Untitled attachment

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Embed this notice
   sf50 box 37 ✊ (irrationalmethod@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 06:32:21 JST sf50 box 37 ✊

   Brief #introduction:

   Hey all, I'm Evan! I'm moving here from @eheisman as this is a less-topic-focused instance.

   My hobbies are #bike commuting, #birding, #woodworking, #AmateurRadio*, being on the board at my shul, and I'm parent to a young kid. I'll probably post/boost mostly on those topics.

   work-wise, I'm a civil engineer turned software developer, following a lot of folks from an interest in infrastructure/society/water, other topics around those.

   (*see @kc2ihx for radio stuff)

2. Embed this notice
   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2024 22:08:37 JST mekka okereke :verified:

   in reply to

   Like most universities, Georgia Tech is under budget constraints. They have a limited number of student volunteers that they can use to help with moderation. Most of the full-time academic computing resources will go just to technical administration of the instance.

   My question isn't cynical or rhetorical. Good answers will go into recommendations.

   I'm not saying that consensus block lists are the only way. But I'm genuinely curious about what solutions others would have for this problem.

   2/N

3. Embed this notice
   NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 15:10:41 JST NEETzsche

   in reply to

   Yeah I feel all of that. I think another thing is the fact that culturally, the fediverse has been completely swallowed up by instance and federation drama. Who defederates who and why and when and this and that. It dominates both sides of fedi, the Mastodong troon side where they have these massive lists of wrongthink instances, and the Balormo rightoid side of fedi where instance admins each have their own style on how they handle it, and everybody needs to have an opinion on how every instance admin moderates every instance.

   My complaints about it actually aren’t the technicals. Really, it works. The technicals are fine and I think that complaints about them are misguided for this reason. Email works. It functions, in spite of its flaws. But the truth is, the culture is garbage. I see the technical argument for Nostr over ActivityPub trivially.

   The bigger problem I see in both Nostr and Fedi is cultural. Both have a very limited window of topics you can discuss and get any traction in. Fedi is dominated by idpol (left and right, depending on which side of it you’re on), anime tits, and tech sperging. Nostr is dominated by crypto wank, cybersecurity wank, and actually I can’t even think of a third topic that gets discussed on it much.

   I think the limited scope issue – a cultural, not technical, issue – is the true Achilles heel of these decentralized services. And I think the solution to that is to, somehow, get people who have something to say other than “it’s da jooz” or “pump my bags uwu” to actually use them. I don’t have an answer to this problem, but I know it’s there and I know it’s real.

4. Embed this notice
   Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 (steve@social.dinn.ca)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 04:13:16 JST Steve Dinn 🇨🇦

   @elk On Firefox on my laptop, I consistently get "ERROR: TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource." when trying to log into my instance.

   My instance seems fine: I can get to it in other apps, and via the web.

   Other instances work.
   Other browsers work
   Other computers work.

   I've tried clearing my cache and cookies, using an incognito window, everything I can think of. Can you suggest something?