retronautickz

@retronautickz@beehaw.org

Pallas | 29 | | | Disabled | Fat | + clusterouther & anderflor | and plato-averse | (Similo) | Grey-orchid in a non-platonic way and queering all types of attraction

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retronautickz,

Well, it’s a list of "well maintained/moderated servers

Any server that federates with threads, a product of Meta a company known for their low quality moderation and lack of ethics, is clearly not a well maintained/moderated one.

It’s not a new rule. The admin is just applying the sites rules as they are, instead of making exception for threads as many of the techbro admins that are getting their servers excluded have been doing.

retronautickz,

The moment it was confirmed that Musk would buy it, I left the platform.

retronautickz,

I never used brave. I wasn’t interested in it since I learned it was chromium and all the crypto stuff.

retronautickz,

I would help the kid. I can’t force my veganism onto other people, nor is it an excuse to be an asshole

retronautickz,

Cool things on Firefish/clackey, that Mastodon and most of it forks don’t have:

• Quote notes (Misskey and Akkoma, a fork of Pleroma, also have them)

• Antennas. They allow you to add words, tags and accounts to lists and create parallel timelines that you can see whenever you want, without having to follow this accounts

• You can create personalized timelines for certain accounts to appear in.

• It has a drive section where you can upload files.

• Channels. This are public local group that the members of a server can create, join and interact within.

• Private chat groups. Local only.

• Emoji reactions

• Clips. These are collections of notes (“note” is the name post receive in Misskey and Firefish)

You can create multiple clips and manage them by giving a name and description to each. You can also choose to make your clips public to make them available to other users.

• You can create custom web pages. For now they don’t federate.

• Customisable (by admin) character limit.

retronautickz,

1- Never join the official instances. They always are too big that are almost impossible to moderate.

2- In which timeline did you see those comments? Because if it was global, it’s possible these are unknown servers the admins aren’t aware of. (The trending section is global)

An interesting case of moderation in the fediverse (blog.ownlifeful.com)

A small group of people were offended by a joke that unintentionally came across transphobic, and as a result this persons account was blacklisted. Even after getting the account reinstated, there were lasting complications with the state of the account (these probably technical issues) and the account was basically lost for...

retronautickz,

It’s a slur, not only a term that “has fallen out of favour”

OP was rightfully moderated. Their comment was transphobic.

retronautickz,

This.

It might be something related to this rule:

The following types of content are explicitly disallowed and will result in revocation of access to the service:

1. Sexual depictions of children

The server admin, might be including minor posting nsfw content under this rule.

retronautickz,

Here a list of LGBT+ fediverse servers

Some fediverse groups

retronautickz, (edited )

This.

People like to ignore the fact that the main concern people signing or supporting the fedipact have is the well-being of marginalised/oppressed communities that have made the fediverse their home because big social media wasn’t safe for us.

Meta has a history of promoting a hostile environment for queer people, people of colour, non-Christian people, poor and homeless people, activists, people with uteri, etc.; and it actively whitelists groups that promote hate and violence against these communities. Meta coming here puts all of us members of marginalised groups in danger.

I remember listening to a podcast from The Verge where they portrayed the anti-meta pact as primarily a way for tech men to keep control of these spaces.

It’s funny (not really) that they want to portray the fedipact that way because techbros/tech men are the only ones here that see Meta “joining” the fediverse as a great oportunity/something positive

retronautickz,

Do you really think Meta wants to be "one of us", that they plan to be on equal ground as the rest of the already existing instances managed by individuals and not by corporations? Are you that naive?

retronautickz,

Good. There's no place for corporations on the fediverse. Specially not for a corporation like Meta that has shown time after time how dangerous they are.

thenexusofprivacy, (edited ) to queer

We're here, we're queer, we're federated: How queer, trans, and non-binary people helped create Mastodon and are shaping today's fediverse

https://privacy.thenexus.today/here-queer-and-federated-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

Happy !

THis is a draft version, so feedback is very welcome!

@lgbtq_plus

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retronautickz,

The great benefit here is that, because the nature of decentralisation and federation, even if bigoted people exist within the fediverse, they are in their own isolated instances and we never see them; while in centralised social media "the algorithm" is designed in such way that we are forced to see bigoted posts/people

This makes the fediverse much safer for and attractive to queer people and other marginalised groups

retronautickz,

Thank you

A question: Is it possible on Lemmy intances to put the reason for defederation beside the server domain on the defederated intances list?

retronautickz,

Apart from adding alt text (which someone in another comment has already explained how), I want to add other ways to help Blind and visually impaired people and other people that require the use of screen readers and text to speech apps (like myself)

  • When using tags with more than one word, always write the first letter of each word in uppercase so the screen readers and text-to-speech apps can read them as separate words

#/LikeThis and not #/likethis

  • Avoid special fonts as they cannot be detected by screen readers and TTS software. Most of the time the letters are actually phonetic or mathematical symbols and the software interpret them as such.
retronautickz,

No. We know how Facebook is and what their intentions are.

retronautickz, (edited )

The illusion of Privacy is Mastodon (or social media in general)

There's a reason why when you go to "private mentions" on Mastodon, this appears:

Private mentions. Post on mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted.Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon

While yes, we should be able to delete our content if we want, but it's a bit naive to think there could be true privacy in any decentralised social media platform.

There's a reason why one of the think people tell you when you come to the fediverse is not to share personal and sensible information.

The only decentralised social media that has some level of privacy is Matrix, and that's why it has it's own protocol and only federates within/between its own servers.

retronautickz, (edited )

Beehaw's registration process is quite easy, asking you only to write a few words on why you want to join (which could just be "it seems like a nice instance"), in comparison to other registration processes I've seen and done.

I've been through registration process where to guarantee that you've read the rules and anything required would hide words in the post containing that essential content and then asked you questions of which the answers where those words. Sometimes with the addition on asking you why you wanted to join.

This (Beehaw's registration process) is nothing in comparison

retronautickz,

They're so accustomed to centralised social media that allows them to troll and bait without caring for the people in those platforms, that, when, they find instances here, like Beehaw, that do not want to have contact with people and instances that promote that type of attitude, they feel confused and betrayed.

They expected the fediverse, Lemmy, Beehaw to be a replacement for Reddit, not only as content/link/information aggregation platform, but as a place to continue acting like they acted on Reddit with no consideration or understanding that they aren't in Reddit anymore.

The fact that many are calling Beehaw admin/mod team "snobby" "snowflakes", etc just says it all

retronautickz,

It's not the responsibility of one instance to get the threadiverse into a "self-sustaining population"

Specially when say community is:

• Comprised mostly of marginalized people.

• not completely open to registration, but requires your solicitation to register to be approved by an admin/mod

• choosing quality over quantity, and has no intention to grow so much or to become a Reddit replacement.

There are more than 300 instances on Lemmy alone (to that you have to add the kbin instances, of which I don't know the number)

The problem here, and what really is stopping any kind of growth, is the lack of distribution. People are going to the same 5 communities and expecting them to be responsible for all the content creation (by hosting communities/magazines), when part of federation is the ability for every instance to have their own community for a topic.

retronautickz,

Funny the thing about the whole short essay thing, because I basically only wrote "I wanna try Lemmy and I want an active instance where I can be active in"

Beehaw didn't left the fediverse, it defederated from two Lemmy instances over the more than 20000 that exist in all the fediverse. The number of instances that Beehaw defederates from (which, of course, is bigger than two, as there are intances that are globally defederated) is tiny in comparison with the size of the whole ActibityPub -based fediverse.

Make sure you understand how the fediverse work before resorting to lying.

Does anyone think that the Fediverse would make a much better next phase for the web then all of this Metaverse bull?

I'd much rather see sites like Lemmy, PeerTube, and Mastodon see widespread adoption then the dystopian cyberpunk fever dream in the head of Zuckerburg. Did you not read the novel dude? It's a freaking warning! That's like Jeff Bezos reading Fahrenheit 451 and going "holy crap dude, gotta make that a reality like, yesterday!" I...

retronautickz,

Well the fediverse works. The fediverse is what internet was meant to be, before corporations sized it and made it the nightmare that centralised social media is. The "metaverse" is just Zuckerberg's desperation to maintain his decadent model of social media afloat.

retronautickz,

I mean, there had been news about reddit forcibly removing mods and making private subreddits go public again, so I don't know how many of the subs actually left the protest.

retronautickz,

Ah, so the blackout isn't as "unsuccessful" as he wants people to believe it to be...

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