Notices by Osma A (osma@mas.to), page 2

So while for sure Substack must be held accountable for their own decisions, and there is no reasonable defense to distributing and monetizing fascism, consider the entirety of the ecosystem. There are parties who are far, far harder to circumvent, but should be held equally of not more accountable.
RT @fraying
https://xoxo.zone/@fraying/111619772734822732

It's the rules of Visa, MasterCard and Amex which both enable Substack to host and monetize fascist content, and predicated Wirecard's ascent both to a payments powerhouse AND russia's primary agent in the European finance market and German national intelligence.

It's fine to be mad at Substack - in fact, you probably should be. But they're not the start of the problem. The credit card associations are. These organizations, which should simply enable cross border payment according to international law, also enforce very idiosyncratic rules on what classes of business are allowed to receive payment. In those rules, for example
Nazism is fine, but sex work is bad.

@evan
Have you actually ever seen fine grained control employed at scale? Because there have been numerous implementations, in the social media domain including Google+ Circles and Facebook's grouped friendlist & visibility settings (not to be confused with Facebook Groups).

It's my experience that even those who loudly complain about these things don't bother using fine grained control when made available.
@colo_lee @kissane

@fu
That's not how federation works here.
@tchambers @Zindswini

@mike@flipboard.social
I wasn't able to see @mike@flipboard.com from my Takahé instance at @osma@fishpool.org so I dug a bit -- it kind of looks like the WebFinger endpoint at flipboard.com isn't universally accessible? I can fetch it from my home IP, but not from my Hetzner server, for example. The latter gets a CloudFront-originated 403 error.
https://flipboard.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct%3Amike%40flipboard.com

Random ideas for special-purpose ActivityPub services that are not Mastodon, but you could subscribe to at will:
1. Sports league game updates
2. Stock market opening and closing prices, significant movement
3. Weather cameras in your region
4. Your own doorway security camera
5. Traffic disruptions in your region
6. Public transit schedule changes
7. New and updated tasks in your project management or source control tools
#SubscribableArchitecture #ActivityPub

@helge
You're right on all counts. However, @evan told me directly that's in the spec.

Sadly, Mastodon doesn't implement the spec, and as the leading system, sets the stage for the entire fedi.

@Gargron
@wikicliff @daniel @hrefna

To flesh out what I was thinking. Consider user X on server A, whose toots are federated to user Y on server B.

If A blocks B, (future) federation is broken. If X blocks Y, federation isn't broken but follower relationship is.

However, if B has replied to A's toot prior to a block, what controls does A have to remove B's reply from the timeline of server A, server B, or an unrelated server C where user Z may follow either X or Y?

#ActivityPub

@evan
Thanks! I don't recall seeing a feature for muting/removing/demoting a single reply from a conversation/thread in any client, but such a feature should therefore be possible.

Activities are not always pushed, though - the most obvious situation is a QT, which can cause my client to request a toot which hasn't been seen by my server yet. Also, visiting a remote profile for the first time, authorized_fetch.

When an ActivityPub server fetches a remote post from its origin server, does it also fetch (references to) replies from the origin, or maintain its own list of replies? Is there any concept "authoritative list of replies"? Thinking also in terms of is there a method for the OP to demote replies as a hyperlocal moderation feature.
#ActivityPub

@pfefferle
Then it must be me who is confused!

@pfefferle
Well, you can see that https://fedidb.org/software/wordpress lists servers, users and posts. I think it collects the latter two figures from the Mastodon API, since those aren't part of Nodeinfo..

@pfefferle @pfefferle.wordpress.com
I wouldn't even have noticed, if https://fedidb.org/software/wordpress had not been quite sparse about what it can tell about current installations. My first go-to was to look at the nodeinfo response.. But perhaps that was a red herring. Quite possibly more to do with the lack of /api/v1/instance stats - though I wonder where the numbers FediDB now shows came from.

@pfefferle.wordpress.com
I was trying to look up Wordpress stats on FediDB and Fediverse Observer and ran into some weirdness. Then I started looking into Wordpress nodeinfo and webfinger results.

I don't think this response should have backslash-escapes inside the JSON?
https://pfefferle.wordpress.com/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:pfefferle.wordpress.com@pfefferle.wordpress.com

@m
Mastodon's migration is woefully inadequate, though. Partly because of ActivityPub's identity tied to the hosting server, partly because Mastodon refuses to import profile history from an inbound source.
@benny @feditips @emurphy @stephan

Ah, well - a Private Group as it shows in @dansup plans for #pixelfed is effectively the same as a Circle was in Google Plus and Twitter. Well, not quite - the people in the Circle don't necessarily know who else belongs to the Circle, while in a Group, they can see that. I think.
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110967361367064007

Don't know exactly why, but I got curious about what it would look like if a fedi platform implemented Circles. Some people run multiple different accounts to emulate that, but there's no reason you couldn't do them as a feature. Well, apart from replies to a Circle-directed toot not getting addressed to the same Circle without some help from somewhere.

No need to clear new land for solar power. Panels can coexist with agriculture, and even help it since many crops thrive in partial shade and/or benefit from water retention under the panels.

“Maize is grown by about 50% of farmers in Tanzania. Maize is also a sun loving plant. So the fact that we had an 11% yield increase in maize [under solar panel arrays] is a phenomenal result,” he said.

#solar #renewables #agriculture https://apnews.com/article/climate-beer-solar-panels-hops-germany-ee3d00a1877837eb85053335e3b68a00

@berlinbridge
1. Find a seed bunch who boost or converse - also look at who they follow
2. Take a look at your server's Local and/or Federated feeds (though this is not that great on a general-purpose server like mastodon.world)
3. Search for a hashtag, then follow it - at least until you find the people using the tag you want to follow directly
4. Follow a bot like @FediFollows @feditips @trendytoots
@anderspuck