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fraying, 4 months ago to random

“When you respond to comments from the fediverse on your blog, they will now be federated. This allows you to finally engage in (threaded) communication back and forth directly from the comment section of your blog!”

So, we’re doing context collapse as a service, then.

Fuck this is such a bad idea. Blog comments have a context. You remove comments from that context, you harm your commenters and your sanity.

https://fediversereport.com/wordpress-activitypub-plugin-updates-to-v2-0/

fraying, 1 year ago to random

My fellow cis Americans, I want you to look at this map. Really look at it. And I want you to imagine what it would feel like if those red states were threatening you and your family. Because, ultimately, they are.

This is what creeping fascism looks like. It will harm ALL OF US. And it will take all of us, together, to fight it.

We don't sacrifice people. We stand with our trans siblings. When their rights are threatened, all our rights are threatened.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/may-anti-trans-legislative-risk-map

🏳️‍⚧️

fraying, 10 months ago to random

Ahahahahaha they’re such amateurs. There’s no way to delete a Threads account without deleting the entire Instagram account. 😂

fraying, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

If you were raised Christian, or just raised in the Christian soup of the US, and then you grow up to reject your religion, cool, good for you. But don’t assume that all religions are bad just because American Christians are largely batshit. Not everyone was raised in that soup. Assuming all religions are bad because yours was is actually still perpetuating Christian hegemony because it fails to consider that other faiths, with other practices, exist.

fraying, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

The ACLU was wrong when they supported nazis, and the EFF is wrong when they support KF. There are some people you just don't go to bat for, and the mere idea of a "slippery slope" is not more important than actual lives in danger.

fraying, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

People who say they don’t like nazis, but turn around and take money from nazis, and give money to nazis, do in fact like nazis.
#Substack

fraying, 3 months ago to random

The way certain men in the tech press reflexively scoff at mastodon while giving bluesky just ridiculous amounts of leeway is incredibly bizarre to me.

fraying, 10 months ago to random

Anyone who says mastodon is too hard for normal people should be asked to explain how 78% of Americans use online banking. Have you ever tried to use your bank’s website/app? Is mastodon really harder than that?
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/banking-trends-and-statistics/#:~:text=As%20of%202022%2C%2078%25%20of,prefer%20to%20bank%20in%20person.

fraying, 9 months ago to random

Really glad I moved away from SF before driverless cars were a thing because I would absolutely be in jail right now for throwing rocks at them. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-12/cruise-robotaxis-come-to-a-standstill

fraying, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I wonder if the tech solutioneers trying to create* a single fediverse identity ever talk to real people. In the real world, we maintain many identities, and they're separate on purpose. Sometimes our lives literally depend on it.

(Edited to change “force” to “create” because, no, no one is forcing anyone to do this. I meant “forcing into existence” but don’t wanna get off track about it.)

https://thenewstack.io/one-login-towards-a-single-fediverse-identity-on-activitypub/

fraying, 11 months ago to random

This is the saddest, most dystopian shit I have ever fucking seen.
https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/

fraying, 11 months ago to random

2023 really is the year of bad men finding out they can be bad enough to ruin their community sites permanently. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544

fraying, 9 months ago to random

I have never been so personally called out by a meme in my fucking life.

fraying, 5 months ago to random

Watching the drama unfold regarding Threads' promise/threat to federate with mastodon and all I can think is, why are we trying so hard to smoosh everyone back into the same place again? Communities don't work like that. Smooshing everyone together causes all the problems that plague internet communities. It's good to have separate places for separate communities. Stop trying to cram everyone together! IT NEVER WORKS.

fraying, 2 months ago to random

Lemme see if I get this:

If I copy your shit as my own, that's plagiarism and it's bad.

But when I copy everyone's shit and run it through a mystery box that rearranges it until it barely makes sense, that's futuristic technology.

And if I take your shit and sell it, that's copyright violation and it's bad.

But when I make a place for people to post their shit and I just sell access to it so the mystery box people can have it, that's a viable business model.

Makes perfect sense.

fraying, 7 months ago to random

Anyone who lists ethics and responsibility as their enemy is telling you exactly who they are.

fraying, 11 months ago to random

With all the drama over on Reddit I have to wonder who is working on a “Reddit-like thing but federated” right now. There’d be some interesting translation issues, but I think it could work.

fraying, 5 months ago to random

If someone posts their Chanukah menorah and you respond with something anti-Israel, that's antisemitism. If you don't understand why, do some reading about how Jews are an ethnicity and Israel is a state with a government that most Jews don't even support.

If you're tempted to argue about this with me, just save yourself the trouble and block me. I don't want bigots following me, anyway.

fraying, 11 months ago to random

I'm so in love with our clover cover crop this year. It fixes nitrogen, shades the soil, chokes out weeds, helps retain moisture, smells delicious, feeds the bees, and just looks right purdy. #MilkBarnFarm #Hemp

fraying, 1 year ago to random

Criticizing mastodon continues to be the least fun thing to do on mastodon.

fraying, 1 year ago to random

Chris Dixon has VC brain rot.
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/web3s-fake-version-of-the-history

fraying, 4 months ago to random

I don't understand how this data visualization doesn't inspire everyone to stand outside Elon's houses and businesses with a torch and a guillotine.

Or at least vote for someone who will tax the motherfucker.

Image from here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/american-oligarchy-introduction-essay-russia-ukraine-capitalism/

fraying, 4 months ago to random

What Twitter and Substack are gonna learn the hard way is that when you coddle the fascist assholes on your platform, ultimately fascist assholes are all you have left.

fraying, 7 months ago to random

The Andressen manifesto is the gift that keeps giving because it inspires writing like this.

"The techno-optimist tribe gives off the distinct impression of people who have been so ridiculously rich for so long that they’ve just completely lost the plot about how the real world works. To be fair, this is an apt description of most of Silicon Valley."

https://gizmodo.com/marc-andreessen-is-wrong-about-everything-1850934367

fraying, 2 months ago to random

The irony of Wordpress, the self-described guardian of the open web, causing anyone who gives a shit to pull down their old Tumblrs and blogs to avoid getting sucked into the AI bullshit machine, is really something.