So, over the weekend, I’ve been talking a lot about the need to take Mastdon into a new community-focused direction, so I took time to write down some thoughts.
Spread this far and wide because it’s time for us to do something else.
https://h-i.works/2024/04/a-case-for-community.html
Please feel free to reach out with any questions or comments (in good faith) because this is a convo we need to have.
And I’m ready to get started today.
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#ThandiweNewton #Wednesday #Netflix #Entertainment #Television #TV #Streaming
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was briefly baffled by this CAPTCHA until i realized it was asking me to identify the animal that was bigger than the other animals in the picture, not the animal that, in real life, is bigger than roughly 1cm
we are rapidly approaching the point at which CAPTCHAs clever enough to keep the bots out are too confusing for the humans
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Jenna Ortega's film Winter Spring Summer or Fall will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival (New York) on 6 June 2024.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C53udctpP9F/
#JennaOrtega #WinterSpringSummerOrFall
I love this photo of Helena Gualinga (from her Instagram). She's a human rights and climate activist from Ecuador fighting to stop fossil fuel exploration in the Amazon.
#HelenaGualinga
Sumak Helena Gualinga on Instagram: "Allpa ukuy kawsashaga, takishalla kawsasha 💗 Si viviera dentro de la tierra, viviera solo cantando No hay cómo darle el mismo significado en Hawallaktashimi, Español Pero así viven las raízes y los que son de la ti
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I thought I had posted about her before. Anyway, I like, besides everything she stands for of course, also the contrast between her looking tribal one moment (when at home) and highly fashionable the next (for speaking engagements and such) (the things you have to do to save your land...) but especially how she combines the two.
I found some more photos on her own Instagram that illustrate that point.
Stop mining the Amazon! Protect this woman's land, and actually our whole planet.
#HelenaGualinga
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/14/i-did-all-the-things-an-actor-shouldnt-bridgertons-claudie-jessie-on-class-big-breaks-and-houseboats
#ClaudiaJessie #Bridgerton
‘I did all the things an actor shouldn’t’: Bridgerton’s Claudia Jessie on class, big breaks – and houseboats
Being cast as a scheming toff in the global phenomenon Bridgerton was a surprise for Claudia Jessie. Fiercely proud of her roots, the Brummie talks about etiquette lessons, getting too many tattoos and why working-class actors so often get a rough de…Sam Moore (The Guardian)
I still love this dialogue. The one time I had to do the whole dialogue instead of taking one line out of context for increased mystery:
https://www.tumblr.com/randomlinesfromtvandfilm/176814530117/fran%C3%A7ois-why-resent-your-parents-were-all?source=share
#NoceBlanche #VanessaParadis
Turns out the new Doctor Who companion Varada Sethu will not replace the 'current' one but be in addition to her in the 2025 series. And I say 'current' in quotes because that 2024 series also still has to start for real (in May).
They say she played previously in Hard Sun, which I saw six years ago, so now I've got to try to remember what character that was.
#DoctorWho
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Her showreel is good though. Also helped me remember who she was in Hard Sun. I liked her, I quoted her character back when I was still doing that on Tumblr (now on @randomlinesfromtvandfilm ):
She was also in Doctor Foster in a small role, but I remember liking that one.
Get yourself an actress who can do both...
The new series of Beyond Paradise has a new actress (Melina Sinadinou) that I didn't know before. As you can see in the first photo (from her Instagram) she seems totally my type. Weird is very ok for me... But maybe for others the second photo (her professional headshot from Spotlight by Harry Livingstone) is more conventionally convincing?
They're advertising the series to start on BBC First this Monday 21h00. But it already runs on BBC One and I caught a glimpse. Her character seems interesting and she's worth watching for the acting too.
The Wednesday blu-ray doesn't have the "[barely restrained seething]" subtitle... That's a Netflix-only feature... The disc has the much less inspired "[breath trembling]". It's not all advantages to owning the disc...
I loved how that subtitle captured Jenna's Wednesday.
#Wednesday #JennaOrtega
I can't wait for season two! But I'll have to...
It's a shame Emma didn't get to use her werewolf training this season, maybe next? Wednesday got knocked unconscious a disconcerting amount of times, it's a good thing she has Goody now, might help with the healing.
It's weird how they seemed to have special events every single day, Harvest Festival, Outreach Day, Poe Cup, Raven Dance, Parents Day, etc. Hardly any actual lessons seemed to be happening. Still, instead of more school, I'm hoping for the next season to be set outside the school. And have more Goody Addams, I like a powerful witch.
#Wednesday
This weekend marked 30 years since the start of the Rwandan genocide, one of the darkest chapters in African history.
Some 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were massacred during 100 days of bloodshed by Hutu extremist militias, before rebels from the mostly Tutsi RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) seized the capital and ended the slaughter.
The then RPF rebel commander and now President of Rwanda Paul Kagame, held a ceremony over the weekend, honoring the victims.
One factor of the Rwandan genocide that scholars point out for its critical role in enabling the slaughter, is the dehumanizing rhetoric that targeted the Tutsi people. This was highlighted at the ceremony over the weekend.
I'm trying to wonder how Abiy Ahmed, who made headlines throughout the 2020ies for his dehumanizing rhetoric, referring to his foes as "hyenas," "cancer" or "weeds" in violent public and social media outbursts, must have felt hearing that part.
"Siyad Arts," a pen name for a Somali political cartoonist, one of the most prominent in the Horn of Africa, produced this drawing today and captioned it:
"The irony of it all. Abiy, Ethiopia's dictator and genocider commemorating Rwanda's genocide against the Tutsi while the effects of his own genocide against Tigrayans can still be seen."
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They managed to make geoblocking of films even more irritating: I get a specific mail from Amazon Prime Video, telling me that Finestkind with Jenna Ortega is now available for rent. That's great, because I still want to see it, since Paramount+/SkyShowtime is not carrying that film in my country.
I go to their page, only to be met with the popup that this film is not available in my location.
Then why send me that email?!
Anyway, dear Americans, Finestkind is available for rent in your country!
#Finestkind #JennaOrtega
"We value your privacy" they always say. It's just never followed by an offer indicating just how much they value it.
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#JennaOrtega #MillersGirl
Content warning: Major spoilers for Miller's Girl (2024). Don't read if you haven't seen it.
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/chloe-grace-moretz-dominic-sessa-1235865762/
#ChloëGraceMoretz #OhWhatFun
Corina Bradley's series Hotel Cocaine will be on MGM+ in just over two months.
Miranda Cosgrove's film Mother of the Bride is on Netflix 9 May.
Katie Douglas's film Lazareth is out 10 May.
#CorinaBradley #MirandaCosgrove #KatieDouglas #HotelCocaine #MotherOfTheBride #Lazareth
@StarkRG
That is exactly what it is, thank you. I couldn't find it in the list of channels Amazon was trying to sell me, but it turns out that was (surprise surprise) because I'm already subscribed to it! It used to be called differently, StarzPlay I think, and got renamed.
Now if they only had Paramount+ too in my country like they do in most places...
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The blu-ray for Wednesday arrived today! On Wednesday. Starting my umpteenth watch-through.
With recently the great experience of watching Miller's Girl on the big screen and now eight episodes of brilliance to see, these are really Jenna days...
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
We're getting the full opening credits in episode one. I think on Netflix we only got them on two episodes and not the first one. Or do I misremember?
Edit: I do misremember. Episode two has the shortened opening credits.
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A few years ago I realized that more companies need to let engineers have some money to contribute to OSS. Say a percent or two of their salary that they can give to free software that is used by the company.
This would help fund software, help get rid of the bureaucracy (don't have to justify it, etc), and put the money where it's likely most needed.
They likely know which projects are under funded or critical to the company.
> https://blog.glyph.im/2024/03/software-needs-to-be-more-expensive.html
Deciphering Glyph :: Software Needs To Be More Expensive
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
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> Say a percent or two of their salary that they can give to free software that is used by the company.
think of it like the 401k match and then an additional "benefit" of a few % on top of that which you can direct into open source projects of your choosing? That sounds interesting
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I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
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I was introduced to @craigmaloney via Open Metalcast, an excellent podcast featuring CC works at the heavy guitar end of music, which he put out regularly for many years. I never met Craig in person, yet I feel I knew him and I mourn his passing.
My sincere condolences to his family and everyone who was close to him.
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1021/goodbye-craig-maloney
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Dafne Keen as Jecki Lon in The Acolyte can be seen in these first look photos of the character in Entertainment Weekly, together with an interview where Dafne talks about the character, how she played her, and that the horns made hugging anyone on set a safety hazard.
https://ew.com/star-wars-the-acolyte-exclusive-first-photos-dafne-keen-jecki-lon-8622948
#DafneKeen #TheAcolyte
Also sharing the blog post by Cory Doctorow related to the latest reshared post, since it is in itself interesting and goes beyond the mentioned article, and because the attached thread seems to be broken:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/human-in-the-loop/#monkey-in-the-middle
Interesting insight in what businesses and investors are hoping AI will do and what AI can do and how these don't match.
Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/
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AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do thatThomas Claburn (The Register)
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> Lanyado also said that there was a Hugging Face-owned project that incorporated the fake huggingface-cli, but that was removed after he alerted the biz.
Wonderful…
Update requirements.txt to remove huggingface-cli (#7202) · huggingface/diffusers@56b6845
Internal message: https://huggingface.slack.com/archives/C03Q18WK18T/p1709529892062479GitHub
The fine folks at akkoma released a security update that fixes some things with the diverse ways of putting stuff on your domain (uploads, stolen emoji, mediaproxy). Some of those patches will make it into Pleroma too, but for now:
RUN UPLOADS AND MEDIA PROXY ON A DIFFERENT SUBDOMAIN. That prevents any impersonation issues.
We will drop any support for same-domain setups in the near future, it's just not worth the risk.
Check out the information provided by akkoma for details and more fine grained mitigation steps: https://meta.akkoma.dev/t/akkoma-stable-2024-03-securer-i-barely-know-her/681
Akkoma stable 2024.03 - Securer? I barely know her!
Hey there, quite an important one for you here today. We’ve got ourself a vulnerability and it’s time to make like a tree and patch. Not sure what that means but that’s neither here nor there.Akkoma
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Orphan Black Echoes will be released on 23 June.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5G-RmERHSH/
I'm so surprised by the people in the comments saying they have already seen it last year and are waiting for season two. How? Also this looks like it's US only, so I won't be able to see it?
#OrphanBlack #OrphanBlackEchoes
Mathilde Grünig
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •hey, I would love to contribute!
As being based in EU, it can be easy for me to act as a point of contact to interact with potential fundings that wouldn’t be available for US citizens or US-led projects. It’s quite easy to establish a non-profit and gather recurring donations with something like OpenCollective.
I’m no developer but I have a good understanding of what privacy is, how it must be done and I can also help with technical design (and financial support) of hosting infrastructures.
There is a few things written on my little homepage about all this: https://mathilde.eu.org
Mathilde Grünig
mathilde.eu.orgSecret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •If you like Mastodon how it is, that’s fine. This is not for you.
This is for people who are uncomfortable with the direction Mastodon is going and want to contribute financially, technically, philosophically, etc, to a new direction for that project to give the current Mastodon populace another option.
Because I think we’ve been patient enough with that project. It’s time to try something else.
Orion Ussner kidder
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •I have a question about the "hard fork" aspect of this. Would it be interoperable with Mastodon? I've built a good community here, and I wouldn't want to lose it.
I have zero technical expertise and little experience organizing something like this, but I will happily donate to the project, partly just to see what you all come up with!
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Orion Ussner kidder • • •@OrionKidder Yes. The main goal is to improve the Mastodon code base for people who are currently using Mastodon so they can migrate to a better option while keeping their communities intact.
Many improvements can be made, but the current leadership has rejected them.
My goal is to remove that bottleneck and make those improvements for the people efficiently.
Ha, and I appreciate the financial support. It will be a lot of work, and I will need to hire help to get through it.
Orion Ussner kidder
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •You have my support! I'm going over there right now and toss you some money. I assume you'll keep us updated on progress from this account?
And tap me if you need bodies to do anything that a non-tech can help with. I do have some in-person organizing experience from my union days.
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Orion Ussner kidder • • •@OrionKidder I appreciate it.
And there will be a few ways to stay updated. I’m going to make a new social media account for the project. I’ll probably talk about it on my personal Patreon and Ko-Fi, and there is going to be a chat room for everyone involved with the project.
I’ll most likely need help with that. My role is to provide the infrastructure and organize resources so the fork can move at a steady pace while putting some coin in people’s pockets, so I could use some specialized knowledge to facilitate all that.
Orion Ussner kidder
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in reply to Orion Ussner kidder • • •Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Orion Ussner kidder • • •@OrionKidder As far as Eugen the person goes, I don’t know him and I don’t have a problem with him. He can do what he wants and he should be given credit for starting it.
My differences are professional, focusing on his poor decision making and stewardship of the project.
As a pro, it should be further along than it is, especially with all the support it recieves.
I’ve tried to impress this upon him in the past, but he doesn’t listen.
So it’s time to do something else.
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in reply to Cykonot • • •allissa the proven :butterfly_trans::butterfly_lesbian:
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •would you be contributing as much of these changes to upstream? or are all changed going to remain in the hard fork? i.e. the mentioned accessibility changes
nevertheless, cool to see more alternatives from upstream and soft forks
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in reply to allissa the proven :butterfly_trans::butterfly_lesbian: • • •@itzzen The main project has been historically resistant to the changes I am proposing, which is the reason for the hard fork.
I don’t mind porting the code over if one desires, but the point of the hard fork is to get these features in and up so people can use them in a reasonable amount of time without them languishing forever under consideration or just outright rejected because they don’t match the goals of the project.
The Gibson
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Good luck Ro!
We are looking at a similar effort over here as well, thinking about starting anew though without the technical debt mastodon brings to the table.
Seriously, I wish you all the luck with this, and maybe we'll see the opportunity to collab somewhere down the road.
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to The Gibson • • •@thegibson I appreciate that.
I think that’s a worthy endeavor, but I feel strongly about not abandoning all the people who use Mastodon right now.
Someone has to do that work and improve the Mastodon codebase for the sake of long-term viability for many current instances because migrating to something else just isn’t feasible.
I agree it’s going to be an ugly job, but the result of it can spark a fediwide cultural shift.
I think that’s worth a few weeks of untangling some yarn.
The Gibson
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •I don't think it's a bad thing at all... a fine endeavor.
and frankly, one we are still debating over as well.
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to The Gibson • • •@thegibson I am very open to collaboration.
The more bodies and resources we have, the less grating it will be.
I don’t mind managing the effort because I have the infrastucture in place, but it’s going to be a team effoft.
The Gibson
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Same... exactly the same.
I love seeing multiple efforts cranking up though, gives me hope that something new and better can come of this.
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to The Gibson • • •@thegibson I honestly believe it’s closer than we think.
We just gotta organize it.
ember, maybe :catplant:
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to ember, maybe :catplant: • • •@Ember Me too.
It’s been a long time coming and past due at the same time.
The Laughing Muse
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •I'm willing to help out, but for the next six months I'm concentrating on immigrating. (Yeah, I know. So much for helping.)
This is a very good idea, though. The fediverse is all kinds of software, not just Mastodon. (I'm on Misskey.) And while it's good that people & communities can create their own Mastodon servers where they can set and enforce the moderation guidelines, that's not 100% safety if Mastodon opens up to MetaBad and X-crement and lets them climb in and tinker with the guts/user data.
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to The Laughing Muse • • •@thelaughingmuse Ha, well, just let me know when you have time.
There needs to be different versions of Mastodon because this one-size-fits-all just isn’t a feasible proposition for a diverse and global environment.
I’m hoping once I get my project up and running, it will be forked and customized a million times so we have multiple options for deciding what kind of space we want.
FediThing 🏳️🌈
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Really glad to see stuff happening on hard forking. 👏
Will there be a dedicated account and site for your fork? So that people new to it can get up to speed on it?
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
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Unknown parent • • •cyborgneticz
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Tech illiterate question.
I fully agree with all of the problems and resolutions you've laid out, but I don't quite understand what a hard fork is
Would this be a situation where an instance itself could migrate, or would you need to make new instances and migrate over that way?
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to cyborgneticz • • •@Cyborgneticz A hard fork is a codebase that disconnects from original project. For example, Akkoma is a hard fork (thank goodness) from Pleroma. The codebases are similar but have fundamental points of divergence.
The goal is that current instances will be able to migrate to the new hard fork, so they can keep their communities intact while updating their overall experience in ways that differ from the main Masto project.
cyborgneticz
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Gotcha that makes a lot of sense!
Thank you for explaining it to me, when I was looking it up I kept getting crypto examples which made me very confused
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in reply to cyborgneticz • • •cyborgneticz
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Lmao exactly, I knew you weren't that type of person so figured I should just ask
I really hope you get the support and backing you need to get this going! As Meta and all that shows up, we need an alternative
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to cyborgneticz • • •@Cyborgneticz We really do.
And Masto itself can be so much better than what it is right now.
cyborgneticz
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to cyborgneticz • • •@Cyborgneticz Yeah, when it’s up and running, I hope it kicks off a bunch of projects that give us different flavors that people can migrate to.
It’s just time for more variety.
KemoNine
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if youre looking for a concrete example with 'some time' on it:
the forgejo (https://forgejo.org/) spit from gitea is a good example of what a proper hard fork would look like in the general sense
c/ @are0h
Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.
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in reply to KemoNine • • •:gay: zetta :transknife:
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to :gay: zetta :transknife: • • •@june It’s time for a change, ma’am.
Ha, way past time to be honest.
Exiled New Yorker - Connie
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Exiled New Yorker - Connie • • •@Pagan_Animist That is a very kind thing to say, thank you.
I just believe we are a bit of effort away from a better fedi.
We just have to organize it.
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Unknown parent • • •@Frances_Larina @tobi I’d say it’s ironic that someone with BLM in their bio wants to speculate about colonizers by responding to the other white person in this exchange and ignoring the question I posed before.
Which is, you know, something bigots do in an attempt to create divisions.
Comrade Kip Van Den Bos 🐔🌳
Unknown parent • • •Frances Larina
in reply to Comrade Kip Van Den Bos 🐔🌳 • • •Mostly I was thinking about the discussions and research into whether it was intrinsic or brought/enforced by colonizers.
Philip Mallegol-Hansen
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Philip Mallegol-Hansen • • •@philip That’s the beauty of the hard fork.
People who can make a contribution, whether technical, financial, ideological, etc, will have the opportunity to do so.
Of course, there is the question of community standards, organizing priorities, and managing a forum for input. However, engaging in this process in and of itself lessens the possibility of a small handful of people controlling the direction.
A social media platform should be social from the top to bottom.
Otherwise, we’re just replicating the same mistakes from centralized platforms.
Jupiter Rowland
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •@Secret Right Wing Cult Leader The only way in which Mastodon is "forward-thinking" is in how to a) cosy up to even bigger players, b) railroad all Fediverse newbies not only onto Mastodon, but into the official silo and making it hard to escape from it and c) hide the rest of the Fediverse from Mastodon users' eyes or, if that fails, make it look bad and broken to them.
Otherwise, Mastodon is the most lack-lustre, underwhelming and actually out-dated of all Fediverse projects. The only reason why it's so "popular" is because 99.9% of all Fediverse newbies and at least 50% of all no-longer-newbie Mastodon users don't know that there's anything else in the Fediverse, much less what this "anything else" has to offer. Oh, and because it's so hard to move away from it unless you want to start from scratch.
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... show more@Secret Right Wing Cult Leader The only way in which Mastodon is "forward-thinking" is in how to a) cosy up to even bigger players, b) railroad all Fediverse newbies not only onto Mastodon, but into the official silo and making it hard to escape from it and c) hide the rest of the Fediverse from Mastodon users' eyes or, if that fails, make it look bad and broken to them.
Otherwise, Mastodon is the most lack-lustre, underwhelming and actually out-dated of all Fediverse projects. The only reason why it's so "popular" is because 99.9% of all Fediverse newbies and at least 50% of all no-longer-newbie Mastodon users don't know that there's anything else in the Fediverse, much less what this "anything else" has to offer. Oh, and because it's so hard to move away from it unless you want to start from scratch.
@tallship and @The Nexus of Privacy are already proposing a hard fork whose goal it is to pry Mastodon and its users away from Rochko's attempts at building a new walled garden.
So two things I suggest a hard fork like Awujo to have are:
These should be basics.
Another thing that has just come to my mind: Implement full HTML rendering for posts so that Awujo can even display elaborate blog posts in all their glory, arbitrary number of embedded images and all. And then stop reducing Article-type objects to links. This is something that Rochko staunchly refuses to add, one of the major reasons why Friendica and Hubzilla creator and (streams) maintainer @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️ and current Hubzilla maintainer @Mario Vavti, as well as the Hubzilla and (streams) user communities, are so disgruntled about Mastodon.
Speaking of Mike Macgirvin: Follow him. Follow closely what he's working on. As said above, he is the creator and maintainer of the streams repository which has 14 years of work behind it. And he is currently working on stuff that could revolutionise the whole Fediverse: nomadic identity based only on ActivityPub without having to resort to Zot or Nomad, nomadic identity across different Fediverse projects, (streams)-level permission control for ActivityPub.
The latter would provide the "better safety tools" on a level unknown to the Fediverse unless you know Hubzilla or (streams). The former two would make the dream of one identity across Fediverse projects come true and make it resilient against instance shutdowns.
Both, all by themselves, are concepts that have been implemented some four years before Mastodon was launched. What's new is only that they're being ported to ActivityPub, having required different protocols until now.
Of course, from a developer's POV, the easiest way would be to hard-fork Mastodon into nothing more than an alternative UI theme for (streams) and, ideally, write a new doc for (streams) itself once its current backend redesign is done. But even if Mastodon's UI is kept unchanged as much as possible, the backend would work so radically differently from Mastodon that the whole UX would confuse the hell out of those who thought that the Fediverse is only Mastodon and only Twitter-style microblogging ten minutes earlier.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Fork
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Codeberg.orgSecret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Jupiter Rowland • • •@jupiter_rowland Ha, well don't you have a lot to say?
You seem to have a grudge against Mastodon, and I have no interest in entertaining that.
I'm aware of those projects.
I'll take some of the points you make under advisement.
Jupiter Rowland
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Greetings from a project from before Mastodon that has never had any character limits and thus doesn't have character limits in its culture.
This isn't too atypical in my corner of the Fediverse. It comes from Mastodon not only deliberately limiting itself, but deliberately and apparently intentionally making itself incompatible to the rest of the Fediverse. It even makes its users believe first that Rochko invented the Fediverse, and Mastodon is either the Fediverse proper or the one and only Fediverse standard.
But if there's someone who really holds a grudge, it's Mike. Read this commentary of his, for example. And I can understand him.
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Mike Macgirvin 🖥️ commented "Article vs. Note vs. Page"
fediversity.siteSecret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Jupiter Rowland • • •@jupiter_rowland Ha, you seem very proud of not having character limits. Good for you.
Again, I’m not interested in grudges against Mastodon.
I'm interested in the future.
Jupiter Rowland
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •@Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
As long as this future will acknowledge and embrace the rest of the Fediverse instead of walling itself up against it and pretending it isn't there...
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Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Jupiter Rowland • • •@jupiter_rowland A lot of the fedi is unsafe for people who don't look like you, so I understand people's hesitancy to explore the larger fedi.
If the larger fedi wants to be embraced, it's going to have to deal with that reality.
Jupiter Rowland
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •@Secret Right Wing Cult Leader And parts of the Fediverse are actually safer than Mastodon or any Mastodon hard-fork could ever hope to be.
That's not because they're devoid of white cishet males, but that's because they've got advanced anti-harassment, anti-stalking, anti-just-about-everything-unpleasant countermeasures that have been developed, advanced, evolved for longer than Mastodon itself, and that go way beyond not only what Mastodon has now, but even what minorities want to have on Mastodon.
Again: Follow @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️. Read what he has to say.
Yes, he's a privileged white cishet male living in a fairly wealthy country with a Western culture. But he's the only one who is working on actually making the Fediverse safer. And he has been successfully doing that since when Eugen Rochko was still a school kid. This
... show more@Secret Right Wing Cult Leader And parts of the Fediverse are actually safer than Mastodon or any Mastodon hard-fork could ever hope to be.
That's not because they're devoid of white cishet males, but that's because they've got advanced anti-harassment, anti-stalking, anti-just-about-everything-unpleasant countermeasures that have been developed, advanced, evolved for longer than Mastodon itself, and that go way beyond not only what Mastodon has now, but even what minorities want to have on Mastodon.
Again: Follow @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️. Read what he has to say.
Yes, he's a privileged white cishet male living in a fairly wealthy country with a Western culture. But he's the only one who is working on actually making the Fediverse safer. And he has been successfully doing that since when Eugen Rochko was still a school kid. This guy has been developing software since before Rochko was even born. So I guess it's pretty safe to assume that he is competent and experienced, and he knows what he's doing.
Yes, he holds a grudge against Mastodon. But he also points out that, no, Mastodon is not the safest possible place in the Fediverse.
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Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Jupiter Rowland • • •@jupiter_rowland This is hypothetical, as you cannot say what is safe or not for people like me.
I already told you I'm familiar with his work.
And I did not say Mastodon was the safest. What I did say is that I understand why people are hesitant to explore the larger fedi.
If we're going to talk, you need to listen to what I am saying instead of pushing your bias.
I'm open to whatever, but your anger towards Mastodon is of no interest to me as I have no loyalty to it.
You need to adjust your approach because you're coming off as every other sanctimonious white dude I deal with in this space.
And that's a poor way of showing how your part of the fedi is allegedly safer.
Jupiter Rowland
in reply to Secret Right Wing Cult Leader • • •@Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
Okay, basic question: What is your idea of safety?
That's because a common implication towards members of minorities who have fled from Twitter to Mastodon is that everything that isn't Mastodon is potentially chock-full of racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, fascist subhumans who are just waiting for their next victim. And Mastodon is the only place guaranteed to be safe for them.
I mean, it's understandable. I guess what they're looking for primarily is a place where there simply is nobody who'd harass them. Guaranteed.
Mastodon appears to be just that to them, what with how welcoming it is in general, and how the vast majority of users is ve
... show more@Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
Okay, basic question: What is your idea of safety?
That's because a common implication towards members of minorities who have fled from Twitter to Mastodon is that everything that isn't Mastodon is potentially chock-full of racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, fascist subhumans who are just waiting for their next victim. And Mastodon is the only place guaranteed to be safe for them.
I mean, it's understandable. I guess what they're looking for primarily is a place where there simply is nobody who'd harass them. Guaranteed.
Mastodon appears to be just that to them, what with how welcoming it is in general, and how the vast majority of users is very left-wing. At the same time, they know exactly zilch about the rest of the Fediverse, maybe except a few names they happen to catch. So they don't know if it's safe.
Well, and if someone like me comes along and throws into the room the fact that just about everything in the Fediverse that isn't Mastodon has quote-posts built in, it doesn't exactly make the rest of the Fediverse look sympathetic, now, does it? After all, they associate quote-posts with harassment. So what motivation would a Fediverse project have to implement them, seeing as Mastodon has so staunchly refused to do so until recently?
So it's a purely pragmatic approach because Mastodon is what your target audience is used to, and you simply don't want them to re-learn everything again?
Maybe in combination with taking Mastodon away from the GmbH, the Inc., the self-imposed "this is what microblogging is" restrictions and the "we are the Fediverse" attitude? For this part sounds sympathetic if it's done right.
See, I'm looking at the Fediverse differently from most other Fediverse users. I'm looking at it from a mostly technological point of view. Also, my first contact with the Fediverse was not Mastodon. It was Friendika before it was renamed, and that was in 2011. So my experiences are different, especially technological experiences.
When I'm looking for solutions for Fediverse problems, it's only natural that I look beyond Mastodon first and foremost.
And seeing how Mastodon treats the rest of the Fediverse, especially the projects from the years before Mastodon's own launch, I can impossibly not be biased.
Well, I could rattle down the permission settings available on Hubzilla, including which options you have, and then tell you that (streams) goes even beyond that. But I guess that isn't what you want to read either.
If you're looking for a social or cultural solution, I'm not the one to discuss that with.
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Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Jupiter Rowland • • •@jupiter_rowland Based on your unending assumptions, constant racist references to ‘minorities’ as a monolithic group and speculating what they need based on absolutely nothing, and your constant need to tell me how much you believe you know about the fedi, it’s pretty clear you are not the person I need to be talking to.
Be well.
Secret Right Wing Cult Leader
in reply to Jupiter Rowland • • •@jupiter_rowland And trying to tell ‘minorities’ what they want is not the direction you want to.
You need to step back, take a breath, and think about what you're trying to accomplish here.
Daniel 🗽 Underway subway app
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