What is increasingly clear for me in these past few days... In order to get rid of politician like #Netanyahu, you also need to get rid #Hamas, those two feed of each other energies, each conflict bring them closer to power.
Updates to #TheBadSpace have fixed one concern (how many sources?) but surfaced another: the supposed independence of the "trusted sources". Here for example: @lunasother dared .art to block them, which they did. Fine.
But apparently, so did 3-4 other (supposedly unrelated) admins as well.
What good is a "consensus" system if half the voters are acting in lock-step?
I wonder if the increasing #fediblock drama nowadays is a signal that #blocklists has reached its peak utility as a #safety tool (for average users) and the more instances added to a centralised shared blocklist will eventually lead to #fedidrama over false-positives or even smear campaign which make #fediverse toxic, and becoming unhealhty for its users
I think this is the time for people who are maintaining ANY shared blocklist to grow a pair and make shared #whitelists instead
this is nice, new #fulltextsearch will include the exclusion operator with (-) for example ". -has:link -has:media" in search will only fetch text only results, and exclude any posts with links and images/ videos/ audios.
Yeah good point by @cendawanita about permissions (or lack thereabouts) for #kbin et al to scrape the #fediverse and put posts/toots into magazines. It feels like so many #Mastodon admins are blind to how the fediverse beyond Masto software & the Masto API actually works.
Seeing such folks write lengthy posts about defederating Masto instances running Vyr's search patch while the rest of the fedi has #FullTextSearch and the #Threadiverse scrapes it with next to no backlash. It's like folks don't know that there's a bigger problem with #ActivityPub re #privacy and #safety than Website Boy's latest antics, and we need to push for #FediverseSafety and privacy flags at a ActivityPub protocol level. Until then, everything is just a non-binding, non-enforceable agreement about cultural norms that there's seems no consensus on; and definitely no focus on minority safety, rather features some will claim are wanted by a majority.
@jo@cendawanita I agree this is mostly one level higher problem (at the protocol) rather than software implementation or etiquette/norm issue
The software boy/gal will try as they might to create some kind of privacy shielding around #activitypub weakness, but at the end it will be leaky as hell... privacy can only be applied (if and only if) the protocol supporting it in the first place, no amounts of social pressure or dev pull request will fix this deep state problem 😔
Exclusive list(s) feature on #mastodon 4.2 (beta) is super useful, once i excluded all my followings to another tab(s), now my home feed is only for #hashtags i followed, kinda like mini-federated feed (firehose)
I guess this explains why #ElonMusk was going moonbat crazy earlier. #Threads has sprinted past 100 million users in less than a week, & #Twitter’s traffic is dropping—fast!
@john@bornach@darnell it means there are no two sides on this, if they implemented activitypub standard as they promised, third party app and its devs will also reap benefits
what worse than a corporate collecting and selling your data?
corporate that wants you to think #privacy is a comodity, like Apple try to sell you idea that of their brand is somewhat associated with privacy, the only place to guard your data, they twisted the idea of privacy and makes a mockery of it....
it's your god given right to a privacy, not something you should buy on the market
@maxleibman more to the point, corporate should protect our privacy not because the consumer paying them to do so, but because the law commanded them to do so.
@maxleibman we trusted our data to them because we trust they will obey the rules/laws, and I hope it won't be because we buy/pay them enough not to sell our pictures in the clouds
Reply+Reboost that's my answer when people are looking for equivalent of #QRT-ing on #mastodon
your opinion doesn't need to supersede others, you don't need to be the center of attention at ALL TIME, if you think OP's opinion is controversial ask for clarification and/or correction, give your opinion/input in the replies, passive aggressiveness leads to nowhere but bigger conflict.