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w7voa, to random
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Nikki Haley says she’ll be voting for Donald Trump. https://apnews.com/article/72cd80b03d0cd6f69601a0c6166194a5

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@w7voa lol

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The good news is, the AI will probably always be too buggy to reach Skynet level.

The bad news is, these fuckers are going to try and make Skynet.

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@Adam_Cadmon1 Wanna see the Dumb Terminator movie

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this is where I’m coming from with for changing culture, we need to rescue the idea of change/innovation/evolution from capitalism and its bros and girl bosses. We need a working vision & definition of technology that centers long term societies oriented around life itself, not just short term profits for a few. this is def a note to self for my upcoming book lol https://fediscience.org/@steve/112486844345257840

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@seachanger ooh are you actually writing a book??

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Time to peel myself off the floor and build myself a couch

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One thing Mastodon (or a fork) could do to win some users over from Bluesky, is support taking your account private. It's wild that X and Threads are the only big post-Twitter microblogging platforms that allow this.

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@boby_biq Bluesky actually has that for replies, but I think a lot of people don't know that. And it should for quotes. I'm optimistic that when Mastodon rolls out quote support, it will include that, but they should extend this to replies as well.

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@jdp23 @kissane Yeah, seems like the easiest path would be to just not use standard ActivityPub at all for private profiles, only communicate with instances that support the feature. There could definitely be rogue instances though - I wonder if some kind of encryption could work? And/or a certification system for trustworthy instance operators.

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@jdp23 It's not on Bluesky's 2024 roadmap, so there's a chance, but given the pace of mainline Mastodon development, that seems likely. (Obviously not a fair competition because of funding disparity, but it is what it is.)

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@jdp23 @kissane That's what I mean by the other stuff though - I think E2EE + some kind of certification system probably cross a reasonable threshold of safety, given that nothing is safe from, say, screenshots, regardless.

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Is this tree a goner? 🥺

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@Kevin mushrooms

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@Kevin Lots of leaves! Did a quick google and saw it suggested that mushrooms indicate root rot - they don't kill the tree but suggest that it may be terminally ill.

Do you (or anyone following the hashtag) happen to know if has an office that will come out and diagnose a tree like this?

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I think if Mastodon is gonna grow significantly, and win back potential converts who rejected it before, it's gonna need a rebrand.

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We understand "clients" as a concept but what would a browser for the social web look like? Something that would let you dip into a convo on Mastodon, or Bluesky, or whatever, and help you track the throughlines

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Short term goal: get invited to the group chat of people in movement comms who are plotting to dislodge X.

Or start that chat, if no one has.

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It seems like one way to avoid scraper protection would be to not automate the browsing part, but rather have distributed volunteers with browser extensions to download the target data as they access it.

(Trying to think of ways to get Instagram story data in a more useful form)

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Like, the social media team for my org chapter has a weekly schedule of shifts, and it’s hard to track and coordinate on what we’ve seen and shared. I just want all that stuff chronological.

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There’s definitely stuff out there about Instagram scraping but I’m afraid of catching a ban…

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Please consider helping my friend Myoshi, who was fired for her support of Palestine, and who has been pouring her heart and soul into activism with IfNotNow Baltimore.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-myoshi-wrongful-termination-silencing

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In a world where everything is kinda federated but it's through a patchwork suffused with blocks, bridges, and feature mismatches - does the inscrutability of all that become the new opaque algorithm?

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Probably a new form of expertise for social media professionals. How to navigate that, knowing where to post for the most reach.

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For a long time I was critical of any would be post-Twitter than didn't federate from the start, because that seemed like the obvious essential way to bootstrap a critical mass.

But now, I'm starting to feel like there is gonna be some strength in the fact that Mastodon + the broader microblogging fediverse, Bluesky, and Threads are going to come together after developing separately.

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@gabek Just bridgyfed for now, but I suspect that the boundaries will get increasingly permeable.

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@gabek lol - not a fan?

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@gabek Why?

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@gabek fair enough!

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