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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J12t, to Futurology
@J12t@social.coop avatar

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

irenes, to random
@irenes@mastodon.social avatar

we've been saying that it's really important for those of us who've lived through previous megacorp attacks on free software ecosystems to TEACH that history

we're pleased to report that there's an article now which rehashes a lot of relevant stuff in some detail. regardless of what you feel about the proximate decisions around the fediverse and Facebook, knowing the history can only help

when we DO learn from history, we are NOT NECESSARILY condemned to repeat it <3

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

jdp23,

Actually thinking about it more, it's really Embrace, Extend, and Exploit. Meta would be very happy with an outcome where friendly Mastodon instances with volunteer moderators harvest data and monetize users on their behalf.

@irenes @RakowskiBartosz

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
@BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to avatar

How does the fediverse plan on becoming more diverse?

jdp23,

@inaya Agreed. Flowers' title "The Whiteness of Mastodon" is very well-chosen! https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

@creatrixtiara @christineluc @BlackAzizAnansi @CatHat

jdp23,

@CatHat As would I. On Facebook I helped support a POC-led group of admins who decided to transform a "white liberal" group to an actively anti-racist group, starting with more active moderation and threads focusing on racial justice education. At least 10% of the people in the group left. And you know what? That was a good thing!

@christineluc @BlackAzizAnansi

jdp23,

Selfies with eye contact are a good example of why this is all so tricky: they're triggering for many people, who (not unreasonably) want a way to view their timelines by not being triggered. But demands to CW selfies can easily wind up having racialized aspects -- or be used to shut down trans people, for whom posting a selfie can be very important self-affirmation. It really is tricky!

@CatHat @jens @mekkaokereke @inaya @christineluc @BlackAzizAnansi @creatrixtiara

jdp23,

Very sorry to hear that, @inaya. As @erincandescent says, "There's a distinction between safety and comfort; and I feel like some of the moderation here conflates them." -- her post is about defederation but it applies to moderation in generall.
https://queer.af/@erincandescent/110327062141439400

And here's a great thread with POC views of CWs that @creatrixtiara kicked off last year. https://vulpine.club/@creatrixtiara/109310828652037900

@CatHat
@christineluc @BlackAzizAnansi

jdp23,

Great point. There's a lot more innovation happening in variants than their is in mainline Mastodon. @supakaity also has an interesting proposal -- very much in keeping with the fedierse's focus on consent -- related to searchability, interactivity, and quotability. [Tne formatting's better if you look at directly on blahaj.zone]. https://blahaj.zone/notes/9ev0kge0aj

@jo
@BlackAzizAnansi @creatrixtiara @mekkaokereke @jens @CatHat @inaya

jdp23, to random

@tokyo_0 i'm workong on a post about the Meta situation and mentioing that there's going to be a lot of people moving instances. Is this a good summary? I'll include the link to https://mastodoncontentmover.github.io/

....

Unfortunately Mastodon doesn't provide any way to take your posts with you when you move to a different instance, but Tokyo Outsider's work on the Mastodon Content Mover and CalcKey's support for post migration mean that there are more options now than there were six months ago.

shantini, to random
@shantini@techhub.social avatar

Any platform that doesn’t allow the user to limit who can reply to a post is going to have rampant toxicity and abuse. Posts by a woman, a Black person, a trans person, all become magnets for hatred.

jdp23,

@victoriadecapua @shantini You're both right! Compariing Mastodon's current privacy tools to lemmy' and kbin's (which are where Mastodon was in 2016-17) shows how much progress has been made. And comparing them to Twitter's -- locking replies to followers-only, taking a profile private, etc -- shows how far it needs to go.

@joeinwynnewood Here's the github issue from 2020. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762

@JonnyT

tchambers, (edited ) to RedditMigration

The magazine I creted for - and that had zero users 4 days ago, now appears to be the 2nd most popular one on kbin.social, with just over 8,700 subscribers:

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration

jdp23,

@tchambers another example of the rule of thumb that the most popular topics on any social network are ... about that social network.

But yeah, I shared my draft post there yesterday, got over 100 upvotes so people are seeing it ... and got some great feedback

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/54002/Eight-days-later-KBin-Lemmy-the-landed-gentry-and-the

aurynn, to random

well it looks like universeodon is going off the deep end with being very pro Facebook shittification of the fedi

jdp23,

@jo Hah. He blocked me after a discussion about digital colonialism. SO I DON'T HAVE TO SEE IT HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
@aurynn

@aurynn

smallpatatas, to random

Definitely an enjoyable & thought-provoking conversation here between @mmasnick and @yoyoel , and mirrors many of the conversations I've seen on this platform regarding moving toward some degree of centralization of moderation.

However: given the level of nuance involved in this episode's discussion of content moderation, it surprised me that the 'Block Meta' argument was reduced to 'putting your head in the sand'.

Because it isn't even just the well-documented harms that have resulted from Facebook's moderation decisions, or the fact that just today they rolled back their policies on COVID misinformation.

No, there's also their data collection and surveillance, profiting off running anti-Black advertisements, horrendous treatment of workers especially in the Global South, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, deliberately pushing polarizing content designed to keep people scrolling no matter the societal consequences, and recently, bombshell reports of Instagram being perhaps the primary platform for the distribution of CSAM.

And that's hardly an exhaustive list.

Not wanting to associate with a company like that, or provide them with more data & content to monetize, should be a badge of honour, not something to roll your eyes at. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2IsjVvByU4z1dkdF1OXebH?context=spotify%3Acollection%3Apodcasts%3Aepisodes

jdp23,

@smallpatatas I'm not surprised they'd see integrating with Meta as a no-brainer. It's very much the "protocols not platforms" vision Mike's been advocating since 2015 or so, and most of Yoel's career was at a surveillance-captialism company so he's likely to see it from that perspective. The choice of language is very interesting though. I'd describe as active resistance -- and some of the people who are ignoring Meta's track record are the ones putting their head in the sand.

rysiek, to fediverse
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Looks like and keep being mentioned together, which to me suggests we might have averted "mastodonization" of the — i.e. a situation where the whole network gets identified with a single piece of software. 🎉

This is the way. :blobcatcool:

jdp23,

@ada huzzah! The fediverse's tradition of queer and trans-led community innovation continues!

@rysiek

jerry, to random

Y’all: I have been wrestling with kbin on the fedia.io instance, but I want to take a step back and give some perspective. Kbin is new, it’s growing crazy fast, and it really wasn’t in a place to support the migration from Reddit. Despite that, @ernest has been working his tail off knocking down issues and helpings instance admins.

Reddit certainly seems to be tripling down on their position and I think kbin is shaping up to be a worthy alternative. If you like kbin (on whatever instance you use it on) and want to see it grow, may I ask that you throw some money Ernest’s way? (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin)

I want to publicly thank Ernest for kbin and for his contributions to our growing fediverse community.

/back to whatever you were doing.

jdp23,

Also @ernest , you may well already be doing this, but if not: getting a moderation team in place ASAP will help offload you from something that could quickly become very time-consuming (and also a huge energy drain). This is something that mastodon.social waited too long to do. If you put out a request on kbin.social, I suspect there are a lot of people with moderator experience who would be interested in helping

jdp23,

@ernest very impressed by everything you've been doing -- it's a great opportunity! @jerry

thisismissem, (edited ) to fediverse
@thisismissem@hachyderm.io avatar

Okay, so, I've just done a review of the features in both and .

I've written up a fuller report on the IFTAS matrix, but the tl;dr is: if you care about user safety, do not deploy either of these.

They do not feature comprehensive or well built moderation tools, and you will not be able to effectively moderate instances running this software.

You are better off waiting to deploy these once they mature more.

Edit: removed user mentions to stop spamming them.

jdp23,

hanks for doing this @thisismissem -- looking forward to the fuler report. History unsurpriingly repeats itself: "Get ready for trolls, hate speech, harassment, spam, porn, and disinformation" and "Invest in moderation tools" were two of the tpics I covered in "Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon" https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/

jdp23, to fediverse

For those tracking the ( and ): beehaw.org has defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Both have open registration and accounts have been causing problems on beehaw. Here’s the announcement https://beehaw.org/post/567170

It sounds like the right call to me, at least for now. I get it why everybody wants to have open registration to
make it easy for people migrating from Reddit… but without good mod tools, it’s a recipe for trolling.

@fediversenews

edendestroyer, to fediverse

really enjoying the fact that has listed an islamaphobic/queerphobic/xenophobic/ethnonationalist instance on their join-lemmy.org site (/s)

jdp23,

@edendestroyer yeah, not good. I talked about this in the “Values matter” section of https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/

shriker, to fediverse
@shriker@blackshuck.net avatar

I'm really liking this article about and the growth of the at large. We can learn from past mistakes. @jdp23

https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/

jdp23,

@shriker thanks much, glad you enjoyed it!

thenexusofprivacy, to kbin

Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things KBin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon

https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/

Reddit's strategy of antagonizing app writters, moderators, and millions of redditors is good news for reddit alternatives like KBin and Lemmy. And not just them! The fediverse has always grown in waves and we're at the start of one.

Previous waves have led to innovation but also major challenges and limited growth. It's worth looking at what tactics worked well in the past, to use them again or adapt them and build on them. It's also valuable to look at what went wrong or didn't work out as well in the past, to see if there are ways to do better.

Here's the current table of contents:

  • I'm flashing!!!!!
  • But first, some background
  1. Don't tell people "it's easy"
  2. Improve the "getting-started experience"
  3. Keep scalability and sustainability in mind
  4. Prioritize accessibility
  5. Get ready for trolls, hate speech, harassment, spam, porn, and disinformation
  6. Invest in moderation tools
  7. Values matter
  • This is a great opportunity – and it won't be the last great opportunity

https://privacy.thenexus.today/kbin-lemmy-fediverse-learnings-from-mastodon/

Thanks to everybody for the great feedback on the draft version of the post!

@fediversenews @fediverse @fediverse

jdp23,

@dingus I strongly disagree. Most people have better things to do with their time than fight their way through buggy and confusing software. And as I say in the essay, if it were harder to sign up for Gab, would that make the quality higher? Of course not.

@Grumpycat8

jdp23, to random

Heel of Fortune


jdp23, to random

Beaking Bad

[About a penguin who starts selling meth]


jdp23, to random

Wait until after 11 pm to make long distance calls because the rates were cheaper.

jdp23, to random

Y'know I have no idea why so many people think Mastodon is only boring and serious stuff. Right now my timeline is probably 50% !

Of course I'm not actually a Eurovision fan, so I have it filtered out. But still!

jdp23, to random

As @DataDrivenMD says: !

https://fedified.com/@DataDrivenMD/110348046528252938

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