I feel like the one of the lowest level human internet problems we haven’t solved is how to be around millions of people, many of whom vocally disapprove of at least some of our thoughts and actions, without letting our hyper-social status-sensitive primate brains either melt or devote themselves to arguing that all our positions are the right positions for everyone.

Like yes, some algos are bad, but we also just built structures we can’t quite handle and are perma-mad at each other about it.

Bluesky has reply-gating (you can set who can reply to a post, like people you follow or a given list or no one) and is now testing out post-publication reply locking.

I just want to yell for a second about how humane and consent-forward these features are, especially after seeing some people here losing their minds when someone asked for gating recently because they felt (alas, not a paraphrase) entitled to always be able to respond.

Ozone, Bluesky's stackable moderation system is up and open-sourced.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation

I think it's interesting in obvious ways and risky in some less obvious ones (that have less to do with "O NO BILLIONAIRES" or "O NO LIBERTARIANS" and more to do with placelessness), but we'll see.

I hope good things emerge from/grow on top of this framework.

[I recognize that mentioning this is widely considered to be an invitation to explain capital like I am a tiny baby. You could also not.]

Fedi developers and instance-runners reading the Zuckerberg interview in the Verge are definitely also reading this today, right?

https://wapo.st/3PBtyme

This book review is going to give me nightmares for the rest of my life

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-chinese-history/article/was-there-an-administrative-revolution/AD2E74A82073AAEAA5105E946BA17823#fn23

(via Ted McCormick on Bsky)

I noticed by using the new "Find People to Follow" modal and viewing the #people tab in Explore and there were half a dozen people I follow in there and…I was suddenly not following any of them anymore?

I don't know where to begin trying to find out who I've lost.

nostr:npub1py8m8hvzgkr92ptwcqd4fc8wk0mkvrj7vduqv70wyfd2aqueh8qqcev8pe to be fair there are maybe three separate rage-inducing elements in this paragraph alone, the whole thing reads like an elaborate troll

nostr:npub10q397r7jx97c6m8tnluze66ua7mw8y5tf8qhxjs234mellrmyfdqzykgta (IIRC I hadn’t personally blocked the troll, but my instance had defederated from his, which meant surprisingly little when my post got boosted.)

nostr:npub1enax4z53pedtnqw2lffelkfecpnl5q4h82yhwrekd7c3cljk4eysvxyyv4 Apologies for ambiguity—I tend to assume that people following me will have a sense of the kind of thing I do, but this got boosted out. I’m a white person working at multiple removes collecting and synthesizing academic/NGO/journalistic research on the specifics of Facebook‘s involvement. (I’m finding that most US/UK media reports quote only white Americans on, but the NGO reports include Burmese researchers and experts, all of whom Facebook seems to have ignored.)

nostr:npub1wu6xm5djp566z7cxk92850ptqzxc92t5emmdlc58wfmkvpkwurhqmtx5ge Helen Nissenbaum is for real, so I’d try it, myself. (And probably will, after I read her paper.)

nostr:npub1ykgfhsl4uktyvuwmzyg647kzta8jgvhndj0mvsesa65p4sttdhks3sg4jv oh of COURSE you have lollll

nostr:npub1ykgfhsl4uktyvuwmzyg647kzta8jgvhndj0mvsesa65p4sttdhks3sg4jv nostr:npub14pk7ymgjn7pxxahyn08taf4f6hm5avg34nh9w70wmdu24ndxs4zs2y80yc nostr:npub1f5gjl550ngha00wcn38rzfxx9fqc4q94wwrk4sds5g7rhg0z3fzqjxcqah yessssssssss

nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 🤨

I live in the country and it's been a long few years, man, what do you want from me

nostr:npub1xl7h4pw0s4q2xsrfdvmum39nazwv049aaew47taahaqtcnx76ydsh3ss7c SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS THOOOOO

nostr:npub14kz5v4ukcpgejep4auygp52u33ku9cmuz84cjyvkxep4nqrusv9sy8v0h8 So, “The systemic problems can never be solved except by collective action” is both true and obvious, right?

My point above is that offering some people specific mitigation advice and telling others that “welp, the system should just change,” is cruel and ineffective. I used to do covid comms, and seeing people preaching only to the (childless, work-from-home, well resourced) choir bums me out tremendously.

(Courtesy notice: I’m heading offline, have a good weekend!)

nostr:npub1mnwluj9ajxptlgykwadmlsfsvgkk5ezdrz4rfn6es6wdpv4kahgqvst3wj nostr:npub1mhv7kpt9gjvsfa3ualmwlka94dprvrl8kmarx26h2al9ff68j9pqpzskkj Yeah the Nature paper this spring suggests going ahead with it to potentially reduce transmission, but like most other cheap/easy possibilities (and expensive/difficult ones), it's under-researched.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99866-w

nostr:npub1mhv7kpt9gjvsfa3ualmwlka94dprvrl8kmarx26h2al9ff68j9pqpzskkj Yeah—I think the menthol/thymol ones like Listerine Total Care (there's one with low alcohol for kids) and the CPC ones have the best overall performance across studies, IIRC.

Almost no one is aware of these studies, I think bc the huge waves of misinformation about useless remedies made most normal people assume that unless CDC recommends something directly, it doesn't work.

nostr:npub1r4kgw4scugzmmgxwyt59344kuae9ztthvhh6dxrjn4xqf046tkhs2u6r6r nostr:npub19kdxqvj7x7lnkq7quf2x7795cdx6z000zknqfs4tzjmqejdcreusnv4jdw 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💔

nostr:npub19kdxqvj7x7lnkq7quf2x7795cdx6z000zknqfs4tzjmqejdcreusnv4jdw nostr:npub1r4kgw4scugzmmgxwyt59344kuae9ztthvhh6dxrjn4xqf046tkhs2u6r6r We buy filters for the commercial-grade air cleaner at our little school and our kid is willing to mask up indoors and we’ve added regular gargles now that there’s research on that, but…we’re still gonna get nailed sooner or later, and I’m gonna get it when she gets it. Trying to reduce the total lifetime infection count is all we can do at this point.