Notices by Scott Jenson (scottjenson@social.coop)

@evan C'mon Evan, the long now foundation makes it clear it should be #home02026 otherwise how could you know if was 02026 or 42026? Details matter!

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My LocalFirst talk is up!
How the Desktop UX needs to evolve

This is a "part 2" of my @ubuntu talk last year. This time with more demos!
#ux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOLRcFC6OY

@ramsey
In looking at harm, it's important to look at the simplest "spam" type of attacks e.g. where someone endorses you over and over, even after you say "no". It's pure harassment with no intention of you accepting. Assuming that first "no" shuts down any future requests (or at least mutes them), we should be good.

There are likely other edge cases like this to vet.

@benpate @tchambers

BTW, I'm not writing these posts to change the minds of those making these comments. That's a lost cause. I'm doing this so the rest of us understand that they make up a tiny minority of the Fediverse, and so we can support each other when they show up.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116981410835705749

Could not agree more. We have to stop seeing people in such black-and-white terms. If someone disagrees with you, it doesn't make them a fascist. The desire to "kick out everyone I don't like" is short-sighted. The "Nazi bar" comparison massively oversimplifies the issue. Kicking out your perceived enemies does not result in paradise, just scorched earth.

@jet @evan Well said. It's especially ironic as the entire point of the #fediverse is to build your own feed, block who you don't like.

I'll never understand why these PurityPolice don't just stop following the person? Why do they feel compelled to change them? I get it, this is the curse of any social media but the Fediverse prides itself on personal freedom and self expression. It's very much at odds with this.

I've been experimenting with Claude Fable 5 and have to say, as a #UX designer who is just trying to build simple prototypes, it really is valuable. I've tried 6 different explorations of my demo and it nailed it every single time. Being able to rapidly test out my own ideas is incredibly liberating.

While the utility is there, the current landscape of these frontier corporate models comes with massive ethical and environmental baggage. This is not a long term solution!

That’s exactly why my hope is that ethically trained open-weight models will eventually catch up and that in the next couple of years, we'll have something with this level of capability that can run locally. That feels like a much better place to be with this technology.

@tchambers completely agree! We can quibble about execution but the forces against BlueSky are broadly the same ones against the Fediverse.

I visited the Helsinki Library and it has a frigg'n makerspace in the middle of it! Laster cutters, 3D printers, Vinyl cutters, all for nearly free. It also has "video game rooms", general meeting rooms, 2 cafes and a restaurant! It's astounding what you can have if you fund public works.

Personal Information access is the achilles heel of LLMs. They can do amazing things if you feed them all your stuff. (This is why Local LLMs are so promising, your data stays put)

The problem? It's nearly impossible to get! It's locked behind proprietary silos.This is why every foundational model is making such a big deal out of "memory": it allows it to have so much more context to do things. This, of course, also locks you in as the memory isn't exportable.

It's a race for the data.

It's also why system extensions like ScreenPipe are interesting. It's a HEAVY lift but it's a form @pluralistic 's "adversarial interoperability"

But open local first data of all my contacts, meetings, emails, etc would be SOOOO much easier. (it's just wicked hard to pull off)

https://github.com/screenpipe/screenpipe

As far as I can recall, the Pope never issued an encyclical letter about NFTs or Crypto...
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@imanijoy/116522945799121750

It's critical for Mastodon's future to understand and help all users. Please forward this to people you know that aren't as technical but still on the Fediverse. We need to hear from them too!

@tchambers I think you’re right. But what I'm concerned about is that someone will create a layer on top of the models, e.g. access to specific data, connecting to specific services, that will create a moat.

Sure, this is funny but what bothers me the most is that we don't even have a good way of talking about this. This is a foundational error state and likely implies other problems in how it works.

There is something very boring and yet important about this and we can't discuss it easily.

/ht @andrewhinton

@pmdj @dalias
First, I'm using AI as an example, I'm not endorsing AI at all.
Second, and only as an example, there are open source people working on ethically trained local small language models. Again, I'm NOT endorsing them, but I can pretty confidently say that they would NOT be welcome here.

The same applies to journalism, there are VERY strong emotions here, basically telling them to fuck off (their words, not mine)

My point is that there is a pattern here: there are topics this community actively hates and "patrols" against. If that's what the community wants, cool, I'm not here to dictate anything. My point is that it might be nice to have a slightly more open way of sharing ideas: Follow, block, filter. You have the tools to make the feed you want (there are clearly more tools that would be helpful)

I'm just saying that focusing on your feed seems more healthy that attacking people whose opinions you don't like. Here, let me me give you an example of what I got 10 min ago

@dalias @pmdj

Are you saying that asking for Mastodon to somehow be more open to new ideas and to foster a community that is more tolerant some type of evil plot?

@dalias @pmdj

I'm making a post on my timeline that you can ignore. There is a BIG difference to getting in someone's mentions and correcting them.

This is my whole point. We are each on the fediverse and we say what we want. You can like, ignore, whatever.

I'm NOT getting in anyone's mentions, I'm not scolding, I'm ASKING that we are more inclusive because it's the more humane and helpful thing to do, but hey, you can disagree, that's cool.

@trevdev @cratermoon @Gargron @evan

You didn't answer MY question. Have you read the replies to my original post? People are actively joyfully attacking AI, making it clear not only are they not welcome, they should not be here.

To be clear. I"M NOT ENDORSING AI. I just used them as an example of this tendency to police the culture.

@dalias @pmdj

This is the curse of the fediverse, a small cadre of usually old white guys that feel the need to "Educate" everyone around them. This is their duty, the world needs them and will eventually thank them for purifying the timeline of heretics.

@dalias @pmdj

So who watches the watchers?

Are you the god the decides who can stay or who should go? Who gave you that power?