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oceaniceternity

@oceaniceternity@sakurajima.moe

Fanfic writer, anime watcher, stressed university student...

ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/OceanicEternity

matrix: https://sakurajima.moe/@oceaniceternity:mtrx.nz

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tchambers, to Futurology

With the upcoming Fediverse service, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it.

โžก๏ธ To avoid data mining ...which Defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech entity scraping all the fedi public social graph today - Want proof?
see: https://is.gd/q8U2pv

The next argument is about poorly moderated P92 user posts and ad spam.
Which I'll discuss next.

๐Ÿงต 1 of N

oceaniceternity,
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@tchambers @emc2 @davew You certainly have my attention.

Could you link an example of a significant (and failed) attempt at ?

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@tchambers @murb @emc2 @davew

Alright, you have me convincd that preventing the Embrace phase of is impossible, but also that it is possible to outcompete meta.

There are glaring problems with mastodon--and by extension the fediverse. Let them be corrected.

tchambers, to random

We live in the dumbest of timelines.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/21/23769263/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musk-fight-cage-match-worldstar

oceaniceternity,
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@tchambers is this... Real? Not the onion?

nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Poll: How many browser extensions do you have installed on your #Linux, #macOS, #FreeBSD or #Windows desktop? Please boost for reach. TIA. ๐Ÿ™

oceaniceternity,
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@nixCraft honestly, just Unlock strapped onto both Firefox and Chrome.

timbray, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/20/canada-wildfires-big-oil

oceaniceternity,
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@timbray and remember, big oil has names... And addresses.

atomicpoet, to mastodon

Others have said this. More and more, I think it's true: the Homeowners Association (HOA) culture on the Fediverse is hurting it.

Except, people who tend to push an HOA agenda don't even tend to be "homeowners". They don't code. They don't run servers. Many of them are recent arrivals to the Fediverse.

I don't bring that up to say that anyone's more or less important because they code or admin or have been active for awhile. But surely, if you're going to be a gatekeeper, you should have something to qualify you as the self-appointed enforcer of the HOA.

Usually, these self-appointed gatekeepers have never made any investment in this community. Instead, the HOA are outright hurting this community by being unwelcoming jackasses.

Just to give an example, why has #BlackTwitter soured on #Mastodon? It's the HOA in action. And who's currently uttering death threats to server admins? It's the HOA. They are toxic, and everywhere they go, they spread toxicity.

The worst FUD about the Fediverse isn't even coming from the likes of Big Social or Bluesky or the Press. It's from the HOA.

Who's spreading fears about "embrace, extend, extinguish"? It's the HOA. Who's creating uncertainty about whether ActivityPub can survive a corporation's use of it? Again, it's the HOA. And who believes that the Fediverse will die because something happened without their approval? It's the HOA every time.

The HOA has no authority here. The Fediverse has no board meetings, never mind a board of directors. Their decision making power is a complete delusion, a total fabrication of their collective imagination.

To be blunt, I'm done with entertaining the HOA's bluster, speciousness, and pretensions.

From here on out, at least on spaces I have tangible power, I'm gatekeeping the gatekeepers.

The HOA has no home here!

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@atomicpoet

This seems reductionist to the extreme. First, you try and argue that members of a community are not stakeholders of that community, and then you try and say they have no power.

How is it wrong for members of a community to express their displeasure with decisions of an admin, their warranted dislike and scheptisism of #meta and exercise their ability to voice dissenting opinions? Users of mastodon don't all have an instance to gatekeep. However, they all have their goodwill to gatekeep. Everyone is free to do what they please: they are not free of the consequences. Any admin is free to federate with meta. They are not free from the criticism that they induce.

Is saying: past actions are indicative of future actions, these are the past actions of meta and indicative of what they could do in the future scaremongering? Or even unreasonable?

From here on out, gatekeep whoever you want. But remember, you will never be free from criticism.

yuki2501, (edited ) to reddit

Original post

Quote in case the post gets deleted:

Look, we just received the thinly veiled threat from reddit in our modmail, we were starting to make plans in case we'd need to move off reddit, they're not fully ready yet, so in the meantime, we're rushing headlong into full malicious compliance babyyyy. From "landed gentry" to the king in charge: hope you enjoy what you've made this website become.

Memes about being trans or discovering that you are trans will henceforth be deleted. Bring me pictures of eggs, dammit!

๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ If you want actually trans memes, we invite you to move to https://raddle.me/f/egg_irl. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

If you plan to continue using Reddit, we urge you to uninstall the official mobile app, and to install ad blockers like uBlock origin while browsing Reddit. Also, do your best to minimize your Reddit usage as much as you can.

Confused about what's going on? Look into r/Save3rdPartyApps for all the info you could need.

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oceaniceternity,
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@yuki2501 I am looking forward to welcoming them into the fediverse.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Work hard, play hard

oceaniceternity,
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@Radical_EgoCom somewhere along the line playing got too expensive, and was replaced with worrying about rent.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

What do they mean by "just in time for the Juneteenth celebration"?

oceaniceternity,
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@Radical_EgoCom What the hell are they planning for? Shoplifters armed with RPG's? A well disciplined, trained, and funded militia? A dustup with the other police department in the other state?

rodhilton, (edited ) to random
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I want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of #Twitter from their Boulder, Colorado office.

The story that leads up to this building even existing is bizarre and hilarious, so here goes...

A thread ๐Ÿงต

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must-be-evicted-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/

oceaniceternity,
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@rodhilton Damn. That is certainly a special comedy of errors

danirabbit, to random
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Yesterday I was looking for some information about HRT leading up to surgery and DuckDuckGo had a link to a Reddit comment that no longer existed.

And I think thatโ€™s when it really hit me how much this Reddit shit impacts me and other trans people. There is so much information about HRT, and GRS, and understudied phenomena that only exists in comments on Reddit. Life saving information. Invaluable medical information.

And some corporate assholes can just fuck with that on a whim.

oceaniceternity,
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@danirabbit yup. Communities must own their own web servers in order to have self determination.

oceaniceternity,
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@BasicallyClean It's an interesting take on how to accellerate a migration. And I hope to see it work and for kbin to grow.

maegul, to fediversenews
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Defederation drama hits the , but with the twist of community/group dynamics being a major factor: see discussion with important links here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1281130

Here defederation is concerned with open signups (lemmy.world) and beehawโ€™s ability to moderate effectively, where theyโ€™re finding lemmyโ€™s tools lacking, on which see this thread on an upcoming review: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/110550824230711531 (@thisismissem).
TLDR: lemmy/kbin arenโ€™t ready yet, need 6mnths-2yrs to mature

@fediversenews

oceaniceternity,
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@maegul @fediversenews

Unfortunately when I try and read te article I get 500 server error

smallcircles, to reddit
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Heard on HN re:

> We (the internet community) made such a terrible mistake with . We formed connections and communities and friendships [but] those connections are only allowed to exist as long as they are part of a profitable system. How awful it is to reduce human connection to that. To think that I am only allowed to maintain certain social connections as long as they continue to produce monetary value for an intermediary. An awful, awful mistake.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36348134

oceaniceternity,
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@smallcircles

Agreed. Larger community spaces: discord servers, subreddits--are owned by corporations. It is terribly hard to get around that, especially given that google search results are never going to send you to a forum in this day and age.

But personal connections: for the people I like and make friends with, I almost always send them the necessary details to communicate with me via email--or even letters.

jo, to fediverse

I'm wondering how the folks who were mortified to find out the protocol specs to be pretty wanting re when they found out the *key apps had long had 'full text search' are feeling now having all these folks joining the from , and being able to access the same social timeline. Oh and coming soon.

For all the talk about the being queer-built and a space for minorities, it's quickly been shown to not be that rugged wise at the mass adoption level beyond a social contract and the fediblock.

My is on private, thanks to the amount of bots and creepy guys that try to follow & message me. Can't wait until they can harass me on , or worse - here. And if the laugh-reaction pile-on cookers that harass the queer creators I follow on Facebook ever get here, let alone my Karen and Kevin relatives and school friends, who'll force me to lock down here when they're not longer "over there", then we're gonna need to reinvent the fediverse again. Web 1.0 third times a charm or something.

I'm beginning to see why being a niche unknown community mostly using the same software was considered safety by so many.

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@jo

Can the activitypub protocol be updated and extended?

...I almost hesitate to say this on the eve of arrival and remembrance of the phrase "embrace extend extinguish". But even the C standards update (I think), surely activitypub protocols can be updated to include privacy, to include encryption...

hopefully?

How did you get into anime?

Although my first anime was back during early childhood (back when anime programme block was a regular thing in Indonesian television). Vulcan just really started following anime seriously during junior high school back in 2012 (classmates are into Attack on Titan and Sword Art Online during that time, and we often chatted about...

oceaniceternity,
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@VulcanSphere Kaguya-sama was the first anime I ever watched and enjoyed

nixCraft, to random
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oceaniceternity,
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@nixCraft
As more and more corporations try to extract the maximum work with minimal pay... if they do find that poor sap, they better pay him like an IT department.

emilygorcenski, to random

Why is search so broken just absolutely everywhere? It is 2023, and somehow search is considerably worse than in 2013 and arguably 2003. Iโ€™m not even talking like, google searches, but Iโ€™ll get to that in a sec. Iโ€™m talking the entire practice of making information findable

oceaniceternity,
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@emilygorcenski The problem with google, is SEO. Search engine optimisation is the art of filling a page of rubbish with as much keywords as possible: because that is how you get traffic. Unfortunately the articles have a tendancy to be:

  1. written in 15 min, SEO'd for three hours

  2. written by AI

  3. absolutely useless and not tell you more than talking to a rubber duck would.

To be perfectly honest, it's bad enough that I usually search reddit for questions I have, rather than google search, search forums... talk to people I know on discord.

But I guess google has cottoned on to that too with that perspectives tab thing.

GWillow, to random

So as you've probably heard, Disney (like many other streaming giants) is nuking a bunch of its content, so if you want to watch me make an ass of myself on the 616 documentary series (about the history of the Marvel universe) this is your last chance.

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@GWillow

Ahaa me hearties, time to swab the decks and hoist the sails, we sail the high seas in search of forgotten media!

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@idanoo @GWillow

Art thou the illustrious Captain Idanoo of the NZ matrix server?

glyph, to random
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Is there a name for the cognitive bias or even a trope where you feel like human infrastructureโ€”buildings, books, roads, microchips, plasticsโ€”are a sort of homogenous naturally-occurring goo that replenishes itself rather than being the product of human labor? A lot of urban fantasy & horror SF draws on this: libraries that go on forever, โ€œthe backroomsโ€, impractically vast digital networks in cyberpunk, epiphenomenal mystical roads in Kentucky Route Zeroโ€ฆ

oceaniceternity,
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@glyph

I wonder... if these depictions of homogeonous, nefarious, infrastructure is less something of note in and of itself, rather, if it is a reflection of this innate feeling that... we all have bullshit jobs live bullshit lives and are ultimately, living in a paradigm devoid of meaning?

nixCraft, to linux
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Introducing The Brand New Thunderbird Logo! https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/introducing-the-brand-new-thunderbird-logo/

oceaniceternity,
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@nixCraft this is cool. Angry mailbox let's goooo.

rolle, (edited ) to internet
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If Facebook and Instagram were to join the Fediverse and you could follow users from that world from your instance, would you do it?

Boosts appreciated. I'd like to know the current consensus of the Fediverse.

oceaniceternity,
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@rolle I for one... Would like to be a part of the just say no to meta group.

film_girl, to fediverse
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Actively pushing against others to adopt your protocol is how you ensure that your protocol won't "win." I'm a firm believer that a decentralized protocol will be the future of social networks/feeds as we know them. I don't know if it is going to be or or something else. But I believe a decentralized protocol will be the future. But the winner will be the one that centralized-acting services adopt. That's a good thing for everyone. It means users have data portability. ๐Ÿงต

oceaniceternity,
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@film_girl

May I ask if "Embrace Extend Extinguish" means anything to you?

sakurajima, to random
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Some instance updates:

  • Reaction emojis now appear bigger on our Mastodon on the Moe domain as I felt they are a bit too small. Now they are 32 pixels
  • Edit function is now enabled on our Calckey instance. Now you can edit your posts like you can on Mastodon. Also, there should be more accessibility functions added.
  • Urusai Social is now part of our relay, which should help those who are looking for people to discuss Anime with and they already follow a good amount of users here already. All our posts from our Mastodon and Calckey servers will appear there too.
  • Our Calckey server will be in Open Beta on May 19th. For those who are Japanese media fans or create content around Japanese media (Blogging/Podcasting/Art/etc) and coming from Mastodon Social/Online, looking for a new place and willing to try our Calckey, Sakurajima.social is your place. You can import posts too, export your data first. before migrating.
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@chikorita157 @moira @sakurajima what is relay in this context?

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