Notices by Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social), page 10

Senator Blumenthal claims he's fixed KOSA. He's lying. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/15/senator-blumenthal-pretends-to-fix-kosa-its-a-lie/

Never had so many people ask for my take about Wired's piece on getting rid of Section 230 as anything else. So here it is. The piece is terrible and @WIRED should be ashamed. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/15/has-wired-given-up-on-fact-checking-publishes-facts-optional-screed-against-section-230-that-gets-almost-everything-wrong/

@synfinatic totally

@fbajak @cfarivar unfortunately: https://anti-slapp.org/delaware

(Though, it's possible Cyrus could convince a judge that CA's anti-SLAPP should apply, though I have no idea how choice of law works in the court of chancery if the case even gets that far)

@guyjantic @xylya @derpoltergeist almost everything you wrote about what you think Bluesky is doing is... wrong? Like blatantly false.

The algorithms are written by anyone (not Bluesky) and it's setup so that they're not collecting or "monetizing" data.

Jack Dorsey is not running it, disagrees with the direction of it and shut down his account. it's not "his baby."

Please, don't just spew misinfo based on vibes.

@PewPewMiau @derpoltergeist i agree that would be huge for mastodon, so I hope it comes to that. Though, a year ago people on here were harassing anyone who wanted algorithms until they left the fediverse entirely.

@CindyS when did they fool you?

@cydonian hasn't been that way in my experience, but I imagine that's highly dependent on your interests. Have you tried looking for feeds relevant to your interests? There are many thousands of feeds to choose from?

@JustinH @rysiek there's a lot in there that's just... wrong. But I'm not in the business of going through and correcting everyone's errors on this as it just seems to get people to yell at me. You can believe what you want.

We'll see how things play out.

@Cyberpreppy yup. in total agreement on that. I don't mind nostr either. Let there be a bunch of experiments in building decentralized social media to figure out what works best.

@mike@thecanadian.social @mike@flipboard.social @LittleTokyo one of the reasons they kept it closed so long was to build up moderation efforts. They now have a team of people and a bunch more tools, including some they've begun to open source.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/01-16-2024-moderation-2023

@LittleTokyo @mike I made what I thought was a helpful suggestion to try to help you and you call me a shill? JFC. What is wrong with you?

I'm not paid anything. And you're exactly the reason that I keep thinking Mastodon just might not be for me. Such self-righteousness.

@0mnishambles remember, it's been established as a PBC, so they don't just have to satisfy their investors. And I know that they were very upfront with their investors about how this is not designed to be a cash cow like others. The investors know what they're betting on.

@LittleTokyo @mike@thecanadian.social @mike@flipboard.social follow better people? Or use different feeds to find better people? Or use the tools they give you to filter out stuff like that? I've yet to see a single request for money or anything like what you appear to be seeing.

@Beeks @jeffjarvis that's the idea. And, unlike with Mastodon, all your info (content) comes with you under the ATProto model.

Of course, we still need to see how it works in practice.

@mike@thecanadian.social @mike@flipboard.social I say what I believe. If someone is wrong, I feel like it's worth it to point it out.

And, to be clear, you're wrong when you say that I'm looking for "one to many." I am not. I find it weird and awkward.

I'm looking for conversation.

@Chigaze no doubt that Mastodon's setup is great for local community discussions.

@Beeks @jeffjarvis nothing is immune to enshittification. But it is designed to be resistent to enshittification. The main element of enshittification is the lock-in. The inability to leave. Bluesky is designed to let you leave.

And, hopefully, the knowledge that you can leave creates incentives for Bluesky the company, not to enshittify, because if it does, people will leave.

@williampietri again, to be clear, I think "solving" systematic harms is a great goal, but probably an impossible one. I'm focused on minimizing them as much as possible.

Society sucks. Some people suck. We're not going to solve that with technology. We sorta have to solve that as a society.

@williampietri i mean, currently, that same problem exists here as well. We can defederate the nazis, but they still get to do and say bad shit on their own instances. But there is value in defederating those guys and letting them stew in their own little cesspools rather than harassing people.

But we can also envision more automated systems that are tracking the cesspools for evidence of harms and look for ways to counteract it as well.