Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse
Working fine on my end - sounds like ISP filtering or possibly a firewall setting. With an ad blocker to handle popups, you could also try g o k u dot s x - not quite the same server collection, but you might find what you're looking for.
Looking at the thumbnail attached to this post, I gotta wonder, is Blue Beetle going to be on the jury?
I'd watch that movie. Especially if his abuela is bringing the chaingun.
Loving your Mongolian metal collection - keep posting!
Lyrics to this one (machine translation from Mongolian):
The dream went back and forth along a familiar street
The loan of the eastern cape is clearly visible
I am waiting for my monthly salary
After all, it's been six monthsMy poor country
It was a difficult time
My poor country
It was a difficult timeWhen it's time for spring, the storm will slap you on the cheek
All cooperative stores went bankrupt and closed their doors
It's winter time, so it's going to be snowy
Drunkards who are not afraid of death roam the night streetsMy poor country
It was a difficult time
My poor country
It was a difficult time
Actually Kbin is great for tracking shitheads, which is why I'm able to call this guy out. Downvotes are visible on the activity tab of each post and comment, and this troll loves downvote spam - as you can see, he downvoted my comment above. He's the kind that will stalk your account and downvote everything to try and get your attention.
In general, 99.9% of the community here is awesome, and there's a lot of support between users here. It's actually the best experience I've had online in many years (and I've been online since the early 90s). One of my goals in calling out the trolls when they decide to target me is to keep the community enjoyable, as I'm quite certain I'm not their only intended victim.
Good ole mass media, telling you something big is going down, and giving you absolutely no clue as to how to get involved.
The FCC has made the comment process extremely difficult to navigate, but it looks like the hearing is on docket 23-293 (commenters, please correct me if I'm wrong). You should be able use the form here to place a comment on the proceeding. Use 23-293 in the proceedings field to bring it up for selection.
Here's a more detailed view of the Media and Democracy Project's petition, which includes a supporting filing from Jamie Kellner, former president of Fox Broadcasting.
You've got one on kbin too - @someguy - a racist, bigoted fascist who likes to obsessively troll people and try to dox them.
It took me a moment to determine whether or not you were the same person, but unlike him, you can speak in complete sentences. As such, I thought I'd give you and @someguy3 a heads up that your good names are being dragged through the mud.
The greatest challenge with AI is not how to make it, but how to make it better than us.
No worries & thanks for the suggestion.
Pretty much, although these days a lot of folks find it more convenient to have the rules in .pdf for easy access. There's hundreds available. Here's a listing I had posted last night on the @13thFloor magazine I run over here on kbin - happy to crosspost if you feel it fits.
Oh boy, have I got some treats in store for you...
Question - is it just video games, or are you looking for tabletop RPGs too?
Hmm - still linking to the image, although your edit text is showing. You might try removing the image.
Kurt Vonnegut advises doing exactly what you're doing with your RPGs. The end of that lecture touches specifically on it.
I completely understand about keeping that part of your work private. I have done much the same thing for the same reasons with the vast majority of my creations, and you're wise to protect the part of yourself that keeps your imagination flowing.
That being said, should you reach a point where you're ready to share work (RPGs, writing, or just things that inspire you), the magazine is always open to you.
Re: Philosophy - I agree on the difficulty of the writing. I've read some small amount of Sartre (Being and Nothingness), but I remember being frustrated at the density of the arguments, which often seemed an over-articulation of the obvious for the sake of precision - and the entire work felt like a response to work we hadn't covered. In my college classes, it was presented as existentialism (in fact, we went from Descartes to Hume to Sartre), and now, looking at it's place in phenomenology, I feel robbed that the connections to Husserl and Heidegger weren't properly illustrated - the historical context would have helped me finish the book. Looks like I'll have to give it another shot :)
You just introduced me into an entirely new field of study. Phenomenology wasn't even mentioned in my philosophy or history of consciousness studies back in college. I'm going through the wikipedia on the field now and it describes in amazing detail the line of reasoning behind the imagination engine. If you have more sources on it that you enjoy, please feel free to forward them or post them to the @13thFloor.
The same goes for your RPGs - they're more than welcome if you feel they're ready for public consumption. In fact, this comment made me realize that we're very RPG light right now, so that's a great content idea to start including.
Oh, and regarding removing the downvotes, I lost one sub who was vocal about the change on the thread I posted in kbinMeta about how to do it, then gained 5 more afterwards. I've got a thread up to see how the community feels about it, but no comments yet, so I think the change is a positive one. I'll probably make it permanent unless one of our regular contributors complains.
This has been one of the most positive interactions I've had on the Fediverse, which is kinda funny as it was spawned in reaction to troll harassment. You've got my thanks yet again - it's been a good day as a result.
This shit is awesome - thanks for introducing me to their music. It looks like only the image is coming through via federation, so here's the youtube link to the video.
Holy shit - you're brilliant. It took some tweaking, but this code works on kbin:
{span style="color:#323232;"}.vote__down { display: none !important; } {/span}
I'm going to go and post this solution in @kbinMeta (if you don't do it first) - there are a lot of mods that want this functionality. I and our users thank you! Consider this an open invitation to @13thFloor if you'd ever like to stop by.
If you won't let the government run, then you shouldn't be running government.
The time for negotiation with political terrorists long past, and all the Freedom Caucus is demonstrating is that it's worthless to negotiate with them on anything. They want the US economy to crater before the elections - they know it's the only thing that will take the political focus off of Roe v. Wade and their ongoing assault on civil rights and the middle class.
Both rating agencies cited rising political dysfunction as a primary cause for their downgrades following contentious debt ceiling standoffs.
Make no mistake - they will burn the US to the ground before they relinquish power, and unless it's taken from them, they will use it to oppress and financially devastate any group they find distasteful.
If you are not white, male, and make less than $300,000 a year, the GOP views you as an enemy - and they don't care how many people they have to hurt to put you in your place.
Remember this at the polls.
You got banned because you spam downvoted multiple comments without commentary, then continued the behavior after being asked to back up your downvotes with comments. You've escalated and continued the conflict by following me around the Fediverse downvoting my comments outside the forum - for over two weeks now. I will continue to call you out until your weird and creepy behavior stops.
You can play innocent all you'd like, but there's literally a public paper trail of your behavior, that any one can see by going through my comments and seeing the same two sad little trolls who downvote every comment they can.
You want me to go away, get the fuck out of my life. That's it.
You don't want to? Fine, I'll use your downvotes to call out your history as a racist, transphobe, fascist bigoted idiot again and again and again, because each time I do, folks are appreciative of being warned of your behavior, and I end up with new followers and traffic. Besides, I have no moral problem stalking a known stalker to keep them from harassing someone else.
This ain't one you're gonna win kid. Take a hint and your pacifier and go home to mommy.
You can block domains on kbin, but it's somewhat bugged right now. It appears that blocking domains can cause posting errors if you're creating threads or pictures, including making comments invisible on threads when you're logged in.
To access kbin's domain view, go to kbin.social/d/[your domain here] . You'll have an option to subscribe to or block the instance. Example:
@anafroj Thanks for the kind words and advice - much appreciated. Unfortunately on Kbin (where I run my forum) we don't have that option - the software exceeds lemmy in many ways, but there are number of lemmy features (including removing downvotes) that I'd like to see on Kbin. I'm glad that the solution worked for you and your users.
To compensate on Kbin, since the forum I run is built as be a safe space for creative folks to submit OC and their inspirations, one of our rules is that if you downvote, you need to leave a comment explaining why. This allows critique without anonymous negativity, which adds nothing to the discussion.
As for myself, I don't care that the trolls above are obsessed with downvoting what my profile posts (which literally says "For Amusement Purposes Only" at the top - another indication that they can't read properly).
They tell more on themselves than I with the downvote spam, and it actually helps drive engagement with my commentary because they're triggering the "activity" sorting algorithm - it's not like reddit where enough downvotes will actually hide anything. But neither troll is smart enough to realize this, so that's why I just smile and tell them to keep digging. If they keep going, I get more upvotes through the additional views than they could possibly downvote, so that's a win from my perspective. If they get tired and stop, that's a bit of a win as well, even though they're no longer contributing to my marketing campaign... ;)
Looks like there's a lot of FUD around this, so I decided to jump into the ActivityPub spec and see exactly what they can and can't get with the spec as is.
First off, they cannot get a users individual IP unless the instance owner publishes it in the profile data as part of a "public" activity stream. I don't know of any instance that does this currently (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).
It looks like what Meta is looking to do is scrape the information in the "public" tagged activity streams:
This is similar to what most instances do to show the posts of a user or community - they send a request to get "public" tagged data to publish to their end users. Within this data is all the activity information on that post - who upvoted what and who, and who commented. Again, this is the same way federation works now - your server has an activity stream of all your followed and followers that it can make available to view by tagging their activity as "public". Many instances have this information tagged as "public" as a default.
Now, this system works fine if you're dealing with small actors that don't have nefarious designs on the network, or the resources to dominate it.
When you have a digital behemoth with grand AI designs that's already embroiled in lawsuits where it was grabbing your medical data and regularly allows law enforcement to stroll through its records, it's an entirely different situation. Meta has the power and capacity to not only engage in an "embrance, extend, extinguish" campaign against the Fediverse, but also to seriously threaten the privacy and well-being of Fediverse users in a way no single instance owner can.
I think the solution here will be for individual instance owners to harden their security and if not outright de=federate from Threads, ensure that posts are private by default and that their users are made well aware in the TOS that following a Threads user will result in sharing data about their profile that could (and most likely will) be matched back to their Facebook account.
Instances that don't allow visibility control on posts, like Kbin and Lemmy, should look at adding an option to post only to the local server, or have the capacity to block threads.net outgoing publication based on user profile settings.
Instances that don't allow follow request filtering probably should look at adding it (Mastodon has it implemented - Kbin and I think Lemmy would need to catch up) - otherwise users could be unaware that they're sending their data to threads.net when someone from that service follows them.
I think it goes without saying that any data Meta gets will get the AI treatment - both to identify users and to sell your activity to marketers. That activity is the real goldmine for them - that's a stream of revenue for marketing that rivals what Meta tracks on its own platform.
As such, it may be worthwhile for instance owners to look at removing voting and boosting counts from the "public" activity feed. This would mean more fragmentation for communities whose populations span instances (vote counts would be more off than they are now), but it would prevent bad actors from easily scraping that data for behavioral analysis.
All in all, though, I don't believe it's going to be a positive event when Threads does start federating. One of the nice things about the Fediverse is that the learning curve is high enough to keep the idiot count down, and I don't really see our content or commentary here improving once Meta's audience enters the space.