Mastodawn

@tyler yeah! I just recently hit below 300 which is over 270lbs down! It's been a wild ride, but I still have further to go!

Gabriel Feb 6

Did Gen Z even experience Moore's law at all?

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Gabriel Feb 6

@matthew
In hindsight, CoCs were always bound to be a disaster no matter how well-intentioned because there is a massive difference between a written list of rules and the bureaucracy to properly enforce said rules.
What is clear to me is that the political use/misuse of these mechanisms was an inevitable outcome as these projects became more influential/important. What many of us seem to miss is the days when the Internet at least appeared to be separate from IRL status games.
I'm not sure Pandora's box can be closed here, so I'm biased towards reform and transparency when it comes to these systems.
@taylan

Gabriel Feb 6

@PamelaDrew
More generally I've noticed that "trauma aware" circles are lightyears ahead MAHA commentators on how the "mental health" complex has been used to silence victims of abuse.
Peter Breggin is a reference for some of it given his work, but there seems to be a broader movement and history that doesn't seem to totally overlap with post-covid medical freedom circles.

Gabriel Feb 6

Well that's interesting...

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Gabriel Feb 6

@PamelaDrew I'd definitely love to know if you have any good resources or accounts on this.

Gabriel Feb 6

I've begun looking into this, ngl it seems to be a huge medical freedom fight that hasn't gotten a lot of recognition in "mainstream MAHA" circles.
A conspicuous absence...

Gabriel Feb 5

Am I too paranoid if I believe Big Tech was built expressly for this purpose?

Gabriel Feb 5

silverpill Feb 4

Ripple/XRP (a cryptocurrency company) just granted 200k USD to Social Web Foundation, "...to research sustainable revenue and operating models for digital publishers and community-run platforms":

https://interledger.org/news/interledger-foundation-awards-200000-social-web-foundation-support-decentralized-social-media (archived)

This means they will be able to influence the development of the ActivityPub specification at W3C.

For those who don't know: Interledger, WebMonetization and OpenPayments are basically the same thing, these projects were created by Ripple ~10 years ago in order to insert their cryptocurrency and related payment services into web standards. These projects are sometimes presented as independent, but this is a lie, they are not (not in 2019, not in 2025).

Needless to say, Ripple itself is a borderline scam: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2019/03/01/is-ripple-a-scam/. It's not even a cryptocurrency really, their infrastructure is completely centralized and no one in cryptocurrency space takes them seriously. But they have a lot of money to bribe people, so I am sure that we will hear more about their adventures soon.

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/?p=99982