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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devnull, to fediverse
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Good news! I made my first follow request!

Bad news, it was to http://127.0.0.1 😞

jdp23, (edited )

@devnull yeah, I defederated from 127.0.0.1 a while ago. The guy who runs it treats it like his own personal domain. Still, good progress, congrats!

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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How does the fediverse plan on becoming more diverse?

jdp23,

@christineluc That's also my impression of the last 6+ years -- at least of the entrentched power structure.

@BlackAzizAnansi One possible approach is to have a region of the fediverse that starts with the subset of instances and people who want to prioritize equity and justice as well as diversity. Otherwise I can't see how to overcome the entrenched whiteness (etc) -- it gets harder and harder to change systems as they grow.

jdp23,

@christineluc yeah really! And white people telling people of color to CW their posts about racism, and casual racism in comments, and the list goes on.

Are the reply guys on that instance or elsewhere? If they're elsewhere, then hachyderm could be a good instance to be part of the "subset" I talked about. But if the hachyderm community is filled with guys like that, then it's big enough that'll be hard to turn around without a major effort (and willingness to lose people)

@BlackAzizAnansi

loshmi, to Futurology
@loshmi@social.coop avatar

All this conversation about #Meta on #Fedi 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,

@loshmi Excellent thread, I completely agree! @dk

jdp23,

@loshmi can I add a quote or two from your thread to https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/ ? It really aligns well!

@afouxenidis @dk

jdp23,

@loshmi Thanks much, I'll do an edit pass in next day or two, and I'll let you know when it's updated!

rose, to random
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putting a spritz of lime juice in my water bottle as a chorus of online water purists scream that I'm an ignorant WaterToker who shouldn't redefine what water is.

jdp23,

I don't understand what the toot's about but I'm blocking you anyhow, I don't want any ignorant WaterTokers refedining water in my timeline!

lps, to fediverse
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For all of those that are, wilfully or not, trying to minimize the threat to the that poses ...

BEHOLD a history lesson!!!

"People who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. Which is exactly what is happening with Meta and the Fediverse."

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

jdp23,

@lps Great article! I added a reference to it in @nexusofprivacy's "Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ!"

https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/

Are0h, to random

So Meta is reaching out to large instances to try and bring them into the fold.

Ha, this is going to be interesting.

jdp23, (edited )

Thanks @weirdwriter I hadn't seen that! I had included a quote from Gruber in the article I just did on the Meta situation and got so irritated that my footnote in response (starting with "hahahaha") is three paragraphs long. I particularly liked when he said "On Mastodon, unless your account's privvate everything is public." Dude, Mastodon doesn't have private accounts -- but it does have followers-only and local-only posts.

@oliphant @Are0h

jdp23,

@weirdwriter Here it is -- the link should hopefully take you directly to the footnote. https://privacy.thenexus.today/should-the-fediverse-welcome-surveillance-capitalism/#notes

@oliphant @Are0h

jdp23,

@weirdwriter Afraid not, i'm not really a podcast person. @deadsuperhero do you have suggestions about a podcast news source about the Fediverse?

jdp23,

@tchambers I can't read minds so I have no idea what he meant.

But I can read his words, so I know what he said, which was very literally "you need to make your account private.... If your account isn’t private, you’re posting to the open web." No mention of followers-only or mentioned-users posts, or even the concept of post-level privacy protections. Just a reference to the non-existent "private account."

@weirdwriter

kev, to Futurology
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    jdp23,

    @rysiek 💯. Fedi admins who are considering working with Meta have the most leverage before they get sucked in so should use it -- and taking an NDA meeting after the furor about the previous one undercuts their position badly.

    [Of course for admins who don't want to work with Meta, not taking the meeting at all is an even better option, but I'm talking about the admins who are open to work with them.]

    @FediThing @jwildeboer @kev

    jdp23,

    @rysiek fair enough, that's often a very reasonable course to take. In this particular situation, things are so tense already that it's risky: anything you say (and even your attendance) can and probably will be taken out of context. Still, for instance admins who have experience working with hostile big tech companies and are confident they can explain to their community why they're going, it's a valid choice.

    @FediThing @jwildeboer @kev

    jdp23,

    Also @kev really appreciate your transparency in sharing the invitation. Well done, and thanks very much!

    @rysiek @FediThing @jwildeboer

    rose, to random
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    sometimes I think about how different the fediverse would be if we, from the start, invested in allow-list federation models and had supplementary services that helped facilitate discovery of other instances to allow.

    jdp23,

    @rose yeah really. tbh i think of today's fediverse as basically an expended prototype at scale. Sometimes the prototype evolves into the more robust "V1.0" ... sometimes the best thing to do is take the lessons that have been learned and start on a new implementation.

    leadore, to internet

    I seem to have a different take on the whole Meta joining the fediverse thing. I neither think that something good could come from it, nor that it will spell certain doom for the fediverse.

    No, my take is that FB is a detrimental force that has caused immense harm in the world, far outweighing anything good it could ever offer. And so I simply want nothing to do with it. Ever.

    So you all do what you want. I'll make sure I'm on a server that never federates with it.

    jdp23,

    @leadore you're far from the only one who thinks that way!

    darnell, to Facebook
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    This is a very interning interview with the founder of :

    📹 https://youtu.be/cpYSGyXtQEM

    Zuckerberg discussed how he helped & surpassed the billion user thresh hold.

    Also, another good interview about (it does not have a name or domain yet).

    📹 https://youtu.be/HSde_mIJ7Vw

    I wonder if this will launch this month or if it is being pushed back‽

    jdp23,

    @darnell great links thanks! I haven't watched them yet but I could certainly imagine Threads (or whatever they call it) getting a billion users if they execute well. It really highlights how badly Twitter botched things for years even before the new management took over!

    jdp23,

    @darnell also in terms of the launch, I don't know that the June date was ever real for a broad launch so if it doesn't happen I wouldn't take it as "pushing back". It'll be interesting to see how long until the first reports from non-Meta employees using it. The can maybe keep a few hundred people under NDA, but almost certainly not tens of thousands.

    jdp23,

    @darnell goddammit i hate it when i agree with Zuck, he said almost exactly the same thing! But then again he also characterized WhatsApp's E2E encryption as an element of decentralization, which is ... um ... interesting framing. Still, very glad I watched it, greatly appreciate you sharing the links.

    damon, to random

    but asking marginalised people to CW their lived experiences is not okay. You’re more than welcome to block me. I don’t get to choose not to be Black. I don’t get to choose CW in the physical world. Maybe instead of coming at people’s lived experiences to out into the physical world & tell off the deplorable people

    jdp23,

    @damon it really is, like I say very sorry you're having to deal with it

    ianbetteridge, to random
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    jdp23,

    @ianbetteridge excellent post! I'm working on a post for @nexusofprivacy on and have a snarky footnote about Gruber's email analogy, I'm adding a link to your post in it.

    @bencurthoys first of all they've never said anything about communicating w/ people on FB from a fedi account. In any case, people who see Meta as toxic don't think that convenience outweighs the desire to have a Meta-free environment here. Keep a FB account to communicate w/ people there instead of exposing all of us!

    jdp23,

    @damon Agreed that the majority of FB users have Insta accounts ... at least for me, though, a lot the FB-only people I keep my account to be in touch with are older relatives who aren't on Insta or anything else. Others' mileage may vary!

    And agreed the general assumption seems to be that people on the fediverse will be able to communicate with Insta users who also start using Threads. That said, at this point it's an assumption.

    @bencurthoys @ianbetteridge

    timnitGebru, to random
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    "“OpenAI repeatedly argued to European officials that the forthcoming AI Act should not consider its general purpose AI systems…to be “high risk,” a designation that would subject them to stringent legal requirements including transparency, traceability, and human oversight."

    Oohh noooz our stuff is so strong it might render humanity extinct.

    But also no no our stuff shouldn’t be classified “high risk.”

    By @perrigo

    https://time.com/6288245/openai-eu-lobbying-ai-act/

    jdp23,

    @timnitGebru who could have predicted?

    great reporting, @perrigo !

    danhon, to random
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    omg it's 2023 and someone is posting how to style RSS using xslt have I fallen down a time pit

    jdp23,

    @danhon everything old is new again! i'm gonna dig up my old nroff macros for usenet newsgroups!

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