Posts by amberage@eldritch.cafe
(DIR) Post #Ay2EKSFpQsJvSAmN16 by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-09-07T22:52:16Z
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And take your FUCKING "read more and be forcibly yanked out of your timeline" shit off my fucking post.
(DIR) Post #Ay2EKSovKOORD1COie by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-09-07T22:55:01Z
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But hey, let's take this one at a time. Let's start with something simple. like "refetch user profile and posts at report time" and a button to do the same inside the mod report UI, how does that sound?I would tag Eugen, but mastodon.social blocked me after I criticised their BDFL, so 🤷♀️ #MastoMod
(DIR) Post #Ay2EKTcCNBoBfqFkWW by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-09-07T22:58:20Z
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Oh and P.S., here's another feature I believe would really improve Mastodon moderation a lot, that I've previously proposed:Instance A has blocked instance B, so all posts B sends towards A are rejected.I would like a tally of how many those are.Instance A has not blocked instance C. Users at instance C boost posts from B, which C attempts to send to B's followers at A. These, too, are rejected.I would like a tally of that too. Which instances try to send how many boosts from defederated instances to us.Identify which instances are gateways into the nasty parts of the network. Close gaps in the blocklist. Identify un- or undermoderated instances.That would be really valuable.#MastoMod
(DIR) Post #Ay2EKUD4A7IbWBVBzM by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-09-07T23:04:11Z
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And lastly, I've said it before:The fediverse, right now, is where e-mail was 30 years ago. Federated, meaning, impossible to govern centrally. Node-to-node connections not run through a third party in between (1). Anyone can spin up a new node at will.And just like e-mail, we are experiencing the same issues: spam, harassment, unenforceable rules.Look at e-mail today. Virtually all moderation is automated. Entire IP blocks are being blocked based on algorithmic judgements. Self-hosting is nigh-impossible. Appeal is effectively impossible. There are no human decisions involved.Is that where we want to be headed? Or, on the other hand, do we want to head for chaotic free-for-all PvP?We have to make that choice now. When I started on the fediverse, back in '18 I believe, spam was a non-issue. But as the 'verse has grown in popularity, in numbers, in profile, it's become a target. We have hit a milestone, we are now relevant enough for spam and scam.We are at a crossroads.I would like more passive assistance. I don't want automatic moderation; we've all seen where that leads with Twitter. I want assistive systems that provide insights, that inform my decisions, rather than take them from me. Because at the current size of the network, purely manual moderation is simply not feasible any more.I would like a software that gives me all the info I would otherwise have had to go digging for right away, so I can focus on the decisionmaking part.I implore you, Eugen and the rest of the team, think about moderation while you still can, because at the rate spam etc. is ramping up at the moment, your human moderators are being outpaced rapidly.Look at e-mail and learn. Please.(1) internet infra notwithstanding, I mean no AP-specific facilitator is required between two instances (relays are optional)#MastoMod
(DIR) Post #Ay2EKbLTdFBbeIUVZQ by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-09-07T23:19:36Z
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Oh, I know I said "lastly", but I'll have to P.S.:99% of these features will never be implemented into Mastodon. Don't even get your hopes up.But I bet, just like there are dozens of Masto clients, that one or another of these proposals might be something someone, somewhere, might like to implement on their own.Mastodon team and I will most likely, given their recent direction of feature development, never agree on what a good, safe fediverse would look like.I've said it before: I wish there were a better API for instances to hook up their own moderation tools. "Webhooks", I believe, is a keyword bandied around every now and then – that the instance would keep third-party software "in the loop", i.e. notify about new posts the instance receives or sends.Some sort of interface to plug third-party moderation extensions in would be, frankly, invaluable.Because chances are, for every thing I've proposed in this thread, you will find two dozen instance admins whose worst nightmare I've just described, or who maybe just dread the thought of the UI changing. Maybe it works for them, however that works.Please, devs. Give us a way to customise our moderation tools, at minimal effort to you. We'll write them ourselves. Just give us something to plug into.#MastoMod
(DIR) Post #AydwlyV2BjhTkxp3K4 by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-09-27T08:12:34Z
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@JellyTBeagle where's the "I sleep with a shotgun in case my printer makes a noise" post when you need it
(DIR) Post #Aypp1pUWyq0GiP9ghc by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-10-03T14:08:10Z
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@sophieschmieg actually, what you're referring to as critising Linux on Mastodon is, in fact, Mastodon/Linux criticism, or as I've taken to calling it, Mastodon plus Linux criticism. Mastodon is simply the medium, the Linux criticism is just one component of the larger social media universe.
(DIR) Post #AzG08jOCDWA7QFdySG by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-08-23T09:16:13Z
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@renchap so, to sum it up: 24 hours later, quote posts have been used to call me the n-word, misgender me, tell me to commit suicide, derogatorily call me a jew, tell me to "dilate elsewhere", and whatnot.That's a great feature you got there. Lovely people defending it.
(DIR) Post #AzLHkhoxAOXoZbeVea by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-10-17T21:12:04Z
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I hate how much everyone romanticised the "we're all stuck in quarantine baking sourdough bread" vibe. No. No we weren't. You were, maybe. I was at work, five days, fourty hours a week.This idea that "we" were "all" just ✨ vibing ✨ at home doing whimsical little hobbies is such a slap in the face of working class people.
(DIR) Post #AzLHkquxLRh4mpWvlA by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-10-17T21:12:23Z
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Also, unless you were actively sick, it was neither a quarantine nor a lockdown, it was social distancing. Words matter.
(DIR) Post #B09DcnvEMrAs9AIEDo by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-11-11T19:09:12Z
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Can anyone help me identify a video game?A family member remembers playing a game, some time ca. 2005–2010. They remember there being a scene in a submarine and a scene at a market where melons or something could be bought, and water was somehow important.Somewhat sure it wasn't first person, but it might have been some isometric pseudo 3D thing; they say it might have been one of those "you can only walk left or right" things.Long shot, I know, but if anyone has an inkling, I'd love to hear it.Would have been running on Windows XP at the time.#AskFedi #Retrogames
(DIR) Post #B09DcwkDZAiFVcD3o0 by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-11-11T19:10:40Z
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Non-zero chance it was free with an issue of the German c't magazine.
(DIR) Post #B0nn3bRvpe1r0QXH9s by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-01T09:27:03Z
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Trans musicians of fedi, I come to you with a plea for help!Do you have any footage of yourself playing gigs that you 1) have the rights to and 2) would permit the use of?Can be as short as ten seconds. Big stage, small pub, camera phone or professional cam, doesn't matter, just as long as it it's from a gig and looks the part. Audio not required.I'm working on a trans-themed music video for a cover song and I'd love to cut a little montage of performances in the last chorus.If that call speaks to you, I'd be delighted if you replied or DM'd me!#AskFedi #TransMusicians
(DIR) Post #B0oojysjObkQxEnn3A by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-01T12:56:35Z
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The key words "AND MAKE IT FAST", "ABSOLUTELY NOT", and "LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
(DIR) Post #B0ook07InuzumicwOu by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-01T12:59:14Z
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SCP:academic or bureaucratic languagethere's a bunch that are just jokesnot real, can't hurt youRFC:academic or bureaucratic languagethere's a bunch that are just jokesreal, can hurt you
(DIR) Post #B0ook7z5YLBHBYqUi0 by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-01T22:27:19Z
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RFC (RFC For Comment)
(DIR) Post #B0rqkHWEsz6O8hQs9Q by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-03T09:18:44Z
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Petition to forbid stores from sending "your order has been shipped" emails until it has actually left their facility.You printed a shipping label, sure, but DHL hasn't even picked it up yet. It's sitting in your warehouse with a barcode on it. That's not "shipped" you filthy liars.
(DIR) Post #B1TYDU68wrl4tdfb2e by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-11-19T20:03:22Z
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I love you, men. I love you, boys. I love you, bearded guys with six-packs. I love you, hairless twinks. I love you, guys who look like a twig. I love you, guys who look like Bud Spencer. Guys who look like two Bud Spencers, I worship the ground you walk on. I love you, men whose voice never broke. I love you, baritones and basses. I love gym bros, I love geek boys, I love you men in midlife crises. 5' guys and 6'6" guys, you own my heart. single guys, taken guys, married guys, mono- and polyam guys, I love you. I cherish you. Kind-of-men, boys-but-not-men, part-time men and vaguely man-adjacent folks, I think the world is better with you in it. I love you, men who are mechanics and boxers and rock stars. I love you, men who are nurses and waiters and cashiers. I love guys who fuck and guys who don't fuck and guys who fuck maybe, sometimes, because they find it funny or to make their partners happy. Hypersexual guys, I think you're great. Sex-repulsed guys, I think you're awesome. Men in suits and men in sweatpants and men in skirts and men in nothing at all, you're perfect.Not sorry, I had to get that out there.
(DIR) Post #B1ehT4YohUbseX9HOa by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2024-04-09T21:58:00Z
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(DIR) Post #B1eq6fPQQp7Frb9AXo by amberage@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-27T00:55:34Z
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omfg I just had an idea and I need to know if it will workSay I wanted to build a miniature set for a filmmaking thingy, but I didn't have the space, or the means to afford all the material, or the skill to paint and whatnot.Say I wanted to build the set digitally then, but I didn't have the skill to light it properly and really make it seem real and not-flat.Would it be possible to combine the two as follows:model the miniature digitallybuild the exact same shape, minus details, physically out of black cardboard and light itsomehow superimpose the image of the lit black cardboard miniature over the textured and detailed digital miniature and use that for lighting?If anyone has experience with this or knows enough about CGI and miniature to tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree or give me pointers – I'd love that.#AskFedi #VFX #CGI #Miniature