Post thanksgiving reflection … the thing I miss most about my time building startups is the feeling of a tight knit group of people, more or less aligned, working together to move what is seen as a big boulder up an even bigger hill. Finally getting some of that here at the big company, but it’s still not the same. Something I’ll be thinking about more as we close out this year.
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Figuring it out…
AstralfrontierIn response to criticism of the Fediverse I've read today, and to some very uninformed comments I've read on Twitter from Musk supporters about firing most of Twitter's employees, I want to talk about what I know about the technical side of running a social service.
The short answer is: it ain't easy and it ain't cheap.
It's vital that as Mastodon and the Fediverse figure out a moderation strategy that engineers be ready to implement the tools that those moderators (individually or as a collective) ask for. The people who have done this for a long time know what they need. There's no engineering solution to toxic content, but there is engineering work nonetheless.
Mike Chowla ✅RT @emollick
Trying to learn from extraordinarily successful folks is often worse than learning from those who are merely successful:
1) They are more likely to have won huge by risky bets
2) Survivorship bias effects are worse
3) We learn the wrong lessons
More here👇
https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/when-survivorship-bias-meets-superstitious
Trying to learn from extraordinarily successful folks is often worse than learning from those who are merely successful:
1) They are more likely to have won huge by risky bets
2) Survivorship bias effects are worse
3) We learn the wrong lessons
More here👇
https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/when-survivorship-bias-meets-superstitious
Josh BraunI've seen plenty of discussions in recent days over the network structure of Mastodon and whether it can remain decentralized as large commercial players begin taking an interest in the fediverse. I am neither an engineer nor an economist, but I do research the way media and information get distributed and I have some thoughts on this. A thread…
If folks want to prevent these outcomes, for example to preserve a system where everyone logs on through small communities where they know the admin and moderators personally, the governing principles need to be put in place now. The technology won't do it by itself, and in fact it may create conditions that favor the opposite outcome. /fin
⛈️ Information ⛈️Oh, you think "ads on my mastodon instance is bad?"
Friends, I work at a megatech corp. I can give you such terribly worse ideas. And I will do so.
I will give you sqrt(x) terribly worse fedi feature ideas for every x favs.
fiberdrive@arcktip @cephira (2 or 2) I do worry that unlimited free expression can be problematic though. If what you are expressing in public is the direct harm or violence to a group of people, restricting that is reasonable. Now, how that gets enforced? I don't really know. But to keep to your question, exercising firearms or reproductive rights are individual actions; if we think about expression in that framing, I would treat it the same. As long as you can do it, it's fine.
blaineThere is a clear line between the cultural factions on Mastodon:
Community Groups vs Broadcast Social Media.
This tent has to be big enough for both. Thankfully, the protocols support this. @darius's Hometown fork of Mastodon is even better than Mastodon for small community groups (but still federates where you need it!)
We need a Mastodon fork (or AP server) that works more like Twitter, for more broadcast orientated individuals and organizations.
Hey, US folks newly running Mastodon instances: do Future You a *huge* favor, mitigate your potential liability, and register with the copyright office and designate an agent to receive DMCA reports *right now*. https://copyright.gov/dmca-directory/
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