Notices by Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to), page 2

Are we ready to decarbonise yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QtZz70rh6U

No? Some more pain first? Ok, then.

#climateChange #climateCrisis

"Meta notes that you can’t reply to replies 'yet,' so it sounds like that feature will arrive in the future."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies

They could build #Threads in a few months. The single function of being able to see #Fediverse replies has taken almost a year—and you can't interact with them.

If you think this is someone operating in good faith, there's a bridge I'd like to sell you.

#FediPact #Meta

👣🧘♀️ LOTUS LOVE🪷😇

As rainy season deepens lotus plants emerge from the muddy beds of ponds, reaching above the waters to unfurl giant leaves.
In a few short weeks alien landscapes appear where once there were only bare stretches of water.

In Kyōto 'kanrensetsu' (観蓮節), 'lotus flower viewing', coincides with the culmination of the Gion Matsuri...almost as if the flowers have appeared to welcome the gods of Yasaka-jinja into the city.

#Kyoto #京都 #lotus #ハス #蓮 #Japan

Cat trap was delivered, in-laws set it up with food. Yuzu (what we've decided to call the orange and brown cat that seems to be Mugi's littermate) went in, ate all the food, and left because it's too light to set off the trap! So they set it up again with a weight on the trap, and sure enough, within 20 minutes, they caught a cat. A different cat. 😂

This one seems to be related to Mugi and Yuzu, about the same size with a similar face, but brown striped with a white belly.

@mark_melbin Which part is "throwing him under the bus"? She's misrepresented his motivations? Or the comment about nothing changing? Or is some of this new information that would be relevant to his case?

@retrosponge @mayaisloading Was going to write the same thing 🙌

@trumpet The instances would still be authorized, no? Afaik they're not marked as bad actors right now (and from their point of view they're working as intended, too). I don't think what's being done is malicious, either. It's just a problem with how the Fediverse works right now.

@trumpet That happens here, too 😅 Yeah, it was Google I was looking at. You were right, though — there are other (non-Mastodon) instances besides GNUSocial that seem to be doing the same thing.

@fbievan Yup. Building like this is hopeless. Nothing is ever more secure than its most vulnerable point. There needs to be much more coordination between developers to get these kinds of things lined up. I think there's going to be a new version of ActivityPub at some point soon - maybe that'll take care of some things. I don't hold out much hope though.

@fbievan That's the thing. I really think the length of time the Fediverse has existed, this should probably already have been addressed. And if for some significant reasons that hasn't been possible, now would be a really great time to address it 😅 How many years to they need?

@fbievan I think the fundamental design of how the Fediverse works is being tested in this and similar ways across the board right now, because presuming good faith unless proven otherwise isn't scalable. Having more and more users but relying on the same number of admins to police abuse isn't scalable (even though it means there are more mods here than in conventional centralised services). And if something isn't scalable, magic thinking ("it'll be fine") won't make everything fine.

@fbievan I agree it probably isn't going to be fixed. But I absolutely think it should be. It should be possible to share posts so that they can be found via hashtags across the fediverse without having to make them web-public. It should be possible to share posts instance-only. And having other instances respect whether content should be indexed should be part of the good-faith expectations of peer instances across the fediverse. Otherwise all the promises and guarantees are just utter tosh.

@fbievan And while perhaps they didn't very specifically say that wouldn't happen, I'm just so sick of this "yeah, yeah it's a great platform in all these ways (except from these very evident design flaws we don't tell you about and carefully word around to never explicitly mention, and don't fix, and never talk about)" nonsense. There are so many things that are not as they should be. Even the "block domain" option on the standard Mastodon web interface doesn't actually block the domain.

@fbievan It's under Settings > Public profile > Privacy and reach > Search

They've changed the wording around it since I set it. I'm pretty sure it used to just say about allowing your content (in general) to be indexed, and in practice on your own Mastodon instance I believe that is what it does. None of my posts show up from my own instance in engines like Google.

But they do on other instances.

Wonder how many #Mastodon users know when they set their account not to be indexed by search engines, that setting is ignored by other #Fediverse platforms.

How is it acceptable that there's no joined up protocol or consensus to protect users' posts in this basic way, or even to communicate clearly on settings pages about what is and is not exposed to search engines?

How come I can't share a post that can be found within the Fediverse (via hashtags) without it being made public outside of it?

@trumpet Ok, thanks for looking at it. I'll let you know if it keeps happening.

@trumpet It may be a problem that's too big for mas.to to solve, but it's still a problem. What's the point of having settings to stop posts from being search indexed on the open web if a big chunk of #fediverse instances don't respect that? My understanding is that well-managed instances are supposed to choose not to federate with instances that do that. Mas.to is well-managed, and I think this issue is bigger than one instance. There needs to be a conversation about it.

#MastoAdmin #MastoDev

@trumpet In Google? I was searching before for "tokyo_0@mas.to". The mentions are either people's posts. Those will be indexed or not indexed according to their settings, so there's nothing I can do about that. Looking again today I can see a couple of Misskey instances that have done the same as GNUSocial—that's something I hadn't seen before, and I don't think it means the GNUSocial issue isn't a problem, I think it means all these search results are a problem. 🤔

Zero days since I was reminded #Threads is a cesspit.

@todwest Hmmm, maybe people playing with AI 🤔