jdp23

@jdp23@calckey.social

strategist, software engineer, entrepreneur, activist ... also at @jdp23 @nexusofprivacy and a bunch of other places

#strategy #equity #justice #technology #policy #disinfo #privacy #algorithmicJustice, #intersectionality #activism #organizing #software #startups ...

And #nobot without permission. Opt-out isn't consent, but it's the only real option we have here.

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zyk, to random

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    jdp23,

    @zyk We Distribute just reposted a how-to post I did on how to use the filters. Here's the image I used ...

    mastohost, to random
    @mastohost@mastodon.social avatar

    Currently Object Storage is down and it's causing server queues to fill up and in extreme cases to become unresponsive.

    I have just confirmed with OVH that the issue is happening and they are working on it.

    Really sorry for the inconvenience and will update here when I have more information.

    jdp23,

    FYI @tchambers I'm having slowness and glitchiness on indieweb.social, do you host with @mastohost ? If so this is what's going on.

    Artemis private beta rollouts have begun!

    Hi there, the Artemis private beta rollout has just started! @hariette will be emailing 50 signup sheet users, while @lilkev will be adding 50 users from Artemis Discord. The order will be based on the submissions to the private beta signup form, as well as general activity within the Artemis community....

    jdp23,

    Very cool and exciting ... congrats all for getting it to the beta stage! @w8l @hariette @lilkev @Lilkev @lavender @klin @RheingoldRiver

    mastodonmigration, to fediverse
    @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

    Notice To New mastodon.social Users

    First, welcome to open social media!

    Second, you've landed on the biggest instance. Think of it like the capital city of the , but there are lots of other cities, towns and villages. Take your time looking around your new home, but also experience other instances.

    There's no penalty for creating multiple accounts in the Fediverse.

    Just go to [instance address]/explore (ex. https://mstdn.social/explore) click on "Create account" and give it a try.

    jdp23,

    @mastodonmigration It's not a specific instance, but here's a post I originally did last fall (and recently updated) about how to find the right instance, which has discussions of some of the key concerns as well as a bunch o' resources.

    https://nexusofprivacy.net/choosing-a-mastodon-instance/

    hariette, to iOS

    Dark or light. or . You’ll get theming options to personalize your experience with !

    Shout out to our designer @lvndr!

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    jdp23,

    @hariette so exciting! really nice work @lvndr!

    kainoa, to random

    As you may have noticed, calckey.social has been having quite a few problems today. We're starting to get it under control, I appreciate all of your patience 🙏

    jdp23,

    @kainoa oh, is there something going on?

    just kidding! good luck with the load!

    kristian, to instagramreality

    Meta has started rolling out Threads, the Twitter competitor that was previously known under project names such as Barcelona and P92.

    For now, it's only available in a few countries: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.barcelona

    Here are some pictures of what we can expect.

    @socialmedianews

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    jdp23,

    Alex Heath reported that it wouldn't have ActivityPub integration up front (which makes sense). Not clear what the timeframe is, I saw somebody saying "a couple months" but don't know what that was based on.
    @codybrom @kristian @arkd

    dansup, to random
    @dansup@mastodon.social avatar

    I know of another Kbin app in development, forget the name, but I remember seeing screenshots that look pretty similar to Apollo which is super cool, so I'm going to go a different route and be a bit more creative in terms of how magazines and threads are displayed! 💥

    jdp23,

    @hariette @dansup and you're both in "The fediverse is a lot bigger than just Mastodon!" section of https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/a-partial-queer-trans-and-non-binary-history-of-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/ ... what a coincidence!

    dahukanna, to fediverse
    @dahukanna@mastodon.social avatar

    Head twist: How do server implementations like Mastodon not understand that account transfer means the whole digital content related to an account, not just selected pieces.

    Analogy: This is operating like old school bank accounts where followers are direct debits and who you follow are standing orders. Your content (transactions) don’t move to your new bank but you have statements (export of data).

    It’s digital and data plus 2023. We can do so much better. Wander pondering.

    jdp23,

    @dahukanna 💯. The explanation though is pretty straightforward: Eugen, who makes the decisions about what funcationliaty to prioritize in mainline Mastodon, also is CEO of the non-profit that runs mastodon.social. From that perspective, not having a migration tool helps keep people there and ensure that remains the largest instance. So even though it's something people have clamored for since forever ... somehow it never really gets prioritized in mainline Mastodon. It's better than it was but still not what it should be. Meanwhile Calckey has implemented post importing, and @tokyo_0's made good project on post important with -- so it's not like it defies the laws of physics for Mastodon to get a lot better.

    Interestingly last week's reporting on Meta's Project 92 says it'll the ability to import posts from Mastodon. Who knows whether it actually well but they clearly know it's a valuable feature.

    @laurenshof

    victor, to fediverse

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    jdp23,

    It federates but there are bugs and some limitations (so for example there's no way to up/down vote kbin or lemmy posts from Mastodon). When it works you can tag a kbin magazine or lemmy community in your Mastodon post and it shows up there, and some of the replies get federated in both directions. Then again other replies don't federate, and sometimes it doesn't work. It's a work in progress. Still, lots of potential.

    Also there's a huge wave of bots on Lemmy. Good news: 2 million new accounts! Bad news: 1.9 million of them are bots.

    @victor @scarlett @usernameswift

    jdp23,

    @usernameswift @victor @scarlett If you do just make sure you don't leave registrations open without email validation! Kbin's more interesting, it merges microblogging with link aggregation, but it's less mature. Also Lemmy's main developers are tankies which is a red flag for many.

    I've got an overview and bunches o' links in Don't tell people "it's easy", and seven more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon

    damon, to fediverse

    Really cool that Wikipedia Co-founder is building a new platform. He states that at some point it will work with
    https://wts2.wt.social/en/auth

    jdp23,

    @damon don't get your hopes up. Here's my reactions to the previous iteration of WT Social in 2020, from a quick look it doesn't seem like the new version has addressed most of these points yet. I asked Jimmy on Twitter what his thoughts were about dealing with harassment ... and he didn't reply (even though he had replied to my previous tweet). We shall see, but it doesn't inspire confidence.

    https://medium.com/a-change-is-coming/12-lessons-from-wt-social-3dbe5e162b5c

    panos, to Futurology

    A few thoughts about 's project (and whether we should instantly block it).

    Personally, I don't see much point in declaring something like that in advance. I'd like to see what they do in action, and then decide if it's needed. I'm not against interacting with Meta users, as long as it's on my terms, through the software I choose, on a server I know doesn't exploit my data.

    Don't misunderstand me, I think Meta is among the worst. I have no hope that a federated Meta platform will be any less greedy and expoitative than what we've already seen from them. I would advise anyone against using their platform. However, I myself have been a daily facebook user for over a decade. A lot of people I know -and enjoy interacting with- are still there and never got interested in the Fediverse. What can you do? We are only responsible for our own decisions. But I'd still like to read their thoughts.

    I am sure Meta's AP implementation will give us a lot of reasons to be against it. My guess is that they will combine ActivityPub for plain posts with closed-source, unfederated features, so that they lock users in (and give them reasons to put up with their ads or whatever they do). I think it's very probable that we may need to block them anyway, for whatever reasons - they might be a source of spam, for example. But I want to wait and see what happens in practice first.

    My main point is: What if we all declare that we will indeed block them? Do we gain something? Does Meta lose something? At this point in time, I doubt it. I mean, do you think that Meta depends on the existing fediverse for content? In the first week after they open registrations, they will probably have more active users than all other fedi platforms combined. If we say we'll block them, will it stop any users from signing up to their platform? I'm afraid not.

    People who consciously don't want to use a Meta platform, are probably already in the . Federation with ActivityPub is not Meta's main selling point. Sure, there is a buzz around decentralized services at the moment, and that won't hurt Meta's attempt, but the people who'll try it will probably try it mostly because they'll be curious about "Meta's anti-Twitter" or because of advertisement, and less because it will be "decentralized". They already have such options.

    Even if we all decided to block them, then practically we'd just end up with yet another centralized Meta social media platform, with its users only interacting with each other. But even though I'm against using Meta's services, I'm not against interacting with Meta users in general, just like I have no problem emailing gmail addresses. On the contrary, I'd like their users to see, once they arrive, that they could do more or less the same things without depending on Meta. I'd like to see interaction with other fedi users becoming such an essential part of Meta's new platform, to the extent that they will be forced to play well with the rest of the Fediverse, so that their users will have a smooth experience with all of their friends/followers. And I'd like to see some of their users leaving them for other platforms if they fail to do so.

    To recap: I'm also very, very suspicious of Meta and I know they don't have good intentions - I'm not suggesting that maybe they've changed and they will do things differently, to "give them a chance" first. I just don't think that declaring to block them makes much sense at this point in time. Maybe they will give us real reasons to block them once they launch their platform. But I'm not by principle against interacting with Meta users, as long as I can avoid Meta's ads, black box algorithm and data mining.

    Perhaps, after all, this could make us build even better fedi platforms. Let's see things get more serious - we actually need it. And since they can't force stuff down our throats, I'm not afraid of Meta on ActivityPub. Bring it on!

    jdp23,

    @panos here's three strong arguments I've heard for

    1. imany people are in the fediverse specifically to get away from and/or build an alternative to exploitative social networks like Facebook/Meta that treat us and our data as product for surveillance capitalism business models.

    #2) Many people see FB/Meta's track record as disqualifying: human rights violations, discriminatory housing ads, aiding authoritarians in multiple elections, genocide, privacy violations etc etc etc. From that perspective, defederating Meta preemptively is analogous to defederating Gab preemptively

    #3) many people just see as fundamentally untrustworthy and don't think it has any chance to work out well. In that case, best to just say no up front to keep from wasting time or energy on it -- or worse, proceeding down that path and getting coopted.

    So from an instance admin perspective, one argument in favor of announcing now that you'll defederate is to signal to people with those perspectives that you're aligned witih them. If they're currently on CalcKey.social, it'll be okay to stay here; if they're not currently here, and their own admin is taking a "wait and see" attitude -- or actively looking to collaborate with Meta -- then they can consider CalcKey as an alternative.

    By contrast, if you don't take that position now, it's an equally clear signal that your values aren't aligned with those positions -- you'll make a situational call based on the details of the implementation. Even if you later come around to defederating, it'll be hard to undo that.

    Of course there are likely to be a lot of benefits to instance admins and software devs who collaborate with Meta, so I can also understand the desire to keep options open. But there's nothing that they could possibly do in their software implementation that addresses #1, #2, or #3 so people who care about that are unlikely to change their positions.

    jdp23,

    @panos I have an email account that (to the best of my ability) doesn't ever communicate with gmail-hosted accounts, and I'd be delighted if they blocked all communications with google.

    I also have an email account that interacts with gmail, of course -- just as I have a Facebook account to interact with friends and family members who are there, and an Instagram account, etc. We live in a surveillance capitalism society, so there's only so much you can do without completely isolating yourself. But I'm in the fediverse looking for an alternative.

    jdp23,

    @panos I'm sure you'll find many users who agree with you! I expect there will be a schism, and it'll be interesting to see how it works out.

    jdp23,

    @panos here's @cstross's position -- which is pretty much where I am. https://indieweb.social/@cstross@wandering.shop/110567361425147524

    jdp23,

    @panos THere's no option on the table that would allow you to talk to all your friends on Facebook and Instagram from a fediverse account. Meta's talking about setting up something asymmetrical, where people with accounts on their new service can talk to people on fedi and on Instagram, but people on fedi can only talk to accounts on their new service.

    We don't yet know the details of how their integration will work, but at least to me, doing 98% of my interactions on non-Meta platform with no ties to Meta and 2% on FB and Instagram is likely to be less Meta-centric than the alternate approach of doing 100% of your interactions on a Meta-integrated platform. But like I say, there are plenty of others who see it your way as well!

    thegibson, to random

    Fedi admins, how do you feel about Facebook on fedi?

    I just signed here... you should too.

    https://fedipact.online/

    Thanks to old friend @vantablack for putting this together.

    jdp23,

    @vertigo really good analogy!

    SleepyCatten, to reddit

    Okey dokey. So, I'm looking at viable to replace what was providing for me* & I'm currently at the initial information overload stage.

    My current understanding is that Lemmy is associated with tankies & best avoided, but it's also the most developed option presently.

    Kbin seems to me to be more of an upcoming star, but still lacks important features & an app.

    What have been others' informed experiences?

    jdp23,

    @SleepyCatten wow I didn't know that, thanks for the info!

    fancysandwiches, to random

    A lot of admins of larger Mastodon (and other Fediverse) servers are showing excitement for Meta launching an App in the Fediverse. Their reasoning mostly being "growing the Protocol is good!". Most feedback, is met with different versions of "growth is good". I want to take a minute to push back on this narrative that all growth is inherently good, because it absolutely is not. This type of thinking stems from the Silicon Valley VC crowd, where they pursue growth at all costs.

    jdp23,

    @misc @oblomov I'm somewhere in between. I see Mastodon innovation continuing to stagnate (as it has since 2018). More positively though there's innovation in apps and other platforms -- reddit's footgun is a great opportunity for the threadiverse, there are some new activitypub servers in the works, etc etc etc. Balanced against that Mastodon's toxic reputation for racism is a huge problem for the broader fediverse and it's hard to see the reddit influx changing the dynamics here.

    This is part of why I see Meta's arrival as an opportunity as well as a threat; if the Mastodon power structure mostly decides to collaborate, and there's a strong enough defederation movement, it could galvanize a shift way from Mastodon dominance. The reports of NDA meetings with Meta could reflect a strategy where they're focusing their efforts primarily on the Eugen, the admins of relatively-large instances, and probably ActivityPub influencers (which is what I'd expect them to do).

    In general Meta treats their early partners on a project well until they don't, so I'm sure they'll find ways to make it worthwhile for instance admins to collaborate with them. Longer term, it's not clear to me what the niche is for instances that are collaborating with Meta. I agree with Oblomov that past history implies Meta will cut them off. Then again Meta may well be looking at the way Reddit outsourced content moderation and thinking hmm, suppose we did that and also outsourced legal liability. Time will tell.

    @edendestroyer @tchambers @fancysandwiches @jdp23

    PS: posted from my CalcKey account because one way Mastodon innovation has stagnated since 2017 is that the mainline code doesn't make it easy for instance admins to set longer lengths and neither do hosting companies.

    Em0nM4stodon, to privacy

    About Meta on the Fediverse :facebook:​:geodesic:​:

    I have a lot of concerns about Meta coming soon to the Fediverse.

    I fear what this means for the exchange of information that will inevitably happen between us and them.

    What it means legally,
    what it means technically,
    but mostly what it means ethically.

    I also fear for the culture we have developed here.

    I have deleted my Facebook account 5 years ago and never regretted it. I do not have any other accounts with Meta. For many reasons, I intend to stay away from this unethical corporation as much as I can.

    I do not know what my instance intends to do about this, but personally I will block entirely any instance(s) controlled by Meta. I might also lock my account if necessary. This isn't about the people on there, this is very much about the practices of the corporation that controls it.

    I sincerely hope their presence will not break the Fediverse :geodesic:​

    I hope we will stay strong and fight together for the better world we have started to create ✊:heart_cyber:​

    But I can’t help seeing the arrival of Goliath as a threat to the new world we have built...

    jdp23,

    @victoriadecapua totally agreed on the blanket block. However, admins of larger instances are currently planning on federating -- here's a thread where I asked several of them about their plans. https://mastodon.social/@nexusofprivacy/110458834683496365

    Meta doesn't need to buy them out (and from a PR spin perspective it probably works better for them to point to tne "independent" instances that federate), although I'm sure they'll find ways to reward instance admins who cooperate.

    @Em0nM4stodon

    jdp23,

    @victoriadecapua at a high level I'd describe the attitude as willing to give Meta the benefit of the doubt until they prove to be a bad citizen on the fediverse -- although that's an oversimipflication, the responses from @quintessence were very thoughtful and have a lot more nuance. @Em0nM4stodon

    jdp23,

    @silentLurker 💯! I'm just reporting the attitude of the admins of large instances -- at least some of whom have met with Meta under NDA and then deleted their toots about it.

    @victoriadecapua @Em0nM4stodon

    youronlyone, to fediverse

    Latest update: 2023-05-18

    🕸️ “The Federated Timeline” ( history). Key events in the of federated .

    Q: Who first coined the “fediverse”?

    Q: What was the first fediverse ?

    Git: https://codeberg.org/ddfon/federated-sns

    👉🏾 https://im.youronly.one/techmagus/kb/ddfon/federated-social-network-timeline-2022346/

    I hope this consolidated timeline is useful for the community, and writers.

    Enjoy! ^_^

    4.0 International

    jdp23,

    @youronlyone That's a great resource! And I didn't know who had coined the term "fediverse" ... I updated the Mastodon, GNU Social, and the early fediverse section of Mastodon: a partial history with the information and a link out the the codeberg page.

    smallpatatas, to random

    guy who believes the protocol is the social network

    jdp23,

    Not sure if you've seen this excellent post on "A credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos" from @oblomov http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/credible-threat-1/

    @maegul @ophiocephalic @fancysandwiches @smallpatatas

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