Cleaned up my "Following Hashtags". ๐ My main feed is more sane now, seeing content of the people I actually follow and care about. ๐
It's easy to just click follow on a hashtag, and if you end up following a very popular hashtag(s), your timeline gets unwieldy (and potentially useless).
@youronlyone The first time I heard "sus" was in connection with the game Among Us. "I suspect" a certain character. I also hear it used to express dismissal due to suspicion.
@royal It's amazing. I mean, the concept of Among Us, if I understood it correctly (I haven't played it ๐ ), was similar to classic offline games and board games, like Cluedo, yet we didn't shorten it to "sus". ๐ I mean, we din't say "you're sus, I think you're the murderer", yet we did say something like, "bbl, I'll buy a drink" or "gtg, bye".
Among Us really did leave an imprint in cultures and languages.
@TerryHancock Ooh! A British expression too and different. In a way, I can relate to the British expression "suss". It's like saying, "silly me, it was that simple".
@EllenInEdmonton Yep! I thought it was just me, but Kim Sejeong was not able to display authentic emotions here. Or, maybe, she was overshadowed by the 2FL. She did well in her previous works but on this oneโฆ I guess she struggled picturing her character as someone who can express emotions, so it was like forced/purely acting. She got too much into the background of her character?
I'm seeing "sus" used a lot these days but I' m not sure if it means the same way it means in #Filipino .
In Filipino, it's an expression that has existed since the 20th C. It can mean, "dismiss" (an idea/object), "meh", or "frustration". We pronounce it literally as /sus/ (/์ซ/) (/แแแแ/). It originated from the expression "susmaryosep" which is the shortened form of "Hesus Marya Yosep" (Jesus Mary Joseph).
The #Kdrama#BrewingLove ( #์ทจํ๋๋ก๋งจ์ค / Chwihaneun Romaenseu (lit. Drunken Romance)) is not your ordinary #romcom , it is an inspirational story. What was inspirational? It depends on your own life experiences, you should watch it to find out. ๐๐๐ซ #Romance#Comedy
@riffraff Wow. I like their winner-loser assessment, especially outlining the who's who in the region's geopolitics.
It's indeed hard to predict where this will lead to. The concerns of the other countries in region are truly justified. So many possible new futures (and new conflicts as well).
Also met my brother-in-law. Thanks for the food treat. ๐๐ฝ We also discovered a very good Indonesian Coffee shop. I think it was "Tomoko Coffee" (I thought it was Japanese).
@Scofisticated Yep. It's really hard to balance especially if the group/corp behind a platform already have a history, which in the case of Meta, no one can deny. ๐
And in the past years, there are more and more companies who say one thing to the public but is doing another secretly (for whatever reasons, like maybe their investors demanded them to). Then we just get surprised once it leaks. *sigh*
@Scofisticated Ahh! Well, the way I understand it is, if your post is duplicated there and they run a generic/all-public-posts to data mine, then yes. Since the way AP works is to create a pseudo-profile in each instance your account was seen/followed, and thus your posts/replies from that point on, then you exist in that instance.
However, if they'll only run such for local accounts (if ever they do data mining), then all we have is trust. In the same way that we trust the other instances our followers are on.
For example, I now have a pseudo-profile in your instance with some of my posts/replies recorded there. I can only trust your instance admin and host from hereon. In the same way that you do for our instance. It's similar with Threads, they're technically an "instance", who happens to have more funds and is a corporation.
But, if we think about it, it's the same with others like Wordpress, Flipboard, Ghost, and other big companies. Like any other instances, we can only trust that they won't do something or are not doing something for federatid content (since we're technically not their users/customers). (I'm not saying they are or they will, just examples.)
1. I can't make #Mostr to interact with a Fediverse-Threads account, thus, no Fediverse Profile is created on Threads side, which makes it impossible to follow a bridged #Nostr account via #Threads (since Threads doesn't offer Fediverse rccount search yet).
2. Fediverse to Nostr seems to have stopped. Of the random accounts I checked on the #NOSTRich side, the most recent sync was November 28th, followed by November 23rd. Although Mostr's status page is showing all systems green.
3. However, BskyBridgy to Nostr is working fine, almost real-time. (I didn't check Nostr to BskyBridgy.)
@Scofisticated You mean, if a random user will do it? My personal take on that is, there will always be individuals and groups who'll do things someone doesn't like, but all they can do is access what is already public.
They can do it using any software or platform. If they're serious about it, they can develop from scratch, connect to a few ActivityPub relays, and data mine public posts. They don't exactly need to use existing platforms like Threads or Bluesky or Mastodon or GoToSocial, to mention a few.
There were incidents in the past (almost) 17 years of the Fediverse where tools/services were made to do something similar, most especially in searching/discovery of _public_ posts. So, yes, it doesn't have to be Threads. People who wants to data mine public content without the consent of the creator can do it without using existing platforms and software.
That brings us to, is it worth it to blanket ban users from Threads because of some random individuals who "might" data mine your content from that platform when they can do it with any other software or create their own?
I'm not defending Threads, just putting things into perspective. ๐
A good example. If you're bridging to Bluesky, all posts created in the ATmosphere network is public. Last week, there was already an issue of someone who posted/collected a million or so record of posts. The user who did it was banned, and someone else did the same, with an even larger sample.
I'm not definding them but I think it's a good example of two things: public is public; and there will always be people who'll do things we don't like, like not asking us for permission. I'm not saying we should be passive, but within the frame of "should Threads be blocked because of this possibility", is it really worth doing a blanket ban / instance block, when the reason we have in mind can be done outside of that platform? ๐
Again, I'm not defending anyone nor dismissing anyone's concern. ๐๐ฝ