#GitHub should make issues and discussions disabled by default when creating a new project. #FOSS doesn't mean it comes with support or warranty (and all OSS licenses explicitly state that it doesn't) and you shouldn't expect individual developers (and especially newcomers that don't know what features and why they should disable) moderate communities around their projects, help everyone with everything, and fix all reported issues.
#Lemmy and #kbin are clones of #Reddit, a libertarian individualist codebase built to feed from our "communities". In this Lemmy etc are good #4opens step away from the #dotcons but not radical left project beyond this first needed step.
@handle it's a clone of Reddit, which is a libertarian individualist codebase built to feed from our "communities". In this Lemmy etc are a good #4opens step away from the #dotcons but not radical left project beyond this first needed step.
employers are all telling staff "not to enter any work into AI tools" but at some point pretty much every text box is going to feed into AI, presumably the more specific part is "don't enter any work into generative AI text boxes” but again... how much longer until most text boxes are front-ends to generative AI if not right there, then elsewhere?
#Mastodon and the wider #fedivers are native #openweb project based on the #4opens people who try to "hardern" and "secure" this are completely missing where the value is at.
They are spreading #FUD and endangering real activists acting this way.
The fedivers is all #4opens so should not be used for anything that should be P2P encrypted. It's important to keep this clear to users by not being focused on the fig leaf of "hardening" security as the is non it's a very successful #OMN open media network and it's value lies in this.
[...] a massively decentralized Internet, consisting of a huge number of small communities, requires database management systems that are built from the ground up for the purpose.
The systems available today are built to support massive, centralized, owned datasets, at immense complexity and cost, with intentions that go against the principles of a free and open Internet.
A thing that maybe folks don't realize about ActivityPub & the fediverse:
ActivityPub is for publishing your activities. It's mainly designed to disseminate and spread things around. It's not really designed to keep things secret or compartmentalized.
There are copies of your stuff in lots of places. Your server purposefully sends your stuff to other servers. Even "direct messages" are just sort of a friendly agreement between servers and admins, not a private channel.
If you don't want what you say to end up in front of many eyes, don't use this network to say it.
@lmorchard yep it's a #openweb project based on the #4opens and people who try to "harder" and "secure" this are completely missing where the value is at.
And they are spreading #FUD and endangering real activists.
Media is "open" use ActivertyPub
Anything that is not media use encrypted p2p chat, there are many mature #FOSS projects for this.
An interesting, and surprisingly dangerous useful path is bridging these. Good for "security" people to work on this.
In 2020, I published This is Fine: Optimism & emergency in the p2p network(https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine). It laid out a clear argument that the #fediverse is irreparably vulnerable because of its p2p nature and political naivete:
"Anyone with administrator access to an Instance can read anything that travels through that Instance’s infrastructure – including direct messages. The level of risk correlates with the number of cross-Instance interactions between users. If users from different Instances communicate, an attacker need only compel one Instance to reveal the direct messages between all of the interacting accounts. [...] In a peer-to-peer network without encryption, there’s no structure, no agreed-upon governance, and absolutely no protection. Compromising or compelling an Instance or its staff means that all of network traffic is laid bare to its assailant. [...] The decentralised community seeks to antagonise a powerful status quo whilst making tradeoffs that do not acknowledge how societies directly threaten their communities."
Today, Kolektiva - a anti-colonial anarchist instance - announced an FBI raid of one of their admins, which included the seizure of an entire copy of the Kolektiva instance.
This is literally the kind of situation I warned about nearly three years ago.
This text reads like a vanguardist path, based on #mainstreaming reading and narrow #geekproblem thinking. It's missing the paths that hold value in #4opens horizontal activist paths we are taking but, yes, getting lost on in our the growing #fedivers and wide spread of #openweb current diversity projects.
What it does highlight is the need for social and political thinking is needed, the is value there.
It's hard to stress how "niave" meany devs on the #fedivers are after 15 years is exactly what I have been saying for 20 years.
#openweb#4opens is about building human trust, hard security is a very slightly overlapping but easy to see different path for building non "trust" based connections.
Some surprisingly hard to build bridges might help with this ongoing mess.
Yes at the moment as it's a #OMN based on the #4opens you have very low barrier to running or even developing an instance this is where the value is.
Adding security generally makes a HUGE barriers to Dev and #DIY running an instance.
The #geekproblem has no idea of the damage they do when pushing there "common sense". This creates a signal to noise issue that has been blocking alt for 20 years.
#ActivityPub was an "accidental" #openweb reboot, it exists because the #dotcons turned up at the #wc3 meeting did not find anything useful for themselves so left the “weirdos” to get on with building a #4opens aproch. The “weirdos” manage to hold things together long enough to get the #activertypub standard through the open but burocratic process and pushed it out to the world.
Sadly the last few years we have fallen into the normal “libertarian cats” path, and it’s looking like this #openweb reboot will be devoured… not a BAD outcome as they are eating this #4opens project which will become a part of the needed shift in #mainstreaming.
But it’s not an outcome meany of us who wonted, we are building real alts.
The #mainstreaming needs composting rather than reforming :slight_smile:
In the era of #climatechaos and #XR people who are #blocking the needed social change in tech are criminals, that are playing an active role in the genocide of our societies and peoples due to social and ecological breakdown.
The last 20 years of #techshit has obviously been both pushing this problem and doing almost nothing to stop it. On the #openweb tech side, we are still being prats on his.
In the era of #climatechaos and #XR people who are #blocking the needed social change in tech are criminals, that are playing an active role in the genocide of our societies and peoples due to social and ecological breakdown.
I find #mainstreaming people to be actually mad and increasingly bad. When do we get more #4opens people pushing change challenge in these #openweb spaces, please?
Am increasingly seeing this #blocking as a culture of fear, or more real as a culture of fear pushed as power politics.
@witchescauldron Am thinking meany people will be confused and likely mix signal with noise on this subject.
Who are the bad people, the powerless pushing the #4opens on the #openweb or the powerful Burocrats worshipping the #deathcult while protecting there thin careers in the #mainstreaming
If you find yourself agenst the first and defending the second, then you are the problem.