Posts by controlfreak@hackers.town
(DIR) Post #AOsWHhsBwxrHfangfI by controlfreak@hackers.town
2022-10-24T02:29:18Z
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@fitheach if its a smallish group that you are irl with, tox.chat is prolly a good call. p2p, e2ee, just need to convey your chat id in some other format to link up.trifa is up to date tox app on fdroid. works great across mixed clients in my experience.session is blockchain with its own coin reward crap so avoid if that is not your vibe
(DIR) Post #AP0qDNQpYq69SgtXBg by controlfreak@hackers.town
2022-10-28T02:15:14Z
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@thegibson
(DIR) Post #APYAanyip2hUGoJEPo by controlfreak@hackers.town
2022-11-13T03:23:36Z
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@thegibson
(DIR) Post #APeIDz8l7bDuoFOQsK by controlfreak@hackers.town
2022-11-02T02:32:00Z
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I'm not verified, I'm Justified...and ancient🎸 🎸 🎸 #mumu #3ameternal#np #fediplay
(DIR) Post #AQ7PQhBXUKUf4fMupc by controlfreak@hackers.town
2022-11-30T04:31:44Z
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#moviebowl Batman 1989 should be the winner as it is the one and only true and best batman. fight me.However, I will be plum chuffed if the final is Christmas Vaction vs Bill and Ted.are we dragging @alexwinter into our electioneering?"Bill...strange things are afoot at the circle K..."
(DIR) Post #AQPCdaezG3CS2jEvGS by controlfreak@hackers.town
2022-12-08T12:36:20Z
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@Raspberry_Pi @james but unlike on other social platforms you are on fuck around and find out how federation works. you will have twitter clout crumb scramblers on MS and a handful of other muskian adjacent servers. nice one. well played. this was a place that HAD happily shared rpi projects and you are razing it with fire within a month...
(DIR) Post #ARG32MFxFO2Mo70HGi by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-01-03T06:35:35Z
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@podverse thought it was jan 1st not april 1st. good luck with the outpouring of love no doubt incoming...
(DIR) Post #ARXkiyVseww7POXUh6 by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-01-11T19:20:25Z
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@thegibson and imma let you finish, but I'm having a hard time believing your mix tape will be 1/7 the fire of the Hamburger Helper...https://soundcloud.com/hamburgerhelper/tracks#np #NowPlaying #drop #classic #HamburgerHelper
(DIR) Post #ARYCvYpAHMsKDVLh6u by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-01-12T00:54:10Z
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@purism I'm not sure your new MAGA advertising is resonating how you think. I wouldn't ask my worst enemy to trust USA hardware. the CCP can only aspire to the all permeating US plateau of state surveillance, oppression, murder and terror. You are waving a flag of and standing under/beside an absolute joke re: freedom and privacy.It's quite a stretch to call US labour, environmental and material laws ethical.I appreciate the effort to circumvent some walled gardens and establish secure supply. Open and auditable code is always a good thing. But the bald eagle bravado here might not jive with lived reality for anyone other than xenophobic uninformed flag wavers. I was half expecting eagle screetching and an advert for the monster truck rally to pop out of the screen.
(DIR) Post #AUrJmJX2HCvi2UaRu4 by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-04-20T22:37:42Z
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@feditips Those new users may also not understand that x % of the verse may not be seeing them eitherIt's fair to demand a little less abuse of power from a single platform in the fedi that is making some pathing decisions that unfortunately align with monetisation and data brokering. That hasn't shown to be intent to date, but again, it tracks.Mastodon should be assisting better the informing users about the wider sphere it inhabits and not narrowing and islanding onboarding. It's a bit exhausting for users and volunteers with a less captive audience to handle that education.Seems simple to have a "go choose a server and here are the benefits. If you can't right now try it out here and here are the drawbacks". This frames the experience much better and honestly than just hoarding onbaords. Fair concern that the same people who reckon the official app is the only way are clicking right into an island that they also reckon is the only way.
(DIR) Post #AV6jLdfCpaZKpykS0W by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-04-28T10:14:10Z
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@lowqualityfacts I question your commitment as this post was totally fucking radio edit clean
(DIR) Post #AVTWhHLK9awBmOnwp6 by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-05-09T10:10:51Z
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@louis i feel a little bad homeboy has never experienced a joyful, useful local timelinealso, at this point I kinda want him to "sellout" and some buyer would have an islanded big instance no different than "Truth" that would get exponentially smaller daily making monetising a downward line graph. lolmasto is one of if not the clunkiest guts of a backend in the fedi so there isn't really much for sale other than an assemblage of unwitting onboards and people jumping up and down for twitter2 electric boogaloo, oh and a truckload of stale accounts.multiple viable forks if anyone really yearns for the clunk so if he wants to shoot himself in the guts and be anti fedi then all that does is prove he was just a load of bs all along
(DIR) Post #AWld779pMDRa5jHWxE by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-06-17T01:35:25Z
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(DIR) Post #AWphRAPCAUlQPB7vaC by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-06-19T00:34:22Z
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@amolith 100% agree on the modus operandi of Meta and that the protocol will remain but I am also anxious of having to be worried about the gmail paradox. Like how you have to be worried that communicating with someone in that ecosystem gets you slurped on that end.Same will ring true about trying to constantly keep track of what instances might be federating with Meta and how you might get slurped by communicating/mentioning with people you want or may need to communicate with via such intermediaries. Stress abound.This is all benefit to Meta and ALL COST in time, infra and safety to the fediverse. Anyone apologising otherwise with "growth" or "easier" or whatever is disingenuous at best.
(DIR) Post #AWuAhAyrTJ7S7qdRWi by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-06-21T04:25:36Z
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@maddiefuzz @lmorchard @TheDarkHorse @thegibson @signal9 @Wrewdison eerday is a good day to shitquote send toot
(DIR) Post #AX3RIudU1rhYuOEnPU by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-06-19T23:11:44Z
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Wild couple of days. Bottom line is who cares. Be excellent to each other and there will still be a way to do so when Meta and Mastodon Inc finish ruining the current iteration.So many talking heads and admins doubling down on "wait and see", name calling other admins and calling "kneejerk" the absolute correct side of history approach of Fuck Meta to the moon instablock.There is NO argument about CAN or IF. Anyone including Meta can make make an ActivityPub platform. However, the fediverse is under no obligation to provide bad faith actors with proven dangerous and violent behaviour white glove service to our data and lives or even offer a "benefit of the doubt". Thousands are here specifically to not feed that machine.It's also not kneejerk for strong negative response tp shady doings because even a brief window of allowing a presence like Meta to slurp our transitive boosts et al is a real and viable threat to health and safety based on absolutely repeated operating procedures of corpos, Meta specifically.Yes bad faith actors appear all the time, sometimes the fedi manage to run them off. Are there still bad faith actors slurping and scraping and planting bots and moles, you bet, acknowledged. But again the fediverse is under zero obligation to throw hands in the air and say ahh whatves someone is gonna do it anyway let's give the keys to the kingdom to the biggest worst possible bad actors because whatevs and growth...A preemptive block approach and not wanting to be a complicit cog in the Meta wheel of aggression and violence who have horrible history of supporting multiple genocides, ratting out to brutal states women seeking reproductive care, beneficiaries and poor folk, activists and community leaders, dissenting voices, and so so much more, is also not kneejerk, it's actually level headed, compassionate, and human.Less about direct safety and a very real note. The entry of a player like Meta even if only a million or 10 million join their new platform quickly equals a 2x - 10x force multiplier on active fedi traffic. Mastodon and some derivatives are so piss poor at managing spikes in traffic and are super bloated in the back-end for processing relational traffic and storage. That's a recipe for speed run of the three Es.This is class war as this will be a serious strain on servers that make the bad decision to federate with Meta, and it will preclude small servers from really being able to afford to operate.For those that can scale infra costs even if not federated, the knock-on effect of backed up queues on other servers that may be Meta federated willingly or unknowingly is gonna be an unprecedented traffic jam of blown message queues, server hangs and outages. Right now when massoc has an onboarding burst or a burp, hiccup, blown update, outage or anything that backs up the queues, the entire fedi feels the pain and strain and has to bear real COSTS of admin, mod, sysadm, infra scale and $$$ to accomodate, image that at 2,10,20x power. Yikes. Again, the wider fedi (which is NOT Gargamel's Mastodon) is under no obligation to just shut up and take this because "growth".It doesn't matter who was in an NDA meeting, it's bad faith all around, absolutely antithetical to historical fediquette, and you deserve backlash if you take the position of "wait and see" and "benefit of the doubt" for a bucket of shit like Meta who while weakened and desperate for some new angles to farm and sell content and people, still have the power to completely over-run directly or indirectly, technically or litigiously, and absolutely fiscally to play the long game and muscle out, fracture or island. Meta have nothing to lose and only more data and agency theft to gain. There can be no delusion they will operate an invasion of this scale with an absolutely alien set of ethics to their proven record.Talking heads be warned, it is NOT a bad thing if massoc and Meta and Truth and a handful of admins who hate people become Fedi2 Electric Boogaloo. Who cares. Growth for growths sake is a capitalist scam and it's not really fracturing. If the dust settles on a human-centric anti corporate OG fedi with a whitelist and a charter that values safety and agency over volume and hate, that isn't an own by "unavoidable growth" players nor is it an L for the verse, that is humans being decent.It is important to note that anyone even kinda siding with Mastodon, Meta and "wait and see" or "benefit of the doubt" should expect flack given the steady and incremental slimy centralising bullshit Mastodon Inc has undertaken under the guise of "easy onboarding" which always seemed like precursors to monetisation or overpowering the network with monolithic server populations. Mastodon the company was already well on their way to being an island like Truth. That's not great for the many swindled users who had no idea mainly due to false narratives and slimy onboarding based on owning the public image. Sucks they have not experienced the joy of a lively and supportive home feed.It is imperative to make the Meta platform an island straight away and work to mitigate the ripple effects on the wider fedi that will exhaust and overrun the small-medium operators that make the fedi weird and wonderful for users who love real engagement and a place devoid of overt corporate interference. That isn't anti growth or kneejerk, it's fucking pro human.#Metablock #faceblock #meta #nda #drama #Facebook #Meta #Project92keep fedi weird. fuck influencer culture. fuck vapid growth and non-interactive firehose culture. fuck Mastodon. fuck Meta. respect agency. celebrate non-violence. embrace usable, useful and empathy filled home feeds!
(DIR) Post #AXFrmyqOMThfPeT17I by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-07-01T00:30:06Z
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Here is a good (horrifying) synopsis from Amnesty with deeper links if you want to know why it is 100% the human and fedizen call to absolutely 100% island facebook and any apologists who want to "wait and see" or make the weak argument that data is public they can get it anyway so let's allow pooping in the pool and invite the biggest possible pooper to the party. Facebook have zero incentive to change and the fediverse is under no obligation to absorb their costs in agency, safety, moderation, infrastructure.If Facebook's decades of hate do not inform your decision and you choose to "wait and see" or give them some benefit of doubt, THAT is fracturing the fediverse. That is forcing good folks to consider how can they somewhat safely have an alt in a bad place they don't want to be but may need to try to survive via some presence and connections while once again being lost in the corpo avalanche of inane.Islanding corporate thieves and their apologists IS FEDI AF!https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2021/11/the-facebook-papers-what-do-they-mean-from-a-human-rights-perspective/Blocking is not enough. There is absolutely nothing anti-growth, "nasty", anti-openness about advocating for better organic engagement, no fire hose one-way clout hound "influencer" numbers worshiping culture and content swiping, and general safety with amazing usable and supportive local feeds! If you think it's bad silencing massoc, wait until the network is almost instantly doubled, then quadrupled ...Keeping a wing of the fedi free from corporate interference and dominance is the most fedi thing you can do. Many already do this against Mastodon Inc and massoc and other growth at all costs easy onboarding scammers. Yes it is a scam to own the discourse that massoc is Mastodon and Mastodon is the fediverse and trick easy onboards into this fire hose of absolute unusable timelines.If you want to be a corpo shill, you can absolutely keep or make an account on a corpo apologist server that wants to try to keep up with the network pummeling. Just say that up front as should admins.You have a choice.1. If you want empty "numbers" in yet another corporate hellhole of LCD one-way fire hose zero engagement and if you want to pay for INVITED corporate relationship and transient tracking and theft, algorithms, searches, and all the shit that has made corpo socials abject failures in content, agency, safety, decency then by all means you will obviously have that option.2. If you want a federated network of supportive weird and wonderful timelines with organic engagement, and zero corporate interference, you owe the talking heads NOTHING, you owe Facebook NOTHING, and you have the absolute right to kick ass or be comfy in peace with some dignity of not having been complacent in Facebook's or Mastodon's horribad practices. You have no obligation to the cowardly opinions of talking heads who will try to minimise or apologise facebook facts.Does this suck for artists and makers actually doing and building things, maybe a little on the surface. But seeing a pretty strong we are here specifically to NOT have corpo influence stance might indicate Fedi 2 Gargamels Boogaloo could be a bit light on creatives, artistic, builders and doers. Which might be fine to the twiterati who might want infinite quote toots and talking head worship and to own all discourse to feed their privilege and comfort?Again, it is fine you WANT to be in the corporate hellscape of crashes, melted queues, network overpowering, poor moderation, escalating/prohibitive cost of entry as corpo gatekeeping for that illusion of "openness" and "growth". Own that. Own that you are complicit in the well documented tactics of Facebook and just don't care. Quit waffling and quit trying to drag others into that pit.Any admin unwilling to say openly and clearly: we are just gonna corpo federate no matter the cost of agency to bear is a cowardIt is disingenuous for admins to be so violently advocating against the possibility for others to thrive in an allow list fedi via consensus with all the standard existing fediquette block list + Meta and any corpo apologist instances as a common standard for never allow. A panacea that cannot be gamed, of course not, but that is a piss weak argument to try to force embracing Facebook.There is nothing wrong with stating clearly absolute block all meta and allies or allowing only others that also do. IF and only IF Facebook does NONE of the thousands of horrible things they do every day in federation then we might consider a block approach rather than allow list. That's a pro human stance and should be the only framing for a wait and see style option.Please read every admin waffling and vacillating that maybe it won't happen, or maybe it won't be so bad when they invade as:we embrace the delusion of "being where the crowd is" no matter how much it is going to pummel our network, chase away small operators, threaten safety, overwork volunteers, all to just open the front door with a white glove to let Facebook back into your house under the data/content thieving scam of "being where the crowd is". And hey it's only been a couple decades of Facebook being shit humans, we reckon THIS could totally be different... You are under no obligation to fund (currency, infra, data, agency, privacy, safety) or sacrifice in any way to the delusions, ego and growth worship of talking heads. Stay vertical and be excellent to each other.#facebook #blockMeta #blockFacebook #Meta
(DIR) Post #AXFrmzrqYYSeaS9h1U by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-07-01T01:34:48Z
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as the relatively white, relatively male, relatively global north, relatively comfortable and privileged talking heads on "wait and see" servers will try to insist upon you, "fracturing" the fediverse is not YOUR fault for not wanting to willingly sing up for re-entry into the corporate data theft and tracking landscape. Facebook allies deserve to be an island just like Truth and increasingly like massoc. Federation is still absolutely valid for for any federation of like minded. The current fear mongering by corpo apologists that anti corporate and pro human rights instances will just disappear is obscene. They would probably disappear when they get network overrun and can't afford to operate in the meta and friends federation if they tried to be there.That is corporate gatekeeping, and that is class war.Do not be discouraged by growth at all cost, ego stroking, privileged wind bags trying to blame you for ruining the fediverse for wanting to keep a federation anti corporate or for wanting to help your server, friends, fellow fedizens from absorbing the costs of corporate landscapes at terrible human price. Again, you owe Facebook nothing, and you owe growth worshiping clout hounds nothing.Anti corprorate instances could absolutely continue to thrive in a federation, and THERE CAN BE MULTIPLE FEDERATIONS, of kindred anti meta/apologists instances who flourish through supportive, pro human and awesome local and home feeds!keep fedi weird and be excellent to each other
(DIR) Post #AXeAiQKnwKbdkNLyNs by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-07-06T09:16:11Z
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just cruising the federated feed for the night shift and the not small number of folk who have in their bio that they will not tolerate bigotry, racism, fascism, transphobia etc etcand are posting about being on Threats....:blobfacepalm:​
(DIR) Post #AXfHdnF2Er3CBHM024 by controlfreak@hackers.town
2023-07-13T22:02:47Z
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@nextcloud retroactively embarassed of having ever recommended and deployed. Flavour of the week doesn't have the senseless, lemming, shill, or destructive gravitas but yeesh. You can claim it's contained or different all you like, but plutonium et al is a pretty lavishly stupid way to boil water.