Tag: fediverse
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Black Twitter, quoting, and white views of toxicity on Mastodon
Last updated: January 12, 2023. See the update log at the bottom. For a detailed look at design considerations of a “quote boost” implementation, see the followon post Social threat modeling and quote boosts on Mastodon “The platform is made up of people. Elon Musk bought Twitter, but he did not buy the communities that…
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Mastodon privacy: you can’t really opt out of search engine indexing
There are a lot of reasons people might not want their posts on a social network to be indexed by search engines. One of the most important is personal safety. Harassers often use search engines to find out information about the people they’re targeting – or to find new people to target. So Mastodon gives…
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Mastodon: a partial history (DRAFT)
Last major update: December 3. See the update log below for details. DRAFT! Feedback welcome!I’ve shared the draft on @inquiline@mastodon.social on Mastodon Then again, whiteness resists change. As Are0h says “It’s culture. And whiteness, as Du Bois identified years ago, is committed to fighting to assert itself in yet another new space.” Unfortunately a lot…
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Lessons (so far) from Mastodon for independent social networks
Update, November 2022: This post was originally written in May 2017. Since then I’ve updated by fixing typos and adding new links but haven’t changed the lessons. In 2018 I noted that Mastodon has continued to make progress, and that were new lessons to learn, so added “(so far)” to the title. Flash forward to…
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What Diaspora can learn about security from Microsoft
Back in April, four NYU students decided to raise money to spend the summer hacking on their project: a privacy-friendly open source social network. They put up a page on Kickstarter, a crowdsourced funding site. Talk about being in the right place at the right time: after a great article Four nerds and a cry…
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Diaspora: what next?
It was a summer to remember for the founders of Diaspora, the “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, open-source, do-it-all social network”. Talk about being in the right place at the right time … Back in the firestorm about Facebook privacy last May, the four NYU students raised $200,000 for their project on Kickstarter. Since then they’ve moved to…