Notices by Adnan 🦙 (adnan@1210.nl)

@mhoye @theverge @anildash

it has been Google’s great restraint in not abusing this root access that is the gold. It is not guaranteed that the next custodian of Chrome will be trustworthy. I wouldn’t trust the AI companies OpenAI or Perplexity.

@Linux @evan

I use Mastodon and pay for my single-user instance. But I would feel better using the main instance (and see all replies) and make a contribution to the project as “payment”.

The cost is not just for the hosting but also ongoing development of the software.

@skinnylatte With film? IIRC you do photography with film …

@Rusty @aral
I am sure there is a good explanation for firefox TOS change. 🙂

@jon @Vivaldi There is also the AT protocol (BlueSky). I hope “social web” includes it too.

Working non stop. Having a very non Labor Day weekend.

@evan What can I follow to keep up with your project to add e2e encryption support for Mastodon?

Once again EU has been left out of new threads / fediverse integration drop. But I have faith that EU's choices are going to drive its users to a better place, viz participate in the fediverse from an open instance instead of from threads.

@DaveMasonDotMe I am sorry to hear that. What was the proverbial last straw that broke the camel’s back?

@tokyo_0 They are selling more cloud capacity and more powerful machines. I don’t who else is actually profiting from AI in 2024.

@tokyo_0 🤬 this is worse than anything I have seen in a long while. Microsoft is back to its old ways not soon after it started winning.

@tokyo_0 Facebook used to allow something like that - visibility and comments only for "Friends of Friends". It was my preferred option. It led to the most civil and interesting conversations - it was like being at a dinner party with enough new people but not complete strangers.

@tokyo_0 if it fediverse public, it will still be visible to the undesirable mob.

@tokyo_0 I think you rightly said that it is going to be quite difficult to prevent linking to posts which is what "quote posting" is. Hyperlinks are one of the fundamental building blocks of the web. I really don't have any good ideas but I will say that Gargron - who only builds Mastodon and not the whole fediverse - can't prevent quote posting any more than they can prevents folks linking out to articles.

Btw threads recently said that they will allow their users to block quote posting

@tokyo_0 That indeed seems to be a gap. But block should be working on your instance. Why is your instance showing you posts from this user when you have blocked them? That is the gap in my opinion. Even if they at mention you, you should not see them on your timeline.

@tokyo_0 I have leaned on paid services here in 🇳🇱. Property management services that came with the rentals are a good way to navigate through a lot of house & living.

@bytor I did not sign the #fedipact because I am on my own family & friends instance and I want the choice to use my fediverse identity to talk to threads.

However I recognize that very large instances harm the distributed nature of the fediverse. It becomes centralized for all practical purposes.

Just off the top of my head, no instance / admin should control the experience of more than 1% of people of fediverse.

@thomasfuchs I have found it very useful to switch from “generative AI” or just “AI” to “language models”.

@aral @mike This should be automated. I want to subscribe to a block list from respected instances and get notified of new blocks.

@tchambers I got a mini shock at your reply. I thought you were replying to me from your threads account