Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

If you're an instance admin, would you be happy to opt in to a 'list of trusted instances for people new to fedi who need a safe instance' that asks you;

- Are there BIPOC/queer/disabled/neurodivergent people on your mod team
- Do you maintain a block list, either importing from a trusted source and/or actively monitoring fediblock
- Do you proactively moderate
- Do you defederate from instances that don't moderate hate speech
- Do your rules prioritise safety of marginalised folk

#FediAdmin

These systems built by search engine giants can only generate correct answers to mainstream topics because they have enough data samples for those.

Which means they're essentially just a search engine that is capable of calling you slurs and always gives a wrong answer instead of saying "I don't know".

They've built a worse, more expensive search engine.

I love that GtS has a steal emote button

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I'm going to put this here now so I can say "I told you so" later, but from seeing #Bluesky's privacy policy stuff today it totes only exists as a freeze peach dataset to train AI and have the harvested data sold off to whoever wants it when it eventually tanks and the social media mask falls off of it. I think this also somewhat explains the completely bizarre labels feature so buyers can filter stuff out that's too hot for them easily. That's where they're planning on making their money

I met a Canadian tech worker who wants to know what his organizing rights are. Does anyone have connections who know about Canadian labor law & organizing?

please do realize there isn't a single thing online with any money in it that can't die the same way twitter did, the same way waypoint did, the same way everything does

if it has a billionaire's greedy fingers in it, it can and will die at their whim

we are in the looting phase of collapse and the only thing keeping whatever You love off the serving tray is that they haven't noticed it yet

OK, but: who ships a keyboard by, essentially, wrapping a single layer of cardboard round it, plugging up the open ends with card flaps each held on by a single piece of tape (meaning, yes, it's only connected on one side), and with the only padding being a piece of brown paper?

I'm lucky the only damage was a single missing keycap, which presumably fell out through the massive gaps between the tube-"box" and the flaps. On the plus side, it was super easy to get it out: I didn't even need to undo the tape, just pull one of the flaps out of the way. 😂

I dunno who needs to hear this, but this is one of the best things my therapist taught me. If you have ADHD, and you find something that works for you, but you're worried that you won't stick to it, don't worry about that.

Temporary solutions are still solutions!

"A social network is about the feature's you don't implement" - @nasser #causalislands

Being an admin or mod on fedi means you will be held responsible for the actions of your users and you will personally be held to a higher standard of behaviour than you're used to and you should maybe get to grips with that first

Depressing to see people respond to "would you block a Facebook instance" with "it depends on their behaviour"

Like, if the past 10 years of overtly malicious behaviour - *literally* including screwing over another federated protocol - weren't enough data for you, exactly where does the bar lie?

Being a mastodon admin is a tough job,, every morning my users send me hate mail, things like "website slow" or "videos still aren't working" or "can we please have an emoji"

Being an admin and mod of an instance absolutely requires the ability to step back when you get heated to assess the situation. Recognizing when you are in the wrong, taking responsibility when something messes up on the server or if your instance is becoming a problem in the wider community, and sometimes making hard decisions. You will never stop really feeling the urge to just keep giving chances or ignore problems because you do not want to start drama.

Our instance is not large, but I have noticed that we need to do the above things even more as we get more members and attention.

When I see people gunning to run a large instance, I have to wonder if they have internalized that. Sometimes they do. But a lot of times they do not.

If you run a big instance, you will eventually have to make a decision on whether to suspend your peers because they have been harassing people in ways that you are ignorant about.
You will eventually have to start tanking heat because you said something foolish or ill advised.
You will have to have awkward and uncomfortable conversations with your members sometimes, even they are your friends.
You are going to have to accept that you are not going to please everyone, and some instances will just not trust you.
You are going to have to decouple federation and unlimited access in your mind.

Microsoft: We have two different messaging systems that are both called Teams.
Google: Hold my beer, and my beer, and my beer, and my beer.

we have reached gas-powered lawn tool season 😔