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tra 2h ho il compleanno di 5 anni di un compagno di scuola di mia figlia e il mio mood da stamattina è https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaqp8WaqtnA&list=RDO1hQScFDJkE&index=4

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@kitten_tech @b0rk @cwebber I'm not sure if it helps (this is a long and jargon-y document), but I wrote up an overview of the AT moderation system recently

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3m2j6ccx2bs2t

Checking out Bonfire's latest release. This Federation Status dashboard is pretty cool.

And get this - it's not just visible to admins - end users can see the same, just filtered to their OWN processes.

That's really helpful if you're trying to debug an issue with another platform development team.

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Your timeline is what you want it to be on fedi. You build it. You MOLD it, like a piece of clay. It takes time. It takes effort. You'll have to mute sometimes. You likely will have to block. Don't give up.

It's worth it. Art. Code. Gaming. Books. Pot Belly Pigs. Death Metal. Whatever your interest, you can find a community here, I promise. Smaller, perhaps, but more connected.

You might even have a real conversation with a human being. Give it a try!

#Fediverse

a helpful write-up on how content moderation on Bluesky is conceptualised

https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3m2j6ccx2bs2t

🔥 RSS/Atom support opens up data portability beyond the fediverse.
You can now subscribe to user feeds, thread comments, posts, articles, events, media feeds, or custom feeds directly in your RSS client.

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#enshittification #release #dataportability

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#quote

🔥 More Anti-enshittification features now live in Bonfire

✨ Complete data portability: Export/import now supports circles/lists, bookmarks, likes, and boosts alongside follows, blocks, and posts.

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#enshittification #release

As big weird primates, we tend to understand emotional intensity and high incoming comms volume and markers of status at a very low level, but we've mostly not had the chance to play with those dynamics in our online platforms in consent-forward and socially skillful (rather than shady or extractive or clumsy/all-acceleration-all-the-time) ways.

Before this escapes my contextual sphere, I should say that the things I'm ~thinking about would acknowledge that, for example, getting boosted by an account with a million followers is meaningfully different from getting boosted by an account with a few dozen.

Systems that allow custom discovery algos could build out feeds that surface not just "popular with friends" but "small or newer accounts that cover things I love and that have indicated that they want to be found."

Daydreaming about social features that take differences in account size + differences between individual vs. org accounts into consideration.

Oh, the paper link one more time!

"Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media"

https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644

(ETA: Oh, and sincere thanks to everyone who's both lent moral support & helped me navigate this situation, including offering insights about network architecture & features. I say that in the paper but I should post it here too 💛)

#Commodon #FLOSS #Mastodon #STS #MeshyAccountability #LocatedAccountability #FeministSTS

@firesloth@gts.scoobysnack.net hey

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