Notices tagged with fediblock
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 04:40:08 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
As with any censorship resistant network, both #Nostr and the #Fediverse are going to have to concentrate some energy around anti-spam and on improving user-level curation tools.
There are other reasons, of course, but weak curation tools lead to #blockwars such as #fediblock. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Dec-2022 21:21:04 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1606738748284215296 https://farside.link/nitter/Snowden/status/1606738748284215296
I normally avoid reading anything that Mr Snowden says or writes, but this somehow got shoved into my timeline, and I generally agree. Most of the things that #blockwars / #fediblock fragments the network over are not worth the lost connections. Certainly not every time, but most of the time. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 22:34:42 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
> there's multiple bands of psychopaths who go around trying to cut the links that bind the network together, using various justification but always with the same effect: silence, increasing isolation, and hatred
I would not have put it that strongly. Psychopaths? Really?
#blockwars #fediblock -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 17-Dec-2022 20:03:54 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
> Later on Truth Social Mr Trump said the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were "very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting".
> The "one-of-a-kind" assets in the digital world can be bought and sold like any other piece of property, but have no tangible form of their own.
> They can be thought of as certificates of ownership for virtual or physical assets.
> Advocates say NFTs are the digital answer to collectibles, but critics have warned about risks in the market, which emerged from the wider world of cryptocurrency. Activity in the space has dropped this year, alongside a plunge in cryptocurrencies.
As I understand it, the actual files of #NFTs tend to be hosted on #IPFS, but if someone doesn't "pin" the files, they can eventually be deleted. And some have been hosted on a regular website, which really stinks if and when the site shuts down or even rearranges and replaces its former content with something new.
> A report for the US Congress this year noted that NFT sales have been used to collect credit card and other financial information, and been subject to other scams.
Which isn't surprising. Every other sales channel has been abused that way, from restaurant purchases to retail stores, to mail order. This line makes it sound like those are unique threats to NFTs, but they are part of the danger when one uses a credit card to buy anything.
By the way, #Trump's #Truth_Social #socnet is supposedly a modified version of the #Mastodon software. As far as I know, it does not federate (so there's no need to get excited about #blockwars and push #fediblock). -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 01:58:05 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://prodromou.pub/@evan/109498060348615260
@evan@prodromou.pub @evan@identi.ca ( and formerly @evan@e14n.com ) has said this a few times, but here it is again.
"Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.
You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.
You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.
You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.
Just stop posting.
Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.
Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.
Stop feeding your life into the machine."
This was true before Elon #Musk bought #Twitter, but I guess it wasn't as important before.
I don't fully agree, simply because there may be some advantages to many people who continue to use Twitter instead of moving to the #Fediverse (e.g., #GNU_Social, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey, #PixelFed, #Lenny / #Lemmy, etc) or they would have moved over already.
Also, because unless one self-hosts one's own presence, an angry instance admin is all it takes to lose all posts and connections and have to start over. Or, if one has contacts on a different instance, then irate instance admins participating in #blockwars (including #fediblock) can separate the person from some portion of their contacts.
So remember, everything that Twitter is or can do to you, your Fediverse instance can also do. Most instances will never do most of those things, but pretending that one is safe here could result in disappointment in the future. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 11-Dec-2022 21:11:03 UTC 
Alexandre Oliva
seriously, has #FediBlock reversed the long-established civilization practice of placing the burden on proof on the accuser? and now people have to work extra hard to falsify made-up accusations?
burdening opponents with impossible tasks in response to trivial moves is a well-known trolling technique.
well-meaning fediverse operators, beware! -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 03:55:09 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
#CW #FediTreta #FediBlock
I don't have all the facts, but so far what I've gathered is that some .br instances mandate CW use for politics, whereas the largest .br instance, devoted to left-wing politics, doesn't. some users of the smaller instances tried to impose their CW standards and were pushed back. the operator of this larger instance publicly mocked attempts to report political posts by herself and other users to herself, celebrated blocking of nazifascists, and publicly rejected the imposition of CW standards. an instance operator, a trans woman whose demands were turned down got into a fight with feminist women who lamented the lack of feminist .br instances and the little feminine presence. other instance operators started getting reports of the larger instance, insinuating racism, transphobia, involvement with kiwifarms and hostility by the operator. the trans aggressor used a seemingly masculine nick and had long blocked the attacked operator, so the latter used the wrong pronoun for the former, and that became evidence of transphobia. someone claimed her large instance was widely blocked, a user from another instance posted a page that showed the instance was only blocked by two tiny instances, and the fact that the page was generated by a tool allegedly written by kiwi farmers became evidence that the large instance had connections with it. tensions around CW policy made room for negative subjective judgments. instance blocks and counter-blocks ensued -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 00:58:43 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
#cw #feditreta #fediblock
"micromusks"!
great meme! -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 22:52:32 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
#CW feditreta fediblocks
going back to English because my point was to put it on the record that you've done it to defend your instance and your users rather than as aggression, because so many of your actions have been maliciously misrepresented in this episode
I personally find it worrying that the system is structured such that if instances don't block back, they get defederated. that seems like incentives for building walls rather than community. I hope #FediBlock moderators won't fall prey to that, and will revise their rules to avoid being exploited and manipulated into promoting injustice and harming the network. blocking, silencing and muting were meant to promote tolerance, but this is evidently a case in which it's been abused to serve intolerance. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 22:26:03 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
#CW feditreta fediblocks
going back to English because my point was to put it on the record that you've done it to defend your instance and your users rather than as aggression, because so many of your actions have been maliciously misrepresented in this episode
I personally find it worrying that the system is structured such that if instances don't block back, they get defederated. that seems like incentives for building walls rather than community. I hope #FediBlock moderators won't fall prey to that, and will revise their rules to avoid being exploited and manipulated into promoting injustice and harming the network. blocking, silencing and muting were meant to promote tolerance, but this is evidently a case in which it's been abused to serve intolerance. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Feb-2021 00:51:30 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I think #Blockwars (and its #Fediblock subsidiary) is a negative thing for the network.
I want these sites to give individual users much more control over their own interactions, so that instance admins can concentrate on protecting against things which could violate laws or ToS. Someone uses racist, sexist, right-wing / left-wing negative stereotypes? Block them yourself.
Years ago, Pownce had a feature where you couldn’t just subscribe/follow someone unless it was mutual. I think Friendica had that at one time, but AFAIR, that was removed in order to federate better with StatusNet and Diaspora. Pownce was acquired and shut down, but we haven’t seen a lot of networks (federated or centralized) pick up their secret sauce and build a better burger with it. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Nov-2020 17:13:32 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
See, for example, #fediblock on an AP-enabled instance. In fact, the whole #blockwars thing is really fascistic. -
pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist: (p@freespeechextremist.com@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 19-Apr-2020 06:11:49 UTC 
pistolero :thispersondoesnotexist:
@r000t @alex @vriska
:bigred: Are you still using Twitter? Come to the Mastodon Network™, featuring the Fediverse!
:chotchkies: Why, what's on there?
:bigred: I blocked like two thousand people today!
:chotchkies: I mean what is on there that you *like* to see?
:bigred: I...I don't remember. I spend all my time trying to figure out who to block next.
:chotchkies: How is this different from what you did on Twitter?
:bigred: ...
:chotchkies: Why do you even use these sites if you block everyone?
:bigred: ...
:chotchkies: Huh, no reply. Must have gone to bed.
:bigred: #fediblock recommendation! CW: alt-right shitheads, cryptofascists, open fascists, capitalism apologists
:bigred: I RECOMMEND BLOCKING :chotchkies: LIVE TO BLOCK BLOCK TO LIVE -
opal (wowaname@anime.website@anime.website)'s status on Friday, 17-Apr-2020 19:34:30 UTC 
opal
is this how im supposed to use the #fediblock tag
8bb4b516629b66616af8f132c69a29e… -
kyzh (kyzh@rage.love@rage.love)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Mar-2020 17:51:25 UTC 
kyzh
Great block list:
https://wowana.me/fediverse.xhtYou will see that fosstodon is now, by the nazi themselves, considered a nazi instance
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