Notices by Dash 🇸🇬 (dashrandom@kopiti.am), page 2

A non-zero part of Mastodon’s user community has effectively modeled itself on a kind of social Puritanism that is super unfun to be around. It’s gotten so bad that it’s a meme at this point. Just imagine a stereotype of a stodgy librarian who tells you to CW your own lived experiences because they don’t want to see it, and you’re already halfway there.

There’s this wild idea that any kind of commerce or barter, any kind of exhange between hands that isn’t the most threadbare mutual aid, is forbidden and bad and going to make this place worse somehow. We’re a network predicated on GoFundMe’s and vast amounts of unpaid labor for hosting and moderation.

“Growth” as a concept does not have to be viewed solely through the lens of Silicon Valley, venture capital firms, or capitalism in general. In the context of the network: some people here, myself included, want to see the network develop along enough to sufficiently challenge the status quo, and dethrone mainstream social networks.

For the #Fediverse to thrive, we inevitably have to bring in more people, new communities, and new ways of doing things. We need to build towards better concepts for user agency, privacy, and control. We need to also embrace the fun stuff that brought us here in the first place.

After some preliminary digging, it seems that the parent company AIBY Inc, has Russian ownership. Sigh. Not only that, they make a ton of very scammy apps like a "cleaner app" for iOS and a document scanner app for iOS and Android. This is on top of their list of garbage AI enabled apps...

https://aiby.com/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cleaner-kit-clean-up-storage/id1194582243

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bpmobile.iscanner.free

@cheeaun Don't feel too bad about it. It wasn't your fault for not knowing, bad things happen to good people sometimes.

Hey Google, what's the deal with letting this obvious Chat-GPT clone that's harvesting so much data (wtf financial data for an LLM app?) stay on the Play Store? 🔔🔔🔔

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.chat.gpt.bot

Really enjoying "Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall" by Zekw Faux.

TIL the most expensive Apple Watch strap is more expensive than the most basic Apple Watch itself. Mindblowing.

C'est la liberté, égalité, et fraternité que les Français adorent 😏 Je l'ai vécu moi-même tellement de fois en France. Nous aimons tous les belles paroles.

https://www.koreaboo.com/news/cannes-film-festival-security-accused-racist-treatment-girls-generation-yoona/

@kitten_tech @dansup @pixelfed I was about to suggest crypto as a solution actually. But the transaction costs for micro payments could be pretty unacceptable for most people 😕 probably only Bitcoin Cash or Litecoin would have acceptable transaction rates...

Trying out one of those sideline gigs that Youtube content creators say will generate X amount of dollars per week! I went in eyes wide open not expecting anything and I can say, whoever the fuck said you don't need any upfront capital to get started is lying through his teeth, unless you have experience with website hosting, payments processing, graphic design, integrating services (and troubleshooting them), SEO, and digital marketing, among other things, you're going to need to pay someone.

I just finished writing a 58 page Requirement Spec in 4 days. I feel like my soul has left my body...

Mastodon has hit 2 million active users today. 🎉

@dansup ah good point. You're right, you'd also have upfront costs as the services may not run back to back with monthly billing. There's quite a bit of liability. Good thinking!

@dansup API for those who are running containerized instances of Pixelfed where SFTP access may not be the most convenient.

@dansup why not both? Fully hosted instances appeal to a different crowd vs the ones who are concerned about total data sovereignty and know how to spin up a VPS or compute instance and administer it.

That said, I would think your idea is more appealing to the segment of people who use the Fediverse in general. I'd like to suggest being able to set everything up with just SFTP access or some kind of API baked into the app + license key (similar to how many WordPress plugins do it).

Say all you want about Telegram and it's supposedly Russian origins but after the recent news about Protonmail complying with legal requests to provide an account's recovery email and this article about Signal and arrests made in conjunction to data they've provided, I can only say I've never heard of a single arrest made because Telegram complied with local law enforcement requests.

P.S. if it isn't obvious enough Moxie Marlinspike works for the US government. Likely NSA.

Signal’s Katherine Maher Problem | City Journal

https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem

Hehe

https://multithreadedtees.etsy.com

@houfu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWfYxg-Ypm4

My Mastodon server, cyberplace.social, has received a legal threat in an attempt to have a user's thread deleted. It is styled as a cease and desist.

I have published the email here:
https://github.com/GossiTheDog/Cyberplace/blob/main/LegalThreats/Cease%20and%20Desist%20Order%20-%20Felix%20Juhl

#mastoadmin