kjr

@kjr@qoto.org

Freelancing in Natural Language Processing / Machine Learning / Data Science. Interested and working also in Archives, Libraries and Data Integration.
Based in Israel, central area.

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phillycodehound, to random
@phillycodehound@masto.ai avatar

Man, PEOPLE don't trust RT.

kjr,

@phillycodehound RT = Russia Today?

kjr,

@phillycodehound
I agree with you bro, I don't understand how there is so many people trusting them in some parts of the world...

petergleick, to Ukraine
@petergleick@fediscience.org avatar

Just a warning observation for our own government... Don't support independent, powerful private militias and contractors, like Blackwater.

kjr,

@petergleick hopefully democratic countries learn somethink about the last events and constraint the use of contractors yo very specific tasks. And combat should not be one of them.

tfardet, to Facebook
@tfardet@fediscience.org avatar

I find @louis's take on how / may approach the Fediverse to be highly likely: https://emacs.ch/@louis/110592744496085427

  1. use a divide and conquer approach by proposing to the biggest instances to federate with them by providing money if they do
  2. follow up with the second and third steps of (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) more efficiently thanks to the first move

I hope big instance admins are aware of this issue (this was emphasized from the start as a fragile network dynamics).

kjr,

@empiricism @tfardet @louis
I don't understand

kjr,

@empiricism @tfardet @louis but... ActivityPub is not a creation of Mastodon, is older, it is a W3 protocol, like HTML, etc.
Mastodon just uses it.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

And the software of Mastodon is just a sofware which supports ActivityPub, like Lemmy, Calkey, Kbin and a lot others. Eben I don't think that Meta will open Mastodon instances, they will use their own software for it.

kjr,

@empiricism @tfardet @louis License ActivityPub? Who can license it and with which rights? It is an open protocol.

kjr,

@empiricism @tfardet @louis I thin Meta is more intelligent... if they do something like that no one would accept and that would be contraproductive for their goals, whateber they are.

null, to internet

I think instance admins should leave it to their users to block (or not). All the tooling is already there; it's very easy for a user to block an entire domain.

As a user, I will definitely block.

kjr,

@darius @null
Just a question, maybe you can help me to understand it. After I read your post, I search for answers in the documentation of Mastodon, and I found that as a user, I can block other users or a domain, but with different results
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#block
That means, when I block a user, I don't get her/his data and she/he doesn't get my data.
But if I block a domain, that means that I silence it, I don't see the data and that from the blocked domain my data is accessible, is it right? That mean, that if as a user I block the instances of Meta, that wouldn't prevent Meta to access my data.
Have I understood well?
The only possibility to block effectively Meta in Mastodon is if the administrator defederates Meta?
Thanks a lot!!

paul, to internet
@paul@digitalstuntfactory.com avatar

I agree with this take on proposals to block 's rumoured -based service. We should encourage adoption of this defederated approach, even if there is a risk that Meta will try it.

Not That Kind of ‘Open’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/19/not-that-kind-of-open

kjr,

@paul I am in the opposite position. I afraid the consequences of the integration of data graphs (something in which I have experience). After the federation, it will be possible during data retrieval integrate networks of people present in both platforms, match accounts, even with different names but which belongs to the same person (it is one of my professional activities, but I do only with data of dead people). That means, it gives possibilities to enrich a lot the knowledge about each individual.

kjr,

@paul what do you think about the actual situation?

kjr,

@paul no, Meta/Fediverse

kjr, to random

Not only a disgusting individual….

Andrew Tate to stand trial in Romania for human trafficking, sex crimes

The Tate brothers, former kickboxers who have US and British nationality with millions of online followers, are the highest-profile suspects to be sent to trial in Romania for human trafficking.

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-746939

stefanf28, to internet

It shouldn’t be an issue that some admins are taking a strong, pre-emptive stance to whilst others play a waiting game.

The great thing about the Fediverse is that we can decide to move and join an instance that aligns with our own position and values. We should celebrate this flexibility.

The one thing that will serve ’s interest is if we
instead divided ourselves to wage a destructive war of words over its plans.

It would be great if we could avoid that.

kjr,

@stefanf28 @GrahamDowns but this hypotetic migration will be possible? As good as I know migration is not part of ActivityPub, but an own development of the Mastodon software. Why should Meta implement it in the own software?

kjr, to random

I don't like really the idea

Brain chips to be tested on humans this year, Elon Musk says


https://www.jpost.com/science/article-746745

kjr, to random

It is strange... all my notifications have disappeared!! 😱
@freemo

kjr, to twitter

And better if we don’t talk about youtube…

Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it’s not good

When looking at the recent history of many popular and highly successful online sites, there tends to be a certain trend they’re all following: rampant corporate greed butting heads with its original core mission and its user base, all of which eventually leads to major issues for the site.
Several sites in question — Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr — all share that same fate, despite having very different purposes and suffering through a dissimilar series of events that led to their downfall or tipping point. And, they’re proof that most businesses will eventually hit a point in which management will decide to push profit margins and use bizarre and brutal methods to squeeze money out of it. The horrors of capitalism.

https://www.techradar.com/opinion/discord-twitter-reddit-and-tumblr-have-something-in-common-and-its-not-good

ivy, to random

I did all this only to find blowhaj.zone has a bigger 196 community already set up 😭

I'm OK I'm ok
it's good. we're federated so I guess that's all that matters and this instance is still pretty cool because kbin has a lot of nice features

kjr,

@ivy yes, and more when I can read SOME posts... maybe it is in process yet.
Thanks for the answer !!!

kjr,

@ivy What does 196 mean?
(btw... it is strange, I can read your posts from Mastodon but not from kbin 🤔 )

kjr, to kbin

I am totally impressed.
I joined https://kbin.social/ a couple of days ago, and the instance has less than 600 users (I think maybe 400?)
Last days gained momentum quite fast. Now it has more than 10000 users.
https://the-federation.info/node/details/48862
Let us see how the instance grows when Monday a big chunk of Reddit goes dark.

kjr,

@Lazycog for me the game changer would be an android application.
the actual web app for android works, but it is not really comfortable.

kjr,

@realcaseyrollins @itchy_lizard @Bicyclejohn
In my opinion it is almost the opposite.

"Meta opted to use the open, decentralized social networking protocol ActivityPub(Opens in a new window) for this project, which is already used by Mastodon. That doesn't guarantee interoperability between the two competing services, but could certainly make it easier for Mastodon accounts to migrate to Project 92. The reverse is also possible, but it seems unlikely Meta would want to make it easy for accounts to migrate away from its ecosystem."

https://www.pcmag.com/news/metas-twitter-alternative-will-probably-be-called-threads

kjr, to internet

Meta will be always Meta….

Meta’s Twitter Alternative Will Probably Be Called ‘Threads’

Meta opted to use the open, decentralized social networking protocol ActivityPub(Opens in a new window) for this project, which is already used by Mastodon. That doesn’t guarantee interoperability between the two competing services, but could certainly make it easier for Mastodon accounts to migrate to Project 92. The reverse is also possible, but it seems unlikely Meta would want to make it easy for accounts to migrate away from its ecosystem.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/metas-twitter-alternative-will-probably-be-called-threads

kjr, to kbin

I have opened an account in , a federated alternative to .
If you want, you can follow me from Mastodon too in @kjr

kjr, to programming

How AI coding companions will change the way developers work

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/04/how-ai-coding-companions-will-change-the-way-developers-work.html

kjr, to internet

I'm not very sure about the consequences of Meta probably joining the Fediverse, and after I have read here a lot of posts and opinions, I would say that almost all of them are based on rumors. We don't even know what Meta is really planing, which protocols they want to use and in which extent, etc.
First of all I don't think that the target of Barcelona is to do interact (with good or evil intentions) with the Mastodon communities. They real target in my opinion is Twitter, a big social network/market, with a strong crisis due to its erratic management. Anyway I see a high potential of changes and colateral damages to our communities, and some open questions, if they decide to federate.

  1. The first one is about the federation. If several hundreds of millions of new users enter the Fediverse though a single instance, which consequences would it have, especially for small instances? It is possible to handle? I'm thinking about the size of the account table, account cull and administrative aspects.

  2. I suppose that the federated timeline will be monopolized by Meta due to the number of users they have. How can be it solved? If I good understand the concept of silencing, that would affect the searcheability of users of our instances for Meta users and opposite (that is, we would lose the maybe only aspect in which both Meta and Mastodon instances can benefit).

  3. Data privacy and data ownership. Taking in account the reputation and past activities of Meta, can we trust that our data won't be used by the company? Is it any way to protect from it? Or the only solution is not to federate? I hope there is any middle path, but I don't see it.

  4. If Barcelona uses ActivityPub, it is safe to expect that Meta will introduce modifications which are not compliant with the standard. I don't know how problematic they will be, a good candidate is to block possible migration from Barcelona to Mastodon, but I have to say that it is the last of my concerns.

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