Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 10

Note also that #QuoteBoost almost certainly had no significant role in organizing the brigading, since it doesn't widely exist yet in the Fediverse.

The tools that worked were distributed architecture, domain blocking, & local moderation.

Someone I follow was brigaded yesterday, on Mastodon. She blocked domains, & moved on.

To me the episode demonstrated 2 things:

1. Masto's not immune to brigade attacks - all its tech solutions couldn't *prevent* the attack.

2. But when the attack came, the basic architecture (distributed) & a basic tool (domain blocking) was able to quickly mitigate the issue.

Also notable: False-reporting was one of their tools, & it *might well have worked* if she wasn't on her own instance. (See 1 & 2.)

@atomicpoet
I think @evan may be more pragmatic than the post might make it seem. FWIW I think his take is accurate, & suspect Jack at least (perhaps not Jay & others) has literal contempt for genuinely open efforts.

That said I think I've also seen Evan say he's happy to work on bridges. (Which arguably defang AT.)

@fediversenews

@goatsarah
oh dear. missing quite a bit more than that I'd say. Or maybe not *missing* it at all.
https://youtu.be/_tUctFu46_c?t=12

@goatsarah Wish I had the patience & topological brain for that. I always sucked at lanyarding when I was in scouts. all 3 of my siblings (2 brothers & a sister) were great at it. Brothers used to do these elaborate, almost architectural things. Sister has been making complex, practical stuff out of braided & knotted cord for 50 yrs. Me? I can do a 4 strand plait.?

@goatsarah That's interesting. Could one use that to simulate quantum computing (presumably slower)?

@goatsarah
No, I'm not seeing that as bold, which really makes me wonder how it's happening.
Bold/italic is not common, but I do see it. @jupiter_rowland has explained how I'm seeing links.
@atomicpoet

@atomicpoet
Huh- I thought it had this already, since I'm seeing what seems to be link & basic text formatting markup in a lot of posts. Is that some kind of accidental "support" - i.e., if your markup is minor enough it'll get ignored or just won't break stuff? Or are the instances of origin doing something special?
@fediversenews

TIL* that the late & lamented #AaronSwartz created #Markdown.
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*or got reminded, maybe I already knew.

@Gargron Glorious, yes, but also sad.