Notices by Johanna, CanCon variety (johannab@cosocial.ca)

Robert, have you connected with fediverse.info and similar? @dansup and @jaz have done a lot of instance meta-data collection stuff, what you need might be there…

@dansup @jaz

Https://fedidb.com grabs the short server descriptions, maybe not a big leap from that to your About and Rules pages.

@dansup

😩😭😩😭😭😭. Alas… i even have an Air Canada gift card but a relative is getting married in Toronto on Aug 8!!!

Such a terribly inconsiderate cousin-in-law, but family is having a situation around here this summer.

I will be there in spirit, and hopefully in a shout-out or two from Fediprofile/badgefed and Atlas/Emissary speakers.

@dansup

I love it when you highlight how hilarious and filthy the protocol wars can get. There is some sort of trashy polyamory romance novel that has to develop here.

@dansup amongst all that, too, Dan, why not more .ca TLDs when you can find them? It’s prime “ elbows up!” Territory! 😁🍁

@evan I thought Mastodon already did that?

I asked for a "dead mod switch" a few years ago then found it was somewhere in their 20,000 feature requests heap.

Have to go look for where I thought it was though, maybe they didn't actually deliver.

@cwebber nah, that's just chromosomal configuration and most of us don't know that as clearly as we think we do?

I'm cis, hope I'm still allowed to hang out in the yard. 😁

@cwebber

Ms. Leelo(o) here … purring loudly the whole time, decided following me to the bathroom and trying to get all the skritches from a captive audience was insufficient.

RE: https://kind.social/@azteclady/116716472649778064

Ooof. Hope it's a real story. Bit of a Brokeback Mountain vibe. Grab a tissue.

#libraryLove #pride #librariesRock

@tchambers

I rather think we already have achieved it, and we are now progressing to the mythical singularity.

But I think that as is discussed, nobody has actually defined it. Think about this though: we haven’t thought through what human *general* intelligence is.

It’s not some sort of superior soooopergenius we want to reproduce electronically. General intelligence is the bland average of what a human capable of basic survival knows.

@tchambers everybody talks about the “singularity” as if it will be some transcendent god-like omniscience.

No it won’t. It’ll be what happens when all the god-machine has left to ingest is its own excretions, over and over and over again.

At some point, the entire available dialogue will be worse than Bill the Cat trying to recite limericks.

PPPPTTHTHHRHRBBTBTBTB!!!!!

@pojntfx @mitchellh holy goats, hadn’t hear that dementia analogy before but that is exactly it. I’ve lost elder family to dementia and when you’ve lived with it you realize that it is so much more than “forgetting”, it is literal decay of executive, cognitive capability. Not sure i hould say thanks for sharing that, i’m now going to see it everywhere. 😳

RE: https://mastodon.social/@OpenMediaOrg/116517516303137157

CANADIANs ...

If you have not come across this effort yet, or have not reviewed and signed on ... please take a moment and do so.

Bill C22 is as bad if not worse than it's predecessor attempt C-2, and the earlier implemented C-18 which had the exact opposite effect on Canadian online media presence than everyone (well, everyone but us already-federated folk) thought.

Consider that Signal Messenger has indicated it will withdraw access from us rather than compromise privacy. it's bad.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116533971761510944

Excellent, thoughtful thread about how even many of us getting by quite well are doing so within a system that is doing its best to see that we don't. We are not as well as we *could be* and .. that's not our fault, but it's something we still have to navigate responsibly and not make worse for anyone else.

It's about LLMs/"AI" but also about much more.

@tchambers @admin

we can also 'onboard' a new community by skimming their public TL, picking a name, and sending a "hello" addressed to them from our home space - now they're federating. I just chatted back in a thread for folks wondering when they'll have a web/desktop interface to their social - they already do!

Fam, we can obsolete joinmastodon.org tomorrow and give Meta another kick in the shins if we all get custom apps and just be friendly.

Hello there, FindOut Media! Welcome to the for-lack-of-a-clearer-name, Fediverse.

@JayPowers83 , @TimFullerton , @Belfora

Your "on my computer" way in to your app is going to https://findout.media with any web browser, and you should be able to sign in via the (possibly very different-looking) Mastodon Web Client, which is built in to the server framework under your app!

https://findout.media/@JayPowers83/116524746716156313

@tchambers

That is awesome. But ... I had to go digging for actual fedi handles to follow, the Threads link throws the "sign in to Instagram" baffle up in front of me. And a lot of us limit or block Threads.

We need to follow someone @findout.media in order to federate them in! I followed @admin, but remind people to go find friends there directly.

@evan Nominally, I just picked Fediverse Instance, except that's the one that comes closest, but none of those is the true object of my loyalty. When I gave it a moment of thought, the *loyalty* applies to a human or community of humans. I don't remain "loyal" to an institution or organization in the absence of a higher-order connection to it. Like, if a political party I have supported shifts badly in a direction I can no longer support, the brand is not what'll keep me there.

@dansup

Dan! "Loop Dogg" was RIGHT THERE.

@evan WikiFeedia!