It's time for a hard fork of Mastodon (DRAFT, REVISION IN PROGRESS) (privacy.thenexus.today)
It's time for a hard fork of Mastodon (DRAFT) (privacy.thenexus.today)
This is a work in progress, so feedback very welcome! And, if please check out the Mastodon poll about interest in a fork...
Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers (privacy.thenexus.today)
If you’re a developer working on a fediverse app or service and want to get it right – or just don’t want to be the center of the next firestorm – here are a few suggestions.
Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers (privacy.thenexus.today)
If you’re a developer working on a fediverse app or service and want to get it right – or just don’t want to be the center of the next firestorm – here are a few suggestions.
Federal privacy legislation update: the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) (privacy.thenexus.today)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/10889989...
How to block Threads on Mastodon (privacy.thenexus.today)
Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! If you’re one of the fediverse influencers who sees Threads arrival it as “historic” and “a glimpse of the future” … well, you might want to skip this post....
It's possible to talk about The Bad Space without being racist or anti-trans – but it's not as easy as it sounds (privacy.thenexus.today)
There’s another wave of discourse about The Bad Space on the microblogging side of the fediverse, so here’s my article from a couple of months ago....
Steps towards a safer fediverse (privacy.thenexus.today)
The good news is that there are some straightforward opportunities for significant short-term safety improvements. If fediverse funders, developers, businesses, and “influencers” start prioritizing investing in safety, the fediverse can turn what’s currently a big weakness into a huge strategic advantage....
Business is business: Snap, Microsoft, and X endorse the anti-LGBTQ+, pro-censorship KOSA bill (privacy.thenexus.today)
If you’re in the US, https://stopkosa.com and EFF’s page make it easy to contact your Senators and ask them to oppose #KOSA.
Steps towards a safer fediverse (DRAFT) (privacy.thenexus.today)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7992691...
Instances in the free fediverses should consider "transitive defederation" from instances that federate with Meta (privacy.thenexus.today)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7477620...
Instances in the free fediverses should consider "transitive defederation" from instances that federate with Meta (privacy.thenexus.today)
Transitive defederation – defederating from instances that federate with Threads as well as defederating from Threads – isn’t likely to be an all-or-nothing thing in the free fediverses. Tradeoffs are different for different people and instances. This is one of the strengths of the fediverse, so however much transitive...
The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances (privacy.thenexus.today)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7371919...
The free fediverses should work together with people and instances in Meta's fediverses and on Bluesky whose goals and values align (privacy.thenexus.today)
Many of the Meta advocates I’ve talked to share the free fediverses’ long-term goal of building a sustainable alternative to surveillance capitalism – and the same is true for people on Bluesky. So there are likely to be situations where some of the people and instances in Meta’s fediverses and Bluesky wind up as...
The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances (privacy.thenexus.today)
There’s likely to be a lot of moving between instances as people and instances sort themselves out into the free fediverses and Meta’s fediverses – and today, moving accounts on the fediverse today. There are lots of straightforward ways to improve it, many of which don’t even require improvements to the software. And...
The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances (privacy.thenexus.today)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7235896...
The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances (privacy.thenexus.today)
Here’s how Kat Marchá describes caracoles:...
The free fediverses should emphasize networked communities (privacy.thenexus.today)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7193618...
The free fediverses should emphasize networked communities (privacy.thenexus.today)
The “free fediverses” are regions of the fediverse that reject Meta and surveillance capitalism. This post is part of a series looking at strategies to position the free fediverses as an alternative to Threads and “Meta’s fediverses”.
The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety (privacy.thenexus.today)
Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse (privacy.thenexus.today)
The (annotated) case for a "big fedi" (privacy.thenexus.today)
A response to Evan Prodromou’s “Big Fedi, Small Fedi”
Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse (privacy.thenexus.today)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9799372...
Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse (privacy.thenexus.today)
What’s Meta up to?...