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It is pretty frustrating to see folks' credulity and craving for attention/importance being exploited in real time.

This whole 'meet with some admins and make them sign NDAs' thing reminds me very much of union busting tactics. You (megacorp) are picking out the chosen few who crave love from daddy corporation, and convincing them selling out is the best thing to do for their community. It immediately creates division and identifies weak points for strategic exploitation later on.

It's like, super transparent. Maybe we should be looking to anti union busting techniques to help us out here.

How do unions successfully deal with corpos trying to have closed-doors meetings with select community leaders?

Zero surprise that the prominent fedi people meeting with Facebook/Meta under NDA all seem to be the usual white tech dudes with poorly-moderated instances that have disregarded warnings from the community about scale for a long time

Heard some rumblings about Meta having NDA'd meetings with some fedi admins.

GoToSocial will investigate automated blocking of Meta instances, as soon as we know more about what they're planning and what their software looks like.

Fuck Meta, they've caused more than enough harm elsewhere without wading into this place too; and fuck folks who are meeting with them in secret instead of simply and unambiguously telling them to fuck off.

Don't let those pieces of shit get a foothold here.

(Cue concern trolling and accusations of overreaction + elitism in 3, 2, ...)

ive been told to stop referring to merriam webbster as "the dictionary girly"

Jeff Newsie is about to Cohost himself probably https://honeytree.social/@jeff/110554449427954380

I truly do not know how it is possible to address the problem of needing to allow anyone to scrape your posts. you can't know what Algo providers the ppl you might want to see you use, and if you block them (if that's possible) you're effectively invisible from them.

Worse, there are actually two layers that make it impossible to control who can see you - posts are aggregated by gigantic scrapers and then feed generators subscribe to those. you might not even know which scraper the Algo gets posts from.

Here we can ban Nazi instances because they are a recognizable entity, registering a domain is too expensive for mass instance creation, authorized fetch is possible to do, and instances batch the problem instead of needing to do it person by person.

I dont see how you could stop someone from, say, making an algorithmic feed with every self-identifying trans person and then getting flooded by Nazis that can make as many DIDs as they want and you actually cannot lock down your profile.

what of the tv show Lost became lost media would that be fucked up or what

So my ES Modules post has ended up on HN (oh no) and it's very clear that, as usual, the HN commenters are completely unfamiliar with the history of the thing they're opining on

summer is by FAR the worst part of the year

Sometimes I see takes like "computers used to be able to do the same job using way less resources, software is shit nowadays"

And I can only wonder whether they've ever developed software back when real-time compositing was unaffordably expensive, and so was proper process isolation, and a million other 'modern conveniences' that make software, y'know, not suck