Elon Musk is going to try to sue Media Matters and any anyone that supposedly "attack" Twitter. I'm going to aussme it also related to various compaines pulling their ads from Twitter is what is pissing him off. He can't point and laugh at user leaving to ether Mastodon, BlueSky or any other platform anymore. Instead of him ambitting he run Twitter to the ground, he is blaming anyone but himself. He will do anything, even if it makes Twitter get less money. #Twitter
I don't want to police people of what platfrom they use or sound like a broken record but please ditch Twitter as soon as possible! It's no longer safe and it has gone downhill since Elon took ownership of Twitter. At the state of Twitter is now, I just know it's going to shut down but that would be years to come.
Fediverse is far from being unproblematic as others on here like to ambit but it is definitely better than Twitter. Most instance cares a lot about user's safety and take pride of doing so.
Also funny that other disc are 'copy protected' and you get one disc that you can get a digital copy if you used an service of some sort. Little ironic..
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I was a bit baffled by an error from friendica (which appeared to otherwise be working), complaining that .well-known/host-meta was not accessible, and that this was a "severe" problem.
BUT - clicking the link in the error resulted in seeing the host-meta downloaded.
After a bit of head scratching (I've recently moved to nginx), I figured it out.
My local internet has only IPv4 connectivity - so it worked. My nginx was misconfigured, and has been ignoring requests on IPv6.
Can I suggest that the Admin panel add an additional test for ip4 and ip6 connectivity, so that admins can be warned?
Additionally, the message about host-meta might be reworded to include a hint to check IP6 connectivity or something.
yes, but the error isnt terribly helpful about that. the machine has ip6 and o does the dns - but the webserver wasnt configured properly, so the test for the host-meta file failed, but downloading it or trying to see why was confounded by the error not being visible from an ipv4 *only* client.
The test is not done on the IP layer, but performs a simple HTTP(s) GET request for the well-known information. So if the warning is issued in the admin panel, there can many causes why the GET request not working.
From a misconfigured REWRITE for URLs in the web server to your network on the server not working properly for whatever reason. And everything in between.
I think it would be possible @Hypolite Petovan to get the DNS record of the baseurl and then do something with that information. And getting this information into the admin panel might be a niceexercise as it is separated from the complexity of most Friendica features.
@Tobias We can check whether there's both an IPv4 and an IPv6 addresses attached to a given domain but I don't think we can test further. We need to perform an HTTP request based on the domain, not based on the IP address, because of virtual hosts.
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If reading about your favorite character getting a disability causes you to rage about how that is "bad" and "terrible writing" and "ridiculous" and "better not continue to be a thing," then I'd like to inform you that you are an ableist asshole.
No, I will not be taking questions at this time.
P.S. I want more disabled rep, so yes, more disabled people are going to be shown existing as people and THRIVING, so if you hate that for whatever reason, then I really need you to:
1. Go away. There's a whole Internet for you to explore. 2. Reassess why you find disabled people existing and thriving as so threatening. 3. Anyone can become disabled at anytime - including you - deal with it. Maybe learn empathy and care instead of hostility.
Lemmy experienced a CSAM attack this week, with some significant ramifications for the entire network. It started early in the week, where new accounts created on lemmy.world posted Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) on multiple communities. This prompted the lemmy.world admins on Monday to set the registration to application only, with no more open signup on the server. The next day the CSAM attack continued, this time from accounts made on other servers that posted to communities on lemmy.world. As a response the lemmy.world admins closed the lemmyshitpost community, as that seemed to be the main focus of the attack.
This problem with CSAM on Lemmy differs from the problem that Mastodon has with CSAM, as reported on earlier this summer. When the Stanford Internet Observatory report found CSAM on Mastodon, it often existed below the surface, with the vast majority of users never encountering the material. The attack on Lemmy seems to have been executed with the purpose of getting people to see the material, as quite some people reported seeing the material, see here and here.
One of the major impacts of this attack relates to technical design choices that Lemmy has made. Images that are posted on server A get send over and stored on server B, when someone on server B follows a community on server A. Images that are posted on lemmy.world, the biggest Lemmy server, exists in the databases of most other Lemmy servers as well. This means that due to the attack on lemmy.world, many Lemmy admins do now have images of CSAM in their database. With it comes liability for the admins, as well as reporting requirements. IFTAS has a good overview of the resources for admins to navigate these requirements.
Other aspects of Lemmy have confounded the issue of third party servers unwittingly hosting CSAM. It is currently not possible to federate with other Lemmy servers, and receive the text of a post, without also receiving and hosting the images of a post. Mastodon for example does allow servers to reject images while not rejecting text. Selective deletion of images in the database on Lemmy is also hard to do, and as a result, servers decided to delete all federated images in their database.
One of the ways admins deal with this new threat is with a new AI scanning tool called Lemmy Safety, created by the admin of the dbzer0 lemmy server. It scans all images in the Lemmy database for potential CSAM, and automatically deletes the images, and can also be used to scan newly incoming images. While this can help in the short term with making sure there is no CSAM material, it might interfere with legal obligations that administrators have. In various jurisdictions, administrators are required to report to the relevant authorities when they become aware of CSAM. Again, this collection of resources by IFTAS is a good start with helpful information.
It is clear that this is a complicated problem for volunteer admins to deal with. Multiple administrators concluded that the risks and complications of continuing to host Lemmy servers is not worth it. Other servers, such as lemm.ee have made extensive plans on how to deal with the situation, such as disabling image uploads, and applying a custom patch to prevent images from other servers to be saved on their server. They also float the idea of an invite-based registration system.
On the Matrix chat channels for Lemmy admins, tension is rising, and people are frustrated with the lack of acknowledgement and communications from the developers @[url=https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] and @[url=https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic]nutomic[/url]. The developers have not communicated anything about this on either their Matrix chat channels or on their Lemmy. On their GitHub, the dbzer0 admin proposed to expand his automated CSAM scanning to allow for saving and review potential hits, instead of outright deletion. Developer @[url=https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] stated that this “is not something we have time for rn.” For servers that are operated under US law however, administrators are mandated to save CSAM they encounter, report it to the authorities, make it not visible for users, and restrict access to the saved material as best as possible. The outright rejection by the main developer to build tools that can admins satisfy these legal requirements does not help the confidence of admins who are worried about their responsibilities.
Meanwhile, new reports are starting to pop up of a new type of CSAM attack. Posts that are titled ‘Tiktok Cringe’, and first show a few seconds of a random tiktok video, and then switch to CSAM material. This makes it really easy for moderators to miss the content, unless they watch the entire video. At this point, it is unclear if this was an isolated incident, or part of a bigger attack. How this situation will develop in the near future is out in the open, but I’m sure we’ll come back to it soon.
In other news
Social network Minds has been working on implementing ActivityPub, and are now mostly connected to the fediverse. Minds, which launched in 2015, has a strong focus on free speech and cryptocurrency. As such, multiple outlets report the far-right nature of its user base. Minds reported that they joined the fediverse in a not particularly clear post. So far it seems like posts made on Minds are visible on Mastodon, but comments made by Mastodon users on a post made by Minds, are not visible on the Minds’ platform itself. The culture and ethics of Minds seems to differ significantly from that of most fediverse servers, and if Minds becomes more prominently visible within the fediverse, this will likely lead to friction and conversations around defederation. On the other hand, it does give another indication that ActivityPub is becoming the standard protocol for other social networks to implement.
A contributor to the Tusky project (an open source Android client for Mastodon) leaves the project, and writes a blog post alleging financial mismanagement. The other contributors write an extensive explanation of the situation, denying the allegations. While the situation itself is not particularly impactful for the fediverse, it is a good illustration of how difficult the organisational aspect of collectively building software on the fediverse is.
Technology website The Verge has moved their backend to WordPress. Editor-in-chief Nilay Patel calls this a bet for The Verge on Threads, and by extension ActivityPub.
Pixelfed has many features in the works. Developer @[url=https://pixelfed.social/users/dansup]dansup[/url] has announced groups, channels, and a solo server project, and is working on other fediverse projects as well. One of these features, Stories, is finally shipping for mobile.
The Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, has joined the fediverse on the social.bund.de server.
Interoperability between software on the fediverse is often more complicated than the ideals of the fediverse might suggest. Here is an overview of the conversations around a testing suite for ActivityPub, which can help make sure that different software works properly with the rest of the fediverse.
If you are a developer of fediverse software, it’s recommended to check out this first version of a test suite by Steve Bate.
Search on Mastodon is complex, Terence Eden writes, for a variety of both social and technical reasons. The vmst.io server has made extensive documentation for Mastodon search, visible here.
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New report finds an increasingly decentralized social media landscape offers users more choice, but poses technical challenges for addressing child exploitation and other online abuse.
Now that the train operators are openly admitting what we've said all along, it's not too late to have your say in the #SaveTicketOffices consultation bit.ly/saveticketoffices
It's hard to descrbe what it was like when Google first launched and started to get traction among tech heads. People don't talk about it, how pervasive it was. It was suddenly *everywhere* and omg tech heads the world over were jizzing themselves over all the "Free" software and services. "Their motto is "Dont Be Evil"!", they'd tell you, empty eyes shining. You couldn't move on the internet without someone breathlessly touting Gmail or Chrome or Google Docs or The Google Pack at you, or describing how vast the Google server estate was, even. Ping tests? "If you can't reach the [rock-solid] Google.com (your tech nerd knew the IP address by heart) your computer is the problem." When Chrome launched it gained a higher browser share *in one day* than Opera had gained in its entire lifetime (was at version 8, I believe). It ignited the Browser Speed Test wars. ACID3 compatilbility was suddenly make or break for browsing. Somehow, it *mattered*. And so on. And here we are 20+ years later seeing the end result of all that early "generosity". A browser and company heading ever deeper into dystopian waters day by day, and threatening to take the entire web with it. Nothing is safe because of all the power tech heads handed them on a silver platter, with a blow job on the side. The power Microsoft *took*, Google was given freely. If I could go back in time and slap every slavering tech head who suddenly climbed up Google's rear without stopping to consider consequences, I would. Disclaimer: no, I was never one of those guys. Chrome has always been shit, and Google a Cult. #FuckGoogle
If I were a vampire I would use "wanna see a dead body" as a pickupline and also I would go "have some respect for the dead 🙄" whenever anyone asked me to do anything I didnt want to.
It is wild the way cis people will try to separate passing and non-passing trans people like I’m “one of the good ones” for being gender conforming and pretty. I’m the same amount of trans as the large woman with the bald spot and visible bulge and whatever else you wanna nitpick. Anything you say bad about her applies to me because we are literally the same +/- time and luck. Kindness and empathy and respect shouldn’t be based on fuckability.
I've often said that the way that my cis privilege manifests is that my words carry more weight with cis people, even though I'm openly out as trans.
They absolutely, yet sometimes even unconsciously, paint us as "the good ones" and that creates a bias that gives our words more weight.
It's part of the reason I'm open and out. I have more solidarity with trans and gender diverse folk than I ever will with cis folk, and I want to telegraph that to everyone who sees me.
it does apply to men, but cosmetic appearance does not appear to be as much of a primary factor as other attributes like position, power, money, dominance, charisma, aggression, etc
I don't care how theoretically self-lubricating it is. The body's own lubrication system is just about acceptable for not-uncomfortable sex with a bio-penis covered in precum.
And even if you're doing that, specifically, you'll probably benefit from a bit of lube.
Advice to use lube is generally targeted to those who ~don't self lubricate~ eg menopausal women, trans women, etc, but let me tell you this: pretty much all vaginas benefit from a bit of additional lube because the lubrication they make is largely blood plasma, which isn't quite slippery enough.
And don't just use lube when it feels a bit difficult going in, fucking squelch it on whenever anything is going in there pre-emptively, I promise it will revolutionise your sex life.
I'm so used to markdown format that I caught myself doing it on Friendica which I know theres an add-on for it but stock Friendica used BBcode which I vaugely remember using it but it been long time since I last used it when I was on a modding site
Mastodon is preparing changes to allow searches of public posts, and a decision has been made to make the condition for allowing it a "discoverble" for accounts. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344
I have an opinion on this but discussion is not allowed.
If users want to keep their searches restricted as before, the server administrator should recommend that users turn off the "discoverble" setting.
Doing so will result in more users disappearing from directory and account searches.
This is a follow up to #25951
The idea here is to allow public posts by discoverable users to show up in search results. This is done by adding a new Public Status Index to Elastic Search.
A status...
I don't know who needs to hear this (no, really, I don't) but I'm building a new and completely from-scratch fedi microblogging server in C Sharp. I would very much like to have more help. It's early days, but the general thesis for the project is to have a better admin and moderator experience than mastodon. It's called #Letterbook.
If you wanted to help build the fediverse, but working with Ruby and/or the Mastodon core team wasn't appealing, this might be a better fit, and we should chat.
So for blind Windows users, what mail client do you use? I'm kinda getting tired of Gmail, having to hear lots of stuff before each message, and having to turn on browse mode and arrow through all that to get to the message, all that. And Thunderbird is messy in 115. I might have to just get used to Outlook.
I'm sticking to Thunderbitrd 102 for the moment, but also use outlook for another account. Do you have something particularly needed in 115? I don't see any major changes that would draw me to that version, even if they hadn't broken the interface for us.
Oh I see. I'm to the rather depressing point where one of the first things I do when I install anything is to say "do not check for updates" and, if that's not possible, "do not install updates". You can always install the portable version of your favourite version, though. I also use that for splitting accounts.
@weirdwriter You're quite right. Another advantage is the easy backup and experimentation. Not sure about an update or major settings change? Just copy the entire folder, make the change and, if you don't like the results, copy the folder from before the change back to where it was.
out of interest, has anyone (e.g. in the global blind community) ever asked Mozilla's Thunderbird team how much it would cost for them to fund their dev teams to make Thunderbird a rockstar posterchild for accessibility? Seems like that would provide a very specific target around which to organise and seek funding for ongoing support. Getting proprietary interests to do it will depend on them wanting to get 'PR' & after they've milked that, they'll let it atrophy.
@lightweight I'm not speaking in any official capacity, but at Thunderbird we really do want accessibility to be a first class concern. I think it would do us a lot of good to build stronger ties with the folks building NVDA and the like; at least some of 115's issues seem to come down to special cases in the message list that went away, but ultimately better communication can't hurt regardless.
step 3: ignore the results relating to soap, cooking, or the adorable-but-wrong backronym "Race Inspired Car Enhancements"
step 4: discover that "ricing" was a) originally used as an insult (shitty cars with lots of mods) and b) referencing people from east Asia cos, yknow, japanchinesekorean people like rice
step 5: stop using the word in the context of "mods"
evidence points to "Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements" being a "backronym", an abbreviation that was invented after the word was already in usage – have you ever heard anyone calling an american or european car a "rice"?
anyway, happily the c/unixporn moderator didn't agree that it's possible for people not targeted by a racist term to reclaim it for themselves, and that it's not the responsibility of folks pointing out a word's bigoted history to find an alternative, and racist terminology is now banned 😌
Hi ! I can't create a #pixelfed account with a Mastodon login. It's not available. I try to do this since yesterday but I cannot. I have to write an email and a password like a new account. Today I found a link on a search engine and this link go to pixelfed.fr where buttons seems to give access to an account but it's a lure. When I am inside the process, a page ask me for an email and a password to end the account creation. Waste of time.
All pixelfed servers ask for creating a new account. On pixelfed.fr we can keep our Mastodon account data (but) we still need to create a new account. There doesn't seem to be a solution for an environment around/linked to a Mastodon account (in my case mastodon.social).
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I don't want to police people of what platfrom they use or sound like a broken record but please ditch Twitter as soon as possible! It's no longer safe and it has gone downhill since Elon took ownership of Twitter. At the state of Twitter is now, I just know it's going to shut down but that would be years to come.
Fediverse is far from being unproblematic as others on here like to ambit but it is definitely better than Twitter. Most instance cares a lot about user's safety and take pride of doing so.