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bear, to random
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@britt @craftykraken @handmade_ghost Thanks for the pics this morning. They've already made my day better. 🌄

britt, to random
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A story:

Wifey and I walk into a doctors office. When I sat down first (she’s parking), I get only mild looks from the older folks here… I make a joke about not knowing what to do and have a seat.

When wifey arrives and sits down?! Stares. All of them. Silence.

I guess this is their first experience seeing lesbians in the wild?!

David Attenborough voice

“And here we see a lesbian, see the plaid, a proud display of social dominance…..” 😂😂

w/ @craftykraken

bear,
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@britt @craftykraken The strength it must take to not call them on their bullshit.

Much love to you both. ❤️ ❤️

britt, to random
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Today I had to use the Force to prevent myself from responding to this off hand comment from a nurse…

“We’re all a little autistic or bipolar!”

No. Just no.

bear,
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@britt

Welcome to IT, where we're all a little aut--

🔥 🔥 🔥 🚒 🧑‍🚒

Always a sign that the person speaking does not understand autism at all.

thisismissem, to mastodon
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”But Mastodon also has [...] a lot on its plate including integration with Threads“

It's lines like this that makes me completely unable to take those calling for a hard fork of Mastodon seriously.

All Mastodon do for Threads is the same they for any fediverse developer having issues federating with them. (And there's certainly limits to that)

Along with perhaps writing more FEPs to standardize behaviour, which benefits everyone

bear,
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@thisismissem Hi! New Mastodon administrator here.

I'm not sure you're looking for my feedback but yes, I do want to limit my interaction with toots while seeing a wider variety of toots. I eventually found a relay to subscribe to specific tags for local and country-level politics.

Since then I've set up filters and have started to curate a followers list from that.

The single, small and community instances are valid. Consent in communication is important to me while surveying public toots.

bear,
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@thisismissem Within days of setting up a new instance and interacting with people on other instances using ActivityPub, I saw a data scrape of my public toots and CDN assets occur.

I think it's reasonable that an organization that profits from user data will survey this social network graph of people existing outside their walled gardens.

bear,
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@thisismissem Within the first week of operating an instance, I suddenly saw a walk of all of the CDN assets, including cached media from other instances. At first I assumed it was some kind of index, but I was able to corroborate this action by reviewing nginx logs. I did not see an uptick in Sidekiq.

As a new admin, I wasn't sure how to gather more information to understand what would cause a 1:1 serving of GB of media from my CDN I had just set up.

bear,
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@thisismissem Good to know, regarding no increase in Sidekiq activity. I guess I still have a lot to learn. 😅

What I recall from that moment was that everything stood out like a spike in the CloudFront dashboards. Within a short time window it looked like every asset was touched. I remember it being hard to determine who the client was, but that it looked like one client.

bear,
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@thisismissem I wonder about this. Relays are hard for me to understand in the concept of ActivityPub. I still have basic questions about them, like, if I subscribe to a relay am I sending them all of my public toots? Am I just receiving?

Without thinking about relays, I expect public toots to be discoverable.

The only consent I can control are toots coming from my instance. Which is why I'm not allowing other users without first having some kind of service agreement in place.

aral, to threads
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Dear @Gargron,

A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:

“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”

https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fails-to-moderate-extreme-anti-trans-hate-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?

Thank you.

PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

bear,
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@aral A lot of the people responding to your toot seemed to have skipped over the articles you linked to, and your point.

Meta is not operating openly and they are not moderating effectively.

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