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Nice mouse rug!

I only have a laptop so

I use the track pad for work (coding so don't need fine grained cursor control)

And a mouse for gaming

Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

nostr:npub1arkn0xxxll4llgy9qxkrncn3vc4l69s0dz8ef3zadykcwe7ax3dqrrh43w and I accidentally wore the same shirt to the Nostr booth 🀣🀣🀣

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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?

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

* shitpost warning *

Westerners dunking on human rights campaigners who have been imprisoned by some of the worst regimes on the planet is gross

Liberal democracy is very, very far from perfect

It's not the ultimate way of getting along (I would hope)

It's not absolute freedom

It's not enough freedom

But cynicism toward liberal democracy is a Western decadent luxury

People living under the alternatives would give their front and back teeth for half of Western freedoms

And are risking and giving their lives for a freer democratic future

For their people

Calling human rights campaigners "CIA" is moronic

Rudely attacking them as they onboard to nostr is doubly moronic

Sorry not sorry

New personal rule : for every shitpost I do I must do 2 positive, life affirming, or at least mildly pleasant posts

Because this isn't Xitter

Liberal democracy

You are free to stand outside the gates of the White House with a sign calling Joe Biden the devil incarnate and agitate for the downfall of the federal government

Try doing that in Tehran

Insulting the "Supreme Leader" is an imprisonable offence - Article 514, Islamic Penal Code

"publishing lies" is punishable by execution - Article 286, Islamic Penal Code

Liberal democracy is very, very far from perfect

And it is not the ultimate form of living together (I would hope)

But people living under the alternatives would give their front and back teeth for half of the freedoms that we have

And many are risking and giving their lives for that future