unattributed 𓂃✍︎19h ago

Thank you to the @admin of GotoSocial.Social for #blocking tags.pub at the instance level.

https://gotosocial.social/@modlog/statuses/01KW6PFMR2EV8H8V0P8ZQXV9FJ

gotosocial.social modlog (@[email protected])

New Instance Block We have blocked tags.pub at the instance level based on user feedback. tags.pub is a hashtag relay provided by the Social Web Foundation. It uses an "opt-out" model, meaning you have to use hashtags like #NoBot(s) or #NoTagsPub to explicitly opt out. According to my check, no one on this instance is currently following the tags.pub account. You can still push your posts to any other relays you prefer via https://gotosocial.social/settings/user/relay-pushes/new. As admin, I only manage which relays we pull content from. As long as a relay isn't blocked, you have full control over how you push your content. And your posts aren't automatically pushed to any relays by default. If you have any thoughts on this, feel free to comment here or send @admin a DM. See also: ⁃ https://tags.pub/ for how tags.pub works ⁃ https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116824281370893420, which is the thread that sparked this decision ⁃ https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/relay_pushes/ for how to setup relay pushes ⁃ https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/relay_subscriptions/ for how can the instance admin (me) manage relay subscriptions

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Show threadXavier Ashe 1d ago

@patigallardo.bsky.social So I dug into the differences in #blocking a bit more.

On #Bluesky all blocks are public data — every block you make is openly declared and enumerable across the network. That's why tools like ClearSky can show you who's blocking whom at a network-wide level. The tradeoff: your #block list is essentially published.

On #Mastodon, blocks are private by design. The spec actually discourages broadcasting block activity between servers at all. The tradeoff: better privacy, but no ecosystem of block-analysis tools can exist.

Neither is wrong — they reflect fundamentally different philosophies about whether your social graph is public infrastructure or personal data.

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/block-implementation
#feditips

Why are blocks on Bluesky public? | Bluesky

The technical implementation of public blocks and some possibilities for more privacy preserving block implementations — an area of active research and experimentation.

Osna.FM4d ago
Alexander Throm, the internal policy spokesperson for the Union parliamentary group, has accused opposition parties of years of obstruction regarding the mandat... https://news.osna.fm/?p=52581 | #news #address #blocking #calls #cdu
CDU Calls Out Opposition for Blocking IP Address Storage Mandate to Enhance Online Investigations - Osna.FM

CDU challenges opposition over mandatory IP address storage, arguing it's a crucial tool for digital security and investigation. See the debate.

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Stephen Gutknecht5d ago

#TheMemeApps #block #blocking #deport #ICE #ImmigrationEnforcement #ICEraids
#BlockList #BlockLists #BlockHappy #FWakeBlockHappy

In USA 2025, USA 2026 the #Blockheads want to #DEPORT #DEPORTATION + #BOOKBURN #Bluesky #Mastodon #Reddit messages, burn #Unicode text out of raging #EgomaniaUSA #Trumpism MAGA

#Blocked /\

#OMN (Open Media Network)5d ago

The tools we need to compost the #deathcult

The current mess and tragedy is that the tools we need most are often the first things that stressed, messy, #elitist systems defund, discredit, and dismantle. Why? Because these tools threaten the psychological certainty that people cling to when the world feels unstable. The ability to sit with uncertainty, to question assumptions, to admit complexity. These are not weaknesses, they are survival tools. Yes, this is a mess we need to compost, the #nothingnew path to work on this is about […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/the-tools-we-need-to-compost-the-deathcult/

tech news ᳇ eicker.news6d ago
#LeMonde is #blocking almost all #nonhumantraffic to its site, requiring #licensingdeals for exceptions. The #publisher is now considering how to recognise paying #subscribers who access content through #AIagents, rather than directly through a browser. Le Monde is exploring technical standards that would allow AI agents to communicate subscriber status, ensuring appropriate access to content while maintaining its subscription model. https://digiday.com/media/le-monde-blocked-the-bots-now-its-working-out-what-to-do-about-paying-readers-showing-up-as-agents/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Le Monde blocked the bots. Now it’s working out what to do about paying readers showing up as agents

Le Monde is "figuring out" how to maintain its subscription partnership with readers who use AI agents rather than its homepage or app.

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witchescauldron6d ago

The issue here is what happens when common sense becomes blind and starts #blocking everything else.

In the #openweb sense, we need multiple ways of knowing - material, cultural, historical, lived - all in conversation with each other.

When knowledge becomes narrow or isolated, it turns into noise. When it connects back to lived reality, it becomes signal again. So the real split is not “who is right”

* theory without action becomes abstraction

* action without reflection becomes repetition

The #OMN problem is how we build shared spaces where these different paths of understanding can meet, argue, and adjust each other - without collapsing into #stupidindividualism and thus institutional gatekeeping.

That’s the work - collective intelligence, not intellectual silos.

#4opens #openweb #commons

witchescauldron6d ago

Having a shared pool of hashtags is a way of creating social cohesion and action - a way for people to find each other and talk across #silos. It is a #DIY “search” system, but only if people actually use and share the language.

The #OMN use of hashtags is mostly #nothingnew. I take existing ideas, connect them to outcomes, and create shorthand for conversations that already exist. Examples:

#deathcult = neoliberalism, with the understanding of the real-world outcomes. The metaphor connects a political mindset with its consequences. The historical reference comes from the Irish potato famine - reminder of what happens when a mindset becomes #mainstreaming and millions of people are treated as expendable.

#Geekproblem = a critique of a strand of 20th-century modernism when technical thinking becomes dogmatic. The problem is not “geeks” or technology itself - there is a good side to modernism. The problem is losing the social nuance and turning everything into a technical problem.

#stupidindividualism = thinking about the balance between self and society. It is an outcome of the #deathcult and a symptom of the #geekproblem - the idea that everything can be reduced to isolated individuals instead of relationships and communities.

Could go on…

The point is not the hashtag itself. The point is building shared language, so people recognise patterns, connect ideas and work across the current #blocking silos.

#OMN #4opens #openweb

CCIA EuropeJun 17

Explainer: How can Europe fight #piracy without breaking the #OpenInternet? 🌍🏴‍☠️

Blunt #blocking may briefly interrupt illegal streams, but it also disrupts legitimate services and burdens neutral intermediaries such as #CDNs and #VPNs. ⚠️

➡️ https://ccianet.org/library/explainer-fighting-piracy-without-breaking-the-internet-ccia-europe/

#OMN (Open Media Network)Jun 15

Rethinking Grassroots Tech Funding

Building beyond the #deathcult - Our current model of #tech funding and developer agendas is not neutral. The way we fund technology shapes the kind of technology we build. For the last 20 years, the dominant tech culture has followed the same path: venture capital growth platform monopolies extraction of attention and data endless scaling short-term metrics private ownership of public infrastructure This has produced #techshit - technology built because it can make money, not because […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/rethinking-grassroots-tech-funding/