@willoremus From my experience working on Twitter tools well over a decade, the main reason for account suspension is not sharing links but rather being flagged as a bot. Many violate the automation rules or just behave like bots. I even reached out personally to some of them and told them to stop their aggressive behaviour but they all brushed it off as "I have been doing it for a long time and nothing happened", but when their accounts get suspended they cry "cancel culture"
@tchambers@erlend@FedicaHQ Thanks for the recommendation Tim! We are big supporters of the #SocialWeb - first to support Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed and more to come - for publishing, analytics and discovery Having said that we are not open source
@nomadgeek True, but as I mentioned in my first post, they can create Mastodon accounts pretending to be human and following you from Mastodon and get your data through the API. Someone can also create a Mastodon instance and get all your data that way as a "follower". Your public data on an open platform is not protected at all, this is by design. The domain name or type of software doesn't make a difference, protocol behaves the same
@misty To be honest, people should not be afraid of accounts publicly disclosing they are a business or on another platform powered by ActivityPub.
When your posts are public, anyone can grab them using an API, they don't need your permission or to even follow you. I would be more weary about bots pretending to be human or worse, those that steal your data without even following you, and there is no protection from that!
@tchambers@FedicaHQ Yeah, also the reverse would work better: post to Mastodon then we copy it to Threads. The mechanics for it already exist. Though not sure how many users want such capabilities (I seen people ask for it on Bluesky/Mastodon/Twitter combination) But technically, if you have our browser extension you can post to all at the same time from anywhere, you can now post to Bluesky and Mastodon from twitter for example
@tchambers@FedicaHQ Good question. I think not possible in the first incarnation of the Threads API, we would not be able to see your posts on Threads. But the ActivityPub support might make it possible (with 5 minutes delay)
@evan@thisismissem@tchambers It's painful, because charge back fees are ~$50, so make sure the subscription fees take into account the rate of charge backs
@markigra@tchambers Well said, both of you! The work Ryan is doing is heroic, and those who want to him to change it to opt-in don't understand how protocols work
@dansup@pixelfed Congrats, Dan! I highly recommend giving the API the attention it deserves, it's what makes or breaks platforms. You can only build so much on your own.
@evan Your question highlights an important element of the Fediverse Our instance is run by the business so this topic really has no impact on us and I assume most smaller (non-consumer) instances would be in the same spot. Just like email, we cannot moderate anything outside of our bubble. The intersection of moderation and protocol freedom is interesting
@Gargron oh I understand. But I was wondering if you can get an LED version of a fresnel so heat is not an issue? In theory you can get the right colour temperature with LED Having said that, I am far from an expert in photography and merely asking if LED has served in the photography space
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