Notices by Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop), page 2

Huh, that was an incredibly educational video about vocal fry. Well played, Dr. Geoff Lindsey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0yL2GezneU

One nice thing I have to sometimes remind myself on the fediverse --

If I see more posts by someone, it's not because an algorithm is trying to optimize my engagement, it's because they happen to be around and active while I am.

Which honestly makes me feel more connected. :)

What happens when China builds an #LLM? DeepSeek just released v2 of its model, which is open source.

I tried it on deepseek.com. Ask it about Tiananmen square, and the chatbot self-censors its answer while it is generating (that presumably is limited to their deployment). On variations not caught by the filter, it refuses -- and replies in Chinese:

"The content of your question is not in line with the core values of socialism, nor is it in line with China's laws, regulations and policies."

@dangerzone is an open source app that uses container sandboxes to create a "virtual photocopy" of a document.

This is to protect journalists and others from malware & trackers that might be implanted in documents sent to them by someone pretending to be a confidential source.

We (@freedomofpress) are hiring a software developer on a 6 month contract to work on the project. Remote, $70/hour, >=3 years of Python dev experience.

More info here:
https://grnh.se/1d1255f45us

#GetFediHired #Python

Are you a front-end dev who's looking for a time-bound gig doing mission-driven work?

At @freedomofpress we're hiring for a 6 month web dev contract at $75/hour @ 30 hours/week. Remote-friendly as long as you're able to join meetings during afternoon US eastern time working hours.

You'll be working with our web team on the full site redesign of our main site, https://freedom.press/ .

More info here:

https://freedom.press/jobs/?gh_jid=4360167005

Side note, I'll continue to do these shoutouts for folks leaving X and would appreciate if folks reading them could refrain from "better late than never" or other snarky comments. It's rare, but it happened a couple of times in the past. :-)

It's going to still take a long while to get folks to migrate fully off X (inertia is a thing), and warm welcomes/congrats for everyone who makes the complete switch are appreciated.

Congratulations to the Leibniz Strategy Forum on Open Science for leaving X and making the fediverse its primary social media platform. If you are into #openscience, #opendata and #openaccess, give them a follow:
@leibnizopenscience

@renchap @Gargron

It would be good to know if this behavior of "Limit" at the server-level is considered a bug by the project:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26301

That'll probably factor into whether servers want to limit or suspend #Threads.

I'm working on a spreadsheet to monitor which organizations, celebrities and other major accounts have truly made the exit from X, and where they're going.

I'm not tracking dual-posters, or people who've said they'll quit but actually haven't.

As this list fills up, I hope it'll make it easier for others to do the same.

https://bit.ly/eXit (redirects to Google Spreadsheet)

If you'd like to help & get edit access, send me a private mention. Or just reply with any additions!

@tchambers ^ Tagging you in case I'm duplicating any of your efforts in this area.

@kev

I think one big argument is that Threads already allows accounts other instances would get limited or suspended over. So size basically gives them cover for bad moderation.

That's why I voted in favor of "limit" on our server, which is I think generally a good remedy against poorly moderated large servers.

A common refrain is that the web is _turning into_ garbage because of LLMs.

But that's not really true. It's just that the garbage is _drowning out_ everything else, especially in search engines that themselves have decided to go into the garbage generation business.

What can we do? We can promote the #IndieWeb right here. Highlight the good, perhaps obscure websites and blogs you come across, especially the ones that aren't loaded with ads & trackers.

The web is still full of awesomeness.

@evan

Very skeptical. The fediverse works best wherever people seek to build community.

@mike

Very cool! Looking forward to it becoming a two-way thing :)

@mike

One thing that's unclear from me reading the Medium post -- who will see replies, once all federation features are implemented? Will publishers/authors themselves engage with fedi?

(I'm trying to better understand what sets apart Flipboard's approach from a passive ingestion model like https://press.coop/, which just creates fedi accounts for RSS feeds.)

Instead of "Big Company Does A Thing", there are so many other cool stories about the fediverse that no journalist is telling. Every day I see new ones.

For example, I just came across https://feuerwehr.social/, a server just for fire departments and their members/supporters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It has nearly 1,000 active members already. How did it come to be? How did they all find each other? There's a story there.

What interesting stories and servers have you come across?

There's a common false dichotomy about #Threads: cut them off, or leave it to user choice.

I can't speak to other software, but Mastodon offers a third option: limiting Threads. This can be done for all users of a server.

- You can follow Threads accounts after clicking through a warning.

- People who don't follow those same people won't see their posts.

- You have to manually approve followers _from_ Threads.

Basically, it puts Threads in quarantine, without cutting off all connections.

@tchambers

Fingers crossed! They're the first US city in the eXit spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p5crRGK0Y9MuFsfkyOBEC--3wXxFTd71fPCUcIFPXK0/edit#gid=0).

@dansup

That's just for pixelfed.social, right? So any other server would still be able to have a different policy

@tchambers Just curious, will there be a Q4 report again in December this year? Pulling together some numbers and yours are the best :)