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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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!

profcarroll, to random
@profcarroll@federate.social avatar

AOC mapped a account to her official house.gov domain.

jdp23,

@mattblaze I'm interested in what you hear. The staffers I've talked to said there wasn't (yet) a clear benefit to it, so with finite resources it's not on their priority list. One way to change that would be to do a successful activism campaign with a significant fediverse component but that hasn't happened (yet 😎 ).

@DataDrivenMD and @RepShontelBrown's here as well.

@supernovae @profcarroll

daviwil, to fediverse
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Having some vague morning thoughts about how one might make a hybrid forum/social site based on ActivityPub.

Imagining a federated social feed with additional groups/topics which may or may not federate off-instance.

Obviously one can "create" topics with hashtags today, but I think it might be interesting to have a more focused organization of posts.

Thoughts?

jdp23,

@jonny would you still say it’s just an interface thing for private forums?

@devnull I was just looking at your “what’s next after V3” thread a couple of days ago and noticed you were starting to think about federation 🙂 Intriguing!

kissane, to random
@kissane@mstdn.social avatar

interesting that after a decade or so of mainstream consensus that anonymity is bad and antisocial and everyone should use real names on platforms that rewarded both outrageousness and outrage, we hit a point in about 2014(??) at which people started just continuously saying previously unspeakable things under their official headshots

jdp23,

@kissane The nymwars on Google+ were in 2011. Yonatan Zunger, who was the G+ architect, summarized: "We thought this was going to be a huge deal: that people would behave very differently when they were and weren’t going by their real names. After watching the system for a while, we realized that this was not, in fact, the case. (And in particular, bastards are still bastards under their own names.)"
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supernovae, to random

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    jdp23,

    @vyr @supernovae @codinghorror @nico Totally agreed on the value both of mod tools and those other forks and so I would also like to see a Universeodon fork happen!

    jdp23, to random

    As @DataDrivenMD says: !

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

    ubiquity75, to random

    VERY excited to delve into:

    loud men talking loudly report on exclusionary cultures of internet governance – corinne cath.

    https://www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LoudMen-CorinneCath-CriticalInfraLab.pdf

    jdp23,

    @ubiquity75 great title! and it makes some great points as well. I like the recommendation to "Repoliticize internet governance through the development and spread of organizational counternarratives that frame internet governance in general, including seemingly arcane technological development, as a matter of public interest and political deliberation"

    oliphant, to random

    Mastodon wasn't really ever the "only game in town" but it was the only game polished enough that a lot of people could probably figure it out.

    But I think Calckey is now a side-by-side contender. Like at this point, I wouldn't recommend one over another anymore from a user experience standpoint. I think Calckey actually looks more approachable in some ways.

    Though I haven't looked at server moderation capabilities of Calckey yet, and that's one of my remaining concerns.

    jdp23,

    @oliphant thank you for bringing up accessiblity!

    ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
    @ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org avatar

    "Our neocortex is entirely controlled by our lizard brain."

    How is this guy real?

    (For a while I found this sort of bullshit really annoying, but now I'm just embarrassed for him. And what sucks is that he's totally right about LLMs as a dead end on the road to AGI.)

    jdp23,

    @ct_bergstrom and how did he get a Turing Award?

    neil, to internet

    I appreciate that this is going to upset some people, and I thought I was too shy to say it, but I prefer over :

    Here's why:

    https://neilzone.co.uk/bluesky_over_mastodon.html

    jdp23,

    @neil some good points there but i'll have to think more about it before coming to any conclusions

    supernovae, to fediverse

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    jdp23,

    @oliphant @supernovae @ai6yr I'm pretty sure that Glithc and Hometown behave slightly differently: local-only aren't federated, but they show up on main as well as local.

    ubiquity75, to random

    Another Google “godfather of AI” quits to warn the world…and I’m sure he left all the stock grant payouts on the table. Sure.

    jdp23,

    @ubiquity75 @alex Looking forward to the movie! Well, no, not really.

    vyr, to random

    is there a standard patch for quote posts that works on mainline Mastodon or Glitch? i remember hearing that maybe Hometown or Treehouse had something that interops properly with Misskey quote posts?

    jdp23,

    @vyr here's the Treehouse patch from a few months ago, not sure if there's anything newer. https://gitea.treehouse.systems/treehouse/mastodon/pulls/36

    jdp23,

    @vyr sureI IF it's useful, here's a post I did back then looking at social threat modeling abuse vectors for QPs. TL:DR: QPs don't introduce significant new threats over screen-shot-and-link, but do remove a "speedbump" and so highlight some ways where Masto's current anti-harassment mechanisms could be improved. Also there are a few edge cases worth keeping in mind (e.g. disallowing public QPs of unlisted posts). https://privacy.thenexus.today/social-threat-modeling-and-quote-boosts/

    ubiquity75, to random

    Good job, Dems: your relentless spamming of me via text and email has me once again unsubscribing from all your shit. This can’t be a successful strategy.

    jdp23,

    @katestarbird @ubiquity75 Exactly. F---ing Dems. I'm sure they have stats that convince them that this tactic works ... but I'm also pretty sure that those stats have been carefully selected by the vendors who make good money from doing this spamming.

    williampietri, to internet
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    This, via @davidgerard, is a gobsmacker.

    First there's the breathtaking confidence that this this exciting AI thing will solve the problem. As if Twitter didn't have literally hundreds of ML engineers working on this for years. YEARS.

    Then there's the notion that you could possibly create AI magic without doing enough of the manual work to really understand it. Nope!

    Third, there's apparently a belief that a magic technical solution exists to social problems that are so complex that they're demoralizing and hard to deal with.

    Fourth, I see no recognition that they should have had at least some starter solutions before letting users on at all.

    Lastly, there's the lack of recognition that anti-abuse work, hard though it is, is not nearly as hard as dealing with the abuse.

    jdp23,

    @soaproot actually fediblock came about in 2018 -- i've got a bit about its origin in "The patterns continue" section of https://privacy.thenexus.today/mastodon-a-partial-history/#the-patterns-continue (the pattern in this case being marginalized members of the community driving innovation and not being credited)

    @williampietri there are qutie a few other links to episodes in 2017-8 in that document, including racialized weaponization of hashtags and the Battle of Wil Wheaton, as well as a bit of 2022 stuff.

    jdp23,

    @fancysandwiches glad it was useful!

    seldo, to random
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    The clear message I am getting from Bluesky is that black people felt unsafe on mastodon. Black Twitter was a huge part of what made it special, and it's been notably absent on mastodon. I will be sad if mastodon loses to a less-open alternative because it couldn't figure out how to be welcoming to everyone.

    jdp23,

    @alwayscurious It's not that Mastodon has gotten worse than Twitter. https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/ looks at the long history of Mastodon's whiteness.

    For those who were [ in late November, if you haven't seen that post before it's very likely a sign that you're not following many Black people -- or people who boost Black people]

    As for what changes, @mekkaokereke has a good post on what allies can do as individuals to help. https://indieweb.social/@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io/109454206897441903

    @seldo @StryderNotavi @StevenBarnhart

    jkirk, to infosec

    Great profile of Australia's @asherwolf whose digital rights activism from the Wikileaks-era onwards has raised awareness about everything from the robo-debt scandal to the need for greater government transparency.
    https://www.smh.com.au/national/who-is-the-person-behind-the-handle-asher-wolf-20230425-p5d31z.html

    jdp23,

    @drwho It's not suspended on any of the instances I'm on so it's probably a local decision by hackers.town admins or mods

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