Author: jon
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Compare and contrast: Fediseer, FIRES, and The Bad Space
Fediseer page for poa.st (excerpts), November 2023 You can also see the judgments an instance has shared and made public. There are also lists of “safelisted” and “suspicious” instances – although this safety and suspiciousness only refers to spamming behavior, Fediseer is currently playing a very valuable role in the Lemmyverse, including making it much…
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It’s possible to talk about The Bad Space without being racist or anti-trans – but it’s not as easy as it sounds
The title applies to me as well, and I’ve probably said some things badly in this article. Apologies in advance. I’ll update the post as problems surface. Join the discussion in the fediverse “Following UI Integration”, from FSEP proposal This matters from a safety perspective because if somebody follows you they can see your followers-only…
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Blocklists in the fediverse
Join the discussion It would be great if Mastodon and other fediverse software had other good tools for dealing with harassment and abuse to complement instance-level blocking – and, ideally, reduce the need for blocklists. But it doesn’t, at least not yet. That needs to change, and in an upcoming installment I’ll talk about…
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Mastodon and today’s fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default – and instance blocking is a blunt but powerful safety tool
Do you have thoughts? hoodieaidakitten, Mastodon’s Complicated Relationship with Queer Activism, July 2018 Others remain active – and forks like glitch-soc continue to provide additional tools for people to protect themselves – but Mastodon’s pace of innovation had slowed dramatically by 2018.8 Mastodon lacks basic safety functionality like Twitter’s ability to limit replies (…
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Can the Fediverse help stop Bad Internet Bills?
Also posted EFF’s action on @technology@lemmy.world, screenshot on July 19 If you look in the comments, there are already a couple people saying that they contacted their legislators (which almost certainly means there are at least a few more who did the same but didn’t bother to leave a comment). And this link has been…
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The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act has a House Judiciary Committee markup tomorrow!
TAKE Action! Free Press’ web form makes it easy to Tell Congress to pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act. The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act closes the legal loophole that allows data brokers to sell Americans’ personal information to law enforcement and intelligence agencies without any court oversight.…
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Six posts, a presentation, and a preview on privacy and prototyping: Fediverse update, July 3
As usual it’s interesting times in the ecosystem of decentralized social networks known as the “fediverse”. It’s always grown in waves, and now thanks to Reddit’s ongoing footgun and Twitter’s latest management brilliance, there are at least two in progress. And while the last several waves have focused primarily on Twitter competitor Mastodon, this…
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How to use filtering and muting to hear less discussion of odious people on Mastodon
Originally written November 2022. Minor updates July 2023, including moving Twitter description to an appendix because who even cares these days. Twitter’s odious new racist, anti-trans management is once again doing odious things. When I first wrote this article they were reinstating the accounts of odious people who have committed “minor” offensive like anti-trans hate…
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How to choose the right Mastodon instance?
Originaly written November 2022, updated July 1 2023 for the next wave. Feel free to skip to the resources for finding the right instance for you. Or, if you want some background, and reasons why the choice of an instance matters so much, read on! A lot of people are once again looking at the…
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We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re federated: How queer, trans, and non-binary people helped create Mastodon and are shaping today’s fediverse (REVISED DRAFT)
Draft! Work in Progress! Feedback welcome! Join the discussion on https://fedipact.online/, created by trans enby girl lesbian gender terrorist vantablack As always, it’s interesting times in the fediverse. As Rochko said, it grows in waves. Millions of people created Mastodon accounts late last year in the wake of Twitter’s acquisition by a transphobic, racist, techbro.…
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Eight days later: Kbin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of the “threadiverse” (DRAFT)
Update, June 20: After revisions, I integrated this into Don’t tell people “it’s easy”, and six more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon. See the discussion n Growth of Kbin and Lemmy, via @threadcount@botsin.space Contents: Eight days later … Experiment to find what approaches are a good fit for the current…