Notices by Philip Mallegol-Hansen (philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com)

@evan No, but it is my (naive, perhaps) hope that commercial activity utilizing the Fediverse does so while attempting to further the social goals many of us here share.

E.g., not scraping all public posts and selling them to advertisers.

@kaia @linux_mclinuxface To finish the analogy, Kyle’s colleague is like “nobody cares about pasta” meanwhile we have a whole pasta convention they just aren’t attending!

@evan Yes, but they should be opt-in. And we need to have good answers to the problem of how you can/should process my data if it's on your device (I.e., screen sharing in a call) to respect each other's rights to our data.

@cwebber I don’t know what “decentralized” means, but I keep hearing about how much fun* bluesky is.

*Fun is limited to those in the good grace of the Turkish government and may be revoked at any time.

@mekkaokereke Anyone saying things like that, just show off their ignorance.

Oppression is just as much a mind game as anything else. The oppressor is counting on taking away our joy, our solidarity with one another, our will to live and fight another day.

Allowing yourself to experience joy, and share that joy with your community? That’s an act of resistance, and it’s crucial to ensuring we all collectively show up again tomorrow.

@evan Right, that makes sense. Sorry for the stupid question.

I guess in the back of my mind I was assuming you were referring to some of the E2EE work, or something else new.

@copiesofcopies @ben

@evan I don’t doubt that you’re right, do you have an example to point to? It’s not obvious to me how. Sorry if that’s daft. @copiesofcopies @ben

@aral Turns out making the international transfer from my US bank account is harder than it should be…

I’m committing to visiting my bank in person this afternoon to try to make it happen though @Codeberg.

@rysiek and in Denmark we have Bjarne Riis, which can easily be pronounced to sound like Bjarne-r Is.

@mekkaokereke Wife got me a food processor. Perfect timing for our 6 month old son to try purées of various kinds!

@evan Qualified yes for me. It seems like an almost perfect example of something that should be entirely the parents’ decision.

So “should”? Not for me to say. But the parents should feel free to make their own decision on that.

Given that today is #Thanksgiving in the US, I want to take some time to thank some of the people I appreciate here on the fediverse.

I’ll add more to the thread throughout the day, in no particular order.

@GeePawHill Thank you, for the constant reminders that it’s cool to thank people who matter to you. In these hard times more than ever, thank you for that. It matters.

@cwebber and @evan Thank you for ActivityPub! I can only
Imagine how hard you worked to make it happen, but you did it.

It gives me hope for our technological future, that people like you are working to advance our fabric of open, interconnected, standards.

@mekkaokereke @StillIRise1963 You both force me to face some really uncomfortable stuff about the industry I work in, and the country I live in.

Your posts sometimes make me angry, they make me uncomfortable.

Thank you for that, I need that. We need that if we’re ever going to learn to be better towards each other.

Please don’t ever stop.

@folkerschamel If it were by design, wouldn’t that by definition be by @cwebber’s design as a coauthor of the spec?

I think she can speak to the design of the fediverse better than the rest of us :)

@jerry You see what you did Jerry?

@mekkaokereke Man that’s fucked up.

*And* it’s fucked up that I didn’t know until you said it.

@StillIRise1963 Probably changed the law so rape isn’t “rape” anymore, but rather “non consensual sex” which is totally legal?

@ryanc Does one dare ask why the installer would think that was the right course of action?

@evan I’m definitely not arguing you’re wrong (Your poll, your rules). Ur I really don’t consider YouTube a social network.

Now I’m curious if I can put a finger on why that is, it’s not immediately clear to me.