Notices by Erin Kissane (kissane@mas.to)

Welp.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-fiatjaf-nostr-donation-2024-6

(https://archive.ph/uXdXN#selection-2141.0-2157.353)

A few weeks back I encountered a FOSS guy here explaining that when he sees open source devs ask for money, he blocks them and then stops using their code because they're morally wrong and he only wants to work with tools made by people who are doing the work for the right reasons. (I'm paraphrasing to avoid indexing the post.)

I've resisted writing about it because I'm slammed, but the question I can't shake is: Who benefits from the ideology of "pure" volunteerism?

If you want to read long internal Meta email chains that amount to "Adam Mosseri feels there's a big gap between 'perceived' harm and actual technical violations and "Mark Zuckerberg declines to fund any work on improving known and terrible Meta performance on abusive everything" this is a "fun" read

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/13124metadocuments.pdf

(Link courtesy Adi Robertson at The Verge, I couldn't find it on anyone's sites.)

Context here https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/technology/meta-childrens-safety-documents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R00.RFai.uvoISV8E_VZ9&bgrp=t&smid=url-share

> Dropbox web interface
>> account icon in top right
>>> Settings
>>>> Third-party AI
>>>>> Off

(You do you! But this is how to opt out.)

ETA: They're mid-rollout and I don't think they've said which regions and tiers will eventually be affected, YMMV

Fedi developers and instance-runners reading the Zuckerberg interview in the Verge are definitely also reading this today, right?

https://wapo.st/3PBtyme

This is not "Facebook is an evil corporation boooo I'm a purist FOSS person"

this is

"Remember how Zuckerberg and all the other spox spent years saying they'd handle this and it turns out they were letting powerful people in India run the exact Myanmar Protocol all over again."

(Like yes, I think Facebook IS a terrible corporation, but it's for a bunch of highly specific reasons.)

@jdp23 I hadn’t been, but having everyone who follows me on Bluesky see all my replies to everyone else has made me sharply cut back on how much I converse there so that I’m not overwhelming.

But an “algo” (🤖) that offered a list of people with whom the people I follow frequently chat would be super nice for me.

@boris @jdp23 Default web has this filter option up top to hide replies/boosts. I imagine apps vary widely 😬

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta

@Haste Thank you! I had to try three times—my first two instances blew up after I wandered off because it was so quiet.

Eugen is probably so sick of seeing my name come up at this point, but I tried to express my very real sympathy in this post.

@Gargron