Notices by Matunos (matunos@mastodon.social)

@mmasnick ah, yeah that sucks. as a small timer here I haven't faced much of that (don't fade many replies at all), but yeah my inclination would be to mute early and often

@mmasnick why ignore the replies here?

@crossgolf_rebel @jcrabapple @tchambers @fediversenews I'm not as concerned about more users changing the "culture"— people can set up their own instances and be as selective about them as they wish. ActivityPub is a protocol not a cultural institution. I'm more concerned about a potential "embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy from Meta.

@crossgolf_rebel @jcrabapple @tchambers @fediversenews I understand that's a concern (though for the most part I see it as unnecessary gatekeeping), but my point is that it can't have already had the impact if Threads isn't yet interoperable with ActivityPub

@crossgolf_rebel @jcrabapple @tchambers @fediversenews how can the addition of Threads have had such an impact when they're just testing interoperability right now?

@aral "We are witnessing the fundamental principle of humanity being openly disgraced."

@thomasfuchs what up with those clown shoes though?

@tchambers @activitypubblueskybridge but here me out: those birds at the beach need to eat too

@verge back to the porn!

@verge thanks, I hate it

@Mastodon @BBCRadio4 cool… and I just want to point out for @BBC_News_Labs that @bbcworld currently has 30k followers and that is a bot reposting from twitter.

so, would love to see an official bbc world news here

@ct_bergstrom

@yogthos yes I can definitely see them going after someone for using tor or running an open proxy service for a prohibited service, effectively becoming a middlemen for the banned service (though in the case of tor the question of intention might come in

@yogthos that's a definition, but the clause that references it in section (a) makes it harder to fit with an individual using a VPN simply to bypass IP range blocks (unless they're doing a lot more, like offering a public proxy)…

it's also unclear how the US government would even impose filtering such that a VPN is required for access, unless the service itself (eg TikTok) imposed a country filter

@yogthos the subsection a referred to is this?

not to say an inventive prosecutor might not try, but it seems quite a stretch to say an individual using a VPN to access a service like Tiktok for themselves would be violating any of those provisions