The purple pill helps the orange pill go down…

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Someone on the Internet read the data I posted to the Internet. 😱

Sure seems that way!

Not my business but if you don't mind the question, why were you banned?

I think Mastodon norms are not something I'd care to understand or want to be a part of

I think Maven should interface with nostr

What do people think of this? nostr:note13k0wh965nntau3jdx8d3ls96uus2zk778z4w6dyg9r8ptt94e6hsj94y3r It seems that Mastodon is designed to share user posts, including private DMs, with anyone who asks for them. Someone with an AI background pulled in a bunch of posts and analyzed them, including labeling the content.

These folks, Maven, followed the ActivityPub spec and the terms of service. They downloaded publicly accessible data using Mastodon servers and services as designed. They then analyzed that data and ran an algorithm to add labels, similar to how every fediverse server does. The difference here is that Maven used machine learning to add some labels, whereas others add labels such as timestamps when the local server downloads the data without using newer machine learning tech.

Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Google also do this; they crawl the fediverse, use AI and machine learning to label content, and display it in different contexts.

The tags that Maven adds are pretty innocent. They are just adding hashtag-like labels for discoverability.

Furthermore, many people are upset that Maven is leaking people's DMs. This is like living in a house where you refuse to have a front door or curtains on your windows and then getting very upset when somebody wanders in and sits down in your living room or looks in from across the street. The fediverse, by design, has no privacy. DMs are public! It says right there in Mastodon that these aren’t private. Nor are Bluesky's DMs, by the way. There is no end-to-end encryption in the fediverse yet. Evan Prodromou is actually working on this, likely adapting the MLS standard, which is great but doesn’t exist yet.

So my question is this: Why does the fediverse rely on unwritten and undocumented norms that are not mentioned in either the specs or terms of service? And why are people constantly surprised when others don't follow these hidden social conventions?

If I haven't made it clear enough by now, I don't like Ecash very much 🤣, seems just like lightning with extra steps and slower to me, I have also had a bad experience with it in the past.

What's your favorite thing about being on #Nostr?

#nostrdesign

There's an edit war going on after the Business Insider article. Swinxy added the former name, but others are removing it.

Pretty excited by the fact that I can reach both #BlueSky and #nostr via bridges now. 🥰 Hope more of these federated systems get bridged soon too.

Which are the most zapped/commented longform posts on Nostr?

1000 sats to the winner who can guess which Nostr Dev bailed on me for Dev Hack Day at Prague by giving me the excuse that he's having an appendicitis.

We love him and wish him a fast recovery. This shitpost will help him heal fast and/or laugh and pop a stitch.