Elon Tusk @srs@schelling.pt

Suggestions for #Mastodon development in 2021:

* Federated user blocking. The strength of federated software is hardness against censorship, but if this feature allows people to say the n-word then it is a bug not a feature.

* Social security number verification step for user registration. Elimination of anonymity should make trolling harder and keep the people who live in the margins of society safer.

* Reporting a user for a racist post automatically fowards the report to the police via email so te police can start investigating while the mods deal with the issue.

* Fact-checking disclaimers for posts containing disputed or controversial information. If Snopes judges a statement "mostly false" then people shouldn't waste time with it.

* Algorithmic post feed. One huge hurdle for Mastodon growth is how hard it is for corporations to promote their important native advertisement posts over meaningless posts written by nobodies. If Mastodon can ensure that influencers and megacorporations have greater reach it would promote a healthier and more engaging user experience.

this also concerns the Parler/AWS saga. the hypermodernist dream of an infinitely scalable cloud is contingent on political alignment; an invisible constraint, keenly felt by those outside the lines

the future is already here, just unevenly distributed

https://thenewstack.io/why-parler-cant-rebuild-a-scalable-cloud-service-from-scratch/
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with the mainstream able to obtain timeshares to Amazon's massive datacenters, we become easily deluded into mistaking this access for a universal utility

the unassuming term "vendor lock-in" obscures the nature of the relevant power relations, & who owns the means of production

Idee: Ein Restaurant spezialisiert auf Suppen und Soßen, in dem die Rezepte alle öffentlich sind und in der Community gemeinsam verbessert und als unterschiedliche Distributionen auf der Speisekarte landen.

Das Restaurant nennt sich dann "The Open Sauce - Git your own Flavor"

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Talking to my dad last night I learned that when he was a kid, there were devices in shoe stores that let you see live x-rays of your feet. Whenever he was there he would sneak onto one to watch his toe-bones wiggle until a clerk told him off.

"According to Hootsuite, the number of Global Internet users has already reached almost 4.66 billion, or about 53% of the global population."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage

IMHO means global democracy over the internet is already tractable and defensible.

scaling up communication channels without scaling up empathy & human decency = our current state

ISL - insecure socket layer

> ssh jim@derp.com
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> Does this socket make me look fat? 😟