Notices by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (osma@mas.to), page 2

@evan
Typefully.com did a whole lot to make threads easy to write on Twitter, and now supports Mastodon, too.

(Still X first and foremost, plus LinkedIn and GPT, and $$, but their writing UI _is_ good)

Between all the ways Amazon has already been shit for years, this new one is my absolute favorite, because it's shit up front, not after you already were mislead to make a purchase of a shitty product.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/lazy-use-of-ai-leads-to-amazon-products-called-i-cannot-fulfill-that-request/

@hrefna
Moreover, if a protocol as all-encompassing as ActivityPub/ActivityStreams would need to first standardize a feature to the protocol foundations before anyone could implement that feature for their service, absolutely nothing could ever be done. It's hard enough today with so much of what has been defined in the protocol being so vague.

Standards-track RFCs require several implementations for a reason.
@oranadoz @mariusor @helge @risottobias

@evan
Thanks! Left a comment there.

A Place is not described as, nor does irs naming imply, a Coordinate. A Place could be as large as a football field, shopping malli, university campus, or a city. That has implications to what radius could mean - it's not necessary an error estimate.

What does it mean if an #ActivityPub message contains a type: Place with lat/lon coordinates and an accuracy attribute of 94.5 as per the spec example? There's a 5.5% probability that the location is wrong? Just a bit off, or completely, wrong-planet off? Perhaps the object is not a Place at all?
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-accuracy

@stevelaskevitch
WordPress is open source, Substack is not. Assuming for the moment you're asking in good faith, the question is: are there nazis with monetized blogs/newsletters hosted by Automattic on wordpress.com?
@mastodonmigration

There's a FEP for a policy setting to say who should be able to reply to a post.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-5624-per-object-reply-control-policies/2723

Associated Mastodon issue is at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565

There's also one for letting the original poster retroactively remove a reply from their post's replies collection, but I misplaced the link.

@mike @evan @kissane

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..