@fediplomacy @tchambers I think you want the total number of accounts, not just MAUs..
So 15119615 / 27788 ~= 544 users per moderator.
@fediplomacy @tchambers I think you want the total number of accounts, not just MAUs..
So 15119615 / 27788 ~= 544 users per moderator.
@EmilyG @emilygorcenski might have to borrow this off you when I've more time to read, if I may?
@hongminhee perhaps that's an area to get beginners involved? Documentation can help people learn the framework & find flaws/rough edges in it.
@hongminhee does fedify ship an ESM build and have good documentation? Those might be places to start.
In the Inrupt Solid SDKs we made sure to emphasise that they were just JavaScript and typescript was merely a development tool.
I feel like anger is a great motivator, but a terrible sustainer โ like anger gets things started, but doesn't necessarily last or have a positive feedback loop, it just dissipates & fades.
And being continuously angry doesn't seem healthy to me.
@risottobias @tamitha it's also 100% okay to not take software anyone offers. Whether that's from Meta or what I work on at IFTAS.
But there's certainly things we can all learn from others. e.g., I've some Ideas for improving moderation in mastodon & pixelfed, directly inspired by Software I've seen elsewhere for moderation purposes.
@andypiper yeah, only, as now mentioned in that article at the end, I thoroughly rebuked it in this: https://medium.com/@thisismissem/why-a-hard-fork-of-mastodon-isnt-the-way-b37aecfe5c86
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The part-time CTO? Surely him, because he's not busy with long term tech debt, writing FEPs & grant applications, and trying to coordinate releases & work priorities.
Like seriously, who do you think is doing the work here to build better admin tools?
I've not been able to do much for Mastodon, because my donations have remained below โฌ1000/mo. I simply can't afford to contribute much.
โMeta's plans to offer automated moderation tools to fediverse adminsโ
You know these are opt-in tools being proposed, where Threads/Meta is willing to leverage it's engineering org to provide tooling to help the fediverse in some way, right?
You don't have to use said tools, you can just ignore them.
Like, Renaud's proposal has nothing to do with Threads or Meta saying "hey, we've moderation tools we could maybe open up if you want them"
In fact, his proposal is still at the stage it was last year (much like FIRES), because we had to wait for funding.
And it certainly isn't favouring Meta, just enabling anyone who wants to build more advanced, possibly automated tools, for enhancing moderation teams.
It's a direct reaction to those demanding spam tooling.
It's also hella interesting to see this cropped poll result because the last options were "no" options which actually received a significant portion of the votes, but the poll now appears to be deleted (or I just can't find it anymore)
Like, it's one thing to run a poll snd get unfavourable results, it's another thing to crop the poll responses to portray it as giving favourable results.
"Rochko's decision last year to change the signup process to default new users to mastodon.social highlights one aspect of the conflict of interest hereโ
But you don't even want those who are signing up to the flagship instance by downloading the official app, let's be honest here.
That or you expect them to install & operate fediverse software whilst not knowing anything about the fediverse?
โWill Mastodon's upcoming release 4.3 provide more tools for admins [...] ?โ
Who do you expect to be writing these tools? The one full-time developer on the codebase who maintains backports of security bugs to 3 different versions of Mastodon, whilst y'all scream "quote posts now!!"?
The Managing Director of the project? He's busy having to wrangle US law to get a non-profit because y'all wouldn't fund the project without getting that tax kickback.
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@wedistributemedia correction: Mastodon is still a german entity, everything is still operated out of Germany. They just now also have a US 501(c)3 to be able to get more donations from American entities. That's it.
cc @Gargron
The whole small vs big instances argument is also exhausting, you're somehow wanting consent with federation and every interaction, but expect your instance to be slurping up data from other instances such that your small instance isn't "quiet".
Where's that consent model again?
(And there's ongoing work by a and others around replies collections & the management of them, as to ensure you can request full reply trees)
โBut Mastodon also has [...] a lot on its plate including integration with Threadsโ
It's lines like this that makes me completely unable to take those calling for a hard fork of Mastodon seriously.
All Mastodon do for Threads is the same they for any fediverse developer having issues federating with them. (And there's certainly limits to that)
Along with perhaps writing more FEPs to standardize behaviour, which benefits *everyone*
โThe recent confirmation that release 4.3 still won't make it easy for new instances to start with a blocklist that protects people from the nazis and TERFs that are active on the fediverse is a good exampleโ
Yeah, because I closed the pull request for that a) because the code was an absolute mess, b) because one-time imports of moderation data are really terrible & only at all useful for DNI lists.
That's why I'm working on FIRES with NLNet funding.
@dansup why not just encrypt the notifications?
@mike @BeAware small note: Threads is now available in the EU, it's just federation of those EU profiles isn't yet available iirc. They did delay the roll out to the EU though.
Sooo I accidentally ended up with too much philadelphia cream cheese, and I'm trying to think of what I can make with it, because I doubt I could eat an entire cheese cake by myself..
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