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@neil weak as usual milquetoast nonsense from Masto. A better software would have banned slop code outright.

@dilmandila (a band called "Level" with an album called "Level", you can imagine how ungoogleable they were)

@dilmandila and until recently, one of my favourite nu metal bands, LeVeL, was basically a "everyone in this niche heard of them, nobody outside ever has, they put out one CD in 2005 and vanished" type deal. Couple years back they reformed though and went on Spotify and such.

@dilmandila I got a rip of a folk rock CD from the early aughts, courtesy of some family member (forgot who). The band used to have a website, which has long gone offline, they have a singular Discogs entry, and aren't on any streaming platforms.

Pity, because the songs are bangers, too.

@skade @flyIng @someone_else @dan war nicht ZigBee mal für sowas gedacht? Bevor es "praktischer" wurde, das einfach "in der Cloud" zu machen?

@LianaBrooks yes and yes. Quit Twitter, quit Instagram, never was on Facebook. No Bluesky, Threads, or any of the other "we can be like Twitter, hell included" upstarts either. Here and that's it.

@stefan I have quite a bunch of ideas for moderation that could prevent harassment in the first place, tbh, but chances of Masto devs ever implementing anything like it are about minus 9000%

What can be implemented re: reply controls is, basically, selective muting. A post could indicate "only people XY may reply" (i.e.: followers), fellow vanilla Mastodon servers would respect that, other ActivityPub software may or may not respect that, and bad actors certainly wouldn't. So while it may hide unwanted replies from cooperating parties, it would only ever do so on a good faith basis.

Twitter could do reply controls because Twitter is one company. All user accounts, all posts, all are owned by Twitter. It rules absolutely, for better or worse. That isn't possible with ActivityPub, where each post, each like, each follow, is just servers sending "hey, I did this thing" announcements into the ether and other servers deciding how to respond.

@Edent @julian @stefan quote posts don't work, simple as that. Most other AP software implemented them long ago and those softwares don't give a shit about Mastodon's special have-our-cake-and-eat-it-too solution. I turned quotes off, hasn't stopped one Misskey or Pleroma user from quoting me or seeing unauthorised quotes.

All of those limit/approve features, yes that includes blocks, ultimately rely on the good faith of the rest of the network. Whether it's quote approvals, blocks, or any hypothetical reply control, it would only ever amount to muting by a different name.

@stefan and both are also impossible to implement in a federated network, and I wish everyone finally understood this so we could put this fruitless discussion to rest and move on to things that could actually be improved (like the dismal state of the moderation tools)

@Shrigglepuss @researchfairy

@vkc I should hope they fixed this by now, but a year or so ago, I read a post detailing a lot of technical shortcomings of Bluesky, and one of them was that deleted posts could be easily recovered because instead of a database, they just had a repo, and if you could find the pre-deletion commit, you could read deleted posts.

The whole website is a fucking clown car

@vaporeon_ @lexfeathers after voting "no", I was offered a link to "see what an AI internet would look like", which turned out to be an advertisement for "Duck AI", so… not excited

@amoroso aaaaand added my 2c. Also, does the announcement read "AI"-generated to anyone else or just me?! What the fuck.

@valhalla but AO3 prohibits original content. It's tolerated largely, but an attempt to repurpose it as an original short film database would be shut down for sure.

There should be a website like AO3, but for short films. Not even hosting directly, but just linking to YouTube and Vimeo and wherever, but with proper tagging and filtering by genre, run time, language, etc.

That would be cool.

@researchfairy true to meme it's not a word anyone would actually use

but it is a word

(Kunst = art, "herkunft" = origin, "ersteinschätzung" = first assessment, "missverständnis" = misunderstanding, "enttäuschung" = disappointment)

@researchfairy Kunstherkunftsersteinschätzungsmissverständnisenttäuschung

@JellyTBeagle where's the "I sleep with a shotgun in case my printer makes a noise" post when you need it