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JustinH

@JustinH@twit.social

Optimistic but realistic. I write http://www.StayGrounded.online, a newsletter about establishing healthy boundaries with the digital world.

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JustinH, to random
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nileane, to random
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“Bluesky could be the future of content moderation”.

I 100% disagree.

Yes, the protocol offers a plethora of ways to filter content and ensure you never come across, say, Nazis.

But that’s not what content moderation is. Content moderation is making decisions. It is either welcoming or refusing certain types of content on your platform.

If you’re letting everyone in, and telling your users "but you have control!", you’re not moderating anything. You’re just quitting.

https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/111887524210529466

JustinH,
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@cragsand @nileane The answer to all your questions is "No". There is no major functional difference between instances.

Read this for more info: https://rys.io/en/167.html

taylorlorenz, to random
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"Being able to say, ‘wherever you get your podcasts’ is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience." https://www.anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts

JustinH,
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@markhughes @taylorlorenz Medium is not a walled garden, its blogs are on the web and can be accessed from any browser.

willoremus, to random
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Bluesky opens to the public today and is taking a step toward federation. I talked with CEO Jay Graber about how it’s taking on the company that spawned it—and how its approach differs from Mastodon’s. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/bluesky-launch-public-jay-graber/

JustinH,
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@willoremus The approach is different than Mastodon's by not actually being decentralized. Remember: Jay Graber comes from the world of cryptocurrency.

rysiek, to random
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Apparently I am seething with malaise and disdain for Silicon Valley, and that's distasteful or something. :blobcateyes:

Well, SV has been causing malaise (ask the parents whom Zuck was just apologizing to) for and showed disdain (ask the Rohingya) towards pretty much everyone else. And made a killing doing so.

OpenAI said outright it's impossible for them to compensate authors of works they use as "training data". Implying their business model is more important than somebody's livelihood. 🤔

JustinH,
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@rysiek Well said, this is the first post I've ever made to my newsletter:

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/social-media-6c99e7b6c557

db0, to foss
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I'm doing a ton of #FOSS work, and I notice this is even necessary for us as well https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following

A ton of the successful FOSS projects I see have dedicated people doing social media all the time. @reduz from #GodotEngine is micro-blogging constantly (on Ex-Twitter) which is a great help for keeping people talking about Godot.

But when you're a small project, its a ton of extra work with a skillset a lot of us are not at all comfortable with.

JustinH,
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@db0 At the risk of sounding like a tech bro, it's downright inefficient for a society to have people doing something other than what they are best at.

And from a human perspective it's not a fun way to spend one's limited life, either.

JustinH, to random
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Just discovered this awesome cookbook by Leanne Brown, called "Good & Cheap" for people with very tight budgets (designed around SNAP) that she gives away online for totally free:

https://www.leannebrown.com/all-about-good-and-cheap/

The .pdf is here

https://books.leannebrown.com/good-and-cheap.pdf

It's also a fantastic intro to home cooking basics in general, I wish I had this book when I was in my early 20s!

glennf, to random
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AI voice scams are here. Create a simple family password based on a story you all remember. Or ask for a very specific memory and when the person says they don’t remember or are too upset you know it’s a fake because everyone in your family would know they’d be asked in just this circumstance.

JustinH,
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@glennf @tml 😂 I'm over here trying to remember my password to decrypt my childhood memories...

JustinH, to foss
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One of the biggest lesser-touted advantages of #FOSS is that it doesn't disappear forever or break workflows if a company goes out of business.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/12/personal-data-storage-evernote-google-drive-icloud.html

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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Thanks (for nothing), Google, for adding a distracting @ sign next to my cursor in every doc I'm writing -- and giving me no way to turn off a feature that I never, ever wanted.

I don't know why I'm still surprised by the sheer arrogance of the tech industry. But I am.

Screenshot, attached, shows the annoying thing that Google has imposed on Docs users with no way to turn it off.

JustinH,
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@dangillmor Pretty sure this just means you're viewing the same doc in multiple windows/tabs/computers. The @ thing is to see where different users are when they modify the same docs.

chrismessina, to fediverse
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It's happening!!

https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77/?igshid==

#ActivityPub #fediverse

JustinH,
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@janxdevil @chrismessina

💯

parismarx, (edited ) to random
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💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS! 💥

2023 is winding down, so it’s time to choose the WORST PERSON IN TECH!

🗳️ ROUND 1 VOTING OPEN NOW: https://forms.gle/xqcDPSXB98gA4udn9

JustinH,
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@db0 @parismarx

On the other hand, Facebook did support genocide...

eloquence, to random
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Seeing more and more Mastodon logos on major sites and it makes me really happy every time :). Sometimes next to the bird, sometimes no bird at all.

(Where do you get a cool logo for your site, you ask? There are many copies, but I tend to use https://fontawesome.com/icons/mastodon?f=brands&s=solid)

And yes, I know fedi > Mastodon. I'll take the win :)

JustinH,
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@eloquence I'm consistently surprised you don't see more brands setting up mastodon instances just for themselves and/or employees. It's minimal overhead, minimal moderation, fully accessible, people wouldn't even need a Mastodon account to follow their content. They could just paste the same stuff they're posting to Twitter/Insta/etc.

samhenrigold, to random
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an uncomfortable few months in 2013 where flat design was around but was not yet mainstream so designers were only flirting with flatness: a highly specific thread

JustinH,
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@samhenrigold I maintain that the Zune HD (2010ish) was actually peak UI and every trend since then has brought us further from god.

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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Mastodon, we have a problem.

@Teri_Kanefield: I am beginning to think I waste my time and energy on social media... I came back to read my comments... and really, I feel ill.

@Popehat: ...find me on Bluesky... less like I'm likely to get screamed at...

@mmasnick: Same is mostly true for me.

@mattblaze: Getting close to joining you... The yelling here is getting to be a bit much.

[Edit to clarify NOT all are considering leaving]

JustinH,
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@GottaLaff @TechConnectify @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze Furthermore, trolls are on the lower end of the "reasons to avoid Twitter" list while the owner is posting antisemitic conspiracies. Meta quite literally enabled genocide in Myanmar. The Fediverse may require a greater degree of personal responsibility but supporting those companies by encouraging one's following to go there is, IMO, morally contemptible.

noondlyt, to random
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If Twitter is good enough to use for those who will not leave, how is it that it's not for advertisers? Someone please explain the maths to me.

Everyone still on Twitter: Corporations need to stop advertising on this Musk owned and controlled antisemitic cultivating platform. Oh no, I'm going to stay on Twitter cause I make a difference and my friends are here.

JustinH,
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@noondlyt I wonder this all the time and I think the truth is that these platforms and apps are more addictive than a lot of people are willing to admit.

Even if you know cookies are unhealthy, but you carry them around in your pocket all day, it's very very hard to resist going in for a few when you're bored.

When I see users demanding advertisers leave, I hear drug users wishing that their dealers get arrested.

JustinH, to fediverse
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New post up on Stay Grounded:

"Instead of paying human moderators or otherwise not growing too-big-to-moderate, social media companies use imperfect automated tools to remove enough of the Nazi stuff so as to not to give off “Nazi site” vibes while hoping users will put up with least some Nazis. They are hoping that you will sit at their table and tolerate some Nazis."

(Special thanks to @rysiek)

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/a-billion-nazis-at-the-table

JustinH, to random
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Friendly reminder that if you're encountering Nazis on a social media platform (that aren't banned within a few hours) it means one of two things:

  • The owners are ok with Nazis being there
  • The owners are unable to effectively moderate

In either case, you should question if you really want to be contributing your efforts to a place like that.

JustinH, to random
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"An LLM is not outputting based on what is true, or even based on an internal model of what it believes to be true. It’s outputting what you are most likely to perceive as plausible, which is often, but not always, the same thing. A scarier-sounding way to phrase it is this: GPT’s function is to generate the inputs least likely to set off your brains’ bullshit filters."

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/how-chatgpt-makes-the-statue-of-liberty

design_law, to random
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So, it's officially been (a bit over) a year since I came to the fedi. I don't miss Twitter at all. I miss some people there, of course. But I don't miss the "gotcha" culture, the near-constant mansplaining, all the tiny bits of nastiness that just wear on you, day by day. And of course, that was before it became all of what it is today. Thank you, friends for a great year. Looking forward to many more.

JustinH,
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@design_law Crazy how when you build a platform that incentivizes engagement you get lots of toxicity. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I feel the same as you. For years I assumed social media was inevitably awful, but since then I've come to realize that much of it was kinda engineered to be that way on purpose.

JustinH, to threads
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Anyone feel it's socially irresponsible for journalists to be promoting Threads as an "alternative" to 𝕏? I do like the work of @caseynewton but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I see ostensibly smart tech people amenable to the genocide-in-Myanmar company just because it's not Musk.

https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-is-dead-and-threads-is-thriving

#𝕏

JustinH,
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@caseynewton Thanks for responding, I just think it's extremely naive to assume Meta's recent investment in moderation is anything more than protecting their bottom line. Their history shows a willingness to flex their monopoly muscle to harm users (again, literally to the point of genocide) if they can squeeze a few extra pennies out of it. What happens when Twitter becomes irrelevant and everyone's locked into Threads? What market incentive will Meta have to be nice to users then?

JustinH, (edited )
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@caseynewton My instance does not have a CSAM problem, but if it did, I could pack up my followers and leave to one that was better managed. You can't do that with Twitter or Threads. Locking one's self into that seems foolish at best and dangerous at worst.

JustinH,
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@caseynewton If they ever actually join the fediverse I'll eat my hat (and words).

JustinH, to mastodon
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"Mastodon might not ever influence global culture to the degree that Facebook and Twitter once did. But it proves that 'people constructively and healthily socializing via the internet' is entirely possible without being forced to tolerate any more nonsense than one would normally expect when us 'messy' humans get together. 'Social media: The Business' on the other hand cannot exist without the garbage."

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/the-trust-and-safety-dance

#mastodon #fediverse #twitter #meta #socialmedia

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