Zeitgeist and other Fediverse LLMs

Last week Laurie Voss announced that he’d released a new Mastodon client called Zeitgeist.blue, “a multi-social-network app that summarizes your feed for the last 24 hours.” As a Mastodon client, it appears to authenticate a given user with an existing instance (including social.coop, potentially) and, using Anthropic or GitHub Copilot, processes timelines for the purposes of summarizing one’s timelines using a large language model (LLM).Many replies to the announcement were critical of the project and took issue with the lack of consent and being subjected to AI surveillance. Voss was dismissive of those concerns, referring to people complaining about the lack of consent mechanisms as “tedious bastards,” and began blocking people replying in the thread.Voss was informed of an existing precedent for people to tag their bios in order to opt-out and subsequently added an opt-out for people who do not want their posts indexed. Initially Zeitgeist indexed everything, including DMs and follower-only posts, but now DMs are filtered out. There is also unique “User Agent” metadata that accompanies requests and theoretically could be used to block requests as an instance, if we chose to take that route.I’d like to start a discussion here of how the cooperative would like to handle this, or other projects that engage in trawling content and processing posts using LLMs. Setting aside the chaotic launch of this one project, do you feel okay with AI systems harvesting posts and training LLMs?Some related essays that might be helpful for thinking about this with:<br>Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers by Jon Pincus<br>Adventures in Mastoland by Jan Lehnardt<br>

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Can I recover my recordings despite service being down?

Hi folks, So here’s the current situation. Me and Nick have been working on this problem a lot. Firstly the comms blast that @wouter tried to send out went wrong and wasn’t sent via email on the OpenCollective due to a confusing UI change: Announcement to meet.coop members 2025-10-31 - Open Collective We desperately need help with comms on this issue. It’s really hard to switch between being a sysadmin and doing comms. I’m trying my best to communicate on the forum but it needs to be more tha...

Question about the contribution renewal process

Hello,<br><br>On October 8, 2024, I made a contribution of £36.00 GBP to join the social.coop cooperative.<br><br>Time has passed and today (2026-02-28), I just thought about renewing my financial contribution, in the amount of £12.00 GBP.<br><br>I am surprised not to have received any message requesting a renewal of my financial contribution. I don't think I received an email, I saw nothing on the https://social.coop interface, and nothing on https://opencollective.com either.<br><br>I found and read the Wiki page "Social.coop registration process" but found no documentation regarding "renewal".<br><br>I have a few questions:<br><br><br>is it normal not to receive a reminder?<br>does the cooperative deliberately let members renew their contribution at their own pace, without any prompting, trusting in their commitment?<br><br><br>Suggestion: what do you think about documenting how the renewal process works on the following pages?<br><br><br>https://join.social.coop/registration-form.html<br>and/or in a wiki page at https://git.coop/social.coop/community/docs/-/wikis/home<br><br><br>Have a great day,<br>Stéphane<br>