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Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 23

  1. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 19:07:51 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    in reply to
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    heh. the other day wife and I internet-searched for an acquaintance we haven't seen in over a decade. full name hit. picture. "wow, time hasn't been kind at all"
    moments later, it hits us: "oh, that's the parent, our acquaintance is jr". phew!
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  2. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 04:15:31 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    > show which responses you yourself approve of

    that's exactly why it feels like power over others to me. it shouldn't be for me to say whose responses appear in *others*'s feeds. that's too prone to abuse. we all know social media is being used to spread misinformation, and IMHO it is very important to be able to follow up to such misinformation, ideally reaching whoever got the initial post, offering contradicting evidence. we'd be setting ourselves up for horribly manipulative abuse if we enabled spreaders of misinformation to prevent dissent.

    now, I'm also quite sympathetic to the notion of avoiding and containing toxic behaviors. as you point out yourself, preventing followups doesn't stop people from responding by other means.

    now, when it comes to collective moderation, maybe there's something to be explored about enabling posters to set *advisory* filters, that followers could choose to adopt or disregard. that seems superior to preventing followups IMHO.
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  3. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 04:07:51 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    yeah. I'm not advocating for deleted/edited posts to remain visible to the public, or even to new followers. just that they remain visible to myself if they ever were. so that I can rely on my feed like I rely on my memory. having others mess with what appeared before in my feed is too much like having others mess with my memory, and that makes me very uncomfortable. nobody should be entitled to demand me to forget all I remember about per, IMHO, and as much as my computing devices are an extension of my being, that enables me to do more than my body alone could, demanding this extended me to rip off memories feels abusive and oppressive to me.
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  4. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 03:13:22 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    I'm growing worried with fediverse trends that, rather than freedom (control over one's own life), promote power (control over others' lives).
    I've long been uncomfortable with deletion/edits, that effectively mess with my ability to treat and archive my past feed and use it as reliable memory. being unable to save it elsewhere, to be able to search it or refer to it later, or being regarded as cheating or abusing the system merely to preserve my own memory, seems power over myself that I'd rather not grant others. I'd much rather deletions, edits and whatnot, of posts I've seen before, be visible and advisory, not an Amazon's 1984 book-burning move.
    likewise, enabling me to control who can respond to my posts seems to place too much authority on one party, and grant me power over others that I don't deserve. I can understand my not wanting to *see* their responses, but blocking them from responding seems outrageous. why do I get to decide what others get to do? why don't they get to decide it, or have a say? why don't my followers, or theirs? that seems to lead towards authoritarian control and isolated bubbles, rather than to respectful and rich cross-polination of ideas.
    to those concerned about abuse, enabling posters to prevent responses from abusers would also enable abusers to prevent reactions from victims and their supporters.
    what am I missing?
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  5. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 02:49:52 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    "locking each other into their badly moderated cesspits by using the love we have for one another as a weapon against us. Interoperability – making platforms connect to each other"
    sounds dangerous. as you argue, currently one is held hostage but, with enough determination, one can escape. if all platforms interoperated, there'd be no escape. whichever platforms you picked, you'd be in the same cesspit/connected network, and even if you have better tools to manage what you're exposed to, your posted thoughts and images and whatnot may still get across to all the hostile platforms thanks to mandated interoperability.
    do you have further thoughts on these apparent downsides?
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  6. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 02:14:09 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    AI (LLM style) = Autocompleter, Iterated
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  7. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 02:04:40 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    strawman. no artwork or historical artifact has actually been damaged, *unlike* the artworks, artifacts and lives that are being damaged by those attempting to distract us and to vilify those who draw attention to the problem
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  8. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 01:59:36 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    plot twist
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  9. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 01:21:43 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    de cabos pra caos é só cair o b. acontece muito
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  10. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 00:58:40 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    I read something long ago that discussed how we often describe the future as something ahead, and the past as something left behind, contrasting it with how we can see (remember) the past while the future is unknown, so it's more like we're facing the past with our backs to the future. I found that an interesting observation of a language contradiction, and the 'moving back' as in to the future seems to fit in that.
    it also reminded me of something else I read, about languages that didn't have relative directions (right, left, ahead, back), only absolute ones (north, south, east, west), whose native speakers got very nervous if they got disoriented. in one variant of that language, passage of time was also strongly associated with the west/east direction, so arranging pictures so as to form a story just had to be done east to west. so cool
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  11. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 00:42:53 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    • Adrian Cochrane
    does webassembly address, in any way, any of "Obfuscation, DRM, feature bloat leading to large security surface"? I perceive it as JavaScrippling, enabling third parties to push and control proprietary code onto others' computers, not really much different from Flash :-(
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  12. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 00:21:37 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    eita, que chato :-(
    liberdade, inclusive a de software, era pra ser pauta mínima, pré-requisito essencial indispensável pra conseguir qualquer outra coisa. é pra ser meio, não fim. mas a gente tá tão longe desse mínimo :-(
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  13. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 15:13:14 EDT Christine Lemmer-Webber Christine Lemmer-Webber

    If you live in the US, please please PLEASE contact your reps to oppose KOSA. https://www.stopkosa.com/

    Seriously. Contact your reps. Contact your reps!!! Don't wait for everyone else to do it. This hurts queer youth, but also, it's likely to have a big impact on decentralized social media at large. It's likely to hurt the communities you have here.

    Don't sit by. Please take action!

    In conversation about a year ago from octodon.social permalink Repeated by lxo
  14. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 09:00:28 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    • ar.al🌻
    I know exactly how that feels.
    JavaScrippled web sites are show stoppers for me. I feel completely excluded.
    It's an accessibility issue for me, because of my rare disabilities, and I'm going to court to fight governments, banks, and whatnot, for not tending to it.
    You, however, don't consider this accessibility feature important, and you have even dismissed it before, because other design goals trumped it.
    how would it feel if I were to call you out and shame you for not tending to an accessibility need, labeling you ableist for making choices in your developments that are not compatible with my accessibility needs?
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  15. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 07:57:19 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    • ar.al🌻
    my response is probably easy to throw rocks at, but really, my point is that, though you're right that they haven't, like, cared enough to implement or fix those features for years, and you label them ableist for that, you haven't cared enough to implement or fix them either, but you don't label yourself ableist. free software doesn't really have owners, and they don't really owe us anything for us to demand them to work on any features we care about. we show our caring by contributing those features, or enticing others to contribute them. I'm not convinced that shaming is a cool way to entice.
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  16. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 07:24:45 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    • ar.al🌻
    I know you mean well, but... is it really reasonable to shame anyone for not having implemented certain important features in a program, if you haven't implemented those features in that program either? that they're busy with other things as much as you are, and you call them out as ableist, does that make you a virtue-signalling ableist? it sounds like you're trying to impose your standards on others, and that's not how free software dynamics work, as you know. if I were to demand you to implement features that are important or even essential to me, while you're already struggling to get to other features you identify as strategically more urgent, budgeted and planned, would you find that cool? screaming and shaming might compel others to tend to issues you care about, but it's still a form of coercion. IMHO that's not really cool, even if well-meaning and caring.
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  17. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 00:34:26 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    noam chomsky experienced the rare privilege of being exposed to his obituaries and to the world reaction to his passing. I hope he felt honored; he surely earned it.
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  18. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 00:31:36 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    EU chat control: think of the children
    who, if this abomination passes, won't be legally allowed to have private digital communication,
    even after they grow up!
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  19. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 20:46:43 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    pra começar, é só seguir a receita aqui: https://gnusocial.net/url/25796828
    hackerspaces podiam aproveitar (cc: @lhc)
    mas a comunhão tem que ser domingo de manhã? não tem. pode ser de noite ou de madrugada.
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  20. Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 13:18:27 EDT Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
    LLMs make things up all the time,
    and can't tell such things aren't real.
    humans are not like that, thank god!
    In conversation about a year ago from gnusocial.net permalink
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