Notices by Simon Wood (simonwood@mastodon.social)

@pluralistic New favourite phrase is "antienshittificatory discipline" #federation https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis

@pluralistic “...Bluesky is in a dangerous place: not because it is backed by VCs, not because it is a for-profit entity, but because it has captive users and no constraints. It's a great party in a sealed building with no fire exits” https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis

"If the fines...Facebook faced for invading our privacy exceeded the ad-targeting revenue it makes by doing so, it would stop spying on us. Facebook wouldn't like it. Zuck would hate it. But he'd do it, because he spies on us to make money, not because he's a voyeur." Totally excellent piece from @pluralistic on profit, enshittification and federation https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis

@Gargron @stux @mosseri Are there really 200M users of Threads with federation turned on?

@Edent I think I’d be taken in by that. My thought was: why do they need to check they’re on the phone to me if *they* called *me*? But on balance I’d decided it was just poor wording or an ill thought through system (both of which I still think, in fact!) so I wouldn’t have challenged it.

@flabberghaster @Edent I have had my actual bank call me, and then ask me (via security questions) to verify that I am actually me. I feel that was *training* customers to divulge information insecurely, as I had no way of knowing that they were who they were, and they wouldn’t have provided it if I’d gone along with their request.

@julian @nodebb Note is the default in the WP plugin but the user gets some options…

@babe @finiteattention @advicepig “The Good Samaritan had placed the bobble into a box with food and a hot water bottle overnight” ❤️🤣

@dansup Large platforms need to be interoperable. Even Signal is no where near big enough for that to help a requirement… And anyway @supapp has interoperability built into the concept!

@ianbetteridge To be fair, you do make some of the laws about headlines.

@adamconover @LoneLocust Right on red? Wow, that makes priorité à droite look sane…

@pfefferle @fediversereport I think the recent threaded comments release will really help. Also maybe federating replies from logged in users? Enabling local and fedi commenters to interact with each other more should help catalyse discussion and engagement.

@verge Amen.

@feditips Presumably also if you @ mention the magazine, eg. @kbinMeta, or post using the ‘add post’ box at the top of the ‘Microblog’ tab…?