Notices by db0 (db0@hachyderm.io), page 2

@GossiTheDog I heard horror stories of companies trying to sue FOSS developers because the software caused failed somehow and caused them monetary damages

Just read this https://kevquirk.com/threads-and-the-fediverse from @kev. For me the big danger of #Threads is not adverts, or culture etc, it's the long-term dangers of allowing the biggest gateway to the fediverse to be corporate.

There's lessons from email we should learn to avoid being all surprised pikachu a couple of years down the line

@pluralistic has a good take here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://doctorow.medium.com/dead-letters-73924aa19f9d

But you can easily find me sysadmins who gave up self-hosting email for the same reasons.

I have just deployed a small bot @tagginator which will reply from mastodon to top posts in specific #lemmy communities in order to add #hashtags to them: https://github.com/db0/lemmy-tagginator

Take a look and tell me what you think or ideas for improvements.

#Tagginator

@aral @solarmerps I'm totally going to start doing that

It feels like there's a storm building up.

I see people either deliberately misunderstanding the #fediseer or just not bothering to see how it work's in order to be outraged easier.

Just to clarify in advance: All instance reviews are crowdsourced and there's no central authority deciding who's should be blocked or allowed.

The decision on whose reviews to trust is always left to the instance admins.

@olireiv that's similar in concept to the #fediseer (https://gui.fediseer.com) where we are building a chain of trust to keep out spammers

You can now self-tag your instance on the #Fediseer

You can use that to discover new instances to join, or to help you filter out instances focused on subjects you might not want to deal with (e.g. "gore" or "piracy")

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5376797

@fediforum@mastodon.social @fediforum@a.gup.pe You forgot we actually gave a speed demo of #Fediseer on day 2 ;)

@selzero @PSiReN Are there any receipts? That instance seems locked down and I can't validate.

@TheGoodSpace I just wanted to take this opportunity to mention that we're building a truly crowdsourced alternative with the fediseer (https://gui.fediseer.com).

It started around the anti-spam needs of Lemmy but we've expanded it to be able to handle more fediverse software.

The difference to existing unaccountable centralized lists, is that it doesn't have a single group deciding for everyone. Everyone can submit and combine and filter multiple lists on demand.

#fediblockmeta

If you think a blocklist controlled by a circle of 12 friends is not something that can scale in the fediverse, I have already built an alternative which is crowdsourced and makes flexible lists based on which instances YOU trust.

https://fediseer.com

You can censure any number of instances, and anyone can see that list. You can then join or intersect the list of censures from any number of instances you personally choose and trust and make a custom list.

The whole system is built on anarchist principles of self-determination and freedom of association. You don't have to trust any centralized authority. You control your list and which instances' lists you trust.

I don't control any master list. I just run the DB. All the connections are set by the people using it. It also has a REST API so you can interact with it programmatically to build new tools and automation. For example we already use it to quickly block CSAM and lolicon instances.

Reminder that I've built a FOSS service to combat spam and easily collaborate, publish and combine blocks, whitelists and generically speaking approvals/disapprovals

https://fediseer.com

It provides a simple REST API you can connect to automation for your instance to automatically update white/block lists, or just use it to mark content for review etc.

#fediblockmeta