atomicpoet

@atomicpoet@firefish.city

Product, QA & marketing @ #GreatApe & #SpaceHost

Putting the sauce in awesome.

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atomicpoet, to random

In three hours, I will be migrating this account to @atomicpoet. Afterwards, it will be inactive.

Wish me luck!

atomicpoet, to random

Head’s up. Tomorrow, I’m migrating this account to @atomicpoet.

If this is successful—it should be—then there’s a new Fediverse-related initiative that I’m announcing. I’ve been slow and deliberate with this work but I’m extremely pleased with the results so far.

atomicpoet, to random

Just a reminder that I'm migrating this account to @atomicpoet.

To ensure that you continue following me, be sure to follow me there before I make the migration. While the majority of accounts will probably migrate successfully, since I'm migrating a Firefish server to an Akkoma server, I don't know exactly how this will perform.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

Here's what my new Akkomane (a.k.a., Akkoma + Mangane) server looks like.

I'm quite pleased with the results. Both desktop and mobile views look tremendous. The default colours are so good, I'm not changing them.

The compose box is elegant and has wonderful options, including scheduled posts. I can also do quoted boosts (a.k.a. quoted retweets) if I want.

I really have to express my appreciation to @reiver and @spacehost for making this happen. I know they put a lot of hours into making Akkomane an option, and it's paying off handsomely.

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, to random

Some good AI news!

It was only a matter of time before decent LLMs would be able to run locally on your PC, and now it's happening.

Nvidia just announced that "chat with RTX" will be able to run on any PC with at least an RTX 30xx card or greater. Since I already own an RTX 3090 Ti, I'm very much looking forward to using this on my own machine. As a nice bonus, this is much more environmentally friendly than using Chat-GPT's cloud systems.

(And no, I don't think chatbots are intrinsically evil.)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/13/24071645/nvidia-ai-chatbot-chat-with-rtx-tech-demo-hands-on

atomicpoet, to random

Social media often results in lawsuits.

That is to say, when it comes to social media, people can be very "sue happy". They like to sue, often for irrational reasons, and it can be financially draining.

If you plan on operating a Fediverse server with open registrations, I urge you to consult with a lawyer. And to limit your personal liability, you might want to operate it through the aegis of a corporate entity.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

If you believe the Fediverse should operate in an "opt-in" manner, why don't you create or join Fediverse servers that block everything by default, and only federate with servers that are deliberately whitelisted?

This isn't a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely curious.

@fediversenews

atomicpoet,

@noondlyt @fediversenews I’m actually not referencing one particular corporate-backed instance. Threads wasn’t even top of mind.

atomicpoet,

@noondlyt @fediversenews Okay, but I'm referencing everything that creates debate over opt-in/opt-out: bridges, bots, search engines, servers, federation, etc.

Every time there's a debate about what's allowable, someone says, "I didn't opt in".

However, if you're not running a server that blocks everything by default, except for whitelisted servers, you're not opting into anything. By default, when a server "sees" another server, they are federated.

atomicpoet,

@noondlyt @fediversenews Yes, opt-in is consent. What exactly have you consented to? When have you specifically ever consented to a malicious server receiving your content? When have you explicitly consented to people, many of them bad actors, following you and sending you messages?

Regarding why the Fediverse-at-large prefers opt-out by default, it's pretty apparent to me: software engineers and server admins prize visibility and discoverability over safety and consent.

atomicpoet,

@scott You're right, no one is stopping me from having an opt-in server. I can operate one if I want. I just choose not to.

atomicpoet,

@noondlyt @fediversenews Two thoughts for you:

For legal liability reasons, I hope whatever server you join is run by a corporation, not a private individual. Lawsuits happen on the Internet, and without protection, they can inflict a lot of damage. Since the Fediverse assumes “opt out”, this is a particular concern.

Second, if I were to join a server, I would be concerned about how they’re paying the bills. Running a server can be costly, especially if that server allows open registrations. If a server can’t sustain itself financially, be very worried.

There’s a reason why my own server is closed. I spend $10/month to run it.

atomicpoet,

@noondlyt @fediversenews Corporations come in many forms. Currently, the one you use is run through a non-profit corporation. Others like cosocial.ca and social.coop run as co-operative corporations. And yet others like twit.social and me.dm run as for-profit corporations.

The reason I avoid servers run by private individuals has nothing to do with profit and more to do with legal liability and financial sustainability. Put simply, I don't want my admin to wreck their life due to some asshole who does something untoward or even illegal. I also want to ensure that the funds I spend are well-managed.

I speak from experience. Last year, I spent over $2,000 on various Fediverse services, keeping certain servers afloat.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

Yesterday, there was a post on @fediversenews that went viral. Since a few people are wondering what @fediversenews is, it's a Friendica group. It's a group that's been active since December 2022. Functionally, it works similarly to a Lemmy or Kbin community.

Or, in Fediverse parlance, @fediversenews, is a group actor. Its purpose is for people on the Fediverse to congregate together to speak about a given topic. In @fediversenews's case, that topic is about news pertaining to the Fediverse.

@fediversenews is not the originating profile for messages. Rather, it hosts messages and then boosts them to subscribers of the group. If you are not subscribed to @fediversenews, you will not receive boosts.

However, it's also important to know that because messages do not originate from @fediversenews, it is still possible to receive messages from there even if you are not subscribed. For example, if you follow the original post's author or receive boosts from other accounts.

Unsubscribing to @fediversenews does not prevent you from seeing posts sent there, it just prevents you from receiving boosts specifically sent from the group actor -- if you are already subscribed to @fediversenews. Likewise, blocking @fediversenews does not prevent you from seeing posts that are tagged with @fediversenews. However, blocking does prevent @fediversenews from hosting and boosting replies to the originating post.

If you want to block that topic from your timeline, I highly suggest applying a filter to "Bluesky" and "bridge".

It's important to remember that Mastodon does not yet support group actors. For this reason, not all features of @fediversenews are rendered ideally on Mastodon.

For more information on Fediverse group actors, here's a helpful link:

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-1b12-group-federation/2724

atomicpoet,

@ch0ccyra1n Well, for one thing, threads don't render very well. From Mastodon, it's also not obvious that you're interacting with a group.

atomicpoet, to random

So let me be more clear about this. I'm all for defederating the Bluesky bridge -- if that's what you want to do.

However, I'm seeing a lot of people say, "Every server that uses ActivityPub must defederate from Bluesky because this is a safe space for marginalized people."

But if that's true, why have so many marginalized people come to an ActivityPub-enabled server, and ended up leaving because they felt this wasn't a space for them?

Specifically, I saw quite a lot of Black people encounter racism on certain Mastodon servers and then migrate over to Bluesky because Bluesky felt like a safer space for them. Sure, in many ways Bluesky has worse moderation policies than ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse, but they also found Bluesky to be safer for them.

And we have to ask ourselves: why, on a place that has questionable moderation, do they encounter more safety than here?

It may be true that the ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse may offer a safe space for some marginalized people, but certainly not for everyone who is marginalized. Frankly, if there's safety here for some people but not others, is it all that safe to begin with?

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/8a1c053b-b059-476e-9caa-3419f8f314d5

atomicpoet,

@crossgolf_rebel There may be many motives for why someone joins Bluesky, but I’m telling you what many Black people have told me: the ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse feels anti-Black, and they feel safer on Bluesky.

Hell, even Black people that prefer it here still say that the ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse feels unsafe to them. Read the other comment on this thread.

atomicpoet,

@feb Sorry, I’m confused. What does your reply have to do with the point I raised?

atomicpoet,

@crossgolf_rebel I think it’s important to consider intersectionality: that one can be both marginalized and privileged at the same time, and being marginalized does not cancel out the effects of simultaneously being privileged. So while someone marginalized may feel they’re in a safe space and are protective of it, that safety may also be a result of privilege.

atomicpoet,

@drmambobob Re-read my first paragraph. My stance on federation with a Bluesky bridge is pretty clear.

atomicpoet, to random

Does anyone remember this gem?

atomicpoet, to random

Once again, the question of opt-in vs. opt-out has come to the Fediverse.

For those wishing an opt-in version of the Fediverse, I highly suggest that you join a server that involves itself in active white-listing of federation, ideally with servers that have signed a public pact or memorandum of understanding.

Such servers are few and far between, and the reason is simple: it diminishes visibility.

A far easier way to deal with undesirable servers and bridges is to just run a server yourself, and defederate to your heart's desire. If you're an admin, you don't have to wait for an admin to do this. But now, this becomes opt-out -- not opt-in.

atomicpoet,

@DNA Few people used private Usenet, and Discord is centralized -- not federated.

No one is forced to abide by any one person's rules. You can set them up yourself. The question is whether you want to take on that work.

If you create your own private Fediverse server, you can do whatever you want.

atomicpoet, to random

And they say that Bitcoin does nothing. I disagree. It's clearly an exuberance index.

What happens when people have a lot of money, they don't know what to do with it, and they're now speculating? They put it into Bitcoin.

If Bitcoin reaches all time highs, things are frothy. Currently, we're not there yet, but watch out when $BTC hits 60K.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/bitcoin-hits-highest-more-than-two-years-2024-02-12/

atomicpoet, to random

In terms of inflation, here's a fascinating comparison of 1966-82 and 2013-Present.

Obviously, just because something happened decades ago doesn't mean the same will occur now -- but it's worth watching just so we can learn from a previous circumstance.

It's important to remember what finally ended inflation back in 1982: interest rates rocketed over 19%.

I'm not saying that this will happen again, but while Wall Street expects interest rates to be lowered in six months, I suspect that the Fed will be quite conservative when they do so.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-finance-chartbook-6-charts-show-inflation-is-easing-as-spending-holds-up--but-risks-remain-170806054.html?.tsrc=fin-notif

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