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.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

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

rootfs, to trustandsafety

Let me get this straight:

FIRST: A mastodon instance (mastodon.art) defederated from another mastodon instance (universeodon.com) because of the following reasons:

  • Implementing full text search, which they felt made their users unsafe, and didn't provide enough warnings
  • Caring more about growth than carefully curated moderation
  • Meeting Meta behind the scenes (you can see in the linked response that people in the Fediverse was not happy with the server owner)
  • Being concerned about removing the ability to report users

They also made a blog post publicly stating this: https://dotart.blog/dotart-blog/defederating-from-universeodon so it's not like I'm pulling this out of my arse.

SECOND: msdn.social, a big instance, decide to defederate because they didn't like the idea of someone defederating from an instance just because they spoke to Meta.

THIRD: The instance admin from msdn.social has said that they would not block first, but check out this new instance and then act if they misbehave.

FOURTH: lots of poop being flung.

This was such a badly mishandled set of events. Here are my thoughts:

  • Universeodon can do what they want. It's their instance. If they want growth at the sake of everything else, go for it. I'm just less likely to want to go there.
  • Mastoodn.art can do what they want. It's their instance. It's clear that they prioritise careful curation, and it seems they are very sensitive to that. They also host a lot of LGBT content too, so that's maybe where the sensitivities lie. Also, they are anti-capitalists. If people don't like that, they can move (although they seem to be doign v. well)
  • Msdn.social can do whatever they like. HOWEVER - their response feels incredibly knee-jerky and seems at complete odds to what they say. Defederating from an instance for the crime of... defederating against another instance and then saying defederation is not the way unless the instance is misbehaving (Defedding isn't something I would consider misbehaving - it may not be in the spirit, but it's within their power).

It would've been better if the admin of mstn.social just publicly critiicised mastodon.art instead for their administative techniques instead of doing the thing they seemed to be so against, and in favour of a corporation (especially with the Fediverse - community full of and mostly ran by average people who are sick of corporations)

#moderation #fediverse #drama #mastodonart #msdnsocial #universeodon #meta #federating #moderation #federation #moderating #admin

kjr,

@rootfs what does mean "msdn.social, a big instance, decide to defederate"?
From whom?

el_pais, to random Spanish

Dabiz Muñoz recomienda sus restaurantes favoritos. Apunta https://elpais.com/gastronomia/2023-06-19/donde-comer-en-madrid-segun-el-mejor-cocinero-del-mundo-dabiz-munoz.html?ssm=MT_CM

kjr,

@el_pais el mejor cocinero del mundo? 😂

trinsec, to random

Wow, I should've bought some popcorn shares. Draaamaaaa!

I probably should avoid the Fediverse for today. :P

kjr,

@trinsec what happens?

kjr,

@Denali @trinsec uff... and for sure there is already people starting the most surrealist conspiracy theories.

nomi, to internet

Been seeing a lot of posts about and and federating and specifically arguments that any instance that's run for profit should be blocked by default.

That's absolutely nonsensical.

You WANT every large company to have it's own instance where has it's own verified accounts. You WANT every news org (including for profit ones) to have their own instance. You want EVERY organization to offer a federated instance hosting official accounts. That's how the fediverse WINS

kjr,

@nomi I am not totally sure what to think about. For me the problem is not really whether they make profit or not, the problem is their use of personal data, and whether our data can be retrieved and used or not.
I don't have a position regarding federation or block, until now everything we know are mostly rumors.

kjr,

@nomi from the open internet you get the free text, but it is almost impossible to build enough structure to get the graph of a person and her/his interactions.

kjr,

@nomi it is not the same, you would need fake users to interact with the users of the fediverse. That means, you could maybe get data but not really useful data in your context.

kjr,

@nomi graphs allows you to get detailed information about the person (what maybe at the level of individual is not very useful), and they can be clustered to define different groups of population on which you can act. In the case of Meta until now the goal was mostly marketing inside the own platform, and that makes for them necessary to have contextualized data which can be integrated with the data inside the Meta plattforms (just harvested data is not useful for their use case).

Empiricism_Reloaded, to fediverse

Is or the the social network of the future?

It's time to build our own Internet https://scuttlebutt.nz/

Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/

Scuttlebut & the fediverse both have many clients (software apps). However, Scuttlebut is a social network built on the peer-to-peer SSB protocol.

The Manyverse (For Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux) looks similar to . https://www.manyver.se/

Manyverse is a social networking app with features you would expect: posts, likes, profiles, private messages, etc. But it's not running in the cloud owned by a company, instead, your friends' posts and all your social data live entirely in your phone (or computer). This way, even when you're offline, you can scroll, read anything, and even write posts and like content! When your phone (or computer) is back online, it syncs the latest updates directly with your friends' phones, through a shared local Wi-Fi or on the internet.

Manyverse already works, but it is still in beta. Download it and give it a try https://www.manyver.se/

kjr,

@Empiricism_Reloaded if it is locally synchronized, doesn't consume a lot of disk space? I'm thinking specially about the use on smartphones, where the disk space is more limited.

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

kjr,

@jhertzli I'm not sure whether I understand.

Dentora, to kbin

Hey everyone! i have opened a instance at https://kbin.dentora.social feel free to use it!

kjr,

@Dentora It seems that there are problems to access the page.

kjr, to reddit

Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock the platform

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700

presbyterian, to kbin

Tried to get into , and was disappointed to see that the magazine (subreddit) has already been claimed by someone who wants to make it like TrueChristian on Reddit, which bans anything they consider “theological liberalism”, and requires all members follow sola scriptura, which immediately alienates a huge portion of the community

kjr,

@presbyterian if you have tried in kbin.social and it was alreadi claimed, you can try another instance. Here you have a list.
https://fedidb.org/software/Kbin

readit.buzz and forum.fail are associated with admins of two generalistic mastodon instances.

mario, to kbin

hello everyone, you are all already familiar with and reddit alternative. every day there are more and more users and this is good for the entire however I have noticed that users join only a few instances of us known mastodon admins. therefore, I made a list of kbin instances that have few users, and I invite you to join them. feel free to add your instance in the comments. 👇

👉
https://kbin.lgbt
https://kbin.place
https://kbin.run
https://kayb.ee
https://kbin.lol
https://champserver.net
https://kbin.mastodont.cat

kjr,

@digitalRightsNinja @mario @mastodonmigration what does mean "centralized in cloudflare"?

eloquence, to kbin
@eloquence@social.coop avatar

So far quite liking (using https://kbin.social/ instance) as a Reddit alternative - simple & clean, and nice to have a built-in microblogging feature.

Not quite sure how exactly it federates yet. (You can follow my account there at @eloquence.)

kjr,

@eloquence
Following you.
@kjr

spreadmastodon, to kbin
@spreadmastodon@mastodon.social avatar

Those of you on or who want to help get the word out about the launch can vote this up:

https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/35586/Spread-Mastodon-org-is-now-LIVE

kjr,

@spreadmastodon it seems more like the promotion of a single concrete instance.
No really fond.

kjr,

@spreadmastodon that looks quite better thanks!!
An approach that I like is the approach of Lemmy
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Here the recommended instances change, and there are other instances listed bellow with a description. (I would love something similar in kbin).
Maybe in your case could be useful at least to promote servers in other languages than English?
Thanks again for the clarification and good luck!!

kjr,

@spreadmastodon it is a really amazing idea!!

evan, (edited ) to random
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

Do you have an ice cream maker?

kjr,

@evan Strong no... but it is one of my dreams

kjr, to twitter

hahaha!!! 😂
Twitter is getting evicted from its Colorado office over unpaid rent

A judge just evicted the company from its Boulder, Colorado office after three months of unpaid rent, totaling over $75,000, as originally reported by TechCrunch. This all started after the landlord took the company to court, according to the Denver Business Journal. The judge sided with the landlord and has given Twitter until the end of July to vacate.

This is a unique scenario, as Twitter didn’t pay traditional rent for the office. Instead, it was provided a letter of credit worth $968,000 back in 2020, using this credit to pay the landlord. However, the line of credit ran out a few months back and Twitter failed to make any additional payments. Reports indicate that the office is still active, with around 150 in-person employees, down from 300 at its peak. The company’s San Francisco landlord is also suing the company for unpaid rent. In related news, Elon Musk has been adamant about ending remote work, but that’s likely to be difficult without, you know, office space.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-is-getting-evicted-from-its-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent-185026284.html

Dentora, to Ukraine

New to Mastodon from reddit. Can anyone point me in the direction of some users or news outlets on here to follow for news updates on the war in ?

kjr,

@Dentora

In Kbin/Lemmy (you can start federating 😀 )

https://kbin.social/m/Ukraine
https://sopuli.xyz/c/ukraine
https://kbin.social/m/Ukraine_UA

In Mastodon
@SocraticEthics

kjr,

@Dentora No problem!!
If you want to network in kbin I am https://kbin.social/u/kjr

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.

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