Notices by nilesh (nilesh@fosstodon.org), page 2

@dansup I don't understand. What's the context?

#math #dance

#Switzerland mandates #OpenSource software for all public software!

This makes perfect sense. Public software should be transparent. #India could have taken a lead on this, but our digital public infrastructure is mostly closed-source - with predictable consequences. 🙄

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

#Firefox latest version is 128 - exactly double of v64 when it dropped support for RSS/ATOM feeds: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox

It's all been downhill. 😒

@steve @silverpill @smallcircles @zicklag I think a lot of harm has happened because of the dominance of #Mastodon, and not because of ActivityPub spec's limitations. Mastodon was built as a Twitter clone - an app where users both create and consume the `Note` object type. It ignores all the other object types.

This forced all other ActivityPub apps (eg: Pixelfed) to shoehorn their content into a `Note`. Though, Mastodon is soon going to support `Article` object type.

@ntnsndr @kbbeen Have you tried elicit.com?

Is there a free #Mastodon / #Akkoma / #gotosocial host that would let me create accounts in bulk and run some automated feeds through them without considering it abuse?

Has anyone built something like "Login with #Fediverse / #ActivityPub" as social login / oauth identity? #Mastodon perhaps?

Has the #Enshittification of #Ubuntu begun?

.deb packages are no longer installable: https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-disappointment/

Example of LLM hallucination wasting humans' time 😦 https://hackerone.com/reports/2298307

@amodm Liked the bit on brevity v/s terse vacuous truisms. That stuff is truly insufferable. 😀

But I think the culprit is something else, not short-form per se. The medium pushes everyone to try to be an influencer of some kind rather than genuinely ask questions or express opinions. Twitter being personality-centric is a big part of it.

Mastodon has similar issues. And it has another problem of monoculture of ideas. Still, 500 chars allow for much more nuance than on Twitter.

Remember kids, there's a pernicious reason why #Google redirects "http://maps.google.com" to "http://google.com/maps".

Because of this redirect, the location permission that you grant to Google Maps also automatically becomes available to Google Search - making your search queries more valuable to advertisers.

#privacy

Whoa! BBC has set up their own instance (http://social.bbc) in #fediverse / #mastodon ! 😲👏

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

It is such a no-brainer for media, academic & govt orgs to own their identity AND platform on social media. Nothing really beats "user@domain".

#activitypub

Here's my offer:

I will provide free managed hosting to any Indian media org (or any other type of institution) who wants to set up their own fediverse instance, like BBC did.

Please spread the word! 🙏

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub

Is there another #activitypub server implementation (besides #takahe) that supports multiple domain names in the same instance?

I don't think #mastodon #gotosocial #pleroma support it.

We need to be cautious. As fediverse becomes popular, it's going to face more challenges.

Expect abuse (spam, astroturfing/disinformation) because there's no limits on creating new identities and there are no strong mechanism for identity verification/reputation. If we don't solve for this soon, we may see 4chan-ification of ActivityPub because remember, our moderators are unpaid volunteers.

@drpaulitious Yeah, that doesn't happen automatically. Game theory teaches that "niceness" gets exploited unless there are mechanisms to disincentivize this.