Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 11
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Lohan G (lohang@gnusocial.no)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 16:51:00 UTC 
Lohan G
Great news! #Twidere now supports #Mastodon \o/
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pskosinski (pskosinski@quitter.no)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 10:15:04 UTC 
pskosinski
@shel Are you sure it's Mastodon's problem, not GNU social's problem? ;) As far as I knowβ¦
I think it's second. It used to not be visible on GS, because there were simply a few very populated instances. If you had your own single-user instance that GS behaviour could make you mad, because you were sometimes missing 70% of conversation, when people unknown to your instance (not followed by you) were replying to someone (followed by you) taking part in same conversation as you do. One of the main features listed on Mastodon's GitHub is actually a fix for that problem.
> Federated thread resolvingIf someone you follow replies to a user unknown to the server, the server fetches the full thread so you can view it without leaving the UI
Now, with 1000+ Mastodon instances, many of them somehow connected to GS, that problem (or feature, how some people call it) is just much more visible. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 16:31:03 UTC 
Bob Mottram
Adopt-a-Dongle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyUw0IaLqyU -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 16:18:58 UTC
Bob Mottram
Got copying xmpp address or GPG public key to the clipboard working, but only by allowing insecure inline javascript. I don't want to weaken the content security policy so I'll try doing something different. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 14:41:39 UTC
Bob Mottram
The State of Emergency and the Totalitarian Drift of the State : A Report from France https://social.freedombone.net/url/20597 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 14:17:57 UTC
Bob Mottram
"The rise of identity-based discourse across the entire spectrum of the political class over the past thirty years has led to this: the designation of certain categories of the population as enemies, creating a covert war within the national territory"
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 14:09:12 UTC
Bob Mottram
LukHash - Survive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Tzo28aOlk -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 14:03:29 UTC
Bob Mottram
@milan @bob my eventual solution was just to use Mailpile and avoid having any keys on mobile devices. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 14:01:57 UTC
Bob Mottram
@milan @bob I havn't hacked on it for a year or so, so maybe. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 13:47:11 UTC
Bob Mottram
@milan k9 just uses openkeychain for pgp, which is a separate app -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 12:57:46 UTC
Bob Mottram
bugcast 458 β Podception https://thebugcast.org/2017/04/22/bugcast-458-podception -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 12:55:46 UTC
Bob Mottram
@cocoron it's just a protest tactic to avoid identification of individuals, not an occupation plan. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 12:39:50 UTC
Bob Mottram
Messing around with javascript. What I'd like to do is if an xmpp address or gpg key exist then display icons on the profile which if clicked copy the text to the clipboard so that you can then paste it into an app. -
Cocoron π (cocoron@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 10:51:26 UTC 
Cocoron π
@abgd @dannysonwater @ghost @blankideogram I think you're looking at it the wrong way: the particular dispositions of members of any social class is irrelevant - you can have the whole gambit from revolutionary to fascist in any class - what really matters is the function and the role within which we find ourselves. You can have an absolute saint for a CEO but at the end of the day the system they find themselves in legally mandates that they exploit others as much as possible.
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Thomas (thomas@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 10:53:48 UTC 
Thomas
Fail of the day: Asking stranger for his PGP public key. Sends me his private key and his secret passphrase.
*facepalm*
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 09:40:58 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah and I think that's why you see people who have been in the silos for a while either quitting or unfollowing a lot of other accounts. Everyone has a "this has become a stream of nonsense" threshold. The silos try to get around it with algorithmic timelines, but that only adds other problems. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 09:16:08 UTC
Bob Mottram
http://archive.org/download/shortfunk/sfmaintainingapragmaticgroupoffriendsonfacebook.mp3
It has been said before that there may be an optimal community size, and something like the Robin Dunbar observation of 100-150 seems common. Beyond that it's mostly just entropy or you run up to the physical limits of how much you can read and write in a given time span.
If you're designing for federation or self-hosting then maybe optimizing around this sort of number is reasonable, and I expect that it happens already anyway but without explicit knowledge. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 08:59:38 UTC
Bob Mottram
@milan Taking on the twitterers -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 08:53:47 UTC
Bob Mottram
@nightpool I don't know what the situation is like in the US, but I assume that anything on my server is my responsibility to deal with and that if it's internet-facing then there could be legal implications for any infringing or bad content. Hence anything which could be legally dubious I'll block. -
MMN-o β β (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2017 05:33:23 UTC 
MMN-o β
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I think you're right in that some soul is lost. Anything which grows too much will fail as a community. However, as this is all !fs the important thing to remember is that these are mere tools to create our own, new and balanced communities.
I for one have seen many Twitter users come and go in floods to the !fediverse, some staying to create instances of #GNUsocial I think are despicable and don't agree with. But they are only a problem if you lack moderation.
Instead of "web-scale" we should think "human-scale".
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