Notices by Jo (jo@blahaj.zone)

@maikel@vmst.io They suck. Set up in Austra when they bought out a bunch of our private health funds that were demutualised in the 90s thanks to neoliberalism. Unfortunately now a big player in Australia as a provider of private health insurance, aged care services, and private hospitals & medical centres. @billzismyname@queer.cool @nicod@pastel-pink.life @riversidebryan@hugs.lgbt @backupbear@aus.social @brett@bne.social

Remember when #Iceshrimp was a 'hate-fork'. 🙄 I won't be shilling for #sharkey the way I did for #calckey. I'm glad folks in other parts of the #fediverse called me out. In time, their gut feels about the vibe and direction of what became #firefish bore out. Tbh I don't think anyone could shill Sharkey like Atomicpoet & Kainoa shilled Firefish. Please don't prove me wrong though.

RE: https://transfem.social/notes/9oak9vj8jjlu0qrb

@crafti@pleroma.0x68756773.moe @pixel@desu.social @dev@post.naskya.net @robustjumprope@sakurajima.social Which version of the Misskey API are you using? There were changes to the API that coincided with the release of Misskey 13 in Jan. The new version of Misskey is a backend rewrite so plenty of things broke and are no longer compatible with earlier Misskey forks like Firefish. And unlike FF and Iceshrimp it seems you can run a 1500 user instance without db lags and fall overs.

@futzle@old.mermaid.town @clacke@libranet.de @loke@functional.cafe hehe this is the kind of country my late dad used to enjoy https://yewtu.be/zp58wc1QhBo

@feditips@mstdn.social True, except many of those who I am seeing via search are* asking about it with privacy in mind and are** being given false assurances.

@feditips@mstdn.social Not really true. I can see unlisted posts in search. See: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9i82hve0k6

5 million users already. The feed is garbage. GaysAgainstGroomers and LibsOfTikTok are already using quote posts to pile on. No fucking way that shit should be coming here. #fediverse #Meta #BlockMeta #ThreadsApp #Threads #Instagram #FediblockMeta

Cis male #fediverse influencers & mega-instance admins: "This! This is the glorious future of #ActivityPub !!"

Everyone else:




#Meta #BlockMeta #ThreadsApp #Threads #Instagram #FediblockMeta

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9gu7nefip0

@Jdreben@mastodon.world My admin @ada has been playing around with #kbin and just wrote up a few thoughts.

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9fgc8wqewv

@maegul@hachyderm.io @Jdreben@mastodon.world @christianselig@mastodon.social kbin also worth checking out. Flagship instance is https://kbin.social/ cc @ernest@kbin.social

Some thoughts about #fullsearch of federated-with instances. 🧵 1/2

1. Conflating any ill will you have with Supernovae at #Universeodon, with the issue of search indexing on the Fediverse to justify your fediblock won't help resolve the issues around search.

2. It isn't global search. While we shout, lock down, and don't participate in building the additions to our protocols that the #Fediverse needs, we've been letting #Google index the Fediverse. It's already searchable and Google's new Perspectives tab is going to make it even easier. Maybe we could fight that rather than keep thinking it doesn't exist and continuing to write ineffective Facebook-viral style "I do not give permission..." copypasta?

3. The #Fediverse does not respect your do-not-index-my-posts flag. It never has. It can't. It's not supported by the #Mastodon API, as @supakaity@blahaj.zone explains, and nor is it supported at #ActivityPub level and will need to be added into a new AP protocol.

Every instance server from the #Misskey (#Calckey, #Foundkey), #Pleroma (#Akkoma), and #Friendica (#Hubzilla, #Streams) lineages has full search of federated-with instances as default. All these services actually pre-date the creation of Mastodon in 2016 you can read @Polychrome@poly.cyber.city 's post for their commentary on such. Fediblock all of them to create your very own #Mastoverse or you could become part of building a better, safer, Fediverse? Perhaps through participating in the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals? #FEP


#FediblockMeta #meta #FediblockDiscussion #nosearch #fullTextSearch #FediverseSafety

@daisy@eightpoint.app Who knows? 🤷♀️ It's Misskey-flavoured markdown so probably really popular with Japanese users and has crossed over to the Anglosphere through #Akkoma and now #Calckey

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social And as I said before to you, I'm not asking marginalised folk to CW - though it does happen regularly that trans folks ask other trans folk to stick the news behind a CW after there's been a deluge of genocide posts that become overwhelming. Some do some don't from that point, but it cuts down the barage of posts nonetheless. But, if you're none of the marginalised groups and you're all boosting and putting your spin on the news, then sorry stick it behind a CW. Even the schadenfreude was overwhelming. He was everywhere in the timeline. @supakaity@blahaj.zone @ada@blahaj.zone @kainoa@calckey.social @unattributed@calckey.social

I'm a bit fatigued atm, so I haven't replied to a thread I'm in with some of the #calckey .social mods about moderation and safety tools, but here a snippet of what I did have prepared to say:So here's the rub, the fediverse will not let calckey.social get away with the same crap that they begrudgingly let mastodon.social get away with. You will be silenced and Fediblocked long before you get their leverage. But we're absolutely not at that stage. This is not anything near the whole Pleroma and Gleason thing. It's far, far, far, far from it and I'd hate to think that my public raising of concerns as a neighbour of calckey.social would lead to any platform-based defederations at this stage.

It's real kick in the face to suggest that #Calckey devs and mods don't care about safety.
Blahaj.zone is actively, not passively, moderated. Our front end admin @ada has decades of cross-platform moderation experience and she puts our safety first, while our backend admin @supakaity has been working to improve safety tools on our instance and many of the other enhancements we've enjoyed here have been PRd and merged into the main Calckey release. I will not stand silent while my friends are tarred as being part of an unresponsive or unconcerned platform, particularly when many of the issues are #fediverse issues-at-large

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#fediblockmeta #fediblockdiscussion

@kainoa@calckey.social

It's been pointed out to me that some of the confusion with what I'm posting is that we've been largely talking at cross purposes.

I've been talking about proactive moderation things you could be doing, that are common across large parts of the fediverse - though now kind of given up on in some of largest instances since the birdsite culture takeover. You guys keep talking about reactive moderation and letting you know when I see things. I've not really had an issue with that.

It isn't a case of you not responding to egregious rule breaking, but rather my perception that calckey.social, is replicating what I've seen is the new cultural norm on many general instances. It's the sub-par mastodon.social vibe.

I'm railing against the kind of moderation style that non-black tech guys seem to favour, one that doesn't taking proactive steps to mitigate an environment that becomes passively hostile but rather waits till things are actively hostile. It's what folks have been pointing out about re Black Mastodon and why many are now supporting a Mastodon centralisation push for mod tools, third-party curated blocklists & patching up the workarounds that bigots use to target folks.

Doesn't it seem kinda shit though that media spoilers require a content warning on calckey.social, but stuff that's painful for black or trans folk to be regularly bombarded with is like, "CWs? Meh, it's news"? 🤷♀️ @atomicpoet@mastodon.social And when @unattributed@calckey.social 's first interaction with me goes straight to "where do you draw the line", I realise that we won't find common ground soon.

It sucks that queer and black instances are becoming increasingly siloed on the much championed "queer-built" fediverse, and our neighbours think these norms are all a bit over the top on our part.

I've added some screenshots to fill out the vibe of what I'm arguing.

@ada @supakaity

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social
The examples I've given aren't about marginalised folx being put behind CW. They're about marginalised folx asking people to put CWs on news and commentary about folx who hate & murder those folx. I'm sorry, but it's been black and #trans folks asking white and cis folx to stick that stuff behind a CW. It is fucking traumatic to see that stuff and barely have a chance to scroll by. I follow @e_urq@journa.host and all my #trans siblings for the non-CWd stuff. There's no need for everyone else to post unCWd tragic stuff beyond boosts.



@ada@blahaj.zone @shoq@mastodon.social @thatonecalculator@stop.voring.me @panos@calckey.social @jo@calckey.social @kainoa@calckey.social @atomicpoet@calckey.social
@unattributed@calckey.social @kristian@calckey.social @youronlyone@calckey.social

@atomicpoet@mastodon.social It hasn't been about abuse of QTs, mostly because the crowd are the tinkerer crowd; but the lack of mods - perhaps you need a mod broadcast account - being in the timeline to say "hey we CW that here" when folks are talking breaking news about politics, that Fox guy getting sacked, or the young black man who was murdered on the subway, is what visible, active moderation is all about.

As a trans person I had to get out out of there when the timeline devolved into Fox guy talk. And some folks there were posting last night (my time) that they were distressed that most users weren't CWing when posting their takes on the chokehold killing of a black man. If you want to rail against mastodon.social poisoning #Fediverse social culture, there's a start right there.

I'm @jo@calckey.social there, if you hadn't already realised.

@ada@blahaj.zone @shoq@mastodon.social @thatonecalculator@stop.voring.me @panos@calckey.social

@ada @shoq@mastodon.social It's still only getting half of it right if #calckey is gonna be a voice for decentralisation of the #Fediverse but not for safety. There's a large conversation going on about marginalised folx and safety and most devs seem to be absent from following it, and the evangelists silent in raising it.

Let me point you to my QT of part of just one of @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 's threads in case you've never seen them.

It's absolute privilege to be pushing the tech conversation with the bros while absent from the ones about actually existing safety issues.

Moderators seem almost invisible at calckey.social for example, despite @atomicpoet@mastodon.social stressing moderation when allaying fears about QTs; it's often left to individual users to mention using CWs, and for the most part folx there aren't using them. That's taken a lot of the shine off for me tbh.

@thatonecalculator@stop.voring.me @panos@calckey.social

I can't code for shit, and it's only a small contribution, but I really do love what #calckey brings to the #Fediverse. Sometimes I'm even one of it's noisier critics. 😘
https://opencollective.com/calckey

@mmayo@hachyderm.io All in on the fediverse but your "fully featured" app can't do basics like show posts from servers other than Mastodon? Sure bro. @timbray@hachyderm.io @nova@hachyderm.io @hachyderm@hachyderm.io @quintessence@hachyderm.io @WMitchellBaker@moth.social @mammoth@moth.social