Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io), page 10

Instagram will test hiding public like counts in Canada
https://t.co/ortxUdjuX4 https://t.co/WnoJvOdbe1
#thevergebot

Managed hosting is when you own and run a site, but the hosting company does the behind-the-scenes tech stuff like installation and updates.

There's a new indie company called Spacebear offering #PixelFed and #PeerTube managed hosting:

https://app.spacebear.ee

You can follow them at @tklk

There's also a well-established company called Masto.host offering #Mastodon managed hosting:

https://masto.host

You can follow them at @mastohost

(Thank you to @Hau for the tip about Spacebear )

Set an alarm so you remember to eat regular meals if you have a tendency to get caught up in work and forget.

stop leaking information has a lot of implications in social dynamic analytics.

example:
the information that I follow someone is metadata that can be useful, yes...but it also contributes to follower-focused mentalities.

example:
the information that I block someone, or mute someone, can result in negative-reinforcement-seeking behaviours in drive-by commenters.

you may see it differently.
your perspective is valid.
keep in mind, that to me,
they're vectors of vulnerability.

There's implications on social media, especially distributed social media, when there's discussions of forks and progress.

Mostly, I just want this stuff fixed, I really don't care *how*.

We need tools that aid the existing victims seeking haven in our 'verse, and they need to know that their friends won't be harassed or overwhelmed here.

voluntary content warnings are amazing.
but...

...there's so much untapped potential.

Answering my own question: the #activitypub specification is very ill-defined on authorization in general: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#authorization

The most detailed information I found about the #mastodon server-to-server protocol is https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/4208

If, like me, you use Mastodon, I encourage you to read this article. Especially if you joined between July 2018 and now. It'll probably help you to understand some things.
It's a little fiction about an imaginary free software project, the people working on it and its creator.

https://wxcafe.net/posts/content/when_a_toy_isnt_a_toy_anymore/

I've upgraded my RSS to ActivityPub converter to use an actual message queuing system (beanstalkd, in this case). https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/

One thing to note:

For six months this ran and mostly worked off a janky `for` loop and timer, no queue. I am extremely glad that I didn't attempt to engineer a "scalable" solution until I needed it, because I probably never would have launched it in the first place if I had (I've never implemented a message queue before).

Freedom of the Press Foundation is hiring again :)

This role has more of an administrative bent -- managing relationships with news orgs who use our services, e.g., SecureDrop support & digital security trainings -- but it also includes tier 1 support for SecureDrop, and room for technical advancement.

A great "starter" role if you want to get into tech nonprofit work, are super-organized, & are into digital security in particular. Remote -friendly (US time zones):

https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-newsroom-services-coordinator/

Family Separation Protests Surveilled by Private Firm for DHS
https://theintercept.com/2019/04/29/family-separation-protests-surveillance/

Hey fediverse folks -- is there a good model for handling closed or semi-closed 'discussion groups' that retain a poster's identity across instances?

People over in FB land use groups *a lot*, and I'm unclear how to model that in my mental map of how mastodon/etc work in an activitypub world other than separate local instances with closed timelines.

I should read up on current stuff though. :D One of these days thinking of making a tiny single-user instance app as a learning exercise.