Pull requests are bad because they prioritize the sender rather than the project. It makes sense this would be the case because sender priority is part of how companies juice engagement numbers.
That is, when you make senders happy they will send more which makes numbers go up. You see this with messaging apps and read receipts too.
@whitequark because it creates an incentive structure that is less compatible with activities like knowledge building amongst other things. See a longer reply I made elsewhere in the thread: https://spookygirl.boo/notes/9txiz1n2vose4g45
If they're aggressive and dismissive of your position in negotiations, you probably won't like working with them so you better make sure you're getting fairly compensated for the work itself and the work of working with them. Make the price reflect that possibility.
You owe it to yourself to be ready to walk away from the money. The people who respect your work will not try to fuck you over with unreasonable terms.
Something that massively annoys me in TV and movies is when someone kisses a cis dude for like 5 seconds, slides their hand down his pants, then goes “oh... nothing’s happening?”
Of COURSE nothing’s happening? His dick is not a light switch.
No one watches women's sports! (Because we don't televise the games 🤡).
So the WNBA premiere of Caitlin Clark was televised. But the WNBA premiere of Angel Reese (2023 champ who beat Caitlin Clark) and Kamila Cardoso (2024 champ who beat Caitlin Clark), wasn't televised or available to stream in the app. So... A fan set up a bootleg stream. 430K viewers tuned in to watch.🤯
@mekkaokereke@Uair@philip_cardella not a surprise or incompatible with above the above facts, but technique is incredibly important for getting above a certain amount of weight that's body weight dependent. Women being lighter tend to focus on technique more deeply in a lot of sports. Rock climbing being one where it's really obvious because men over rely on their arms and have to learn later to use their legs, while women predominantly use their legs from the start!
Something I've been thinking about wrt safety on the fediverse is knowledge aggregation tools. The Bad Space is one such tool that looks to provide a reputation system for the fediverse.
I don't think I'm the first to talk about this idea, but in many safety systems there are means for moderators to collect knowledge about both reporters and the reportees into a ticket like system that allows new moderators to quickly get up speed when processing a report so they know the history of the actors, perhaps even being able to see screenshot receipts and more. And further, it allows seasoned moderators to reduce their cognitive load by reducing the amount of knowledge they need to retain and communicate. The case for adopting this is clear: community oriented approaches require knowledge sharing, otherwise every moderator is left doing adhoc aggregation, learning in isolation, or in closed systems like discord or matrix where finding older knowledge is very difficult.
To my knowledge such a system does not exist natively in any fediverse software. Though it's worth noting that mastodon's interface is certainly more sophisticated than misskey derivatives like firefish that spookygirl runs. Caveat: I have not done an exhaustive analysis, so I'd like to hear about systems that do!
Some mastodon servers use the webhooks provided to bridge to ticket systems like github in order to fill this gap. Unfortunately, this approach is technically challenging for many small server operators, expands the scope of the what needs to be installed and maintained, and divorces the moderation flow from the context of the actual actions. Nor do such approaches allow that knowledge to be readily shared amongst trusted servers.
The reason to integrate this into the core of various fediverse platforms is that when you give people tools out of the box you implicitly demonstrate the value of the approach the tooling takes, and inspiring new ideas on how to improve. Sometimes you need to experience an idea before you can even see the possibilities.
Of course, no tool is without flaws, and this one is subject to poisoning if a trusted server turns out to be a bad actor, and additionally not all moderators will understand why they want to write down what they know or even why they'd want to share what they know. There is no complete technical solution to these problem. Reputation systems can provide some support in helping server operators decide whether or not to trust another server, and UX can help explain the value, but ultimately culture building is how we grow our safety discipline.
If you got this far, thanks for reading and I would love to hear your thoughts.
@jdp23@ada@thisismissem one thing that isn't clear to me about FIRES or Fediseer is whether or not either of them are designed to be operated in a federated or distributed system model themselves.
Centralized tools become large attack surfaces for technical, legal, and social attacks. My view is that we should leverage the fact that we have, already, a large network of independent systems and give them more built-in tools that communicate over standard protocols. The problems being solved do not need a global (or even mostly global) view of the network, in fact this is even antithetical to what makes the fediverse powerful.
@thisismissem@gunchleoc@jdp23@ada from past experiences building systems meant to be deployed by others, separate packages/services tend to result in those being not used or underutilized, which is the motivation for suggesting that these features should be built-in.
Do you imagine that there will be a common moderation api built-in to many fediverse platforms or is FIRES intended only for mastodon?
I suppose with something like Awujo (edit cc @are0h for thoughts on this) such an interface could be bundled.
@dansup I see. I'm skeptical that this emulation of corporate dark patterns is at all worthwhile, but I will think more and return if I have any detailed thoughts for you.
@kayleeserenada identify the ones who will never change and avoid or actively isolate them. For everyone else: show them the tools of compassion and empathy and then wait to see if they adopt them. Some will, some won't, and you can't do anything to make it happen because people have to want to change. 🤷🏼♀️