the network to sustain itself for so long. But I do feel that people who highlight this in an approving manner do not really grapple with the extent these same characteristics interfere with goals to make the fediverse a mainstream platform. What makes the fediverse appealing for it’s current user base is not what makes it appealing to a wide audience. There’s an uncomfortable tension here: growth and mainstream appeal of the fediverse might just make it lose what people enjoy. Or even stronger: these same characteristics of nerdy clunkiness is also what it prevents from mainstream growth.

this weeks fediverse news

connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

(Clears throat)

Well, actually, the term "algorithm" -- named after its inventor, Al Gore -- includes any *decision* process. So in reality, Bluesky has had an algorithm ever since JACK DORSEY initially *decided* to fund it.

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Sorry your day has been so shitty ... but glad I could help a little!