Notices by Scott Feeney (graue@social.coop)

@Andres4NY @mekkaokereke cc @cheeaun: would you be open to adding support into Phanpy for new features like starter packs, limiting replies, and composable moderation, if pioneered by a server app other than Mastodon?

@jenniferplusplus @inthehands Phanpy has done this, removed the reply button from the home feed! You have to either click into the thread or click the ...

idea: a functional programming meetup called “Coffee is for Closures”

This is brilliant, and makes me want to read more Ted Chiang.

"[AI] is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world."

Hard to select just one pull quote; whole piece is gold.

https://mas.to/@gleick/113058537194470078

Lazyweb, is there a way, built into HTTP, to resume a partially completed upload?

What I'm finding searching the web seems to imply that there's not, and you would need to implement ad-hoc endpoints to query upload status, resume, and then combine the file chunks on the server. This seems surprising and frustrating to me; the feature is a must for reliable mobile uploads of media files, and this means it's impossible when I don't control the API... is it really so?

@corbet My first thought was that should be no problem for the Internet Archive to back up.

...then I thought, why does a scrappy nonprofit have to do it instead of the $400 billion company keeping them up in the first place?

@hazelweakly this cartoon is not an exaggeration. I just came across a tech company offering exactly this.

@dansup Thanks for clarifying. I definitely do remember you creating a list on FediDb.org of all the servers that had signed the FediPact, and pixelfed.social being one of the biggest servers on that list. The pact says, "i hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta should they pop up on the fediverse." https://fedipact.online/

So this is a change of position, and one I personally don't agree with, but that is your prerogative. @nathanu

@dansup Wait, I thought pixelfed.social was part of the FediPact to block Threads? What changed?

@nathanu I'm not sure I'm gonna go that far, but I am disappointed, and would appreciate some transparency as to what changed @dansup's mind, and if there's a possibility of reconsidering based on Facebook's lax moderation practices toward bigoted content.

@rysiek I wonder why this paints such a rosier picture than the graphs on https://fedidb.org. Not just >double the peak, but a totally different trend. Cc: @dansup

@nasser it would be interesting to see a version of that license written by an actual lawyer.

I don't agree with the FSF's ideological objection, but that "license" looks like someone with no law knowledge typed a list of things they like into Notepad. Almost certainly either unenforceable as written, could be weaponized against good-faith uses that are in the spirit of the license, or both

In the meantime I'd put more faith in the hybrid of AGPL + worker organizing

When I joined #mastodon, I just wanted an open-source #twitter clone.

I got more than that. Subtle design differences made for healthier conversations in ways I wasn't expecting.

Here's a blog post to try to capture those differences and why they matter. https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/