Posts by hrefna@hachyderm.io
(DIR) Post #Aic5khDxxB74ib7OV6 by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-06-05T04:32:15Z
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If you want small servers you have to make them cheaper to run. If you want them to be cheaper to run then they need to require less maintenance and require less infrastructure. If you want them to require less infrastructure you have to seriously examine the assumptions that underly the current architecture. If you aren't willing to do that, then you don't really believe in making more small servers, do you?
(DIR) Post #Aic5ki30tNwjGv0A4G by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-06-05T04:54:03Z
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An example of what I mean. Servers today need to be always online. All servers.There is no guidance about how long you can be offline, what being offline means, etc. There's no guidance around when to terminate connections. There's no way to sync state to know what you missed. The push model means that servers where you aren't online are very likely to experience a large amount of unnecessary traffic.But a server needing to be constantly online, or near constantly, is _much_ more costly.
(DIR) Post #Aic5kiy5TBbG7vhk1o by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-06-05T05:02:36Z
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Another example: If your guide for installation involves _installing a database_ you are not facilitating small servers as a replacement for large servers.Not because installing a database isn't a step that should be considered if you are running these systems, but because for your _average person_ they don't have the knowledge to safely administer a database on a box capable of internet access (which looks like, I would guess, most of the consumers who would need to switch for this utopia).
(DIR) Post #AjVvWN85DZA6bqFSC0 by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-07-02T04:23:23Z
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I'm begging leftists to actually bother organizing a bake sale. Please. Just simply begging you.You can't have a general strike until you have deep on-the-ground organizing, which you don't have. Less calling for general strikes on social media with no understanding of what that means or what that would takeHint: if your workplace isn't organized, you won't get a "general" strike. Not here.More baking your neighbors a pie, more talking to your coworkers, more getting involved in politics.
(DIR) Post #AjVvWQjlnu5fnau5qq by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-07-02T04:33:18Z
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Strikes are usually able to answer the following questions:1. What do people do when they aren't being paid? 2. Who has the ability to negotiate for the strikers?3. Who gets to say when it is done?These aren't _strictly_ necessary, but for the kind of power that people seem to assume that a general strike would have it does feel important.If your answer is "all of us" or "we stay out until <arbitrary criteria> are met" then you aren't serious. Go back to talking to people.
(DIR) Post #AkMSyaSde1nvOw5Vom by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-07-27T16:27:37Z
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@futurebird This is also part of why I hate plurality polls with more than two options.Which of these is your _first_ choice with 100 options is going to create a very different signal and is basically always going to come down to name recognition and name retention.An approval or a condorcet system wouldn't have this problem, but that's not what they use. @mekkaokereke
(DIR) Post #AkRIpAJ3UQObvWH25g by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-07-29T17:26:59Z
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I think about this post basically every time I log onto mastodon.#politics
(DIR) Post #AkTx2odtDXtZH30DhI by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-07-30T09:15:47Z
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Something important that @inthehands is talking about here:It's going beyond blocklists. There are so many things we can do that aren't blocklists, and certainly aren't consensus blocklists.Quarantine is such an obvious and simple step and a time honored tradition for tackling these sorts of problems. As is a keyword embargo: require moderator review before posts with certain keywords make it through from people who aren't being followed, or equivalents thereof.https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112872266316450280
(DIR) Post #AkTx2rOOzaHznsmOTQ by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-07-30T09:24:48Z
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Aside: None of these ideas are especially new:* Quarantining new interactions was asked for in 2022: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21536* Reply controls have been asked for since at least 2020: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762 * Approval-required-by-default was asked for in 2019: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10590* Disable replies was asked for in 2018: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565* Mutuals only has been asked for since at least 2017: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/422
(DIR) Post #AkTx2uJY85BqrhX3pI by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-07-30T15:15:09Z
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Now that I've slept, a followup on what it would take for ideas like these to happen. A few different ways: 1. Ping mastodon as a project and either implement the feature for them or advocate that they prioritize solving it.2. Encourage other projects to come up with a strategy and implementation for it.3. Support developers who are working in these spaces.4. Demand this feature from your _admins_. Encourage them to do the above three. 5. Don't treat blocklists as the end all, be all.
(DIR) Post #AkTx2x0W7IkTDXeP4q by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-07-30T15:21:13Z
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But breaking outside of the realm of safety features, I'd also like to highlight a few other things* Despite AP in many ways being a research protocol it is _not well suited_ to experiments in this space. We need to buckle down and do hard work on the protocol, but that means _making tradeoffs that historically have made people on the fediverse very angry_. Help provide space for people doing this work, or help with doing this work yourself* A lot of projects other than Mastodon need support
(DIR) Post #Al2P3PFmV9lYudQwIS by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-08-14T15:46:33Z
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If you deliberately misgender someone and think it is okay because you don't like them, or because they hurt you, or any other reason: That. Is. Transphobia.I don't know why this is hard for people.That. Is. Transphobia.If you see this and you are in the person's trusted orbit and you _don't_ call it out or call them in (even privately) that is also transphobia.Having trans friends or trans people who agree with you does not obviate this in any way, shape, or form.It is dehumanizing.
(DIR) Post #Al2P3S4u03qXflMnFw by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-08-14T15:56:50Z
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You are saying that our basic humanity is contingent on whether _you_ _like_ _us_.Which is absolute BS.I despise Caitlyn Jenner and Blair White. I don't deliberately misgender either of them or treat misgendering of them as a "well I hate them so it is okay." Doing so would be _transphobia_.So if you see this in your orbit you need to be calling this out, or calling the person who is doing it in, or you are complicit.Period. Full stop.
(DIR) Post #Al2P3Uw9N3d0XUILWy by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-08-14T17:02:46Z
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"But they…"Okay, and you don't understand how transphobia is not just about you? That it contributes to dehumanization of others outside of the scope of your disagreement?That dehumanizing contributes to a _culture_ of dehumanization that is currently a very, very real threat to many of us? That there are overarching _systemic_ and _societal_ issues at play outside of your own feelings?Go challenge them to a duel or whatever. Don't misgender them.
(DIR) Post #Al3WIehGGAq7zQSuoa by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-06-08T22:13:20Z
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Evidently a few men have tried "would you rather talk to a woman or a tree about your feelings" as kind of a weird "clapback" to the man vs. bear thing and I'm like… you'll talk, voluntarily, out loud, about your feelings and _not_ make it some poor random non-therapist's problem? Really?Please do men! Go forth! Spill your secrets to trees. May you find it to be very fruitful.
(DIR) Post #Al3WIhclNM1Z4LNrii by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-06-09T05:58:07Z
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Also just.As it pertains to the "man vs. bear" thing I can only go back to Margaret Atwood:"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."
(DIR) Post #Al4Iroy0rZMJmG8QGu by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2023-05-19T04:00:46Z
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* #Kink belongs at #pride* Cops do not. * #Ace and #Aro belong under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. They have not universally historically been included under the "A," but they have _always_ been there (sometimes under the A, sometimes under the B, but they've been there). * #Queer is a reclaimed slur. As is "gay" and many of our other terms.* Yes I am "not #gay as in happy but queer as in fuck you." (/magneto was right/insert the culturally appropriate variant here).
(DIR) Post #AlrsdpQvRw72GUK276 by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-09-10T16:45:37Z
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Many of the modern consensus #blocklists use tenforward.social as a source (direct or indirect) and a generative source.I strongly advise against using any consensus blocklist that does so until the current situation with the admin is resolved. This is made worse because tenforward and .art often share block recs.If you do use one as a source, IMO you should clearly communicate with your users what steps you are using to prevent false positives and citogenesis problems here.#FediBlockMeta
(DIR) Post #AlrsdsUa4nopkh3UjA by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-09-10T16:49:54Z
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If you run a consensus #blocklist I would suggest removing tenforward.social as a trusted source, recognizing that you are getting most of the same information from your other trusted sources (usually .art and r.l) as it is. If you use them for _filtering_ (removal) purposes (you have a list and their list is simply used as a bias check) as opposed to additive purposes this of course doesn't apply. If you manually review, please factor this in when you are doing that evaluation.
(DIR) Post #AlrsdvCc04EC9pfgdU by hrefna@hachyderm.io
2024-09-10T17:08:40Z
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Note that this extends, though more weakly, to .art and r.l if they are sources for your blocklist: there's clear documentation right now of .art drawing their list directly from tenforward.social recommendations (via fediblock) without review or with only pro forma review, and r.l shares a moderator with .art (or did last I checked).#blocklist