Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

The group of people who are trying to divide the fediverse seem to have reached a new low.. They have a tool that lists how many instances block a particular instance, but it is highly manipulative.

For starters it is hand curated.. so they exclude blocks against their own instances and only includes instances they actually dislike.

Worse yet they curate a list ordered by "most blocked".. problem is they use the number of instances that block. They game the system by having large number of single-user instances. So instances in the top 50 may only be blocked by a few hundred people but still appear as if the blocks are significant....

This is why we need transparency, its why we need the https://UFoI.org

#mastoadmin #fediblock @ufoi #UFoI

@Bro666 @austinkocher @Mastodon

Or even better: everyone with its own domain like it was with blogs you can follow with RSS feeds.

Do you know what Mastodon did wrong? Too many users on instances that blocks entire other instances for ideological reasons and their users are not aware (or fooled into thinking their instance is kindly blocking "bigotry", "fascism" etc).

#UFoI This is why the "United Federation of Instances" initiative recently started: https://ufoi.org/

To understand the size of this "war" between people fragmenting the Fediverse and people trying to stop this trend, be aware the a person from the latter side was harrassed by people from the former to the point of having a seizure when was messaged with the image of a man violently killing a woman and the text "kill yourself".

Is this whole thing worse than Twitter? If you consider the impact of Twitter on the whole society maybe no, but from a human point of view what these Mastodon pioneers did is much worse.

@PKMNLives@masto.ai @freemo @realcaseyrollins @ufoi @casey-magazine @stux

"[Qoto was] defederated for many reasons (some receipts attached) that had nothing to do with that users, and everything to do with their moderation policies or rather lack thereof."

I find this fascinating... "receipts" paraded about in fact show sensible moderation policy, rather than a "lack" of anything. Is it possible claiming "receipts" hoping for no discussion of them or actual reading of them takes place? Looks suspicious, like a bad actor move. How does #UFoI "legitimize" this?

I was gonna start a website called MoreWrong to parody the "rationalist" website LessWrong, with randos calling themselves "AI researchers" without an iota of a track record, and joke about air strikes on GPU clusters. Then I realized that I'd get arrested rather having profiles and platforms on TIME magazine, NY Times and such, since I'm not a white dude.

Seeing people post positively about Substack now that it's challenging Twitter.

Reminder: Substack is also centralised. Worse, the business model is basically to take what would once have been blogs and paywall them as premium 'newsletters'.

Substack is not a friend of the open web.

I would love more people to know about Plausible Analytics (@plausible). So many great things coming together: small team, tech choice, open source, privacy focused, self-funded, highly transparent. Much respect for what they do.

I can’t accept pens from drug companies because it might influence my prescribing, but a supreme court justice can accept millions in vacations and luxuries from a political influencer and we’re expected to believe it had no effect on his decision making?

It would be handy if there was a @matrix homeserver package that could handle multiple domains, like @takahe does for ActivityPub. That way many small groups could give their members matrix accounts using their own domain names, while sharing the work and expenses of running a single homeserver.

#matrix #Takahē #CommunityHosting #ActivityPub

If NPR is “State Media” because it’s 1% US funded then why isn’t Elon’s Twitter account “Saudi State Media” when it’s 4.5% funded?

A large F150 pickup backed into my Mini Cooper while I was parked in the school drop off line this morning. The driver said they didn't see my car at all. If you can't see a whole ass car behind your truck, how are you going to see a pedestrian or child!?