Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

In 2016 I was active on facebook. I participated in a lot of political discussions and groups. And I was totally taken in hook line and sinker by right wing trolls posing as the left spreading rumors about HRC.

I'm being open about how I was tricked because I think of myself as pretty sharp. I hope at least some of you don't think of me as a dummy. It can work on anyone.

It can work on you. If you think it can't? That just makes you more vulnerable.

Hackstream is een HackerSpace 'in oprichting' in #Dordrecht

We hebben een website: https://hackstream.nl

En een irc kanaal: #hackstream op liberachat.

En we kunnen afspreken bij de DEC: https://www.pi4dec.nl

🦾until we have technical fixes for this sort of malicious domain spam, I think we all need to make an extra effort to report malicious instances proactively to aid admins, who are overwhelmed keeping up.

But there definitely should be technical solutions.

Also: stop telling people dealing with these problems that they are solveable with mastodon as is. It’s not that there aren’t ways to deal with malicious instances or bad faith actors, it’s that the volume of malicious instances and bad faith actors is too high for the current solutions to handle.

🦾we need technical solutions, but we also need to change the culture of passivity here.

As many people on here are all too quick to point out, there are some existing tools to mitigate this. Blocking. Reporting them to your admin. Defederation. I’m sure yall can think of others.

The more of us doing those things, the safer the fediverse is. You do not need to be a programmer or admin to report malicious instances. It should not all be on black users to fight this alone. Or on any other marginalized group. If it is, they will pick us off one by one.

We outnumber the fascists, in the end, and every time they have to get a new domain to evade our blocks, it costs them money :)

🦾mekka is correct in his assessment that #mastodon is being turned into a nazi bar imo. You can here see the mechanism by which that happens. It doesn’t require most instances to being Nazi, it requires a small group of Nazis going around harassing the people they don’t like until those people leave while nobody stops them.

The people the Nazis like may not notice other people getting “jumped,” because *they* get treated “well” by the Nazis. But next thing you know, the bar is de facto whites only, then de facto straights only too, and then soon it’s just nazis as everyone else is gradually run out of town as they take “living space” and colonize the place.

This must be actively fought and resisted, or yes, #fediverse will become “that place the nazis own” and activity pub will fail.

How to approve and merge a pull request professionally? With two developers and their yubikey as authentication, using the briefcase of launching.

Despite the harmful politicization of masks, recent studies show that:

1️⃣ Stricter mask and vaccine requirements would have saved hundreds of thousands more lives in the US

2️⃣ 70% of people in the US supported mask requirements

Just waking up on monday and WOAH good fuckin job UK folks, biggest trans march in the world there over the weekend https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/trans-pride-march-london-rights-lgbtq-protest-ltp-b1173447.html

can fedi trans girls tell me if the "Hormonzentrum Karlsruhe" is fine?

I’ve done terrible things for money. Like getting up early to go to work.

Ik had 50 ventieldopjes gekocht omdat ik ze altijd kwijtraak.

Raad eens wat ik kwijt ben...

Import / export of account data via CSV files will be coming in 0.17.0 :) No more having to run scripts + CLI tools to import a list of accounts you follow, after doing a migration to a #GoToSocial instance.

"i'm exploring a new library recently"

"i've been gifted a book of powerful spells, and i've been focusing on mastering them"

holy shit!!!!! a paper on autistic burnout!!!!! among other things demonstrating that it's a real phenomenon and not the same as depression or job burnout

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/aut.2019.0079

If you follow any of the #GoToSocial developers you've probably seen this going around already, but 0.17.0 of #GoToSocial will be the first release that includes interaction policies, aka reply-controls.

In the first iteration of this feature, you'll be able to configure your account so that new posts created by you will have an interaction policy set on them, which determines whether your instance drops or accepts replies, likes, and boosts of your posts, depending on the visibility of the post, and whether or not an account trying to interact with you is in your followers/following list.

So for example, you will be able to create Public posts that can only be replied to by your followers and people you follow, or unlisted posts that nobody can reply to or like, etc.

GoToSocial interaction policies will be a superset of other reply control proposals created elsewhere (and already implemented by softwares like Pixelfed and Peertube), so your GoToSocial instance should recognize interaction restrictions set not only by other GoToSocial instances, but by Pixelfed and Peertube as well.

If you're interested in reading about how this will work on a protocol level, you can take a look at the documentation here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/federation/posts/#interaction-policy

Please note that this feature is not 100% finished yet, and may be subject to change before release. We're aware of where the headaches and difficulties are, so please don't reply to this post griping about them; we already know (and this instance is still running on 0.16.0 so no interaction policies yet).

Thanks for reading :)