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jdp23

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FYI: I'm now using @jdp23 more than this account. See my pinned post for more.

strategist, software engineer, entrepreneur, activist ... also at @thenexusofprivacy and a bunch of other places

#strategy #equity #justice #technology #policy #disinfo #privacy #algorithmicJustice, #intersectionality #activism #organizing #software #startups ...

And #nobot without permission. Opt-out isn't consent, but it's the only real option we have here.

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fromjason , to random
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Americans don't make a 180 on Palestinian support en mass without Black and brown activists putting in the work and organizing on TikTok.

We don't have the same powerful conversations about Black liberation without Black activists educating us for free on TikTok.

To attack them now because they're not on your little decentralized platform the way you think they should be is fucking wild.

Have we considered maybe this place isn't as inviting to POC as we think it is?

I'm out for a while.

jdp23 ,
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@fromjason what did I miss? oh never mind, I can probably guess.

jdp23 ,
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@benroyce I was at a meeting that was primarily Black and brown activists who focus on media, and when the TIkTok ban came up the dialog basically was "it's a very effective platform for Black organizers,, of course they want to ban it." "Yeah but it's also Palestians and Muslim Americans are using it effectively, so of course that's also a reason they'd ban it."

jdp23 ,
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My experience is that when there's a disconnect between how the experienced Black, Latiine, and Muslim organizers who were in that meeting see things and how others do, it's the experienced Black and brown organizers who are right. I don't think they're particularly attached to TikTok, they see it as problematic but useful -- just as Insta, YouTube, Xitter, and Facebook are problematic but useful (and also very much helping the GOP and Netanyahu).

@benroyce

hrefna , to random
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Tired: "70% of bugs are caused by memory safety issues"

Wired: "70% of bugs are caused by scope creep"

Inspired: "70% of bugs are caused by overworking and underfunding developers."

jdp23 ,
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I remember once being at a presentation at a large software company by a NASA person who casually mentioned that bit flips were more common over the South Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly and there was a collective gasp as everybody simultaneously realized that they had never really thought about this and oh geez their software was getting used on manned space missions.

@laxla @hrefna

jdp23 , to random
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@FediTips I'm experimenting with domain blocking. Can you see this post?

jdp23 OP ,
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Thanks @marypcbuk ! Hopefully everybody but @FediTips can see https://indieweb.social/@jdp23/112157073221450380 ... but FediTips had said that when an individual blocks a domain in practice it's just a mute (something I had also heard from @tokyo_0 and others) and if so they can see the post. That's not how it seems to me when I experimented by domain blocking an instance with one of my other accounts, so I wanted to double-check

To be clear I only blocked FediTips's domain to experiment and will unblock soon!

hrefna , to random
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Yeah, any time I think it might be good to get involved in SWICG I just have to look at how disputes are handled and how comments play out to know that this is something I need to stay far away from.

Getting involved leads more to frustration than to change. I just don't see the point unless I want to get heavily engaged, enough to actually drive change Eventually™ in the future, but that's a road to burnout.

Mad props to those fighting the good fight, and I already have three (to four) jobs

jdp23 ,
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@SoniEx2 The worst that can happen from investing time and energy in effort in a situation where the cards are stacked against you is wasting all that energy, frustration that affects other work as well, and burnout.

The best that can happen is that you don't waste too much time and energy, avoid frustration and burnout, meet some interesting people who become allies, and get some good stories to tell. Investing less time and energy is usually a better path to that.

@hrefna

jdp23 ,
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The way I look at situations like this is in general to start by thinking about what an achievable good outcome might look like and how my involvement could make it more likely. For SWICG, given the agendas and perspectives of the key stakeholders, the constraints of the W3C process, and the aforementioned "cliques and other problems" ... well maybe it's a failure of imagination on my part, but so far I haven't come up with a good answer.

@SoniEx2 @hrefna

hrefna , to random
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Draft of my (to-be) FEP for audience targeting and filtering is up at https://github.com/larpconnect/featherpub/blob/main/feps/8f9c/index.md for those that are interested.

I haven't submitted as a FEP yet (and won't for a while), but that's the ultimate goal for it.

jdp23 ,
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@hrefna cool, glad you're doing this, from a first read it makes a lot of sense. Totally agreed o the distinction between scoping and an access control mechanism! One minor potential correction: the Design segment says "MUST NOT contain any fragment other than or ", presumably it should also allow ?

hrefna , to random
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Imagine for a moment that I'm on hachyderm, but I prefer how tooters (to pick a random server) does moderation.

With atproto-style labels and a little bit of elbow grease I could make it so that their classifications would propagate to my account and I could decide what to do

Without me having to move servers

Like… just sit with that for a moment

Yes, there are complications in doing that well, yes, I would prefer private feeds for it, and also… just consider what it would look like here.

jdp23 ,
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Yeah, great thread all around -- thanks @jenniferplusplus for tagging me. We're all groping towards good answers. I agree that the ATProto architecture is extremely individualistic and is framed as an alternative to fedi's instances, which can provide some amount of place and community. And I also agree that fedi's current mechanisms for place and community fall far short of what's currently needed -- for example private cross-instance groups are a key feature but don't yet exist.

@hrefna

jdp23 ,
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I look at the ATProto stuff both in terms of potentially-useful building blocks on its own and also as a lens to look at today's fedi. For example I agree with @hrefna that labelers and custom feeds are potentially very good useful for the kinds of things that CWs try to address but don't. And I see it as a good thing that the ATProto architecture makes Relays explicity; they're also important in today's fedi but there's not of awareness of that.

@jenniferplusplus

jdp23 ,
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And it's interesting to think about how to build federated communities on ATProto. Rudy Fraser's moderation article (which is great in multiple ways) has a quick description of what he thinks would be needed for a Blacksky community. For federations of communities (caracoles. / fedifam) you'd probably also want a Relay (as you would for fedi) and AppView.

https://blog.rudyfraser.com/the-moderation-article/

@hrefna @jenniferplusplus

Bluesky's vision for the future is at least aiming for a world where communities can own different parts of the stack without needing to be isolated. So for me, the next question is "what would it really take to get there?" For Blacksky, | think it means at least owning a custom feed, block/mutelist, moderation service, PDS, and client. | can't build it all myself, and as others have pointed out I'm not a trust & safety expert, nor am | rolling in Y Combinator money but -- I'd like to give it a shot ©.
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    hrefna , to random
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    Okay, now that I'm less tired, a more salient point:

    Opt-out is not "you haven't consented," opt-out is "we have a situation where there is generally consent and we are giving you the ability to revoke that consent."

    For instance, if I'm setting up a mastodon server, the fediverse has a generally granted consent for me to do the things a normal mastodon server does, but they also provide a(n imperfect, more on that some other time) mechanism of consent revocation: blocking.

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    jdp23 ,
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    @hrefna Good thread as always. But I'd phrase it somewhat differently: opt-out is not informed affirmative consent. We had a multi-year legislative battle on this in Washington state and https://vimeo.com/indipluswa has several excellent two-minute videos of people's testimony, including "Opt-out doesn't protect survivors" and "Opt out is not informed consent" (looking at it from a disability perspective).

    devnull , to random
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    Does anyone know what is needed by Mastodon to successfully surface a toot in search?

    When I paste the link to a post, it doesn't show up in the search results, but it does respond with a json+activitypub object and shows up fine in @crepels's explorer, which I think is just a fork of Mastodon? If not, it's a very nice clone 😄

    jdp23 ,
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    Is the indexable flag set on the account? That controls whether it's opted in to search.

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