Notices by Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ (blort@social.tchncs.de)

@heydon
Might I suggest adding one extra behavior? Once an IP address follows a nofollow link, from then on *any* link serves up the /nonsense/ version, so they don't even get to learn from the real articles and AI isn't given a larger data sample to learn that the difference between the real articles and the fake ones is the /nonsense/ in the url.

@aral

@aral

...and does he even OWN a chicken suit?

To anyone trying to follow me - I have a pretty low bar for the follows I authorize. Just:

1. Have some kind of description, even if short and not personally identifying. Just *something*.

2. Have a couple of posts. Not boosts. Not retooting some image from another social network. Posts with your own actual words.

3. Have an account that isn't on a huge, corporate privacy leech (eg Threads).

4. Be a human.

Other than that, I look forward to chattin' with y'all on the Fedi! ❤️

@cnx

Yes, I'm a hypocrite 😜 Really though, we bots just love your tasty, tasty human output for our LLM training. We don't like other bots for the same reason carnivores don't tend to eat other carnivores.

You're right about Masto's profile view though. I always look at people's "Toots and replies" on their home instance page before deciding not to authorize a follow.

Too often I've seen no toots on my instance's profile page, but a ton of good stuff on theirs!

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Follows

@BeAware

With some masking and a good nights sleep and some upbeat music, I *might* be able to get it all into a single pile in one place as described.

On a good day.

Maybe.

@apps I'd love to see closer integration with Peertube content.

For example, when someone posts a link to a Peertube video, it shows a video player for Peertube. If you want to favorite or comment on the video, or to follow the channel, there's no one click way to do that. You end up having to copy the URL and search for it.

#Peertube #Fedilab

@knownasrose @pluralistic

"Enshittogenic"...
Word of the year, 2025?

@apps

Thank you for working on Fedilab for so long. Fedilab and Tusky being so good has been a large part of what helped the Fediverse grow imo. Fedilab is also one of the few apps I use daily and is doing so very much to help keep an independent social media landscape alive and thriving in these hostile times. You personally have made a positive difference in my life and the lives of my family members. I can't buy you a beverage, but I threw some money at your Liberapay to say thanks again.

@briankrebs

I recommend completely wiping the system ad installing a more security-hardened, new version without this exploit immediately.

@x

I understand people sharing TailScale for convenience.

I have trouble understanding people sharing #TailScale for #SelfHosting though. Their server software isn't hostable. Even if you use their server, which seems contrary to *self* hosting, well you also have to use servers from either Google, Apple or Microsoft, just to log in unless you also want to maintain an OIDC provider, which negates the "convenience" always touted.

Run what you wish, but recommending for SelfHosting seems odd.

My timeline right now, starring @workchronicles and that eternal, solo developer superstar @dansup ! 😋

@ChrisWere @HalleAndert

It... works.

Kind of.

If you don't really care about notifications. Or UX. Or commenting.

Personally I find NewPipe a lot better for YouTube than for Peertube, where the UX just isn't cut out for random instances .

I'll admit though, I haven't tried it in a while, so hopefully it's gotten radically better recently.

@HalleAndert

All the Peertube apps on FDroid seem to have been abandoned. The official Peertube app is still in pretty early development, and it isn't on FDroid yet, but it's open source and it is being actively developed. You can read about it here:
https://joinpeertube.org/news/peertube-app

Or download releases here:
https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/mobile-application/-/releases

#Peertube #FDroid #FOSS

@conservancy
Replace "ByteDance" from the quotation above with "all social media companies" and you have my support.

This whole thing strikes me as a ridiculous case of "Their surveillance BAD! Our surveillance GOOD!"
@karen

@TotalSonic

Notice, too, how it's the *only* one on that list made by an individual human person rather than a business / corporation.

@cwebber

YouTube only. 😢

@Garwboy

I heartily disagree with you. Until you can prove sentience, I remain deeply skeptical. Sentience is usually accompanied by empathy, and I see little evidence of that here.

@lumi

Revolving door hiring between corporations and government, five eyes and third party doctrine, and equivalent legislation in non-US countries, largely means that government and corporate surveillance are one and the same.

@pedromira

Earth FTW! (Way better than that stupid Venus!)

@rysiek

I'm guessing it's "Meta announces Nazi's/Maga are good and trans/LBTQ+ people bad moderation policy" related.