Notices by spaduf (spaduf@hachyderm.io)

If you think it's news that Meta's new public policy director, Dustin Carmack, is a Project 2025 co-author,

Consider dropping a tip to your preferred news outlet. I've already sent an email to @verge and I implore you to do the same.

https://www.theverge.com/c/tech/22579076/how-to-tip-the-verge-email-signal-and-more

Also consider boosting for visibility!

#meta #fediverse #NoFascistsOnFedi #uspol #threads #fedipact #MastodonForHarris #Mastodon4Harris

Not a fan of the way #Mastodon enforces consensus under threat of mass blocking.

Anybody got any good fedi meme accounts?

@dansup do we just comment?

@Polychrome Is there anybody else out there working on a similar project that you prefer?

So, there's no reason #matrix couldn't be the DM backbone of the #fediverse right?

@judeswae @flipboard @mike I'm also unable to watch.

Does anybody ever think about the fact that the improved resiliency brought by the fediverse may mean this is our last chance to have this sort of ground-up restart of the web?

#trans folks of the fediverse who are in places where being so is illegal need to start sanitizing their fedi presence ASAP. When #threads federates they're going to analyze your posts, build a nice little personal profile, and then sell it for pennies. Your government will absolutely spend pennies to know you're trans.

We need to start organizing secure spaces where these sorts of folks can go for community because here won't be safe for too much longer.

@feditips One HUGE caveat to this is to note the difference between inference and training. The differences in resource usage are fairly massive, but training costs should be thought of as closer to an initial upfront cost rather than an ongoing expense of resources.

@feditips Heads up, a lot of the work suggesting these outlandish water usage stats have since been debunked as overblown. Here's an article (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05149) that discusses some issues in methodology and goes further to point out that a significant portion of the ecosystem still has hardly been optimized. I understand criticisms about inhuman accessibility mechanisms and the potential for error/alienation, but I'm not sure we should be discouraging it on the basis of climate.

@mcc is this the fedi equivalent of making a mistake to drive engagement cause damnit you got me