🎓 Dr. Freemo 
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@freemo@social.cleverlibre.org
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
Its about me.. its also very misleading, and one response an outright lie..The OP has me blocked but you can see my response herewhere i provide photo evidence as to the lie and address the misinformation
@PublicChaffinch Do you actually want a serious answer about UFoI? Happy to explain how it works if your legitimately interested in a discussion.
They are free to rag on me, no worries. But thanks.
@ColesStreetPothole @doot@jorts.horse
Actually I just checked, seems to be the first hit as of just now.
@doot@jorts.horse @killeveryhetero
We havent even had the site up for 24 hours yet... would you expect it to be ranking on google already?
@doot@jorts.horse @killeveryhetero
@alex Not surprisingly a lie from glitterkitten. Below are screenshots, as can be seen we never had a **single** report from their instance.
either that means the admin is bald face lying, or they reported us but did not check the "forward" box so we never got the report.
Regardless our rules have always been that we would suspend any user who did such a thing, but we cant act on something if we arent made aware of it.
Second as to the subscribe feature, you may not know this but its **already** built in on all mastodon servers in a sense.. all accounts have a RSS feed that give you access to public-only toots. Our subscribe feature gives you the exact same level of access as a RSS reader.
@killeveryhetero sure, have you seen the process and rul;es? https://ufoi.org/docs/apply-info/
If the unknown risks turn out to be quantified and the risks are higher than we thought I am happy to potentially wear a mask **if** wearing a mask presents a potential for a long term solution and is only a temporary thing.
We wore masks for 2 years, more than 2 years... I am more than happy to take my risks rather than wear a mask for the rest of my life, even unknown risks, as there are plenty of those.
Ohhhh, well in that case I need to check. You didnt delete your account? Was it suspended maybe? I can look when I get home.
@101101000
Not full hazmat, obviously, my point is it seems excessive, on the verge of hypocondria, but thats just my opinion.
A better way to think of it is "Is it worth living my whole life in a face mask, being uncomfortable, sweaty, and miserable, because of something that at this point is only slightly more lethal than the flu (early on it was much more lethal)... Id say no..
The truth is there are thousands of deadly diseases we can catch every day. Wearing partial-hazmat for a life time out of the off chance, the small chance, i may get injured is not a fair tradeoff.
That said I wont judge you if you decide to wear it.
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@yisraeldov @freemo @louis Rather than being premature optimization, this is late in coming. You might not be aware of this, but in the absence of a central authority, self-moderating instances have joined together to build domain blocklists that are shared widely and based on nothing more than the say-so of one or two people.
While mastodon does have plenty of tools we can use to block content that we don't want to see, many instance admins choose to really aggressively block entire instances without any due process or evidence or opportunity for counter-evidence. I've seen QOTO described as having "no moderation at all," something I know to be factually false. I've seen entire instances blocked because of the actions of one non-admin user, which is the right of any server admin, but doesn't bode well for federation. I've seen entire instances blocked *not* because of something anyone said or did, but because the instances were insufficiently aggressive in promising to seek out and block other bad instances. It's mind-boggling, and scary for anyone thinking about running an instance of their own.
Primarily at this point, the UFoI is about a guarantee of due process, which is currently lacking in the fediverse. It might not cause the super-aggressive blockers to change their approach, but it will at least guarantee that smaller instances won't be completely isolated from everyone on the whim of someone at a big server having a grumpy day.
If mastodon were as safe and friendly as you say it is, the UFoI wouldn't exist, and the hashtag for BlackMastodon wouldn't be filled with people saying that they're seeing worse treatment on Mastodon than the bird site. I'm glad your personal experience has been positive, but that is not the case for everyone.
@34a3cff1fb40 I have no idea where they relocated or even if they relocated.
I dont think anyone thinks COIVID is over really. They just think the time for masks are over and we cant live like that forever. The risks of COVID are more acceptable then a life in hazmat every time we go outside... I think this was inevitable and went on longer than one might otherwise have thought.
@sam@masto.dotsod.com @ufoi
I need to check, I think one of our instances was 50K users... across 15 members we have about 200K users
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
