jdp23

@jdp23@indieweb.social

strategist, software engineer, entrepreneur, activist ... also at @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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johnl, (edited ) to Futurology
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All this talk of Facebook/Meta joining the fediverse seems very similar to the paradox of tolerance. I think it's mostly agreed that you can be intolerant to protect yourself from intolerance.

So the only questions are: What damage can they do and to what extent can they be trusted not to inflict it.

#Meta #BlockMeta #savethefediverse #federation #fediverse

jdp23,

@johnl indeed. In fact @viennawriter has a very good post called Das Fediverse, Meta und das Toleranzparadoxon ! https://www.viennawriter.net/blog/das-fediverse-meta-und-das-toleranzparadoxon

majorlinux, to fediverse
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Another day, another tech publication who entirely misses the point of the #Fediverse while being incredibly insensitive to the many #Women and #lgbtqia folks on this platform and overall protocol who are putting in work to make sure this is a safe place.

The original video also highlights how these tech publications just make so much space for #capitalism to run amok while dismissing those of us who are fighting back against it.

https://www.tiktok.com/@majorlinux/video/7248896418998537515?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7249062548731921963

jdp23,

@majorlinux great video."Highly dismissive" is a perfect description of the Verge's discussion, both in terms of all the other fediverse implementations besides Mastodon and the ridiculous framing. I'm pretty confident that none of the queer and trans women I cited in "We're here, we're queer, we're federated" queer influences are "scared of girls"!

https://privacy.thenexus.today/here-queer-and-federated-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

J12t, to Futurology
@J12t@social.coop avatar

Why would Meta implement ActivityPub? 1½ reasons are compelling, another frequently mentioned one is not.

Blogged yesterday. So far, a bunch of nodding, no real disagreements. Still want your thoughts, particularly if you disagree or have something to add I missed.

https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230625-meta-why-activitypub/
#meta #activitypub #fediverse #p92

jdp23,

@J12t Another possibility: #Meta has good business reasons for doing a decentralized network (which I think is clearly the case), and ActivityPub is one of the best-known decentralized protocols , so it's a good PR/marketing approach to say they're starting there.

Either they make it work with proprietary extensions, or they say "we tried it but it didn't work out, and our approach is better because ..."

jdp23, (edited )

@J12t see @darnell's points here and the ensuing discussion for several good reasons
https://darnell.moe/notes/9gczpdpwd1

jdp23,

@J12t "Decentralized" doesn't necessarily mean "everybody can install it and run it themselves." I can certainly see them offering something that orgs with IT staffs can host on their own for their communities. For individuals, I can see them partnering with approved hosting vendors -- in fact one way to think about their outreach to instance admins is as an experiment, a proof point if it succeeds or something that can be easily discarded and blamed on others if it doesn't.

smitten, to random

would it be so terrible if a server had a 'most followed accounts' section for new users, and it showed like the top 100 accounts being followed by other users on the server?

jdp23,

@smitten it would almost certainly reinforce racial and gender disparities.

jdp23,

@smitten it would be better for white people and guys than trying to find accounts on their own, it would be worse for women and people of color and especially women of color. So white guys are more likely to say "cool, this is a place for me" and others are more likely to leave. "Rich get richer" algorithms like this tend to magnifiy existing inequities.

To get a diverse list, most if not all servers would need to manually curate recommendations.

jdp23,

@smitten Totally agree that people need a better foothold when they first join, it's an area where the feidverse really needs to make progress.

And you may well be right about how the gender aspects would work out on snowdin, I was over-generalizing. It's hard to know though; even if snowdin is mostly women, dynamics of the overall fediverse could still skew most-followed to men.

jdp23,

@corbden My strategy's similar and it also has worked well for me on multiple instances. But:

  1. it's a bunch of work that needs to be done in order to get a good experience, so people who are just checking it out aren't likely to do that

  2. Many people coming from Twitter haven't had to approach it that way in a long time (if ever), so it's daunting or they don't think of it

  3. it doesn't work on mastodon.social or other large intances where local / federated aren't useful

@smitten

jdp23,

@corbden still, despite the challenges, I think encouraging people to take that approach -- and making it easier -- is likely to work out better in terms of diversity and equity than other approaches. Even a curated list has its limits; there's no way a single list can handle all the diverse interests and demographics of people coming here.

@smitten

jdp23,

@corbden good suggestions, and yes there are lots of ways to make progress on it. It just hasn't been a priority. We'll se how things change in response to the Metapocalypse @smitten

mastodonmigration, to internet
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

6/26 (1)

"It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.” — Barack Obama

Clearinghouse for reasoned discourse on all sides of discussion.

ploum.net @ploum: How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) >>> https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Tim Chambers @tchambers: Project92 and the Fediverse - A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web >>> https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html

1/5

jdp23,

@mastodonmigration A good list, thanks. A few more posts on

@fediversenews

jennzycos, to random

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    jdp23,

    @jennzycos so important! Thanks for bringing this up!

    J12t, to Futurology
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    Why would Meta implement ActivityPub? 1½ reasons are compelling, another is not. Those reasons have consequences.

    Blogged. Would love your thoughts.

    https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230625-meta-why-activitypub/

    jdp23,

    @J12t A good post as always -- DSA compliance makes a lot of sense. Along similar lines, from a privacy perspective, Meta could potentially avoid legal liability by acting as a service provider to the instances they're federating with. Most US laws only apply to entities above a certain threshold, so it's possible that many medium-size instances could be essentially unregulated (not sure how this works under GDPR). 1/2

    @tchambers

    jdp23, (edited )

    @J12t Big tech companies have been lobbying heavily to shape service provider language -- here's a good example from the #ADPPA consumer privacy legislation, where they successfully inserted some major loopholes. I doubt they were thinking specifically of ActivityPub federation when they were doing that but it certainly applies! At least potentially, we'd need to know more about their plans to know for sure 2/2

    EDIT: oops, forgot the link https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/policy/cloud-enterprise-privacy

    @tchambers

    jdp23, to random

    wow, now this is how it should be done -- if you can read spanish (or have.a translationn tool) check out the thread at https://social.politicaconciencia.org/@Maya/110605928128040069

    Bloonface, to mastodon
    @Bloonface@mastodon.social avatar

    Well.

    I have closed my public instance, finecity.social, binned my account there and moved back to mastodon.social. My bots will keep running on calckey.bloonface.com but I won't use that site for anything else any more.

    I have fallen out of love with and in a big way, I don't intend to use it much any more. The past couple of weeks has crystallised that this isn't really a platform I like much.

    jdp23,

    @InayaShujaat The good news is that many here share that worry -- look at how many signers are on the #FediPact -- so there will be more than enough critical mass for a non-Meta alternative. Of course that doesn't address all the other issues we're talking about in the other thread but it creates the opportunity for a reset. I talk about that some in the "In Chaos there is Opportunity" section of
    https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/

    @JimmyB
    @Bloonface

    carnage4life, to random
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    In my lifetime, we went from a president so squeaky clean that his opponents tried to make fist bumping his wife a scandal, to multiple Supreme Court justices mansplaining to us that just because they accept gifts from billionaires doesn’t make them corrupt.

    jdp23,

    @carnage4life when all the spotlight on the scandals started up I was thining about Abe Fortas, which which the previous big scandal in the late 60s/early 70s. Fortas had a retainer from soebody whose cases where before the Court, which was indeed pretty bad -- and apparently he wasn't the only one. But stuff that's come out about today's justices is arguably worse.

    Fortas would have been impeached, so wound up resigning, but alas the political dynamics are different these days.

    BlackAzizAnansi, to random
    @BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to avatar

    How does the fediverse plan on becoming more diverse?

    jdp23,

    Agreed @cautionwip, the whole AI discussion is topic.

    @jens if that's something you're interested in, it's best start by reading Safiya Noble's "Algorithms of Oppression" and following some of the experts here. The @nexusofprivacy thread at https://mastodon.social/@nexusofprivacy/109484760145259593 has a lot of recommendations.

    @jo
    @CatHat @inaya @creatrixtiara

    jdp23,

    And thanks @cautionwip for the great input, I very much agree! CWs as they are toay aren't a good solution and maybe aren't even on the right pat to a solution. And, software needs to be flexible enough that people can use it in the way that works best for them, not just in the way that the developers think is best. Also agreed on picking battles, there are only so many hours in the day and only so many spoons.

    @jens @jo @CatHat @inaya @creatrixtiara

    jdp23,

    @cautionwip glad it's useful! I haven't updated it for a while, but sometime over the summer I'm probably going to shift that account to another instance and when I do I'll take another pass at it.

    loshmi, to Futurology
    @loshmi@social.coop avatar

    All this conversation about on feels like the worst parts of geek culture. So technical, without understanding context or what strikes can actually do. My thoughts:

    Meta will make a great app for Fedi because it has more money to throw at the task. People will start using that because it's better. It will have QTs and an algorithm. People they want to follow will be there.

    🧵1/6

    jdp23,

    @ana It's interesting to think about how things might have played out if GMail et al had been met with strong resistance. As it is, the email market's now so firmly centralized at this point (95% of people use Google, Apple, Microsoft, or Yahoo) that it's not realistic. That said, I'd certainly consider subscribing to an email provider that guaranteed my email didn't go to those destinations -- and I do use encrypted email, which limits their access.

    @jens @loshmi @afouxenidis @dk

    daringfireball, to random
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    ★ More on Preemptively Blocking Facebook’s Imminent ActivityPub Entry
    https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/more_on_preemptively_blocking

    jdp23, (edited )

    @tchambers How does this look? I think I avoided snarkiness, although did present the counter-argument.

    EDIT: I got feedback that this wasn't actually that effective as a presentation of the counter-argument, so I did more revision after posting this.

    @protecttruth @reflex @shoq

    yoasif, to reddit
    @yoasif@mastodon.social avatar

    The has moved to a new stage... from a two day blackout to indefinitely shutting down... to people moving away entirely.

    Yes, r/startrek has lifted off from and moved to -- and with it, a realization that we need an easy way to help people find their new, old communities that have moved from reddit to and whatever else pops up.

    I started a quick and dirty list that you can share and contribute to (PRs welcome!).

    https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html

    jdp23,

    @yoasif thanks for the update!

    anathema, to random

    Someone recently asked me why my handle is "Anathema"
    It started as a goof. Before I came out as being a member of the trans family, my handle was Womantichrist and I had a laugh because anaTHEMa is a pretty little joke.

    But on a more serious note, it comes from the Greek, Anatithenai: "to dedicate", used biblically to refer to something set aside or set apart as a sacrificial offering. Sacrifice, as in "to make sacred or holy"

    So that's why. Now you know!

    jdp23,

    @anathema great handle and great explanation!

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