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Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 50
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I used to live my best life in the present. I had been fortunate not to hit any major snag in my life until 2017, and I've been working my way back to that state ever since.
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How are you situated from your best life? Are you living it right now (lucky you!), working to create the conditions for it in the future, or trying to restore it from a past best life?
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Oh, that's a good suggestion but I'm not sure it applied in that context. I'm not sure Hz applied either, there was no explanation for this particular number.
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I just read "Hz/s" on a graph so I think it's time to close the website.
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Removing just GMail from your Google Account
Lately I've been receiving a new kind of spam on my #Gmail email address that I was forwarding to my FastMail inbox for a few years. People have been using my Gmail address to fill in contact forms on various French and German websites, and I was receiving the contact reception confirmation.
Thanks to this handy how to, I was able to remove my GMail address without deleting my #Google account that I sadly need to keep around, maybe it will help you too.
www.howtogeek.com/671066/how-t…
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Just realized that conservatives who are inclined to frame everything into an "Us vs Them" situation are more susceptible to be successfully lied to by the people they consider to be included in "Us" based on racial and social discrimination and that's how Fox News thrives.
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You only have unsalted
I only feel insulted
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Unclench your jaw.
Lower your shoulders.
Relax your abdomen.
Take a deep breathe.
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Periodic reminder Disney is awful (via @Luka /sonomu.club/ )
www.techdirt.com/2022/05/06/di…
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So I attended Drift School...
...but it quickly went sideways.
https://friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos/hypolite/image/15836056046273e63317737733205887
Picture credit: Sara Grant www.saragphotosnh.com/elitecar…
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I think that Friendica doesn’t have a clear publishing identity because it’s been supporting both macroblogging through the Diaspora protocol that’s clearly geared towards longer posts and less branching conversations, and microblogging through the OStatus protocol first, then ActivityPub which are both geared towards smaller statuses and infinite threads of quick replies.
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@Daniel No, Mastodon admins don’t have any more (or any less) powers than Friendica and Diaspora. An admin of any of these platforms can read DMs sent and received from/by their server given a modicum of technical know-how.
From my experience Mastodon sounds as cumbersome to install as Diaspora, Friendica being on the easier side.
Speed-wise, Mastodon is definitely snappier than both, not sure if it’s because it’s more efficient or generally installed on more powerful servers though.
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I understand there are different people with different sensibilities, but blaming Mastodon in general for not perfectly fitting your own particular felt uncalled for to me.
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One likely scenario: you aren't publicly out and you share your gender/sexuality privately, admin reads it and exposes you.
Another possible scenario: you criticize admin in DMs, they read it and decide to terminate your account on their instance.
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I agree with you on principle, but perspective matters. If you've been embroiled in or heard about instance drama involving an admin reading DMs, it will feel more personal and more pressing than vague corporate data misuse, even if the scale of the harm is objectively bigger in the latter case.
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It’s more about comparing a diffuse risk with a really personal risk. Sure, your data is misused by giant corporations, but you don’t know the people who exploited your data and you never will, which makes this risk almost abstract. You know it happens, but it rarely has any direct consequences for you, or you might not be able to link them with the corporation.
On the opposite side, there’s a smaller risk of a Mastodon admin reading your DMs, but it carries a risk of direct and personal consequences that may feel outsized because of how easy it is to imagine these consequences and link them to the admin.
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On the fringe, I can understand how trusting your data to a faceless corporation might feel more confortable than having to think about this handful of singular beings who might have access to it. But c'mon.
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Oh no, not even. Here's the gist, Mastodon is "bad" because:
- Admins can read DMs
- Instances can block each other
- Instances can close
The main driver behind all three arguments was that you have to trust your instance admin which was seen as a bad thing because of pesky interpersonal relationships and people moving on.
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Good choice, @Ingo Jürgensmann is the admin should you hit any snag.
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It was just two separate Twitter threads with similar arguments, I can give you the gist of them if you want.
Hypolite Petovan
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