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Notices by Hector von Eigenvector (hector@explosion.party)
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The awful responses to CoViD-19 have convinced me more strongly than ever that consequentialist ethical theories cannot stand up to real world trials, in comparison to other ethical frameworks. People fail to make rational calculations under pressure and succumb to all sorts of biases and flawed heuristics that cause them to misjudge utility. The standard problems about predicting the future and unintended consequences apply too.
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Has anyone alerted EFF to the imageboard shutdowns going on recently? Serious question.
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@kaikatsu I'm not a fan of any government. If you adore China so much, then please move there and disappear behind the Great Firewall so no one has to read your bullshit from then on.
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Hey guys here's some more "fake news" for you. Eugen Rochko definitely did not get paid exactly β¬63,290.07 by the European Commission, an unelected government institution, for working on EUnomia, no wayβ¦
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/220360/factsheet/en
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Who doesn't like top-down EU Internet regulation? Eugen Rochko apparently loves it so much he joined a project aiming to assess the trustworthiness of users and posts on the Mastodon network, funded by the EU. EUnomia is a vision for a permanent blockchain based system which will monitor and report on the spread of fake news, and also everything else you do on Mastodon. Coming soon to an instance near you!
https://eunomia.social/news/1
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Discord is censoring things? Oh no, who could have guessed this would happen in a commercial, centralized chat platform?
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Sleep deprivation sucks. Don't do that to yourself.
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A minute of silence for the GNU social users who were once with us and are now lost in the sands of time.
One day they shall all rejoin us in the great decentralized network of Heaven. Those we knew and loved, reunited with us as we celebrate with what life has blessed us.
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May remains as PM. Will she be able to avoid a crash landing?
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Wow, you can watch U.K. politics in real time now. Amazing. One minute remains until it is announced whether May gets to keep being tyrant or not.
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I just hit 256 followers! A great number!
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With these newest updates, Pleroma is truly the superior Fediverse platform in every way. Notifications are finally persisted.
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The ideal world.
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Did you know that explosion.party is actually the flagship Pleroma instance, not pleroma.soykaf.com? π΄π³πΊπ²π―π΅πΉπΌ
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On the topic of Pleroma: we should be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the past made by the developers of Mastodon. We aren't trying to build "the Pleroma network" as a self-contained community. Rather, we are seeking to introduce some friendly competition and diversity of choice into the ActivityPub federation ecosystem. Here are some reflections upon the philosophical differences between Mastodon and Pleroma.
Developers are not heroes or infallible leaders. We should not try to design the software so as to attempt to constrain the behavior of our users, like Mastodon does by purposefully omitting certain features. All we can and should do is design it as a tool that provides the most utility to users, whatever they want to do. Some parts of the Mastodon community have spread many misconceptions and misguided ideas about privacy on their platform, as well as the idea of "protecting vulnerable or marginalized users" through design or policy.
Unfortunately, there is only so much we can do about these kinds of social problems as developers, especially when working with standardized protocols. We should not try to insert intrusive features or a conspicuous lack thereof where it would make the core functionality or experience worse. This is different from the concept of "safe design" in engineering, which does not normally deal with social, interpersonal problems, but with problems attributable to accident or mishandling. Individual instances, administrators, moderators, and users must take responsibility for combating abuse and other social problems via policy. Any other "solution" involving technical restrictions creates more problems than it solves.
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Hector von Eigenvector
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