yeah, its good to mention that boosts is also really relevant for the microblogging side. I actually found out about this post because i follow ernest on calckey, and he boosted it. Thats for me an important usecase of boosting kbin stuff. This looks really pretty, but it does put boosting too much in the category of 'superlike' for me.
laurens
joined 1 year ago
hell yeah!
De server zelf is natuurlijk tof nieuws, en erg happy mee om te zien. Maar minstens zo relevant vind ik de toelichting van Alexandra Huffelen, waarin ze ook meer ingaat op het gedachtegoed er achter. Sowieso het benoemen van Elinor Ostrom, in de context dat digital spaces public goods zijn, is heel erg tof. Dit geeft wel aan dat dit meer is dan alleen een korte tegenreactie op Elon's Twitter, maar een structureel andere manier van kijken naar hoe je als land met het internet om wil gaan.
This conversation has been going on Mastodon for a while now. The problem kind of boils down to the following: there are people who think Meta is a bad actor and having the literal entire rest of the fediverse defederating is the best way of dealing with that. And there are people who also agree that Meta is a bad actor, and think that partial defederation is the best way of dealing with it.
Its really hard to come (read: impossible) to come to a consensus on this, because part of the argument about what is a better tactical approach depends on knowing how Threads implements things like account portability, and this is currently unknown. Most people even assumed that Threads would not implement this at all, but Adam Mosseri just announced that this is an important feature, so who even knows.
I have two accounts, one with my real name, that I want to be tied to my real life identity, and an anonymous one. They are simply for quite different purposes. I very much understand and appreciate the need for privacy by default. But for some stuff I dont mind that its public, and I actually prefer that. Like this post, for example. I'm fine with IRL people knowing some of the stuff I post on the internet. But most certainly I also want privacy, and them not knowing everything.
i'd prefer it even more if they just run it on their own website, and then hook the website up to activitypub so everyone can follow it on the fediverse. but yeah, using your own mastodon server would be such a great step forwards
ik was er bij, en de omschrijving van eo jongeren dag is hilarisch perfect. Neemt niet weg dat het wel een hele toffe conferentie was, hoop coole mensen gesproken
Pretty awesome, the overlap between BG3 and Starfield was kinda bad.
Yeah @maegul was the first to suggest it a few weeks ago. One of the reasons I like the term is how communal and organic it grew; it was suggested in a thread that was specifically about brainstorming for better names. Threadiverse got thrown in there as a potential option, and its been gaining organic usage ever since.
It was before it leaked that Meta's product will most likely be called Threads tho, which will be hilariously confusing. Not sure if the term threadiverse survives that.
yeah, this. I find the assumption that Meta is even interested in federating with most servers to be quite optimistic, to say the least. Especially the servers that have signed the fedipact. Its great for them that they have the freedom of associating, and thus say that they do not want to federate with Meta. Thats the system working as intended. But they by and large have different, more relaxed rules about content thats most likely against Meta's CoC, especially around nudity.
Instagram has around 1.3 BILLION users posting thirsty pictures at each other all day long, and they still dont allow nudity. I'm not sure why Meta would suddenly be okay with another of their platform showing nudity because a masto server with 20 people who hate Meta does like to post nudity.
I'm unsure what Meta would have to gain by paying server admins some amount of money, while they can also just simply not paying any money. Paying money to admins would get literally everyone mad at them, including most importantly, regulators. They could just... not do that? Just put out their moderation standards to get on the white list, and present it as a take-it-or-leave-it deal
yeah I think it would be good to do more. hashtags are clunky and an eyesore, and I would love to see better support of them that mitigates this. But currently they are the main way to signal discoverability on the fediverse. And posts on kbin are (usually) made with the intention that the public can interact with them.
One thing I would like to see is an extra field when you submit your post where you can add in some hashtags. These can be rendered as Tags in activitypub, which do exactly the same thing as hashtags, except that they are not visible in the main body of the text. The ActivityPub wordpress plugin also does this. I add tags to my posts on wordpress, and when you search for that hashtag, my wordpress blog post shows up, even though you'll not find the hashtag anywhere in the body of the text.