The re-posts almost all came from #Conservative#media outlets….They included stories about the WH banning religious-themed Easter egg designs, the WH honoring #TransgenderDay of #Visibility on… Easter, & one about Judge Juan #Merchan’s daughter, whom he named & criticized on social media this wk.
…In keeping w/ #Trump’s “Jesus” allegory & his #TrumpBible sales, he retweeted a story titled aptly enough for Easter, “The Crucifixion of Donald Trump.”
I’ve had some quite passionate (euphemism) discussions in the past couple of days with people who accused me of “throwing minorities under the bus” or “allowing Meta to scoop up everybody’s posts” just because I’ve temporarily decided not to defederate #Threads from my personal Akkoma instance.
What’s interesting is that some of those accusations came from people who, in some cases, had their profiles fully public and searchable, on instances with webfinger enabled and without authenticated API constraints.
Their posts are already available on any search engine, searchable on Mastodon, their profiles can already be enumerated via API, and, even if their instance blocks another one, users on the blocked instance may still be able to see their content (especially if reshared/quoted) through unauthenticated API calls. But yeah, they think that the problem is with my tiny personal instance not defederating what they don’t like.
I’ve got the impression that there’s a lot of confusion on the #Fediverse on how to customize the #visibility and #privacy of your content, and how to make sure that only those you wish will ever be able to see it.
In order to prevent pointless retaliatory blocks/defederations towards instances whose only fault is not to block what others want them to block, and in order to prevent the Fediverse to splinter into small islands along totally arbitrary fracture lines on the basis of unfounded beliefs about how it works, I’ve put together a sequence of steps to check if your profile and your content are really private and sealed from unauthorized access (if that’s what you wish) - thanks to @gruff for the suggestion, and thanks to @evan for validating some of my assumptions.
@Gargron you’re welcome to validate my hypothesis about how AUTHORIZED_FETCH and DISALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_API_ACCESS work on Mastodon - I knew about AUTHORIZED_FETCH before, but I see that its functionality is now split on two environment variables, and I’m not sure if both instance A and instance B need to have it enabled to prevent content leak towards blocked instances from reshares/quotes.
Exactly the same content, posted on the same time, to similar crowd, gets 10x more engagement here than on Twitter, even tho I have 10x less followers here.
Why are people still using Twitter for promotion? And some are paying money thinking they're getting a good deal.
In spite of the hostile environment faced by #LGBT individuals in #Nigeria, they remain defiant and resilient, continuously finding #innovative ways to combat #inequality and redefine their realities.
@jerry Hey, so I use Mastodon's "light" theme versus the default dark mode (I know, I'm an old loser...) and I've noticed that when one views a user's profile pic, the little "X" in the upper right-hand corner is very much invisible just due to the theme.
Is this something specific to infosec.exchange, or is it something upstream? I suspect many people don't notice as they are likely using dark mode.
Ch.16 #Visibility
Having more followers does not make my posts more visible.
Following fewer people does not make my posts more visible.
Receiving faves does not make my posts more visible.
heute ist der #transdayofremembrance. Wir gedenken heute den 321 Opfern von Gewalt, die im vergangenen Jahr ermordet wurden, aber auch denjenigen, die ihr Leben aufgrund fehlender Akzeptanz aufgaben.
For clarification, I am not talking about using multiple accounts. I am talking about using a single account, and giving your own post a single upvote....
More than 50 people gathered in front of SaskPower Plaza in downtown Regina on Friday afternoon calling on the Crown corporation to transition to clean energy in response to the growing global climate crisis
This June, I will attend a #Pride event like I did last year. I do this to show to my local town that #asexual and #aromantic people like me exist and there is no shame in that. These are both identities that often tend to be "forgotten" even in very #queer spaces.
Hmm, I would have thought a post starting with @mention would not be visible on the main timeline but only under posts and replies but apparently not.
I guess it’s “full attention of everyone following you” or “direct message.” Would be nice to have “public but I’m not shouting it to all my followers” as the default for @mentions.
@autiomaa@krzysztofdrozdowski Not to mention (no pun intended) that there is a very real social difference between a public @mention that you don’t want to broadcast to all your followers (should be the default) vs a direct message. The default should be that you can say something to someone publicly without pointing at them and shouting “hey, everyone, listen to what I’m about to tell so-and-so!”
Trucks, SUVs, and tinted windows make life miserable. Today’s example: parking lots. Pulling out of your space you can’t see people walking because your vision is blocked by trucks and SUVs.
When I was young, most people drove smaller, lower cars with clear windows, so you could see through and by the cars around you and know where pedestrians were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
Hey solarpunks, are you enjoying listening to us? Do you want to hear more? Are you cash-strapped & time-strapped because we live in patriarchal capitalist hellscape but still want to be able to do something to support us / solarpunk more generally?
Leave us a nice review on iTunes/Podcast Addict/ your podcatcher of choice! Solarpunk is a plethora of voices & experiences & we'd love to continue to actively contribute to the community.
What do you think about upvoting/boosting your own post?
For clarification, I am not talking about using multiple accounts. I am talking about using a single account, and giving your own post a single upvote....
[Bug] After posting a Thread, if you post the first comment, it becomes invisible to logged in users
So this has happened on a couple of my posts, but when I saw it affecting @gabe's recent intro post, I thought I'd call it out here....