Notices by Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca), page 3

So, here's a problem I have with Mastodon: let's say I make a post and someone replies with a racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic comment. I can block the commenter, but that only hides it for me. Other people who come to my page will see the comment, and believe that I tacitly condone that behaviour. I'd like to be able to delete the reply from my replies list entirely. Or at least hide replies from blocked accounts. And, yes, I know that wouldn't delete it from the originating server.

@fraying The outlines of real communities rarely line up with the boundaries of social networking apps. The whole point of federation is that I can connect with people I care about across software and service boundaries.

@mike wowowow! Great news!

I refuse to believe that the only way Israeli citizens can be safe is if the 2.2M Palestinians in Gaza are killed or expelled. I will never, ever concede that point.

@aral I'm now a patron! And I'm so glad you exist. Please keep up the great work.

I'm going to be recording on #FLOSSWeekly tomorrow, talking about everything that has happened for me and Open Source in the last 15 years. The last time I was on the show was in 2008, just a few months after identi.ca launched!

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/37

The highpoint of this show is when Leo downloads and installs Laconica (now GNU Social) 0.5 live on the show. Hard to believe that the presence of TWIT on the fediverse all derives from that moment!

So, if I were going to make a tech manifesto, it might be something like:

- protocols not platforms
- coops and unions
- technology should not actively hurt us
- people not users
- seven generations, seven continents
- free markets require antitrust enforcement

@fredbrooker @raccoon this is kind of ageist. Can you break this down in a way that isn't about age?

Very interesting results. I checked the actuarial tables, and it looks like Biden's chances of living to Nov 2024 is about 95%! So I guess we're also pricing in some very low probability outcomes, like impeachment or a primary insurgency.

Things don't look very enthusiastic for Kamala Harris but it also doesn't seem like there's a good reason to replace her.

I think it would be a wild power move for Trump to pick Pence for VP. Like, see? He doesn't mind Jan 6! Neither should you!

The Trump results seem to consider his lawsuits, the 14th amendment, and the other crazy things that could happen. What's weird is that Harris is only getting the same predictions. She's got zero (0) felony charges.

One thing that I don't like about Mastodon is that I can't edit the replies to my post.

So, if someone replies to something I said with a non sequitur, the only way I can remove it is by blocking the replier.

It'd be nice to remove the reply without blocking the replier.

Ultranationalists are already concentrating on the effects of #ClimateChange.

They focus on migration, crime, and war -- all of which are consequences of climate change.

Their "solutions" aren't solar panels and tree planting. They want concentration camps, military-style policing, and offensive wars.

Even if you don't care about the human and natural misery caused by climate change, if you are #AntiFascist, you *must* push for immediate climate mitigation and adaptation now.

Is there a Pittsburgh-based Mastodon instance?

There is literally one (1) example of any company taking an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy (Microsoft, with the Web, in the late 90s). They went through years of antitrust lawsuits for it.

There are zero (0) examples of it ever working. No, not RSS; no, not XMPP.

There are literally millions of examples of companies, individuals, governments and non-profits adopting open standards and making the network, and their services, better.

More ActivityPub makes a better Internet for everyone.

@aral @bengo so, I would like to make iterative changes to the ActivityPub and Activity Streams 2.0 documents that make them easier to read and use for software developers.

I wonder if there are some guardrails we could put on that process that would let us get those benefits to the fediverse without ruining it for everyone.

Here are some thoughts.

@aral @bengo

**Participation**. Ben mentioned this up front. We'd need to make sure that a wide array of people can participate in decision-making; not just representatives of W3C member organisations.

(I think it's noteworthy that W3C members are not all tech companies. Lots of libraries, universities, Open Source foundations, and similar participants. See https://www.w3.org/membership/list/ ).

Keeping most of the work in the CG, and just using WG for limited doc editing, is probably a good idea here.

@aral @bengo **Transparency** I mentioned minutes and meetings. I really like Ben's idea of recorded meetings and automated transcription. Doing other work, like regular public blogging or reporting, might also help a lot.

@aral @bengo last thing would be **Tight scope**. So, backwards compatible, focus on AS2 and AP, not a fishing expedition.

So, one weird thing about parasocial relationships is that people feel familiar enough to make what seems to them to be fun, teasing comments with their Internet pal.

For the person on the other side of the relationship, it's yet another rando with anger issues coming out of the aether to ruin their day.

Don't pretend to be someone you're not -- an angry person, a stupid person -- with people who don't know who you are. They can't tell that you're pretending, and will take you at face value.

@dansup @pixelfed have you written up the spec?