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meta (not Meta) - hashtag use 

@nic Or make the recommendation post unlisted - hashtags used in unlisted posts don't show up in the hashtag search. ^.^

Meta meta, NDAs, and union busting techniques 

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?

meta 

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, ...)

structuralists (power), solutionists (change), essentialists (identity) are all kinda the same line of thought, so good to see how I can connect my criticisms on all of them

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finally doing some more Culture & Society (uni course) writing, might have to edit my anti-techbro/solutionism rant a bit later, but good shit

wtf i clicked through to a post again and they're running gotosocial

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

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.

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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

my calendar shortened "result section deadline" to "result section deadl" with the last l looking more like a !

and yea...

a brief summary of the discussion points because I can't help myself, 1/? 

- A announces his intentions to buy a fanny pack; B is skeptical
- A talks about how much he liked it while on holiday to keep his belongings safe, they briefly discuss how much protection and utility various types of straps actually offer, B sees the advantages but thinks it looks goofy

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I can't stop thinking about that time we sat across from two gym dudes on the train who we witnessed, for the entire hour+ duration of the trip, intensely discussing whether to get a fanny pack in "Black" or "Eukalyptus" and what the fashion implications of it were and whether it would help him get noticed by girls in a depth that I could not adequately convey within any character limit

@haskal I think both types of opensource projects should exist.

If I just write some neat one-off script to do a thing, I don't think I should have to support it beyond what I need from it. I'll just open source it to give others who want similar things an easier starting point.

If I build an app or a library that I actually want other people to use, it is my responsibility to make sure it's as accessible as it can be

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