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.
Why are we talking about whether paying fast food workers a better wage will drive up the cost of a Big Mac instead of asking how much McDonald's CEO's $19.2 million salary is driving up the cost? Hello?
“Could not watch it 'til the end” said a surprising number of people about last week’s ride in New York. Too much was happening! To calm you down I have a most uneventful ride for you this week: 13km alongside a canal in ’s-Hertogenbosch! https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/?p=25715
Bezos to the newsroom. Who could have predicted that putting billionaires in control of essential sources of information like Twitter and @washingtonpost would result in a tsunami of right-wing enshittification on the verge of the most fraught election in US history?
Version 0.10.0 of #Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, has been released! Starting with this release, Fedify, previously distributed under AGPL 3.0, is now distributed under the MIT License to encourage wider adoption. Here are the major changes:
• In addition to RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify now supports Ed25519 for signing and verifying the activities.
• FEP-521a: Multiple key pairs can now be registered for an actor.
• FEP-8b32: Implemented Object Integrity Proofs.
• Added Arrive and Question classes.
New in PN: Unpacking Clarence Thomas's disgraceful joke of a bump stock opinion, which "reads like a newspaper comment section after every mass shooting, where gun nuts engage in hyper-technical explanations of how AR-15s aren’t actually assault weapons." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/clarence-thomas-bump-stock-opinion-explained
As an individual, volunteering time often has a MUCH higher impact than donating to a nonprofit.
Consider that an hour of work costs at least €50 for a nonprofit. For someone doing 5h of average volunteer time per week, that’s the equivalent of donating €13k each year!
Not everyone can afford to volunteer, but it's one of the most efficient ways to move a cause forward.
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
@erlend@Techmeme@tchambers was trying to see if there are any client apps that have started playing with this API yet. I wonder if you can see any of the ActivityPub work from the API yet
Well thanks #DuckDuckGo for helping to destroy the planet a little bit quicker by making all searches default to LLM/AI 🤮
It even has a small print disclaimer saying "These results are not checked for accuracy"... well why the F are you putting these results at the top then? Why are you even showing them at all?