Notices by Shoq (shoq@mastodon.social)

My gripe with @o_simardcasanova’s thread is his grievance seems predicated on the assumption that the Fediverse should be an “equivalent” to Big Social, which by its nature, must play to Big Capital. Who ever said it should be that? He wants that, and that’s fine. Let BlueSky and Threads support the masses with Big Social, post-Musk. The Fediverse can serve those who benefit those masses with productive ideas, discourse, and leadership.

It wasn’t journalists, tech bros, and influencers who made the Internet a thing. It was librarians, scientists, educators, and programmers.

Oh look, journalism!

That’s a pretty potent group of notables. Any other takeaways to share from the confab?

While was a proponent of Threads in the fediverse, I was never convinced that some fears were not valid. And there was a deep dread that if those fears we realized, it would be all but impossible to reverse the damage. Meta is just too big, too powerful, and too fucking evil. There, I’ve said it.

@pixelfed That’s absurd. It’s more than notable enough. They are typically more specific about what the article needs. Sounds like someone doesn’t like Pixelfed. Have you pursued all the standard dispute protocols already?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution#:~:text=Respond%20to%20all%20disputes%20or,and%20always%20assume%20good%20faith.

This makes me very happy. Since Firefox still doesn’t support the Chrome V3 manifest, this gives people who are disgusted with Chrome a good option for using our extension. (coming soon, we swear).

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https://mastodon.social/@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net/112156405209985880

@Gargron well that’s a pretty effective tease 😄

@Gargron @w3c Is there any good reason why they can’t do both? Are their personal feed algos able to operated efficiently enough via AP if they want to enough?

@Gargron @taylorlorenz OiC, only the first time. I suppose that might help in some contexts, but in my experience, it’s just as likely to give the “reply-guy” more to work with when composing their snark or insult. Still, kudos for any and all experiments.

@Gargron @taylorlorenz I get the intent. But are you suggesting that some keywords or algo forces the replier to read the bio before their post is accepted? ExTwitter has been injecting some of those behaviorial intercepts now. But they seem far more annoying than effective at calming down the reply tonality.

@Gargron @taylorlorenz I applaud some promising ideas here, but I get nervous when I see things like “we can prevent some awkward situations, such as explaining something to an expert in a given field.” While the intent is clear, how are you going to implement that. Who will be the expertise referees? Who decides when an actor’s credentials are even relevant or appropriate to a given context.

@Gargron “Your” chair? I hope you have have receipts, because with cats possession is always 9/10ths of the law.

@Gargron You did vet her carefully, right? :)

So IBM draws a line at Nazis. Good to know.

Leaving Twitter — Benedict Evans
“I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be posting at all for the foreseeable future”

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/10/23/leaving-twitter

@Gargron When I mute a conversation or actor on Xitter or Bluesky, a reload will redact their posts from timelines and notifications. But here, that only happens when I mute actor, not just the offending thread. Is this a known issue?

@Gargron Great, if I heard right that’s almost the same number that bluesky got in the same time frame. I’ll take the tie as a win 😄

@Gargron Good news. What was the net gain ?

@Gargron Yeah, I explained that, but in her case, it’s for “media literacy” courses and they’d have to hand pick sources to create a sanitized environment. The cost of that would be prohibitive, unless done on a county or other regional basis. It’s yet another challenge.