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darren, 12 days ago to threads

Is anyone aware of a bot that counting the number of federated #Threads accounts? Just curious about the #Fediverse uptake by Threads users. Out of their puported hundred million users, I would anectdotally guess about 1000 users have voluntarily federated, but maybe you know better than me?

stefan, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to fediverse

Trying to run a little experiment and want to make sure my understanding is correct.

If I post something on my fediverse server, assuming it takes some time to reach all of my followers' servers, does that post get inserted into their feeds as if posted at the original time, or rather on top of their feed, but with the original timestamp?

#fediverse #mastodon #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

elCelio, 14 days ago to mastodon Italian

Most followed #Mastodon accounts:

1. threads.net
2. threads.net
3. threads.net
4. threads.net
5. threads.net
6. Mastodon@mastodon.social
7. threads.net
8. threads.net
9. georgetakei@universeodon.com
10. threads.net
11. threads.net
12. Gargron@mastodon.social
13. threads.net
14. threads.net
15. neilhimself@mastodon.social
16. rbreich@masto.ai
17. threads.net
18. threads.net
19. threads.net
20. threads.net

Source:
https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/

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anthracite, 8 months ago to random

Thank you for all the effort you put into this “FESP”. I would like to respectfully suggest that this proposal is missing some major elements of the procedure that I apply in my regular activities as the administrator of a small Mastodon instance, which has been running since 2017.

This existing proposal does a decent job of outlining a sensible workflow for automatically applying blocklists, but has absolutely nothing related to how much I trust various blocklists, which I feel is a critical part of any automated or semi-automated solution. Let me explain.

I trust certain people to make good decisions about moderation.

There are some admins who have a long history of always making decisions that are well-documented; if I see them make a post to #fediblock then I will probably just say “hey, thanks for your work, cool admin”, and go block whatever sites they suggested.

I trust other people to make bad decisions about moderation.

There are some admins who have a history of getting into arguments and calling for a #fediblock on the entire site the person they’re arguing with. There are some admins who are in between these, whose decisions I usually agree with but always look into for myself.

I trust some people to make actively terrible decisions about moderation.

There are some admins whose posts to #fediblock are a clear and obvious signal that they are the sorts of people I would block - which I usually do - and that anyone they suggest blocking is probably someone I want to avoid blocking.

This proposal has no concept of the relative trustworthiness of its blocklist sources, and in fact recommends the default acceptance of a blocklist source that combines several sources I trust to make bad decisions.

What is needed is a way for a user to rank their trust in each and every blocklist source, and define thresholds for being alerted about potential new block-worthy sites, and for sites being automatically blocked.

A simple way to do this would be for the user to assign a numerical ranking to each blocklist source. List A, run by my best buddy of thirty years, who I trust implicitly? They get, oh, 10. Lists B1, B2, and B3, who share my general values? They all get a 3. Lists D1, D2, and D3, run by people who I think are are sometimes right but prone to making impulsive decisions? They get a 1. Lists F1, F2, and F3, who are constantly making minor dumb suggestions? -1. List Z, run by people who want me and everyone like me to not exist? -10.

And then I would choose where my thresholds are. With the above example sources, I might choose a collective trust of 9 for “block this automatically”, and a collective trust of 3 for “suggest this block”. If A suggests any block, then I just apply it. Same with B1/2/3 all agreeing, or B1/3 agreeing and all of D1/2/3 concurring. And if some B/D-tier sources suggest it, then I would get this new possibly-blockworthy place shown to me.

Some small further extensions, perhaps: I might want to always have any block suggested by B2 or D1/2/3 held for manual review, even if my total trust in this suggestion is well over my threshold for auto-block. And the case of A and Z suggesting the same site, for a total score of 0, is an interesting one - perhaps positive and negative scores should be summed up separately, and anything with a positive score that crosses the “suggest block/autoblock” thresholds should be presented as a suggestion, with a note that this one might be an interesting one that I’ll want to deal with when I have time to sit down and ponder nuance.

Anyway. There you go. The Fediverse is decentralized and any suggestion for sharing blocklists should also be decentralized, and should recognize that the people who compile these lists are humans, who I may have varying degrees of trust in. As written this proposal feels inherently centralized; it’s trying to replicate workarounds for the incredibly centralized corporate-owned social networks of the past decades, without any thought given to the inherently anarchic nature of federation. It’s also suggesting the enshrining of a centralized blocklist put together from multiple people with a track record of admin decisions that is spotty, at best. Any solution that proposes nothing but thebad.space as a source of its decisions is inherently flawed.

-@anthracite

(https://docs.google.com/document/d/17YmAvRbk_wf6RhWhFbRya9SvUMpoY2s4ZRnt9bqLtwA/edit?usp=sharing)

#mastoadmin #fediblockmeta

GottaLaff, 8 months ago to Wisconsin

👍🏻 #PlannedParenthood announced Thursday that it will resume offering #abortions in #Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemingly banned the procedure actually didn’t apply to abortions #legal
https://apnews.com/article/b4410175ec2541cbdd984c395c81eb4c

GottaLaff, 8 months ago to Georgia

ON MSNBC RIGHT NOW: Hearing in #Georgia #TrumpIndictment 1/…

And on YT: https://www.youtube.com/live/KoF8DvcU7w8?si=91LZaEr470E10j9Z

Green_Footballs, 8 months ago to random

I don’t see how the Republican Party in its current form can ever come back from the very dark corner they’ve painted themselves into.

w7voa, 8 months ago to random

NBC press release: “This Sunday, Sept. 17 on NBC, the inaugural broadcast of Meet the Press with Kristen Welker will feature an exclusive interview with former President Donald Trump. The pretaped interview will take place Thursday in Bedminster, N.J. and will be Trump’s first broadcast network interview since leaving office.”

GottaLaff, 8 months ago to random

Via Kyle Griffin:

NBC News confirms: The FBI agent who oversaw the agency's investigation into #HunterBiden disputed, in an interview with House committees, key portions of an IRS whistleblower's claim that the Justice Department gave preferential treatment to President Biden's son.

GottaLaff, 8 months ago to random

Via @emptywheel 1/…

Ever notice how age has replaced mental acuity & temperament?

Even on #Trump's best days he spent most of the a.m. raging at Fox, which far more easily DQs him than age does for either him or Biden.

Now add in fact that Trump is far less healthy than #Biden

Nate Silver:

It's extremely sane for voters to ask whether man who wd be 86 at end of 2nd term shd be pres. It's a salient & newsworthy ques. The better argument is that media should also cover how Trump is old AF.

ai6yr, 8 months ago to random

#Kilauea #eruption: "Kīlauea volcano is erupting. At approximately 3:15 a.m./p.m. HST on September 10, 2023, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory observed eruptive activity in Kīlauea summit webcam images and from field reports indicating that an eruption has commenced within Halemaʻumaʻu crater and on the down dropped block to the east in Kīlauea’s summit caldera, within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park." https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/volcano-updates

FinchHaven, 8 months ago to random

And now for something completely different

The Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii has just started to erupt again, starting barely a couple hours ago

"First lava came out at 15:14 HST/18:14 PDT Sunday (9/10) according to the webcam."

h/t @ingalls

https://www.youtube.com/live/tBh-ZhIB1Nk?si=pNN-9uxw6C7MWTIw

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 8 months ago to auscovid19

By Joaquín Beltrán @joaquinlife

"This has aged horribly and it’s only 5 hours old."

"A large proportion of us have hybrid immunity by now. We have been vaccinated, infected, and now have two forms of immunity. We have reason to think that hybrid immunity is more durable." –William Hanage (Harvard University)

#COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Twitter/X source: https://twitter.com/joaquinlife/status/1701018990477525262

dangillmor, 8 months ago to random

Funny-not-funny that the author of Musk's hagiography issues a correction (on the deadbird site, of course) for what Musk told him during the reporting for the book.

Also a reminder that the author withheld a huge story from the public for more than a year in order to have a scoop in his book.

Tekk, 8 months ago to mastodon

Question for those who use #toot! For #Mastodon on the #iphone . Is that #app worth the $4?
#fediverse #tootformastodon

GottaLaff, 8 months ago to random

Via my pal Jason Karsh:

A Republican candidate for president explicitly calling for extrajudicial killings. The implication is it’s just gonna be brown people, but once you start summarily executing people, who’s to say where it stops, especially when this guy has so many perceived enemies.

Aaron Rupar:

A #DeSantis PAC is now using his "stone cold dead" line in an ad

w7voa, 8 months ago to random

Paqui, the makers of the "One Chip Challenge," removing the spicy tortilla chip from store shelves after a 14-year-old died hours following taking the challenge. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/paqui-one-chip-challenge-pulled-from-shelves-harris-wolobah-worcester-massachusetts/

w7voa, 8 months ago to random

Does anyone know how I can report/shut down this imposter mastodon.social account spewing spam/potential phishing?

Green_Footballs, 8 months ago to random

Peter Navarro is one of the slimiest of the remoras swimming around the great white Donaldfish.

GottaLaff, 8 months ago to random

Finally.

Chris Hayes confirms it is pronounced CHEZbro. Not CHEESEbro.

Case closed.