A new security fund for the fediverse, and the Lemmy developers held an AMA.
The News
The Nivenly Foundation, the organisation that administers the Hachyderm.io instance, is opening a new security fund to sponsor contributors who disclose security vulnerabilities. All software has security vulnerabilities, and the fediverse is no exception. The recent Pixelfed vulnerability, which affected non-Pixelfed servers, is a clear example of how fediverse software can make software vulnerabilities more complex due to the interaction between different software platforms.
The Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund will sponsor $250 USD for vulnerabilities that are rated as high risk (7-9 CVSS score) and $500 USD for vulnerabilities with a critical score (9+ CVSS). The program will run until the end of September 2025. Nivenly members “hold a member vote to determine if we want to continue the program, and to establish a longer-term committee to steward and maintain the program.”
Last week, I wrote how Pixelfed’s vulnerability actually showed three different problems: The main problem is Pixelfed’s software vulnerability itself, but there were also two other problems: other software like Mastodon do not make it clear which risk comes with their private posts feature. And once a leak like this one happens, very few fediverse software admins communicated to their users that they might have been affected.
A security fund contributes to combating software vulnerabilities, but it can also help with communication to the rest of the fediverse once a vulnerability is found. It incentives that standard industry practices regarding software vulnerability get followed, and make communication clearer to a wider audience. For example, if Pixelfed’s recent vulnerability had gotten a CVSS classification, it might have been easier to make the severity of the vulnerability explicit to other fediverse software admins. In turn, this might have made it more likely that server admins would communicate the situation with their users.
In last week’s email essay I also wrote about how the fediverse is missing governance infrastructure that connects the various independent nodes and communities. One way to view the fediverse is as a response to centralised Big Tech platforms. These platforms have centralised governance, and are under the control of few people. The fediverse’s response to this is to build a social network that consists of tens of thousands of independent communities, all with their own governance structure. The fediverse has been successful in decentralising the single entity that oversees a social network into many pieces that all oversee a small portion of the network. But it has struggled to build a governance structure that ties all these individual pieces together again.
The Nivenly Fediverse Security Fund is a good example of this problem: software security impacts all the thousands of independent fediverse communities, but there is no overarching structure to collaborate and improve the security. It took one server taking the initiative into their own hands and provide a service for the entire network, at their own cost. Ideally, communities would collaborate on such a security fund instead. Nivenly’s announcement does leave space for such a future direction of the fund, saying that they are open to “establish a longer-term committee to steward and maintain the program”.
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The Lemmy developers, Dessalines and nutomic, held an Ask Me Anything recently, and here are some of the answers that stood out to me:
Lemmy is working towards their 1.0 release. This is currently expected to be in the fall, although nutomic also says that “these things always take longer than expected”. He also expects some instances like lemmy.ml already to upgrade some months before.
One of the main features for Lemmy 1.0 is private communities, where only approved accounts can browse and posts to the community. This type of closed group functionality is in high demand, and both Mastodon and Pixelfed have tried to implement it. Mastodon got a grant for it, but the proof-of-concept code has been sitting there since 2022. Pixelfed has announced and teased a group feature multiple times over the year and showed screenshots of it, but it also is not publicly available yet.
Lemmy posts are interoperable with Mastodon, but the interoperability is not great: a Lemmy post appears on Mastodon as the title plus the URL. There has been many conversations about how Mastodon handles content from other platforms, with no changes so far. In this AMA, nutomic is explicit in saying that it is up to Mastodon to change this. While Mastodon seems open to the idea, and has been in conversations with developers from platforms like Ghost and NodeBB on how to show their content better on Mastodon, there has been little indication that Mastodon is taking steps towards making Lemmy content also better visible on Mastodon.
On the subject of how Lemmy can grow, Dessalines describes it as an organic progress, saying: “niche communities on reddit will keep getting fed up with the changes, and migrate to lemmy.” Nutomic describes a similar dynamic for fedi and Bluesky more broadly, saying that he expects that over the long term the fediverse might grow in a similar manner: “when the Bluesky admins make decisions that the community doesnt like, and then there may be another migration wave to the Fediverse”. Both replies indicate Lemmy’s vision of how the project can grow in the long run: stay consistently working on your product, and because platforms like Lemmy are not beholden to investors, they can have a longer lifespan, and outlive platforms who are beholden to shareholder expectations.
Grouping of communities (similar to PieFed’s topics or Reddit’s multireddits) “will be implemented soon“.
Ahoy! is a one-day conference for the European Social Web, and will be held on April 24th 2025 in Hamburg, Germany. The conference is mainly focused on Bluesky and the AT Protocol, and has some super fascinating speakers of people who are in the forefront of building new communities on the open social web. If you’re around I can definitely recommend it. I’ll be doing some interviews with people there, so if you are considering joining, let me know and we can say hi!
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Il saggio di @thunderpussycat ricostruisce la genealogia dell’attivismo digitale in Italia per analizzare le trasformazioni che hanno interessato il cyberspazio e la scena hacker negli ultimi trent’anni. L’obiettivo è quello di disegnare una nuova geografia dell’hacktivismo italiano – quale sintesi delle pratiche hacker e dell’attivismo politico – partendo dalla creazione dei primi hacklab presenti nei centri sociali, passando per gli hackmeeting degli anni ’90, fino alla nascita dei nuovi collettivi hacker e dell’istanza Mastodon.bida.im di Bologna.
A breve inizierò il tour di presentazione del mio libro Server Ribelli : R-esistenza Digitale e Hacktivismo nel Fediverso in Italia" chiunque fosse interessato a organizzare la presentazione mi contatti pure qui!
La cantante partenopea ha appena prodotto il suo nuovo album, Furèsta, uscito il giorno di primavera. Tra le tracce, una più bella dell'altra, spicca il brano Figlia d' 'a Tempesta, un potente inno alla dignità femminile
It is kind of amazing really. Solid product out of the gate, egalitarian pricing model and if I’m not mistaken, never turned evil. Just kept on truckin’.
In Parque Ibirapuera in São Paulo. It's a beautiful urban park; rightfully considered one of the city's main attractions. Glad I made it off Avenida Paulista to here.
One thing that's wild about climate change policy is that the US considers a carbon tax an absolute non-starter despite the critical need to reduce GHGs and then puts a 25% tariff on cars for practically no good reason.
I recall reading several months ago what seemed to be wishful thinking speculation (hmm, maybe _slightly_ better than that, based on quick search source may have been the then soon to be nominated treasury secretary reuters.com/world/us/bessent-c…) that a CBAM (likely only kind of tariff I'd be in favor of) could be part of the mix.
Instead we get massive stupidity, which happens to include tariffs on cars: even a crazy clock is occasionally correct-ish.
Unfortunately I need to cancel the #SocialCG #ActivityPub issue triage today. I had a travel mixup and won't have a quiet, private place to hold the meeting. Sorry for the late notice, and please plan on attending next week.
For full transparency, the "travel mixup" is that I went to the wrong location of the hotel chain I had a reservation for, and I had to get in a car and go across town to the location where I could actually get online and do a call. 😐 #MistakesWereMade
forwards AC in the summer, reverse AC in the winter. 1 high efficiency heat pump system. Loving it after 2y, costs are way down vs the old system, and the govt provided grants and interest-free financing.
yes but…. If homes were built to a higher efficient spec (effectively #passivehouse) they’d barely need even a heat pump. There’s good value in both insulation and heat pump retrofit and stronger building code.
Reaching an age where my tolerable temperature range is narrowing.
Sad thing is, a/c is going to become necessary for health. But its use is among the decaying, not balancing, feedback loops in our climate situation.
Shade, open windows, cool breezes are all preferable, but increasingly not viable, certainly not in urban heat islands in the most southern, most populous parts of the country.
No, but A/C is sadly increasingly necessary for survival as we hit deadly combinations of heat & humidity.
The problem is that people without A/C will still die, as will wildlife. And power outages from stressed grids will mean people who rely on A/C for survival will die. Also A/C units use greenhouse gases for refrigerant, and use energy that increases emissions.
We need to focus on stopping climate change and design buildings & outdoor spaces to be survivable without air conditioning.
No. I live in cold temperate part of the world that generally does not need it (yet). AC seems like a paradoxical technology. On the surface, it helps people cope with heat. At the same time, it contributes to the very urban heat islands that it attempts to solve.
Most of the time the places where I experience it they're turned up way too high. And the energy footprint is high.
but... I'm planning on moving up to a trailer in our off-grid camp in the Los Padres, where it regularly gets to temps where cooling will be a necessity. I'll try a swamp cooler first, which may be sufficient in the dry socal air. But I've sized my solar and battery storage to be able to handle an efficient mini-split AC if that doesn't cut it.
I'll be able to operate at more reasonable temps where it doesn't shock the body going in or out of my space, and being 100% off-grid solar the energy/carbon footprint is no longer a concern.
It's one of those things I'd love but the room I spend most time in doesn't have opening windows so nowhere to put the pipe (wall mounted is well outside my income bracket).
Luckily it's only a few weeks a year then heat is truly unbearable.
Video app Skylight is available for public release, with funding from Mark Cuban and 55k users in the first 24 hours. Spark is building their own entire video platform on ATProto, and just launched in beta.
I think you might want to reformulate that? Yes, many Palestinians have left Gaza for the same reasons my Norwegian ancestors left for the new world. Others leave in terror of Israeli butchery. What does “voluntary” mean? Are you asking in the specific context of the 2024/5 slaughter? Are you talking about individual movements or ethnic cleansing?
@timbray Thanks. You're touching on a lot of the ideas I'm interested in discussing! I usually try not to clarify my questions, but here we go: I am very much focused on the idea presented by the ultranationalists in the Israeli cabinet of "voluntary transfer".
The trouble is that the poll risks creating the impression that the Smotrich/Trump lethal racist ethnic-cleansing proposal are a thing that reasonable people can argue about the benefits/costs of. I decline to join such a discussion.
@timbray I probably should be more careful with it. Personally, I can't understand why people in two countries seem to think this is a perfectly fine plan, and people in other countries refuse to get involved. I probably gave the plan too much of the benefit of the doubt.
This was interesting. As I mentioned in the comments, the Israeli government has a new department dedicated to "voluntary" departure of Palestinians to other countries in the world. I don't think starving people, under bombardment, have any kind of realistic consent, especially when lacking a right of return. So, I'd say no.
And also, no country in the world is offering to facilitate ethnic cleansing by being the expulsion target. And also, it's a fucking racist fucking genocidal outrage.
La @The Nivenly Foundation (Nivenly Foundation), ha annunciato il lancio di un nuovo fondo di sicurezza che pagherà coloro che rivelano in modo responsabile le vulnerabilità di sicurezza che interessano le app e i servizi fediverse.
Over the past year, we've been thinking about how we can improve the security of the Fediverse to provide a safer, more trustworthy experience for people of the Fediverse.
Today we're launching a time-and-funds limited Fediverse Security Fund, where we will pay researchers and contributors for the responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities in open-source Fediverse software.
We're starting small as an experiment to gauge interest, figure out our processes, and eventually decide if/how to expand this program and make it more permanent. If you're a security researcher or upstream contributor, join us in making the Fediverse a safer place.
I'm doing my first indoor germination this Northern spring. A dozen different sets of #NativePlants seeds, from Jerusalem artichokes to smooth aster to monarda fistulosa to pearly everlasting. They're going to live inside the house for about 6 weeks, and then harden off and move into the garden. It's exciting work! #gardening
March 31 is National indigenous Languages Day. It is a day to celebrate and honour the more than 70 distinct Indigenous languages are currently spoken by First Nations people, Métis and Inuit in Canada.
I studied the indigenous language of the region our house is in, Abenaki, at the Ndakinna Education Centre. Learning the indigenous language of our region lets settlers like me help keep the language alive; it also subsidizes classes for indigenous speakers.
Ndakinna Education Center Abenaki Language Remote Learning Classes: Beginner Guide to Abenaki Classes are designed specifically for those with little to no experience in the language. We will introduce the […]\n
Indigenous languages of North America can be very different in structure and vocabulary from European languages like English and French. I found the experience extremely challenging, and really mind-expanding. If your local indigenous community has language classes available to non-native people, I really recommend it.
It's also important to note that many indigenous communities consider their language a cultural treasure, and are not open to outsiders learning. Definitely use native-created materials and native-led courses if you are going to try to learn, to make sure you're using the treasure with respect and consent.
A vulnerability in Pixelfed caused private posts from other platforms to leak, a post-mortem on the CSAM scanner from IFTAS, and Fediforum has been cancelled.
If you have one persona, it is 0% different from itself. The question asks about two personae, though. Feel free to answer however you'd like, or skip this poll.
ok. I don't think it has to mean being insincere or not genuine. But we share different facets with different people. I trust you know yourself, though. Thanks for discussing!
I definitely use different social media platforms for different things and as a result I think the personae that I have on them is different. The me on Instagram is probably slightly smilier than I am in real life. The one on Bluesky is a little bit more library focused. The one on Mastodon probably nerdier, and the one on Facebook definitely does a lot more shopping. I still chose the lowest option but I assume the number is more like 10 to 15% and not zero.
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We watched "A Complete Unknown" last night. It was a great movie about what making music means to a culture and to oneself. Timothée Chalamet does a great job as Bob Dylan. The music is awesome and moving. Ed Norton is a sweet, deep Pete Seeger. The emotional stakes are high, and the Night That Dylan Went Electric feels like a personal and movement watershed. Don't miss it.
#2 cannot be said, printed, or displayed in the United States of Amerika because it promotes, hints-at, or makes visible the possibility that gender and preference are complicated.
"4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."
Yes, but it's also potentially part of the problem. We can wall them off from the good-Fediverse, but the nature of the thing is that the dark mirror fediverse continues to exist and to connect the worst people.
Truth Social was born out of Mastodon And so were a lot of extremist instances which are still active and popular.
The nature of the Fediverse and by extension most FOSS is that they are open and unrestrictive with their software access/usage.
On the other hand, it did also give rise to a lot of political groups from varying parts of the political spectrum.
I think so social media platforms shouldn't lean towards one side of the spectrum. A diverse set of views and opinions should be welcome. But it almost never is the case. Each platform is known for having one kind of bias or the other.
Take Bluesky, it's filled with Left-leaning people who left Twitter because of Musk/Trump. There's a homogeneity to the politics of the opinions shared over there. Some would call it an "Echo Chamber."
Truth Social- Only MAGA idiots.
X- a bit of both.
Fediverse- Depends on the instance. 😀 One can interact with all kinds of people here, and I think that's a good thing as far as exposure & bias is concerned.
@frankie Most people don't know this. Somehow I'd like those extremist instances, to be really federated, just to clearly show that they are using our software, and to show number of server defederating from them.
Would like to see also some decent-right communities
I may be wrong but I think that basically "normal" people (I want to exclude those that are really motivated to be fascists or that kind of stuff) move to the far-right because of a lack of critical thinking. They fall in the trap of "easy solutions for difficult problems".
The place where you build that kind of immune system is the school.
I can see this path:
Bad school -> lack of critical thinking -> populism is OK.
Rebuild a good school system and you'll have better citizens, better citizens can tell a lye from a truth.
yeah - it's architecturally freedom-shaped in a way that forces people to deal with what is harmful, who is part of what community, and what is unacceptable. Centralised platforms are shaped like unfreedom and have difficulty with nuanced pluralism, tending to ignore issues (see Meta in Myanmar) or simply decide on a single stance which is enforced (the many things you can't say on TikTok or get demon(it)ised for on YouTube. For better or worse we hash things out here.
IMHO, anyway. It's not the prevailing leftism, but the structural pluralism.
yes, but becoming insular is what we have to watch out for. Silly Fedi-vs-Bluesky spats, for example, will get us nowhere. People use what's convenient and what the people around them use.
no technology is neutral, but no technology is capable of solving social problems on its own.
Furthermore, the advance of the shit-right among the population is not a spontaneous problem, but is determined by enormous investments that the timocracy has allocated and continues to allocate to orient public opinion, ensure the loyalty of publishers, finance politicians and manipulate elections.
The closed and manipulative algorithms of the platforms modify democratic balances, while open ecosystems consolidate democracy, stimulate diversity and incentivize participation.
The Fediverse can therefore be a solution to the extent that it constitutes an alternative to manipulative technologies.
As for the advance of the right In fact, the problem is not the populist right in and of itself, but rather the fact that the populist right constitutes an extraordinary vector for bringing the predatory aristocracy of large technological companies to power.
This may be a Masto-specific problem but it sort of feels like everyone is raising alarms non-stop without coming up with solutions. People screaming "Trump is doing this" or "ICE is doing that" but barely a word is devoted to calls for action. It's just non-stop doomerism almost designed to make the reader feel helpless and despondent.
I think if the fediverse is going to play some sort of role in pushing back on these things, we need to start, well, pushing back.
It's a haven for those of us who are already here, but without a way to draw the masses (something which not everyone wants), @gangrif is right.
It provides a welcome respite from places like Bluesky, but it's far from an antidote to corporate run, billionaire owned social media. It's hard to convince the average person to use Mastodon, especially when big names/accounts that dominate those other places trash it all the time, perpetuating the notion that it's hard to use and characterizing its users in a negative way.
Yes, but... we are still lacking tools to manage discussion and clamp down un-wanted interactions / trolls / toxic behaviours _at scale_ (<- that's the key point).
The latest Pixelfed bug is interesting, in that a bug in _another service you don't use_ may potentially expose your toots against your wishes.
I can only think of more encryption as the solution to this last point, but I think that's not trivial.
If you’d like a way to feel that a better path for us is not only possible but within reach, I strongly recommend you spend as much of 100 minutes as you can with this conversation.
It’s with Audrey Tang.
We would need also to strengthen digital and especially media literacy. Populists (especially those on the far-right) play with fear and psychological terror to manipulate people.
Media literacy has worsened at least in the western world – if not globally.I also would guess that this is why bipartisanship seems so unthinkable for many.
Thanks, everyone. My answer is "Yes, but". The "but" being that we have to continue to make it more of a part of the lives of more of the people on the planet.
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I'm up early to try to see a bit of the eclipse. We've got some cloud cover but I'm gambling we'll get a tiny bit of the occlusion between the horizon and the clouds. 🤞🏼
The most upsetting part of this response, to me, is that it seems like Rumeysa Ozturk had her visa revoked and was arrested not because of anything she personally did, but because of the movement she associated with.
That's dark. It sounds like the Administration is going to dish out collective punishment to the most vulnerable participants in the anti-war movement for the actions of some other people at the protests.
yes. This a demoralizing tactic that authoritarians have used for years. It exists to make you worried about the whims and moods of a person rather than have rules and laws that we can all rely on. Keeping people nervous and afraid
Is the tactic
On purpose. The less it makes sense the more it works.
This newbie who just celebrated 100 days of #selfhosting was able to install #Apache and #Varnish on her #Ubuntu VPS (to prevent the "Mastodon Hug of Death" for link preview cards on her self-hosted Ghost blog). She's very proud of herself for all the sudo commands she successfully ran today. And she's weirded out talking about herself in the third person, so: I did it YAY.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this Linux / self-hosting journey I'm on. Thank you for all your support & encouragement ❤️
love that you are taking us on this journey with you. I would like to enter the realm of self-hosting too and its very inspiring to see you doccument so much of the process.
@liaizon aw thank you! It means a lot coming from you.
Well, after my PeerTube miniseries I will write about what it's like to self-host with the help of #YunoHost. It's very very easy to do (including updating / maintaining things). I'm self-hosting Friendica, GoToSocial and Pixelfed thanks to YunoHost.
My self-hosted Ghost blog is on another VPS and a whole different story - pure command line prompts for that one. Trickier but very satisfying 🤗
I don't know if you've looked into it, but I like using nginx with docker. If you run nginx-proxy, in combination with acme-companion, you can spin up any number of domains on it. This includes stuff like "git.mydomain.net" and "social.mydomain.net" and...in addition to otherdomain.dev. Each time you do this, acme-companion goes and registers for and sets up https from letsencrypt. AND you have set yourself up behind a reverse proxy, which adds a bit of security.
I had to set up some #Varnish config for another reason: I needed a reverse proxy to redirect the traffic to different containers. Performance gain appeared as a side effect 😁 Did you come to use #Hitch as TLS proxy too?
@zerkman I have no idea what Hitch is so please do tell ! I’m very very green and I may give the impression of expertise but I’m not a sysadmin and I barely know what I’m doing. I’m mostly copying and pasting commands in Terminal 😅
Basically, Hitch manages all the encrypted TLS traffic (the security layer that is being used by HTTPS), then you don't need to manage encryption on the apache/nginx side.
Being able to handle all your private keys in a single place is very comfortable.
It might be possible your hosting service is already managing encryption for you, that being the reason you don't actually have to bother about that.
@isadora @thecoffemaker I already initiated a mass migration to Signal in Jan 2020 for family and friends (to keep in touch with me - cause I was OUT).
But they all still use WhatsApp (in addition to Signal) 😕
completely abandon WhatsApp is an almost impossible mission 🙁 Local businesses, govern services, banks and a lot of people and institutions end up forcing us to keep a WhatsApp account... but the fact they have an alternative is fantastic!
I'm also a "forced" WhatsApp user, but my family and close friends are using XMPP to keep up with me and these 16 people have all my heart to accept talk to me by my own messenger that I lovely call isaCloud Messenger 😁
@isadora and then five years later you recommend them to use an amazing tech which will let them not only use their mobiles but also all their devices to talk with you 🤗 plus they will have access to the amazing federated community of #xmpp
For me it's the fringe only (bangs) as I also have long hair. But Steven says it looks great. He would, of course! I made a better job of his. Have a great weekend Elena!
I remember those early days with fondness (and a bit of exasperation as well). After decades of self-hosting almost everything I needed over time, I'm relaxing in retirement watching everyone else doing it now.
hey, congratulations! I used to be a big Varnish guy, in the pre-HTTPS-everywhere days. I know that magical feeling when you get the rules working just right and see performance take off like a cheetah. 🤠🍺👍
hi! That is great! I don’t think I’d have leveled up so fast by myself
If you ever find yourself in need of performance optimization, I put up some tips over here, and some of them might be useful: github.com/GuillaumeRossolini/…
I love reading about your progress. Going from dipping a cautious toe on the Mastodon beach to plunging head first into the Marinara Trench of Linux and Fediverse self-hosting. And evangelising about it in such a great accessible way. You have a lot of stuff to be proud of.
In the current aggressive imperialism of the US, some Americans online insist that they don't approve of war and shouldn't be lumped in with the Americans who are banging the drums for war.
It's not the job of Canadians, Kalaallit (Greenlanders), Panamanians or Gazans to make you feel better and absolve you personally of complicity in potential invasions. We have other things to do.
It's *your* job to make sure the wars don't happen. Stopping wars is hard; you need to start now.
That's almost equivalent to lumping English peasants in with the aristocracy who first enslaved them, then used that model around the world (and it got worse). There is no longer a functioning democracy in the USA. You can resist the best you can, but I don't think they can do much individually right now and you can't really put this on Americans in general.
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Hmmm, as someone who has protested every US war in my lifetime, and that's no small number, I recall the Canadian state being a key player in many an imperialist venture. Our movements know no borders, right?
I agree with some of the arguments people make against this stance, but I want to note how this connects with the "not my president" approach some take.
Even if you didn't vote for him, don't like him, and wouldn't cross the street to piss on him if he were on fire, that doesn't mean you get to evade responsibility. If you (I) wear an American flag or otherwise use the privilege of being American, then you (I) own a bit of the responsibility.
Btw I just tooted this Guardian opinion piece about someone involved in "disengaging" people from falling down conspiracy rabbit holes and purity spirals into the realms of evil ideology.
I gather we should see much more of that kind of concerted efforts. Because what I see in most calls to activism boils down to choosing sides and take position in the activist army ready for war. While it may come to it, dear god, let's avoid bloody civil war.
What I see all too often is that people for whom there is the slightest suspicion they do not conform to the set norms and values in a particular in-group, they are immediately ostracised by cancel culture, blocked out. This inability to accept that there are shades of grey, and making an effort to pull back stray souls into the light, is a sure way of seeing them slide further away, eventually into fascism.
🤔 "trying to disengage others" is what more people should try.
In Sydney’s suburbs, I fell in with other traumatised loners – and we found scapegoats for our rage. A trip into the city changed everything, says Matthew Quinn of Exit Australia
while all that may be true, I would suggest that such statements are only helpful as a release of frustration and anger. They do little to gain allies in any cause and instead sow division in the very ranks you’re trying to enlist.
I would posit that similar (equally justified) sentiments of anger and frustration aimed at men for not doing enough during the MeToo era resulted in riper conditions for the likes of Jordan Peterson to gain a following, which in turn contributed to the fascist pickle we find ourselves in down here.
I could be justified in saying it was the responsibility of all Canadians to stop your madman Jordan from spewing all his hatred south of the border. Note how that statement makes you feel. Does that kind of passive aggression motivate you to do something about him? No. It sows the very division that makes achieving our mutual goals further out of reach.
I see you. I hear you. I feel you. And we will do what we can, but that may not be enough. Iraq remains fresh in my memory after all.
who is asking for absolution, though? We’re quite busy trying to stop fellow residents from being abducted and disappeared for having an opinion on a war that is close to an even split when it comes to US public opinion. While simultaneously every institution from education to mail delivery and even weather forecasting is under attack.
Close to 1/3 of people here support those abductions and similar abuses against immigrants. When it comes to aggression against Canada only 6% are in favor. That’s unheard of in US public opinion. There are probably more people who believe the earth is flat than people who want to invade Canada.
This whole regime is an embarrassment and needs to be stopped. Aggression towards Greenland and Canada are just a small portion of the ills we’re facing. Insisting it become our top priority and kvetching if anyone points out how unpopular or unlikely to gain traction those things are doesn’t really serve any purpose.
@Evan Prodromou I can understand the logic of your post, but studies have been conducted about how much influence the people really have on government. In the United States, people still have influence over the state and local governments, in most jurisdictions, but they have little to no influence over the federal government. The policies are mostly decided by lobbyists and special interests and corporations and the wealthy, and even if the public opposes a law or policy, they are unlikely to stop it or get it changed.
I do agree that we need to "start now" as you say, but I think you overestimate the influence the public has at this point.
@scott I guess I just don't know how much it matters to someone under the rubble in Mariupol if Fyodor Fyodorov of Yekaterinburg didn't vote for Putin and privately disapproves of the war.
@Evan Prodromou We are doing everything in our power to prevent abuses by the government. We've been trying for years, and we can't guarantee that we will succeed. Especially considering that the courts and politicians won't even stop flagrant violations of our rights. You basically just blamed the Jews for not stopping Hitler. I know you mean well, but that is extremely upsetting and inappropriate.
@scott I think you need to re-read. I am not blaming anyone; I'm saying that asking to be excused from blame by people who are dealing with the real risk of invasion is unfair; those people have other things they are doing. If that doesn't resonate for you, please feel free to ignore!
we should be able to talk about anything mostly without getting blocked unless you tag people with stuff they probably don't want to see or clearly don't want to interact with you anymore. the emotional stuff is usually what we most need to discuss and share content with alternative views/info. #SocialWeb
Evidence suggests that many are safe to say even the most abhorrent of things on the internet, so much so that any topic might reasonably be considered safe to at least begin a discussion.
Deeper examination of that evidence would likely yield relative levels of safety based on arbitrary but obvious genetic markers, ideology, geographic location, origin, other cultural indicators or lack thereof.
But, what I know is, none of us are actually safe at all.
I guess it depends on who's talking. I'm a white privileged woman evolving among leftist, I can talk about Palestine, stand for Palestinian people, participate on fundraisings etc., it will not have bad consequences for me. I responded accordingly, knowing that what's true for me isn't necessary for other 😐
I said "Yes, but" because I feel like it is (for me) now but it might not be later. And I think for other people it's not safe now. There are a lot of people in the US who really don't seem to understand how this topic gets discussed on a more international stage. And safety can mean different things to different people. Freedom from consequences (arguments, social media backlash) or freedom of liberty and life?
Thanks everyone who replied. My answer is "Yes, but". I think it's better for people in Canada and Europe than in the US; I don't know much about the rest of the world. I think for people in the US or traveling to the US, it's a good idea to be careful. Oh, and obviously if you're posting about how great the Trump Gaza Casino will be, I think you're going to be OK in the US and you might be complicit in crimes against humanity in other places.
Or war crimes... depending on the exact circumstances, mass deportation can go either way.
Not for nothing, any US service member that was involved in that sort of thing would be exposed to the jurisdiction of the ICC, since it would be action in the territory of a state party to the Rome Statute.
Oh, and please don't use antisemitic language or stereotypes. It does not help end the war, free the hostages, feed the people of Gaza, or provide freedom and security in their homes for Palestinians and Israelis.
the current climate in the US distinctly reminds me of traveling through the USSR and communist China. We were monitored and watched our public conversations at all times. Chilling.
The ATmosphereConf was last weekend, independent relays are starting to appear, and more.
Conference
This weekend was the first ATProto conference, the ATmosphereConf, in Seattle. Over two days there were a large number of speakers and sessions, with over 150 people in attendance, and a significant number watching the live streams as well. I could not make it to the US, so for a full overview of the event, I recommend this extensive article by TechCrunch’ Sarah Perez, who was present at the event. The entire event was livestreamed, and all talks can be viewed via this YouTube playlist.
Some assortment of thoughts I had while watching the livestream and VODs over the last few days:
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber gave a short speech, about her background as a digital rights activist, and how she is now “holding the door open, so people can see another world is possible”. Graber is clearly aware of her position, where she is seen as a figurehead of the network, while also wanting to build a decentralised network where there is place for competing platforms. Being a figurehead of a network, without becoming the de facto leader of the network, while also holding the leadership position of by far the largest organisation in the network, is a challenging position to balance.
Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee talked about where Bluesky came from and where it is going. One of the things he talked about is the consideration of why Bluesky decided on their own protocol and not ActivityPub. His answer focuses on practical considerations, especially how ActivityPub handles identity and account migration. Watching the ATProto Ethos talk by Bluesky protocol engineer Daniel Holmgren it struck me that the question could also be framed as a matter of lineage. Holmgren talks about how ATProto takes inspiration from the Web, Peer to Peer systems as well as Distributed Systems. Placing it in such a context makes it clear that ATProto has quite a different background and other ways of thinking than ActivityPub has.
Ændra Rhinisland talked about how community projects can become load-bearing for the network, without adequate support structures for the people who run such projects. She also runs the popular news feeds using Graze. Graze has been adding support for advertisements, and Ændra is one of the first to take advantage. In her talk she walked through how at current usage rates, the feeds could generate over $20k per month in ad revenue. She plans to use this revenue to support the queer communities building on ATProto, and showed early plans for a self-sustaining fund powered by Graze’s feed revenue, to support initiatives such as Northsky.
The talk by Ms Boba is a great indication of how much under-explored design space there is on Bluesky and ATProto. Her talk focuses on labelers and fandom communities, and has some great examples of how they can be used outside of moderation.
Blacksky founder Rudy Fraser gave an excellent talk, describing Bluesky as a skeuomorphism, meaning that it imitates the design of the product it’s replacing. This phase is a part of the adoption cycle for new technologies, but Fraser does not to stop at imitation but instead explore the new ways that communities can be build online. Fraser is specifically interested in building platforms that can serve mid-sized communities, ranging from hundreds of thousands to a few million people. The Blacksky community is an example of this, and Fraser hopes that Blacksky can inspire other communities to do the same. His framing of content moderation as community care and not a cost of business also resonated with me.
Erin Kissane’s talk goes into detail about vernacular institutions, local and grassroots organisations and practices that are often illegible to outsiders but deeply embedded in local communities. This allows them to be close to the needs of their community members, but makes them hard to see and understand from the outside. This outside illegibility is a double-edged sword: IFTAS served a crucial role for trust and safety in the fediverse ecosystem, but had to shut down to a lack of funding as a result of being illegible to financiers.
Bluesky PBC has been working on a new version of the relay that makes it easier and cheaper to host, under the Sync 1.1 proposal. This new version is now starting to roll out, showing a significant drop in resource usage. Bluesky engineer Bryan Newbold shared some statistics here. Independent ATProto developer @futur.blue set up his own relay as a speedrun. He shows that a full network relay can be run on a 50USD Raspberry Pi, with an easy-to-follow tutorial here.
That full network ATProto relays are cheap to run has been known for a while within the ATProto developer community, but that knowledge has not spread much yet. One reason for this is that independent developers have set up relays primarily for their own use, sharing access with a few friends, but no other publicly accessible full-network relays exist yet1.
Upcoming short-form video platform Spark is building their own complete infrastructure. Spark’s relay will publicly accessible, and hosted in Brazil. Having ATProto infrastructure outside of US jurisdiction is a conversation that has come up regularly, and often followed by the assumption that the alternative is to have infrastructure like a relay hosted in Europe. Spark is bringing in a slightly unexpected twist here, by having the first publicly accessible relay that is not owned by Bluesky PBC being hosted in Brazil instead.
Having other relays that are not owned by Bluesky PBC has been the subject of a lot of conversation, and the Free Our Feeds campaign was founded on the idea that a significant financial investment is needed to do so. Furthermore, it assumes that such a relay is not only expensive, but that it requires an extensive governance infrastructure to manage it. The current developments regarding relays call both of these assumptions into serious question: relays are cheap, not expensive. Furthermore it seems that there is enough incentive that organisations that are serious about building their own ATProto platforms are willing to run their own relays.
In Other News
Bluesky PBC has published a proposal on how they want to handle OAuth Scopes. OAuth Scopes is one of the main projects on the roadmap for the first half of this year. Currently, logging into an ATProto app via OAuth requires you to give that app permission to access all the data for your account. OAuth Scopes allows an app to only ask for the permissions that are necessary, and not the entire account. There are two problems that need to solve: the technical part of making it work, as well as the handling the UX to communicate clearly to people what data an app wants to access. The challenging part of the UX is how to handle the translation from the technical description of the data that is requested (stylised like ‘app.bsky.feed.getFeed’, for example), into a way that is understandable for the everyday user. The second challenge is that apps require permission not for one, but for many types of this lexicon data. A third-party Bluesky client that is restricted to only Bluesky data will still have to request a dozen of these Lexicons. A long list of technical lexicon names makes it impossible for regular people to have an informed opinion on what data is and is not being accessed. Bluesky PBC’s proposal is to group different lexicons into bundles, and create new lexicons that reference these bundles. Scoped OAuth can then request access to a bundle of lexicons, with a description that is legible for regular people.
Git repository platform Tangled is working on news ideas how a GitHub alternative might do things differently, and one of their first proposals is defining two types of pull requests. For another look at Tangled, this blog post experiment with what the platform allows.
One of the talks at the ATmosphereConf was by independent developer Rashid Aziz, who is the co-founder of basic.tech. Basic is a protocol for user-owned data, and seems to be fairly comparable to the PDS part of ATProto, with the major difference that Basic allows for private data on their version of a PDS. Aziz used the combination of these two protocols to create private bookmarks for Bluesky.
The new Record Collector labeler automatically displays if someone has been using other apps in the ATmosphere outside of Bluesky.
Rocksky is a new music scrobbler service on ATProto, that is currently in closed beta testing. It allows people to connect their Spotify account and automatically ‘scrobble’ (track) the music they are listening to.
The Links
Some tech-focused links for ATProto:
ATCryptography is a package with cryptographic utilities for the ATProto, written in Swift.
A blog post by independent ATProto developer Mary about ‘AT Protocol, OAuth, and well, decentralization’. Mary also published a repository car file explorer this week.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! If you want more analysis, you can subscribe to my newsletter. Every week you get an update with all this week’s articles, as well as extra analysis not published anywhere else. You can subscribe below, and follow this blog @fediversereport.com and my personal account @laurenshof.online on Bluesky.
Cerulea.blue is a publicly accessible relay, using a custom implementation, but it is limited to non-Bluesky PDSes. ↩︎
Cinque passi per iniziare a utilizzare al meglio Friendica (e un'idea per una passeggiata diversa nel Fediverso)
Questo post è rivolto soprattutto agli utenti Friendica e in particolare a quelli di Poliverso, ma consigliamo di leggerlo a tutti gli abitanti del Fediverso. Se non ti interessa, ignoralo, altrimenti guardalo come a un modo insolito di guardare le cose. Se invece ti piace così tanto il nostro progetto da volerci aiutare finanziandolo, puoi farlo attraverso Liberapay o Ko-Fi
Accedi alla pagina di modifica del tuo profilo Dalla sezione "PERSONALE" puoi aggiungere una descrizione breve Dalla sezione "VARIE" puoi aggiungere link alle tue pagine e ai tuoi profili social Dalla sezione "Campi profilo personalizzati" puoi inserire quello che ti pare...
3) Terzo passo
Accedi alla pagina di gestione dell'Account Da qui ricorda di impostare il fuso orario della tua località perché ti sarà utile per la gestione del calendario eventi (sì, Friendica può gestire anche gli eventi Mobilizon e Gancio!)
Cos’è Feddit.it? Un’alternativa a Reddit? Una nuova istanza del fediverso italiano? Una specie di forum? O, grazie alle potenzialità del progetto Lemmy…
Friendica è un progetto nato per dare agli utenti di Facebook un ambiente social rispettoso del principio “privacy by default”. Ma l’utente che non lo sa, rischia di trovarsi solo e non sapere perché…
Friendica è un progetto nato per dare agli utenti di Facebook un ambiente social rispettoso del principio “privacy by default”. Ma l’utente che non lo sa…
Risposta alla domanda "perché nessuna istanza elimina gli utenti inattivi?"
Diverse risposte, su piani diversi:
1) come ha detto qui @Il Fediverso fa schifo? gli amministratori preferiscono far vedere di avere centinaia di utenti, quando invece ne hanno solo qualche decina o millemila utenti quando invece ne hanno solo qualche centinaio 2) come ha detto qui @Lorenzo avere un numero di utenti complessivi più alto ti pone più in alto nelle tabella internazionali e quindi tra i primi a essere scelto dagli utenti (una bella coccolina per l'ego degli amministratori) 3) come ha detto qui @Piero Bosio è anche una rottura di palle eliminare gli utenti inattivi, soprattutto in mancanza di apposite funzioni messe a disposizione dagli svilupatori 4) come ha detto qui @Luca Sironi quasi nessuno ha preventivamente impostato regole di cancellazione e pertanto questo rende meno facile programmare un'eliminazione degli utenti inattivi (noi l'abbiamo fatto praticamente solo dopo tre avvisi) 5) come ho ricordato qui ultimo (e più importante) motivo è il fatto che per primi gli sviluppatori non vogliono creare tool di cancellazione massiva degli utenti inattivi e, a differenza degli amministratori, non lo fanno solo per avere coccole per l'ego, ma anche per dimostrare a donatori e investitori di essere un investimento interessante ("ehi, guarda quanti utenti abbiamo!"). Finché le cose staranno così, è impossibile che gli amministratori si mettano a cancellare utenti a caso
1) come ha detto qui @Il Fediverso fa schifo? gli amministratori preferiscono far vedere di avere centinaia di utenti, quando invece ne hanno solo qualche decina o millemila utenti quando invece ne hanno solo qualche centinaio 2) come ha detto qui @Lorenzo avere un numero di utenti complessivi più alto ti pone più in alto nelle tabella internazionali e quindi tra i primi a essere scelto dagli utenti (una bella coccolina per l'ego degli amministratori) 3) come ha detto qui @Piero Bosio è anche una rottura di palle eliminare gli utenti inattivi, soprattutto in mancanza di apposite funzioni messe a disposizione dagli svilupatori 4) come ha detto qui @Luca Sironi quasi nessuno ha preventivamente impostato regole di cancellazione e pertanto questo rende meno facile programmare un'eliminazione degli utenti inattivi (noi l'abbiamo fatto praticamente solo dopo tre avvisi) 5) come ho ricordato qui ultimo (e più importante) motivo è il fatto che per primi gli sviluppatori non vogliono creare tool di cancellazione massiva degli utenti inattivi e, a differenza degli amministratori, non lo fanno solo per avere coccole per l'ego, ma anche per dimostrare a donatori e investitori di essere un investimento interessante ("ehi, guarda quanti utenti abbiamo!"). Finché le cose staranno così, è impossibile che gli amministratori si mettano a cancellare utenti a caso
Poliverso è un progetto indipendente per mettere a disposizione modi alternativi di usare il Fediverso. Ecco i motivi per cui è importante sostenerlo. Anche se sei un utente di altre istanze
Il progetto Poliverso, da cui nasce lo stesso progetto feddit.it, è stato creato per mettere a disposizione degli utenti italiani un'intera istanza basata su Friendica, che non è solo la più completa alternativa a Facebook, ma è anche il software più potente per l'esplorazione del Fediverso!
Con poliverso.org puoi interagire con tutti i profili delle Fediverso, ma puoi anche collegare il tuo account Bluesky; a differenza di Mastodon puoi scrivere post lunghi con il testo formattato e le immagini in linea, ma puoi anche creare eventi o interagire con gli eventi di Mobilizon, seguire il feed RSS di altri siti web o addirittura di canali telegram e puoi impostarne anche la pubblicazione automatica dal tuo profilo. Con Friendica è possibile anche creare utenti di servizio gestiti da uno staff di più utenti ognuno con un proprio account. Infine è possibile creare gruppi del Fediverso, come i gruppi Facebook, ossia degli account che quando vengono menzionati ricondividono automaticamente il post pubblicato, cosicché venga visto da tutti gli utenti (utenti di tutto il fediverso!) che seguono quel gruppo.
Ma il progetto Poliverso non si ferma qui: insieme al blog lealternative.net abbiamo aperto feddit.it, la prima istanza italiana basata su Lemmy, un'alternativa a reddit perfettamente federata con il resto del Fediverso. Su feddit.it puoi scegliere una delle tante comunità tematiche presenti e aprire un nuovo thread, come su un subreddit, e segnalare o commentare i link di articoli di giornale o di post interessanti, visualizzandoli in un interfaccia che ricorda quella di un forum. Feddit.it non è soltanto uno spazio a disposizione dei suoi utenti, ma tutti coloro che dispongono di un account Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, Misskey o Pixelfed [b]possono aprire un nuovo thread (anche dal tuo blog WordPress!) creando un nuovo post e menzionando la comunità di proprio interesse![/b]
Il terzo progetto di Poliverso è costituito da poliversity.it, la prima istanza Mastodon in Italia dedicata al mondo dell'università e della ricerca ma anche a quello del giornalismo. Se sei un ricercatore, uno studente, un giornalista o se semplicemente sei interessato a questi temi, poi iscriverti e partecipare alle discussioni.
Se invece vuoi contribuire in maniera specifica al solo progetto feddit.it, puoi offrire un contributo economico di sostegno al manutenzione dei server a questa pagina Liberapay
> La più grande pecca di friendica è la mancanza di un app decente
Sì, vero, ma funziona così discretamente bene da browser mobile che la mancanza di un'app non è tutta questa grande tragedia
> e l'interfaccia web anni 2000
Diciamo 2010... dài! 😁 E comunque qui hai totalmente ragione: l'interfaccia è davvero retrò, ma qui su Poliverso stiamo valutando la possibilità di creare un accesso alternativo attraverso Soapbox o Semaphore (grazie a un'idea di @Chiara [Ainur] [Айнұр] ❤️). Questi strati applicativi sono molto interessanti e forniscono addirittura un'interfaccia molto più bella e moderna rispetto a quella dello stesso Mastodon, ma dobbiamo prima capire bene come farci girare le funzionalità più avanzate di Friendica, perché sono quelle funzionalità che rendono questo software così unico e vantaggioso rispetto agli altri software del fediverso
Mai usato Friendica, ho giusto dato uno sguardo all'API per un'applicazione a cui ho lavorato (wink wink), ma consultando la documentazione ho notato che implementa l'API di Mastodon. Non basterebbe utilizzare uno dei tanti frontend già disponibili per Mastodon? O per caso Friendica ha delle funzionalità in più che non sarebbero disponibili su tali frontend?
@Nerd02 hai compreso perfettamente il problema: è vero, Friendica implementa l'api di Mastodon, ma per far funzionare alcune funzionalità devono essere tarati gli strati applicativi che oggi vanno bene per mastodon o per pleroma. Questo è il problema che, discutendo con @Fabio è emerso come Maggiore criticità.
Non sono un talebano di Friendica, ma bisogna fare una analisi funzionale per capire quali sono le cose alle quali poter rinunciare e quali no. Sì siamo costretti a eliminare alcune peculiarità distintive del sistema per far somigliare tutto a mastodon o misskey, Allora tanto varrebbe utilizzare mastodon o misskey 😅
Friendica è un software eccezionale nel quale c'è tutto o quasi, ma è chiaramente stato realizzato da sviluppatori eccezionali che tuttavia mancavano di una cultura adeguata nella gestione di prodotto.
Friendica sembra essere stato sviluppato Per esaudire tutti ma proprio tutti i desideri di tutti i potenziali utenti...
In pratica, si è voluto realizzare un gigantesco e potentissimo Mecha modulare come Voltron
Purtuttavia il risultato estetico ed ergonomico è stato più simile a uno di quei mostri Goffi e dimenticabili che venivano spediti a ogni puntata per sconfiggere il robottone protagonista...😁 😄 🤣
Non metto in dubbio i vantaggi di Friendica. Anzi, volendomi avvicinare al mondo del microblogging (dal quale ahimé sono tagliato fuori, usando Lemmy) stavo giusto pensando di aprirmi un'istanza con Friendica, piuttosto che Mastodon. Però personalmente trovo l'UI davvero DAVVERO brutta, è ciò che finora mi ha allontanato dal provarlo.
Se si riuscisse ad avere un backend come l'attuale Friendica e un'UI bella moderna come Soapbox o Misskey sarebbe davvero il meglio dei due mondi.
@Antonino Campaniolo 👣 :birra: sì, Infatti mi sembra chiaro che attualmente non ci siano energie nella community di Friendica per realizzare una nuova interfaccia...
Purtroppo noi siamo ancora nella fase 1, ossia quella per individuare uno strato applicativo versatile e affidabile. Sull'affidabilità, ovviamente, soapbox è avvantaggiato, considerando la sua maturità e la qualità del prodotto. Il problema è che dobbiamo valutare anche la versatilità e per farlo ci serve tempo.
Una volta Superata la fase 1 bisogna passare alla fase 2 che è la valutazione della fattibilità di un'operazione del genere sulla base degli strumenti che abbiamo a disposizione.
Poi c'è la fase 3 che non consiste ancora nel mettere le mani sul codice, perché non abbiamo la forza per farlo, ma piuttosto di iniziare una campagna di coinvolgimento di persone disposte a contribuire allo sviluppo di una versione beta... in questa fase sarà importante coinvolgere sia la comunità di Friendica sia quella di Soapbox.
diciamo che l'offerta di una volta era: forum o forum, almeno per un utente medio. Con gli anni sono esplose alternative come #discord, ma anche #twitch che hanno preso piede grazie all'arrivo della banda larga. Inoltre manca #Discourse che oltre a rappresentare i forum della nuova generazione ha appena annunciato di aggiungere il supporto ad #activitypub che porterà il primo vero forum nel fediverso
discord però non c'entra nulla con il web perché è più che altro una piattaforma di comunicazione voip. Per questo motivo è un po' fuori tema rispetto al post. Sarà sicuramente interessante capire in quale modo implementerà ActivityPub se davvero lo farà, Ma così come per Tumblr ho delle perplessità sulla integrazione reale con il Fediverso da parte di strumenti nati per essere privati e centralizzati
discord si è evoluto, per mantenere gli appassionati attivi dopo le live ha aggiunto veri e propri forum di discussione con messaggi di testo, media e file in chat private:
Sì, ma stiamo parlando della stessa operazione che sta portando avanti telegram e che ogni sistema di successo prova a intraprendere: arricchire di funzionalità un sistema dedicato (qui il voip, là la messaggistica) ancora piuttosto scalabile. Ma la direzione è la stessa: sistemi non-web che vengono a prendersi gli spazi del web.
post molto bello. Avevo già capito da solo come pubblicare sui subreddit di feddit ma ho comunque trovato tante informazioni utili Guarda che hai scritto male il nome utente di @eticadigitale
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