Hi!!! I’m a strategist/entrepreneur/software engineer/activist, focusing on the intersection of justice, equity, and software engineering. I've been on the fediverse for a long time and am currently checking out /KBin. @jdp23 is my main account on Mastodon, and I also run @nexusofprivacy
/kbin server update - or how the server didn't blow up
Currently, on the main instance, people have created 40191 accounts (+214 marked as deleted). I don't know how many are active because I don't monitor it, but once again, I greet all of you here :) In recent days, the traffic on the website has been overwhelming. It's definitely too much for the basic docker-compose setup,...
r/Blind's Meetings with Reddit and the Current Situation Regarding Accessibility and API Changes
The following is the text copied from the reddit post in the /r/blind sub reddit....
Call to action - renewed protests starting on July 1st (www.reddit.com)
The latest from /r/ModCoord.
banning and defederating communities
Hey all, I recently left reddit like many of you. I have a question regarding lemmy and the fediverse on the history of banning and defederation. I have noticed several posts calling for varying communities to be disconnected. were these removal requests as prevalent before the mass migration? Usually I am all for communities...
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....
A lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data,' including medical records and information about children, to train ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)
The lawsuit alleges OpenAI crawled the web to amass huge amounts of data without people's permission.
Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things KBin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon (privacy.thenexus.today)
The fediverse has always grown in waves and we're at the start of one. It's worth looking at what tactics worked well in the past, to use them again or adapt them and build on them. It's also valuable to look at what went wrong or didn't work out as well in the past, to see if there are ways to do better....
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview (www.theverge.com)
“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.” Or so he says. Also:...
Eight days later: KBin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of the "threadiverse" (DRAFT) (privacy.thenexus.today)
Draft! Work in Progress! Feedback welcome!...
Which Lemmy instances are anti-corporation?
Concerning the current debate on Meta, I‘m a bit concerned over where I should make my home. I don‘t want corporations to intrude and ruin my just newly found space of freedom. They would just offer "help" and then centralise and privatise and infest it with ads, data collection and profit motive. I need to search for the...
Project92 and the Fediverse - A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web (www.timothychambers.net)
With the upcoming #meta #Project92 Fediverse service, this is a plan to fight smarter in how to both protect our users, and how to be better battle plan to protect the Open Social Web.
Thoughts on doing activism on kbin or Lemmy?
I'm working on an activism campaign kicking off next week opposing some bad internet bills in the US -- here's the magazine I just set up. Once things get going, we'll be sharing links there including information and actions people can take....
Can the Fediverse Help Stop Bad Internet Bills? (wedistribute.org)
A slew of bad internet bills are being pushed through the US Legislature. Can we look to the Fediverse to carry activist causes?
How well does /kbin work with screenreaders and keyboard-only navigation?
Blind redditors, and others who use assistive technology, rely on third-party apps so are looking around for alternatives. Is /kbin currently a good match for them?
Beehaw's mod tool needs (Useful for KBin as well) - Discuss Online (discuss.online)
Beehaw's moderators have a good post listing the tooling needs -- all of which make a lot of sense to me. Definitely worth looking at these for kbin as well!