tchambers

@tchambers@indieweb.social

Technologist, writer, admin of indieweb.social. Fascinated by how new politics impacts technology and vice versa. #fedi22 #indieweb #fediverse

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atomicpoet, to Pixelfed

To me, @pixelfed’s new comment controls are an incredibly big deal, and something I’ve been pleading for Fediverse developers to implement.

It was always a big oversight that, while Fediblock exists, you’ve never been able to control comment permissions. This has created unfortunate situations where, when harassment and dogpiling suddenly happen, there’s little the original poster can do about it.

Well, this will soon change.

@dansup has pioneered comment controls and we can all use as a model to build a safer .

Thank you to Pixelfed for this big step in community safety!

@fediversenews

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/pixelfed/statuses/110610994877181313

rysiek, to random
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Ah yes, the mythical "hackers", always responsible for any and all evils related to computers.

Corporate espionage?
Nah, "hackers".

NSA? GRU?
Nah, "hackers".

Illegal police operation?
Nope! "Hackers".

A kid who happens to know how to open their browser devtools?
Definitely "hackers!"

I can't roll my eyes far enough. 🙄

malin,
@malin@dice.camp avatar

@rysiek

> Your porn name is the name of your first pet, and your social security number.

  • seems legit
  • definitely not hackers
dansup, to random
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

The @pixelfed app TestFlight beta has reached max capacity (10k unique users)

Never expected this, my primary goal for the next month is to release the official iOS app!

Let’s go 🚀

chrismessina, to random
@chrismessina@mastodon.xyz avatar

Instagram's Threads has changed its logo from the italic version of Instagram Sans (in the colored image) to the standard '@' character.

https://about.instagram.com/brand/type

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atomicpoet, (edited ) to random

My standpoint is that, not only should all social software support ActivityPub, it should be required by law.

Further to that, all social software should have an account migration path towards and away from it.

No, I’m not saying all servers should federate with each other. What I am saying is that it should be impossible for any one server software to monopolize the network effect.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/users/evan/statuses/110606024253857339

laurenshof,

@erlend @atomicpoet @Rushkoff currently 4 out of 10 of the most popular Bluesky posts of the last 24 hours are twitter clips/dunks, and a fifth post is complaining about it. So yeah this tracks lol

mastodonmigration, to internet
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

6/26 (1)

"It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.” — Barack Obama

Clearinghouse for reasoned discourse on all sides of discussion.

ploum.net @ploum: How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) >>> https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Tim Chambers @tchambers: Project92 and the Fediverse - A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web >>> https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html

1/5

mastodonmigration,
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

6/26 (5)

"Unity is strength. . . when there is teamwork, communication and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.” — Mattie Stepanek

Daring Fireball @daringfireball (John Gruber @gruber) More on Preemptively Blocking Facebook’s Imminent ActivityPub Entry >>> https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/more_on_preemptively_blocking

Tim Chambers @tchambers#Project92, the Fediverse: (First Time? Part 2) >>> https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/25/project-the-fediverse.html

5/5

Mer__edith, to random
@Mer__edith@mastodon.world avatar

This is perhaps the longest, and realest, podcast I've recorded on "AI" and the work its doing to expand and entrench Big Tech power. And I couldn't have done it with a more brilliant and humane crew!

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/ai-hype-machine-w-meredith-whittaker-ed-ongweso-and-sarah-west/

augieray, to random
@augieray@mastodon.social avatar

Study: In the first two years of the pandemic, the US saw an estimated 1,179,024 excess deaths. While it struck large metropolitan Northeastern counties early, "nonmetropolitan Southern counties had the highest cumulative relative excess mortality by July 2021." In other words, Republican, rural areas most likely to deny the risks, reject the vaccine and refuse to wear masks.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf9742

laurenshof, to random

I just clicked on a lemmy link (accessed via 3rd party client) to a pixelfed video which was a reupload of a tiktok which was a screenclip of a video podcast

sam,

@laurenshof @tchambers Screenshot that and post it to Facebook

erlend,
@erlend@writing.exchange avatar

@laurenshof table-stakes interoperability is quite simply functional link embeds, which BlueSky and Mastodon/ActivityPub could surely support both ways without any major complications.

chrismessina, to random
@chrismessina@mastodon.xyz avatar

Only paying/verified Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to highlight content on their profiles.

"You must be verified to highlight posts on your profile."

w3c, to random
@w3c@w3c.social avatar

We've got a new look! "New W3C website deployed" Coralie Mercier noted: "this is a milestone of the “action item” I took over 4 years ago to communicate more effectively what our organization does with a more modern, inclusive, usable website." See more:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/new-w3c-website-deployed/

dimillian, to random
@dimillian@mastodon.social avatar

This new UI on the web is really nice. Definitely emphasis profile with verified links.

dimillian,
@dimillian@mastodon.social avatar

I literally forgot that @IceCubesApp do it like that. Maybe I should truncate the bio in the search tho.

dansup, to fediverse
@dansup@mastodon.social avatar

I know I’ve mentioned it a lot, but it still blows my mind how well the spam detection service works in @pixelfed

When your platform is based on photo sharing, it’s much easier to notice spam in timelines, and also harder to detect spam.

I look forward to sharing some groundbreaking ways we are working on improving this in the coming days!

Who would’ve thought the php project that took forever to federate would later become a pioneer in so many ways 😉

w3c, to random
@w3c@w3c.social avatar

📆 26-28 September 2023 Rescheduled!
"W3C Virtual Workshop on Secure the Web Forward"
"We aim to develop a comprehensive picture and roadmap to address the challenges Web developers face in ensuring their applications are secure"
https://www.w3.org/news/2023/upcoming-w3c-virtual-workshop-on-secure-the-web-forward/

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

"All social software should support ActivityPub."

#EvanPoll #poll

evan,
@evan@cosocial.ca avatar

Interesting results! I am a "strongly agree".

All software that is going to federate should support ActivityPub. It is the standard for social network federation.

All social software should federate.

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

My friends and colleagues @mlinksva and @cwebber and others at Creative Commons worked on an RDF vocabulary for Creative Commons licenses.

https://creativecommons.org/ns

We should probably work on having better support for that vocabulary in ActivityPub servers, and figure out what finer-grained permissions there are.

Contrary to using Twitter or Facebook, you didn't agree to an End User License Agreement for the social web. Your rights here should be pretty broad.

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, to random
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social avatar

AC / DC

ChrisShort, to random
@ChrisShort@hachyderm.io avatar

Suggested Read: Apple adds passkeys to Apple ID, iCloud logins https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/06/apple-adds-passkeys-to-apple-id-icloud-logins/

Bloonface, to mastodon
@Bloonface@mastodon.social avatar

Well.

I have closed my public instance, finecity.social, binned my account there and moved back to mastodon.social. My bots will keep running on calckey.bloonface.com but I won't use that site for anything else any more.

I have fallen out of love with #Mastodon and #fedi in a big way, I don't intend to use it much any more. The past couple of weeks has crystallised that this isn't really a platform I like much.

#fedimeta #mastometa

Bloonface,
@Bloonface@mastodon.social avatar

@ischrankthekids @eric @Tchambers @tchambers Here is Tim's article https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html

Here for comparison is my article on Fedi which says most of the same things about Fedi that Tim does about XMPP: https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/why-did-the-twittermigration-fail/

There's another commonality neither of us mention: a significant group of diehards bitter about the fact that their chosen solution is an also-ran, and willing to blame absolutely everything and everyone except a) themselves and b) the solution itself

DataDrivenMD, to random
@DataDrivenMD@fedified.com avatar

For I released a feature-packed version of Fedified's friendly fork of the Elk Mastodon client, which makes it easier to discover great accounts and fresh content by adding a section featuring:

  • "Who to follow" (based on existing relationships)
  • Fediverse-wide Trends

Check it out, at https://felk.social

Note: you may have to do a "hard" reload/close-reopen browser windows for the update to appear

This will become a 🧵 with more details and answers to FAQs throughout the day

Screenshot of https://felk.social highlighting additional features within the Content Discovery panel: Fediverse-wide Trending Posts and Trending Tags

erlend,
@erlend@writing.exchange avatar

@DataDrivenMD any chance the client-side parts of this can be upstreamed to @elk as optional features?

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