Fucking hell...
Awakari still hasn't learned their lesson.
This is the 5TH TIME!!! I am calling for #Fediblock for infamous Fedi data scraper @awakari_discover and @d2251b93-5903-46cc-a3ce-ba9f652c3cac@activitypub.awakari.com
This is getting ridiculous now. I'm not sure what we can do besides keep tabs on them to make sure they keep being blocked on their new accounts.
It's pretty pathetic at this point...🙄
#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Fediblock #DataScraper #Scraper #Privacy #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin
I'll just write down what I can think of.
I. Gaming
A. We already have an AP-based game running. It utilises polls and let the public decide the course of action of the character.
B. I think we can further expand the use of AP in gaming. What I have in mind is, an account's statistics (following, followers, activeness [how many posts per day; which time of the day; how many characters; was there an image attached; etc.], and other metrics) determines the user's character in a game software/app. There are various formulas in place to avoid intentional spamming and gaming the system, but that's up to the gamedev to develop.
C. Another I can think of is a trading-style game based on AP accounts.
It is similar to a now-defunct game that uses a website, and puts them up in a fictional stock exchange (I can't remember the name, but it lasted almost 20+ years).
Another similar game is play.empire.kred. Their style is a user is placed in a fictional trading market. A user adds their SNS profiles/pages which will help establish their value. And if they also keep on updating, it gives them more score and increases their stock value.
We can combine both and apply it to AP accounts. Again these are fictional, no crypto, no conversion of “fictional money” to real-money (the game publisher is going to have serious trouble with SEC if that happens).
II. Emergency Response & Mapping system.
With the decentralised, distributed, federated nature of the network, different towns, and cities, can establish their own instances for emergency response & mapping systems. They either have an AI, or manual labour, monitoring the fediverse network for certain keywords, and they boost it so their own instance will see it and record it on their server.
Then their responders, or another AI system, processes this information and collate it in an easy to consume database their responders, and key people, can easily pull info from. And there will also be a map available for them, based on the information from the boosted posts.
These instances are exclusive, and the accounts boosting doesn't have to be followed by anyone other than those in the response teams. So these accounts are aware of users to watch for, users voluntarily request to be monitored for certain keywords (opt-in). OR, they tag the account in case of emergency reports.
For example, me:
“Hi @-philippinedisasterreponse We currently have 300 injuries, and counting, here at street name, city name, due to the super typhoon.”
Then their AI collates it, put it in their database. The account will probably reply to acknowledge the report. And their response teams can open their internal map and info system to see the reports and other relevant information.
It can also be useful in “trapped” situations. If the victim still have Internet access, and in such a situation hotlines are more likely flooded with calls; a post in the fediverse can at least make the rescuers aware where they are.
Unless I'm using it wrong (very possible), there is no Home tab that shows you the people you're following. No custom feeds, no lists, no way for your follow graph to have any effect. Following someone, seemingly, does nothing other than boosting their feelgoods.
There's no explore tab, no trending topics, no hashtags. Search only searches accounts.
It's borderline unusable for anything.
And it already has over 2 million signups, lots of big brands, celebs, influencers.
Twitter's fucked.
Psst. psssstt.. Hey Mastodon.
VerifiedJournalist.org now has CROSS INSTANCE keyword searching of posts for all verified accounts.
It's still beta.... be kind.
Search and explore the latest posts from verified journalists in one convenient location.
Example:
https://www.verifiedjournalist.org/news?search=Trump
Also now supporting all popular attachement types: video, image, audio and gif
Next up: Engagement Metrics and more discovery tools
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