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1. LWFlouisa (lwflouisa@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 24-Jun-2018 06:07:09 EDT LWFlouisa

   @cwebber Do you have any ideas for ways one can embrace a censorship free environment for decentralized social media, without providing a hotspot for people like transphobes, kkk sympathizers, and other lowlives currently infected diaspora? At least on my node.

   I find it difficult even to have a real discussion of computer security and web development, without the other side going into this ... frankly bizarre strawman mode.

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 06:19:09 EDT Strypey

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      @LWFlouisa @cwebber let me reframe this question; can I have a social media platform where anybody can see say anything, and filter out posts and comments from people who add little value to discussions? Yes, I think so. The solution is not in preventing the low quality posts, but in giving users better tools for choosing which users and posts they want to receive, and filtering out the rest

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 06:31:05 EDT Strypey

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         @LWFlouisa @cwebber seems to me that so far #Mastodon has done a better job of this than #Diaspora, perhaps because Mastodon only came into existence after the alt-right started to get kicked off Twitter and migrate to #GNUSocial (and then to #postActiv and #Pleroma), so they had to deal with them from day 1, whereas the frothing-at-the-mouth crowd only discovered D* fairly recently (maybe due to #NaturalNews going there).

         1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 06:35:28 EDT Strypey

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            @LWFlouisa @cwebber also, I suspect that the #ActivityPub protocols, the standard that is (or will be) replacing #OStatus and already has on #Mastodon, have built in better cross-network filtering tools than have the #Diaspora protocols, possibly for the same reason. I suspect if Diaspora doesn't do the work to support multiple protocols, so their users can connect directly with users on the AP #fediverse, they will become irrelevant.

            1. LWFlouisa (lwflouisa@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 07:05:14 EDT LWFlouisa

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               @strypey @cwebber I take it the alt right being a plague on Diaspora isnt just my impression then?

               I honestly felt the same sort of isolation a ufo abductee has.

               1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 07:31:17 EDT Strypey

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                  @LWFlouisa @cwebber I think it depends a lot which pod you're on, and which other pods it's aware of. I'm strypey@JoinDiaspora.com and I've only come across one or two Trumpers, and plenty of more sympathetic types. TBH I've found the #fediverse (first #GNUSocial, tried Hubzilla and Pleroma, currently using #Mastodon via the Pinafore UI) much more user-friendly than Diaspora in general and use it much more regularly

            2. LWFlouisa (lwflouisa@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 07:06:43 EDT LWFlouisa

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               @strypey @cwebber I'm also loving that avatar.

               1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 07:32:38 EDT Strypey

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                  @LWFlouisa @cwebber thanks :) It's not photoshopped (or a #Gimp effort) that's really me outside the #NZ #Parliament with a big fattie in my mouth ;-P

   2. Fla (fla@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jul-2018 08:58:28 EDT Fla

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      @LWFlouisa @cwebber you can ignore problematic users. They won't be able to comment on your posts anymore