Notices by Adnan 🦙 (adnan@1210.nl)

@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

@tchambers Any control put on Threads post means it wouldn’t federate. Only unrestricted public posts will federate AFAIK

@tokyo_0 No other social media does so natively. Twitter doesn’t even have an API but I think they did plan to have this feature in their premium tier. Threads wouldn’t delete the posts but is planning to make them private after some time. BlueSky has an API so there are some 3rd party services that do so and of course you can write your own. But I like it just being an option here on Mastodon.

@tokyo_0 automatic deletion is my most favorite feature of this new social media scene.

@tokyo_0 That is just horrible. Remove all 2fa from that unreliable service provider. You don't know when you their software or processes will break.