ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

Regular reminder Mastodon ActivityPub and the Fediverse have nothing to do with "web3" or "crypto", at all.

It's a DHT behind ActivityPub AFAIK. Not "crypto" technology but boring old computer science.

Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/21/tumblr-to-add-support-for-activitypub-the-social-protocol-powering-mastodon-and-other-apps/

And they mention the word ActivityPub! In the title! In a major article! Not just "Mastodon"!

Wow!

GOP and the media are angrier that Naomi Biden, the grandchild of the President, had a White House wedding they weren’t invited to than they are about the grandchild of a Republican elected official murdering 5 and injuring 18 in an anti-gay rampage

Priorities, amirite? 😒

To my fellow instance admins:

Please don't tell Black people and other people of color to leave your instance and to go find another that's preferable to them.

That's like telling people to go find another neighbourhood. And you know what that sounds like?

Segregation.

Let's not segregate the Fediverse.

@stanstallman @mergerson In reality, the server was trying to *protect* her against an impersonator.

Disturbed by reports of Black Mastodon users—Black women in particular—having negative experiences on this app, including being randomly banned for discussions of racism. Some of these users will not come back. All will share their experiences. The answer is not to condescendingly lecture them on “how the fediverse works,” as if their experiences are inevitable, nor to swear to do better next time. (There may not be one.) It’s to do better now lest the reputation of this app be cemented.

Doing a bit of an experiment. Boost if you agree!

Trans rights are human rights.

Black lives matter.

No human is illegal.

Love is love.

Her body is her choice.

Science is real.

Kindness is everything.

A 20-year-long Indigenous-led movement to undam the Klamath River just won the largest river restoration project in history! FERC unanimously voted Thursday to remove the four lower Klamath dams starting next year! The salmon are coming home for the first time since 1918.

Hearing strong indications that lawmakers will try to move the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) during the "lame duck" session. This is a terrible bill that won't make kids safer online but will subject them to censorship and surveillance. It could lead to biometric age verification, widespread removal of LGBTQ+ content, and a bunch of other bad crap. Very few civil society groups have spoken out against it. We need #LGBTQ groups especially to sound the alarm. Plz help spread the word if you can

U.S. Supreme Court clears way for lawmakers to get Trump's tax returns https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-clears-way-lawmakers-get-trumps-tax-returns-2022-11-22/

It’s good to see engagement and use growing here. It would be healthy to have a social platform free of the billionaire oligopoly and the corporate ad folks, don’t you think?

Making a home for myself at Mastodon after a decade on Twitter. Love to make the plunge but where is everybody? #manuscripts people seem hard to find, as are #medievalists. I will jump if you are!

@llebrun Mastodon has rules against discrimination. The owners of those servers cannot always see them. It is up to us to flag these #Horrible actors and help kick them out.

I currently have no plans to start a Hive Social account. Its privacy policy is hugely lacking. It was allegedly created by a person named Kassandra Pop who now goes by Raluca—that's all I could find so far. And it has two employees (Raluca and a full stack engineer), neither of whom appear to specialize in security. Gonna roll the dice and hold out on this one.

And here is @Gargron addressing the moderation issue outlined above.

Some bigger questions about how these systems are set-up, but at least someone is stepping forward and showing accountability:

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/109383947978442853

Update: Good to see @Mastodon being responsive and I'm sure it was an innocent mistake, but these mistakes keep happening and they point to deeper issues with the approach to moderation over here that really need to be worked out. A lot of responsibility is left on the shoulders of volunteer mods. Things could be more transparent and less arbitrary.

I hope people take some of these concerns that have been surfacing seriously rather than just tell people to go find a different server or whatever