The Nexus of Discussions

@timnitGebru yikes. and double yikes.

Well I've laid down my marker! And I agree that it would be more useful if it were a separate page to point people to. Still, I don't think there's going to be agreement on it, and at least from my perspective it's not worth investing energy in trying to get that to happen -- and there's no way to generate discussion without it devolving into arguing. There's too much at stake -- power, ego, money, etc. Do you really think that (no matter how nicely it's laid out) people who see ActivityPub as their life's work or people who have a career stake in ActivityPub's success are going to accept viewing it as no longer the center of the world? Or that people pushing the Open Social Web are going to agree that it's a surveillance-capitalism term that counters the Fediverse's historical critique of openness? etc etc etcIn terms of specific terminology, not sure I see the difference between "attached" vs "bridged". "Threads Fediverse" (or whatever they call) it is just as much of a bridge as Bridgy Fed. And one-way vs two-way is an interesting distinction, but it's not all-or-nothing; both Threads Fediverse and Bridgy Fed are partially two-way (and for that matter so is Mastodon/Lemmy, it's going to be the case whenever there's a funcationlity or implementation mismatch). @mastodonmigration @laurenshof

@scott thanks for the explanation, is it okay if I quote the second paragraph in a post where I mention Friendica's and Hubzilla's support for private groups?

@ivansigal congrats, that's really exciting to hear!

Notes on genocide prevention and other kinds of organizing, mutual aid, and activism on social networkshttps://privacy.thenexus.today/notes-on-genocide-prevention-and-other-kinds-of-organizing-mutual-aid-and-activism-on-social-networks-d/A continuation of the discussions about organizing, including a look at high-level use cases and then a deeper dive into perspectives of anti-genocide organizers#fediverse

@mehluv thanks!

@peertube congrats!

. The underlying problem of helping people find accomoodations is the kind of thing that's a natural for social media in general and fedi in particular (althoiugh challenging, especially when taking safety into account) ... AirBnB's approach is the emobodiment of predatory late capitalism, so let's not go that route!@coolandnormal @ShaulaEvans

congrats to everybody involved! @nathalie @AoIR

Thanks! There's an interesting point here: unlike standard federation, bridgy allows one-way blocking (blocking @bsky.brid.gy keeps your posts from being bridged to Bluesky, but you can still see posts from bluesky. There are other situations where one-way federation would be useful as well, for example if somebody wants to follow accounts from Threads but also wants to make sure data doesn't get sent there to use for AI training / ad targeting / whatever. It's like I've said before, one of my key takeaways from the Bridgy Fed brouhaha (haha) was that bridges are undertheorized!And, weird that bridges of this particular post was getting 404'ed... I just noticed that I left out a space and it had "blocking@bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy" so maybe that has somethiung to do with it? @snarfed @quillmatiq

@fastfinge not that I know of. It certainly would be useful functionality!

Indeed. Although footnote 5 mocks one member of the cisheteronormative tech bro patriarchy extensively, far more entrtaining than arguing!@alice @byte

Yeah. About a decade ago Microsoft had fought a FBI order to turn over foreign data. Good for them: the case went to the Supreme Court. And that's why Congress passed the CLOUD Act (which Microsoft supporte, arguing that it was a useful step forward although there was more to be done -- also if I recall correctly it got them off the hook legally). And now ... here we are! Yes, its nice that Microsoft is promising to go to court, and they quite probably will -- that is in fact better than caving without fighting. But that doesn't actually solve the European customers problems.And you're totoally right -- this goes for all of US big tech.@LordOfQuails @jbz

@Voline no worries ... the privacy tax strikes again! I almost never use safari so don't have ad-blockers there, that explains why we were seeing different things.My partner is a very strong privacy advocate and sometimes is completely unable to view sites or we have to spend 10 minutes figuring out which tracking cookies to allow, so annoying.

Also today's probably a good day to reread @Catvalente's Mark F***ing Zuckerberg is Not Your Friendhttps://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-yourIn fact, any day ending in a y is a good day to reread that article!

It is a huge workload so kudos to you for taking it on -- it's great to see things moving forward!@Gina @fosstodon