Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 65
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MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 08:57:10 UTC 
MMN-o ✅⃠
@auerbach All you should have to trust the instance with is your identity. Given federation, you will have no control over your data. Post only things that are public, discuss only things that are socially constructive and move your private business to either a medium designed for privacy (XMPP) or make sure to use pseudonyms on alternate accounts to go about your less public business. Those are my two-fiddy. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 09:28:07 UTC 
Bob Mottram
@bcrypt @polymerwitch yes. Assume that everything on gnusocial is purely public and can be viewed by anyone. There have been discussions about having "real" DMs and my favoured option would be to have a field in the database and UI button for "contact me directly". That could then fire up your preferred xmpp client with omemo and so on. By keeping private and public as separate majesteria you can optimise for both situations. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 09:11:19 UTC
Bob Mottram
All this talk of federation reminds me that I should add Friendica to !Freedombone, since I think it's still active. Before the 2.0 release I had a more monolithic model where there was only One True Socnet, but after 2.0 it's more like FreedomBox or ArkOS where you just have a big list of apps and can choose what you want. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 09:01:01 UTC
Bob Mottram
I wouldn't worry too much about the Mastodonians and their obsessions with bans, blocks and extravagant content warnings. If anything, a crazy admin policy will help to incentivize more servers with different policies, and that's all good. Because it's FOSS you can remove any antifeatures which might get introduced. This is what the topology of community looks like. -
shp (shpuld@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 08:10:59 UTC 
shp
I guess I'll put out a few thoughts regarding what's going on with the federation, even though I didn't want to get fixated on it.
first of all I'm not worried for the future of the existing fediverse. it'll simply not go anywhere regardless of what the new instances do. we like it here, we don't want to change our policies just because some newcomers want that.
so it seems like we've got a bunch of new people thanks to media coverage and ads for .social, it's cool and all to introduce the federation to a wider audience. (hoping that people in charge of these newer instances will do their best to educate people on how it works.)
the thing is there's just a lot of people coming in that do not understand or respect the concept of a truly free and unregulated federation, they expect other instances to follow their guidelines instead of conforming to the wider fediverse. this of course sounds like pure insanity to us who believe in absolute freedom of speech.
the people who want their strict guidelines won't get what they want in the wider fediverse, which leads us into blocks. the general consensus in GS seems to be that users are responsible for maintaining their own blocks and mutes to get their experience the way they want it. this doesn't seem to be the case with the new people, they'd rather have these things at instance-level.
let them do it, let them block this side of the fediverse if they choose to, if that's what their users want. if that's not what their users want, they'll go elsewhere, perhaps they'll join us. I don't think we're losing out on anything if instances that can't handle us defederate from us. only thing I don't like is this half-assed opaque sandboxing, go all in with the block or accept the instances as a whole. if they don't want to see me, I don't want to see them, it's all about interaction which is a two-way-street.
lastly I do realize this side of the fediverse might become the minority if the things go the way they're going now. I'm ok with this. if the future 'mainstream fediverse' does not want free speech, it's on them, not us. I don't think you can re-educate people who think twitter is too nazi on this matter. I'm perfectly fine with us being the niche, there will still be the occasional new users that want the freedom and openness that we embrace.
tl;dr take it easy https://shitposter.club/attachment/488201 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 08:27:40 UTC
Bob Mottram
@scionicspectre @maiyannah all revolutionaries should be prepared to defend the barricades! -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 08:20:44 UTC
Bob Mottram
#spoiler may contain Linux and anarcho-rants -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 08:18:07 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dogjaw @maiyannah @moonman @sim @kevinmarks it could be an admin setting, potentially. Probably no biggy. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 08:15:15 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dogjaw @maiyannah @moonman @sim @kevinmarks and the fediverse makes that possible. Some servers could implement silly spoiler warnings, others may not. As a user you choose what you prefer. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 08:08:54 UTC
Bob Mottram
@sonya @maiyannah it's definitely possible to run gnusocial in private mode without federation if you prefer, and there are use cases for that. -
Annah's got the Shotgun (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 07:34:42 UTC 
Annah's got the Shotgun
I will "solve the GNU social/Mastodon" problem by making Mastodon obsolete. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 07:55:03 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah @moonman @kevinmarks having an elaborate set of content warnings is just another indicator that there are too many users on one server -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 07:52:24 UTC
Bob Mottram
@kevie bonjour -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 07:51:22 UTC
Bob Mottram
@deadsuperhero @elex block all of the things! -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 07:44:41 UTC
Bob Mottram
@maiyannah constructive criticism vs bar room brawl -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 07:42:59 UTC
Bob Mottram
@mikegerwitz @hobbsc @mattl There is a sharings plugin for gnusocial which is for generally sharing things or services without payment. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 07:35:44 UTC
Bob Mottram
@hypolite I originally started off self-hosting with Friendica long ago on a Sheevaplug -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 07:33:11 UTC
Bob Mottram
@xj9 I've never done FPGA programming so this might be worth investigating. Some types of neural net can be implemented in FPGAs. -
hobbsc (hobbsc@gs.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 21:56:13 UTC 
hobbsc
i have eaten a shameful amount of ice cream. i regret nothing! -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 23:03:12 UTC
Bob Mottram
@hishamhm as @gargron said earlier, it's just a boilerplate privacy policy from elsewhere, and that's fair enough because rolling your own legal text is usually considered bad practice.
Data retention laws vary from one place to another, and may be an issue for some admins - especially if they have a lot of users.
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