Notices by Rimu (rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz)

@mel1 Try Python, it's quite beginner-friendly - https://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers

The Letterbook team have published some research into moderation tooling & strengths+weaknesses therof on the Fediverse: https://letterbook.com/blog/post/2024/11/18/moderation-tooling-research.html

It contains some great analysis and recommendations, check it out!

#TrustAndSafety #moderation

@timClicks Yep, it's quite something. The botanical gardens is really good too, very big and diverse. Cheap bus fare to get there.

@jerry It goes off the rails at the instance choosing step. They chose an instance that federates too freely.

Let's look at https://joinmastodon.org/servers.

- Mastodon Covenant requires "active moderation of racism" but not defederation from racist instances.
- No indication of defederation amount.
- Lists instances with open sign-ups (aka loose moderation) first.
- Who evaluates alleged violations of the covenant? Is there anyone?

Adding some features similar to https://gui.fediseer.com/ might help.

@timClicks https://www.ourtravelmix.com/gardens-by-the-bay-everything-you-need-to-know/

@jbz An interesting perspective, thanks.

@jcrabapple Actually https://piefed.social/communities/subscribed will be a better place to start!

@jcrabapple Not really but at https://piefed.social/communities the Join and Leave buttons are links which you can Ctrl + click on. This will make the Leave happen in a background tab which won't interrupt you from moving your mouse down to the next community to repeat the action. Shouldn't take long.

PieFed development update Oct/Nov 2024: key updates include the addition of community icons for better identification, a notification management interface, and various enhancements to our API for eventual mobile app support.

See https://piefed.social/post/317673 for a detailed overview of these changes and many more!

#fediverse #PieFed

@aardrian We could use the #LeopardsAteMyFace hashtag?

@RuthMalan It's a good theory.

@lightweight Just getting away from CG-NAT would be great

@lightweight A good option if my self-hosting ambitions outgrow my current provider!

Lots of interesting #fediverse software demos at https://spectra.video/video-channels/fediforum_demos

@rudo FYI it was back on the Play Store the next day: https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-08-18/good-news-organic-maps-appeared-again-in-the-google-play-store/

@Nigel_Purchase She's got a gift

@hongminhee Here is some code for verifying and creating LD Signatures https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/1a658d007fa6259ea736005b818ae516a954bb16/app/activitypub/signature.py#L429

I tested it out last week but haven't used it in production - this was originally copied from Takahe so I assume it works well with Mastodon.

@david relevant - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07856-5

@Edent Good writeup! To add: originating servers could orchestrate anonymous (on the poll author's side) voting by sending votes from a shadow account instead of the user's real account, moving the knowledge of who voted from the pollster's server to the answerer's. On the fediverse, identity is cheap anyway, so there's not much added potential for abuse. @rimu recently did just that in PieFed, in the context of link aggregator votes.

@julian @Edent Yes, I made anonymous votes on PieFed - details at https://piefed.social/post/205362