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Mark Newton
@NewtonMark
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Internet geek. Pilot. Mostly nice.
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NEVER DRIVE THROUGH FLOOD WATERS!
With the amount of water that we have had, we are always reiterating never to drive through flood waters.
Well we think this photo says it all! You never know what is happening under the water!
This photo was taken on the Gooramadda Road a few kilometres out of Rutherglen.
It is approximately 6 metres wide and deep. 😯
J👀Why #Australia is going through so many #CyberAttacks, many resulting in #dataleaks, lately?
According to cryptographer Prof. Vanessa Teague from the Australian National University:
'We've had a decade of anti-security policy. We've had laws that required the acquisition of data that didn't need to be acquired, laws that demand the retention of data that didn't need to be retained'.
Decolonial AtlasA 20-year-long Indigenous-led movement to undam the Klamath River just won the largest river restoration project in history! FERC unanimously voted Thursday to remove the four lower Klamath dams starting next year! The salmon are coming home for the first time since 1918.
@aerohead @jaystephens @[email protected] TL;DR: I don't think this place will be any better or worse, it'll just be different. If it ends up with hundreds of millions of users, it'll be the new hellsite, with different colored decor.
@aerohead @jaystephens @[email protected] I think this is where we differ.
You're suggesting Twitter's tech choices encouraged assholery.
I don't think assholes need any encouragement; assholery is innate, and will result in roughly the same amount of awfulness regardless of tech choices.
e.g., If assholery is a vector, platforms can influence its direction but not its magnitude.
We see that already: Some of the worst noxious waste from twitter has already colonized this place, and it's fuckin yuk.
@aerohead @jaystephens @[email protected] As I said to Jay earlier: Assholes will be assholes. They'll be assholes differently here vs twitter, but I doubt they'll be better. They'll slide right up to the limits without quite crossing them (so you can't ban them) and be assholes with impunity. That's what assholes do.
@aerohead @jaystephens @[email protected] Mastodon developers made *assumptions* about what some of the worst things about twitter were, decided that they were quoting, algorithmic ranking and search, and did some things differently in those spaces.
The assumptions were never validated. People have strong opinions about them.
The lack of quoting matches Twitter until approximately 2017. You can embed a link to a toot instead, just like we used to do on twitter.
@jaystephens @[email protected] If someone's an asshole they'll behave like an asshole regardless of the setting they're in.
You seem to be taking a technocratic approach here, where if we can just establish the correct rules of engagement we'll get on top of the "toxicity" and everything will be fine.
I submit that that's never been true before, and that Mastodon won't make it true now.
Mastodon is "nice" because hardly anyone uses it. Let's see what happens when it has a billion DAU.